The Fun and Science of Organic Gardening
by Dee Pigneguy

RRP $22.00

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Every organic garden is a miniature ecosystem. When we learn about how nature's cycles apply to our gardens, we are able to grow fresh organic food in healthy garden ecosystems.

In magical organic gardens nature provides new lessons every day.

Growing Gardeners helps you to discover:

• How organic gardens depend on nature's cycles for everything from making soil and fixing nitrogen to pollinating plants.

• How plants sustain life on earth providing us with the basic necessities.

• The role insects play in the garden.

• The fun of gardening without digging.

• How gardens can foster creativity, curiosity and wonder.

• How organic gardens can slow climate change.

• The fun and excitement of growing your own fruit, flowers, herbs and vegetables.

Growing Gardeners was written by Dee Pigneguy, an ex-teacher and author of several books, including Feed Me Right: Nutritional Know-how and Body Science.

Dee Pigneguy's interest in nutrition, healthy food and healthy bodies developed as she grew up on a remote coastal property in British Columbia, Canada. Her mother engaged all her children in their self sufficient lifestyle - growing vegetables and fruit, raising pigs, chickens and ducks, and milking goats. At low tide they gathered clams and oysters and often went fishing.

Dee's primary source of gardening information as a child was the huge garden her mother kept to feed the family. As a result she and her siblings all learned to garden and cook at an early age. This knowledge was increased by people Dee encountered while belonging to the Soil and Health Association of New Zealand and the Auckland Herb Society. As well as organised garden visits, Esther Dean, Kay Baxter and Mick Reed have all contributed to her knowledge over the years, and she has drawn on organic gardening magazines especially Organic New Zealand and Koanga Gardens’ seed catalogues.  

Paperback | 190 x  240mm |  60 pages | ISBN 978-0-9582966-0-1 | August 2008 | Children, teens and adults: beginner gardeners  |  RRP $22.00