Offers gardeners and homesteaders- from beginners to experts- rare insight into how to become fully food self-reliant. With more than forty years of experience redefining gardening's boundaries, author Will Bonsall shows how readers can eliminate the use of off-farm inputs like fertilizers, minerals, and animal manures by practicing a purely veganic, or plant-based, agriculture-not for strictly moral or philosophical reasons, but because it is more ecologically efficient and makes good business sense. In-depth information on growing, harvesting, and processing an incredibly diverse variety of food crops, including vegetables, grains, pulses, and oilseeds. Softcover, 400 pp.