The Ecological Health Garden & the Book of Survival

The main purpose of this volume is to introduce a system of food-growing that will enable people with little or no gardening experience to produce herbs vegetables cereals and fruits of the finest quality with a minimum of labor and a minimum of land. We term this system ecological gardening since bio-ecological principles are applied both to the methods of cultivation used and in the selection of the food plants to be grown. The central aim is the production of plant-foods especially rich in minerals vitamins and other nutritive elements preferably within a pattern of living - creative country living - which will make it possible for the family to produce many of its own needs on a subsistence homestead of which the ecological garden is an integral part.