Paradise Lot: Two Plant Geeks, One-Tenth of an Acre and the Making of an Edible Garden Oasis in the City
Written by Eric Toensmeier, with contributions from Jonathan Bates
Published by Chelsea Press, 2013
Reviewed by Penny Lewis
Like a well-designed polyculture, Eric Toensmeier and Jonathan Bates have packed a lot of valuable and interesting information into a small space. And unlike many plant books, this one truly is a page-turner. [click to continue…]
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by Dave Jacke and Keith Zaltzberg
On April 2nd, 2011, a team of perplexed students, gardeners, and community members gathered with shovels and rakes in hand at the base of Wellesley College’s observatory telescopes pondering the forest of purple, orange, and green stakes poking up from a snow-covered meadow. Mother Nature pulled an April Fools prank of dumping 3” of snow on the site of the Edible Ecosystem Teaching Garden (EETG) for the first morning of our weekend-long implementation workshop. This did not chill the spirits of those who had come to help Kristina Jones, director of the College’s Botanic Gardens, and our design team, as we began planting this experiment in applied ecology. [click to continue…]
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