Alan Chadwick was a legendary master gardener who studied at the great horticultureal centers in England and France. There is a huge amount of horticultural knowledge in Charwick’s lectures. You cannot just read through, or listen to this once, you could productively re-read these many times and still be learning something new. Note that the book and the CDs are not the same lectures, and their content differs somewhat.

The quality of these recordings is very good, especially considering the state of recording. Alan was also a legendary actor, so the recordings have all the dramatic elements he brought to his teaching. The lectures are: The Vision of Biodynamic Horticulture, Propagation, Fertilization, and Potpourri (miscellaneous subjects).

A transcription of 16 lectures, most of them are from Carmel-in-the-Valley, Virginia, in September 1979.

Alan was a great actor as well as a master horticulturist. There is a huge amount of horticultural knowledge in Charwick's lectures. You cannot just read through, or listen to this, once - you could productively re-read these many times and still be learning something new. His inimical, idiosyncratic style of speaking was a powerful part of his teaching. Alan incorporates fables and myths and cultural wit and quirky language, as well as a broad range of horticultural information and techniques in these pages.

There is much material here that is not covered by the other book on Alan Chadwick, Reverence, Obedience and the Invisible in the Garden .or the CD.

This booklet is our newest plan, based upon 40 years of solid research, for growing all your food, compost and a modest income on a little as 3,300 sq ft of growing beds. This is based on conservative intermediate-level GROW BIOINTENSIVE yields. It has been designed for longer growing season areas with warmer nights, as opposed to Booklet 14, and similarly uses a 3-bed plan as its basis, which can then be scaled up to a full mini-farm. Contains delicious recipes based on the crops grown.

This booklet is for gardeners who have limited water for the growing of their food, either those in naturally dry areas or in areas of extended drought. If you want to find new ways to maximize the efficiency of the water you use in your garden, this book will help. It briefly explains how water acts in the soil, quantifies the water savings of growing food biointensively and describes ways to minimize the water you need. It then covers a number of ingenious ways to harvest rainfall, add water effectiveness to your soil and notes methods to use for storing water.