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Single best book that helped you with gardening?

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Very open ended question here. As someone who loves reading and is also pretty new to gardening I would love to hear your favorites that helped you.

Jackson Bradley

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2 resources stand out the most for us. They both have some practical info in them but we found them to be most helpful with our overall gardening philosophy, so to speak.

The first is "Landrace Gardening" by Joseph Lofthouse. https://permies.com/wiki/162247/Landrace-Gardening-Joseph-Lofthouse

The second is a video and not a book. Back to Eden Gardening. A search on permies will reveal a lot of threads about it. https://www.backtoedenfilm.com/#/

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Su Ba

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Frankly, there’s not one single best book for me. Over the decades I bought lots of gardening books of all sorts, including old time farming and food production, old time skills….in addition to more modern stuff. There was no way of googling something or searching YouTube. So I read everything that pertained to food production, picking out and applying the "gems" to my own efforts.

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Suzette Thib

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For me, Gaia's Garden has been most helpful. Although I agree with Su Ba. I wish that there were lots more before and after photos in Gaia's Garden but it has been a wonderful reference and helped me to push through with confidence when it really doesn't look like the garden will come together (can I even grow anything?! = me lamenting in early stages). The can-do attitude in Ten Acres Enough is really inspiring and I tend to revisit that book every few years. Gardening books are so wonderful. It's my two favorite things all rolled into one!

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