Purchased from Half-Priced Books for a meager $7.95, this book just might change my life.
I grew up on a farm and spent hundreds of hours pulling weeds, picking beans and every other type of vegetable you can imagine. We didn’t just have gardens. We had “truck patches”. From strawberries on one end of the property to potatoes on the other, we were working 40 hours a week to keep up with the harvest.
So imagine my surprise when I learned that I didn’t have to plant row upon row of green beans to get a good harvest. What if, instead, I planted just a few seeds: individual plants and only enough to meet my needs. I didn’t have to hoe 40 acres of carrots but could stick a single seed in the soil to get a single carrot. REVOLUTIONARY!
Everything a family of six needs for a season can be grown in a 4 foot by 4 foot plot of land, with nothing more than a small trowel and a bucket of compost.
I’ve started preparing the soil and piling the compost. Look for my bumper crop coming in early April. I’ll plant a carrot for you.
