Ecology Action Books – Everything in print on GROW BIOINTENSIVE/Biointensive from Bountiful Gardens

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. The pamphlets, information sheets and CDs 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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BEA-0300

How To Grow More Vegetables - By John Jeavons

*(and fruit, nuts, berries, grains and other crops) than you ever thought possible on less land than you can imagine
John Jeavons, 7th edition, 2006, 288 pp.
A fully revised, updated and expanded edition of the book that helped revolutionize food production around the world, and in our backyard gardens. Yes, it is possible to grow fresh vegetables for a family of four on the front lawn! The classic book on GROW BIOINTENSIVE^(R) gardening for beginners to advanced gardeners. The most complete and practical book of its kind, proven effective in all types of garden conditions. This book is every gardener’s guidebook to healthier and more beautiful gardens.

This major revision updates everything, with the most current information, techniques and data, as well as important current topics like soil sustainability and the future of farming. All charts and plans are updated; the bibliography is expanded by 25%; more help in working toward sustainable soil fertility is included. Best of all, an index has been added to make the book easier to use, which readers have requested for many years. Everyone who has used and enjoyed previous editions will want this book--the best thing any gardener can do for their garden!

“...possibly the most detailed explanation of the Intensive gardening method available.”-The New York Times

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BEA-0310

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.

$12.95

BEA-0380

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

$19.95

BEA-0370

One Circle

How to Grow a Complete Diet in Less Than 1000 Square Feet
By: Dave Duhon & Cindy Gebhard
1984, 200 pp , Language: English

Using the techniques described in How To Grow More Vegetables..., this book will help you explore your nutritional needs and then design and produce a complete vegetarian diet in as little as 700 square feet. Loaded with charts, annotated bibliographies, step-by-step instructions, and even cut-out slide rules for the calculations. You’re invited to participate in this bold, new cutting-edge of Biointensive development and research. You will need to read How To Grow ... first.

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BEA-0340

Future Fertility:

Transforming Human Waste Into Human Wealth
John Beeby, 1995, 164 pp.
Returning the nutrients in human waste back to the soil from which they came is essential for the sustainability of agriculture worldwide. This detailed and practical manual describes both established and innovative low-technology methods of safely and effectively recycling the nutrients in human waste. More importantly, it describes the principles behind the methods, and criteria that any method must meet for safety and sustainability. A must for those interested in transforming their waste into wealth in the future.

$23.95

BEA-0330

Proceedings from the Soil, Food and People Conference

Hugh Roberts, editor, 2002, 180 pp.
From a conference presented by Ecology Action and attended by Biointensive practitioners form all over the world. Attendees were inspired and energized by the sharing of work and experience. If you missed this conference held at UC-Davis in March 2000, or attended and want to review the information, you’ll love this book! Every speaker has been included, and there are photos and supporting material also. Some topics covered are: GROW BIOINTENSIVE Mini-Farming, farming with a passive solar greenhouse, heirloom seed preservation, reports from projects worldwide and much more. Relevant for everyone who enjoys using Biointensive techniques, but especially so for those who intend to teach these methods or work with them in other countries.

$30.00

BEA-1035

Dig It! Video DVD

John Jeavons Double-Digging Video
John Jeavons, 1997 DVD, 30 min pp.
This video shows how to prepare your soil better and much more easily by following the techniques John Jeavons has developed while double digging all over the world for the last quarter of a century. Learn directly from the master. These techniques will improve your garden, and its soil, wherever you live. Have fun digging! DVD format. Also available in Spanish.

$19.95

BEA-0350

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 and 32.

$145.00

BEA-0360

The Complete EA Library

all books, booklets and information sheets
Everything Ecology Action has in print in the English language as of January 1, 2006: 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, 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)

$315.00

BEA-1055

Circle of Plenty - DVD

1987, 28 min pp.
A PBS-TV special on Ecology Action’s work and key Biointensive mini-farming work in Mexico. Everyone I have talked to has been moved by this labor of love. Buy one of these as a gift for a good friend or loved one.

$29.95

BEA-1050

Circle of Plenty - Video VHS

$29.95

BEA-1065

Gardensong DVD

1983, 28 min pp.
A PBS – TV special on Alan Chadwick and the biodynamic/French intensive method. Coverage is given to those organizations that carry on Alan’s work, with a large share focusing on John and Ecology Action.

$29.95

$29.95

"How to Grow More Vegetables" book and 15 packets of selected vegetable, grain and flower seeds for growing food, making compost to feed the soil, and attracting beneficial insects.

$50.00

LSU-6770

Sustainable Garden Starter Kit

The Sustainable Vegetable Garden book with All three Basic Seed Collections, to match the basic garden plan in the book. - 15 seed packets.

$38.75

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