The Backyard Homestead Guide to Growing Organic Food

This essential guide to growing a bountiful food garden includes detailed seed-starting, growing, and harvesting information for 62 vegetables, fruits, and herbs, a complete companion-planting guide, and organic pest-control handbook.

• "This fantastic resource will put you on the fast track to gardening success."
  Niki Jabbour, author of The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener and Growing Under Cover
• "Tanya Denckla Cobb presents a wealth of gardening information in an accessible format, while showing that creating a healthy soil and working with the earth's natural systems are the foundation of a productive, sustainable, and satisfying garden!"
  John Jeavons, author of How to Grow More Vegetables
• "If it isn't in this book, you don't need to know it."
  Ed Smith, author of The Vegetable Gardener's Bible
• "Anyone can become a steward of a sustainable garden with the help of this comprehensive and superbly organized book. There is a treasure trove of useful information here for gardeners of every experience level."
  Barbara Pleasant, author of Starter Vegetable Gardens and Homegrown Pantry
• “This rich compendium on self-sustaining, organic backyard gardening and food should be on every aspiring gardener's shelf."
  Marcia Caton Campbell, Executive Director of Rooted (Madison, WI)
• “A straightforward, serviceable guide to an array of vegetables, fruits, nuts, and herbs that can be grown organically by the home gardener.”
  Booklist
• “A solid reference guide that’s best for established gardeners looking to introduce organic methods and self-sustainability into their practice.”
  Library Journal
• “Whether the subject is earthworms, compost, or the way gardening supports mental health, I’m drawn to the quiet passion that flows just beneath the surface of these detail-rich pages. Unlike the author, I only grow a few herbs and tomatoes for the kitchen. And yet, I found the particulars of raising my favorite vegetables endlessly fascinating and educational.”
  Ken Haedrich, author of The Harvest Baker and Pie Academy
• “Tanya shares her knowledge and resources in such a clear and actionable way. There is useful information here, whether you grow a mini-farm or a simple border of hardy herbs. I really appreciate the afterword where Tanya breaks down what "organic" means as a label and what organic means in our backyards... where we have the most control over what goes into our food.”
  Renee Brooks Catacalos, author of The Chesapeake Table: Your Guide to Eating Local