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THE INTELLIGENT GARDENER: GROWING NUTRIENT-DENSE FOOD

Author: Steve Solomon, Erica Reinheimer

Paperback

336 pages

6500

1 total reviews


List Price: $19.95

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Beyond organic ― a practical guide to nutrient-dense food

To grow produce of the highest nutritional quality, the essential minerals lacking in our soil from intensive agriculture must be replaced. The Intelligent Gardener is the practical, step-by-step guide for any serious gardener who wants to:

  • demystify this process
  • debunk much of the false and misleading information perpetuated by both the conventional and organic agricultural movements
  • Re-mineralize our soil.

Accompanied with customizable web-based spreadsheets, this toolkit calls for far more attention to detail than the simple addition of composted manure or NPK fertilizers. It conclusively establishes the link between healthy soil, healthy food, and healthy people.

Vegetables, fruits, and grains are a major source of vital nutrients, but centuries of intensive agriculture have depleted our soils to historic lows. As a result, the broccoli you consume today may have less than half the vitamins and minerals that the equivalent serving would have contained a hundred years ago. This is a matter of serious concern since poor nutrition has been linked to myriad health problems including cancer, heart disease, obesity, high blood pressure, and diabetes. For optimum health, we must increase the nutrient density of our foods to the levels enjoyed by previous generations.

The Intelligent Gardenergoes beyond organic―it offers the essential tools for those who care about the quality of the produce they grow.

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P. Poole
THE INTELLIGENT GARDENER:GROWING NUTRIENT-DENSE FOOD ?

I'm very appreciative - reading it gives me inspiration and hope - it is winter so, it'll be a season, before I can fully begin to implement the teachings. I do think it makes so much sense and is actually practical.