{"product_id":"a-garden-for-life-diana-beresford-kroeger-9780472030125","title":"A Garden for Life: The Natural Approach to Designing, Planting, and Maintaining a North Temperate Garden","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe avid gardener will need no other resource than this book to plan and maintain a natural garden on the country farm or in the suburban backyard, a habitat congenial to the scarlet tanager, the monarch butterfly, and the toad.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnique to this book is author Beresford-Kroeger's concept of bioplanning, in which the gardener views the site as a biological system and the activity of gardening as an ecological task. To assist in bioplanning a garden, the author provides both plans that are adaptable to different garden sizes and shapes, as well as planting instructions emphasizing organic care, ecofunction, and environmentally friendly means of pest control.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Garden for Life\u003c\/i\u003e challenges everyone to create an ecologically valuable garden for the joy of doing so, and for the salvation of our natural world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiana Beresford-Kroeger is the author of \u003ci\u003eArboretum America\u003c\/i\u003e. She is a botanist, medical and agricultural researcher, lecturer, and self-defined \"renegade scientist\" in the fields of classical botany, medical biochemistry, organic chemistry, and nuclear chemistry. She lives in Ontario, Canada.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Diana Beresford-Kroeger\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0472030124\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780472030125\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Michigan Regional\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/23\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.86lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.02h x 8.14w x 0.64d","brand":"Diana Beresford-Kroeger","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44053746942207,"sku":"9780472030125","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_028473ce-e4ad-4fb7-a69a-a899e488e0ef.jpg?v=1685026033","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-garden-for-life-diana-beresford-kroeger-9780472030125","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}