{"product_id":"vegetable-gardening-for-organic-and-joel-morrow-9781584201670","title":"Vegetable Gardening for Organic and Biodynamic Growers: Home and Market Gardeners","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBiographies of 76 vegetables with detailed accounts of how\u003cbr\u003eto grow them, their climate of origin, their transformation\u003cbr\u003eover time, and their nutritional and therapeutic potential\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoel Morrow began writing down his vegetable \"biographies\"--scribbled in the margins of a planting calendar--when his first garden teacher, Margareta Leuder, \"described how as a child she had raised watermelon in the Sonoran desert in 1905.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the 1980s, Joel became editor of the journal \u003ci\u003eBiodynamics\u003c\/i\u003e. In it, he began his interviews with vegetables, which have continued for 30 years. This book is the result of those \"biographies.\" As he tell us: \u003c\/p\u003e\"Though these biographies are arranged alphabetically for convenience [from Asian Brassicas to Winter Squash], each chapter reflects my own changing point of view, depending on the date of interview. Some begin historically, some morphologically, and some so imaginatively they seem to reawaken Margareta's childhood shamanism, which became beautifully elaborated through Rudolf Steiner's spiritual view of nature, the foundation of biodynamics.\"\u003cp\u003eThis book is not only a gardening guide; it also guides the reader inwardly to perceive a vegetable as \"a work of art, a journey, a rite of passage into the natural world.\" \u003ci\u003eVegetable Gardening for Organic and Biodynamic Growers\u003c\/i\u003e is destined to become not just a perennially useful guide, but also a favorite bedside book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joel Morrow\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1584201673\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781584201670\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Lindisfarne Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/21\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.71lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.08h x 7.03w x 1.14d","brand":"Joel Morrow","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43985206903039,"sku":"9781584201670","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0c2f2a35-02d7-4bcc-87b4-9795c8c61724.jpg?v=1683276189","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/vegetable-gardening-for-organic-and-joel-morrow-9781584201670","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}