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We carry all the training materials (books, pamphlets, information sheets, and DVDs) for learning the Biointensive and GROW BIOINTENSIVE methods, including some in a number of languages (especially Spanish). These training materials results of over thirty years of research and experience. All you need to know to raise your own food and care for your soil sustainably is here. Written by John Jeavons, staff, and apprentices.
This section contains just the EA books and DVDs. The pamphlets and information sheets are located in the section "Ecology Action Research Papers", and all of our training materials that are in languages other than English are located in "Grow in Many Languages"
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| 2013 Garden Calendar - A Working Calendar |
2013 Garden Calendar
Ecology Action staff
Our Ecology Action garden staff has put together this wall calendar with beautiful illustrations from our research garden and "things to do" for each month, according to the Grow Biointensive method. Planting dates are set by the seasons here in Willits, California, (May 15 to Oct 15) but can be adapted to your own area by adjusting for first and last frost dates. |
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| The Basic Biointensive Library |
| While How To Grow is all you need to start and to practice Biointensive gardening, we continue to produce additional materials of special interest. This collection of books provides a well-rounded education in Biointensive gardening for the advanced gardener or the professional . The basic books are: How to Grow More Vegetables, Backyard Homestead, The Sustainable Vegetable Garden, One Circle, Booklets: 0, 1, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 24, 26, 32 and 33. |
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| The Complete EA Library |
all books, booklets and information sheets
Everything Ecology Action has in print in the English language as of January 1, 2013: How to Grow More Vegetables, The Sustainable Vegetable Garden, Proceedings from the Soil Food and People Conference, Future Fertility, One Circle, Backyard Homestead, Booklets: 0, 1, 2, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 31, 32, 33, 34, TB 1, PB 1, Complete set of Info Packets, Intensive Food Production on a Human Scale, Biointensive Sustainable Mini-Farming, Siberian Biointensive Research Report, Biodynamic Gardening in India, Living Quarters for Plant Roots, Appropriate Agriculture, Circle of Plenty Booklet, Man of the Trees, and Weaving a Lavender Wand--everything in the Basic Biointensive library plus more. ( not Videos and training program info) |
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| How To Grow More Vegetables 8th edition spiral bound - By John Jeavons |
| Subtitle: and fruit, nuts, berries, grains and other crops) than you ever thought possible on less land than you can imagine
John Jeavons, 8th edition, February 2012, 256 pp.
This is the book that helped revolutionize food production around the world. It is every gardener's guidebook to healthier and more productive backyard gardens. Yes, it is possible to grow fresh vegetables for a family of four on the front lawn! This is the classic book on biointensive and GROW BIOINTENSIVE ® gardening for beginners to advanced gardeners. The most complete and practical book of its kind, proven effective in all types of garden conditions.
Everyone who has used and enjoyed previous editions will want this book! |
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| The Sustainable Vegetable Garden: |
The Backyard Guide To Higher Yields and Healthy Soil
John Jeavons & Carol Cox, revised 1999, 118 pp.
This is a simpler, more basic version of How to Grow More Vegetables, based on a simple garden plan. Formerly titled Lazy Bed Gardening, this book has been revised to include the latest information on GROW BIOINTENSIVE techniques. Includes a new chapter on seed saving. Especially suitable for teachers planning a school garden, or for anyone who prefers a shorter simpler introduction to GROW BIOINTENSIVE. “A lazy bed is a deeply prepared bed (2’ deep) whose growing area can produce up to four times more than an equivalent area prepared less deeply and planted in rows. So the gardener has only one bed to dig, one bed to fertilize, one bed to water, one bed to weed - only one-quarter the area it would take to produce the same amount of yield by other methods.” This book combines our experiences from How to Grow More Vegetables... and Booklets #14 and #26 into a new understanding of how to grow all your own food in the backyard, while also caring for the health of your soil and the planet. The emphasis is on food gardening and improving the soil through crop selection. New gardeners can now benefit from direct garden research in over 130 countries - this method has been tried everywhere, on every type of soil, in all climates, and it works for epicurean gardeners as well as third world farmers. It gives specific recommendations on the best crops for beginning gardeners, and how much to grow for a family’s needs. |
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| GROW BIOINTENSIVE: (DVD) |
| John Jeavons and Cynthia Raiser Jeavons, 2010 DVD.
Ever since "How to Grow More Vegetables" was published over 30 years ago, we've been asked for a video version, and at last, here it is! This self-teaching video proves that a picture is truly worth a thousand words. Filmed at the Ecology Action research garden, this DVD gives an up-close look at what to do, when to do it, and how to do it best.
We also sell this as a collection with the DVD and packets of seeds for most of the crops discussed in it (mostly grains and compost crops); see item number LDV-6672. |
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| GROW BIOINTENSIVE DVD and Seed Collection |
| Includes DVD "GROW BIOINTENSIVE: A Beginner's Guide in 8 Easy Sessions" and and ten packets of seeds for most of the crops specifically discussed in the DVD; Rye, Favas, Vetch, Triticale, Barley, Alfalfa, Daikon, Filberts, Celery and Parsley. A wonderful way to get started feeding yourself and the soil at the same time! Makes a great gift. |
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| The Backyard Homestead |
Mini-Farm & Garden Log Book
Jeavons, Griffin, and Leler, l983 - spiral bound, 234 pp.
For those who want to develop more self-reliance, earn an income from mini-farming, or just to learn how to become more effective food growers. This companion book to How to Grow More Vegetables is the result of ten years of practical garden research and covers such subjects as food from your backyard homestead, beginning to mini-farm, tools you can make (including the U-Bar), plans to build portable greenhouses, crop profiles and tests, calendars, essential bookkeeping, and much more. Spiral Bound only.“...in his mini-green revolution John Jeavons is demonstrating that small is beautiful.”-The Manchester Guardian |
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