8 January 2009 - 15:34BiblioLife and Your Backyard Farmer working together to bring back important pre-1923 books on Urban Gardening

We are excited to be working with the nice ladies at Your Backyard Farmer to bring back to life some of the important books of Urban Gardening published before 1923. Pioneered in 2006, YBF is an innovative approach to community supported agriculture through urban backyard farming. They create small sustainable organic method farms at the backdoor & provide fresh, in-season produce from the farm to your fork.

Our first release, The Backyard Farmer, originally published in 1917 by John Willard Bolte, will launch at the American Library Association conference in Denver later this month. It offers some unique perspectives and relevant wisdom to the “green” movement.

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From the introduction:
“Organic gardening is a name that is used currently to represent things that were done before the separation of conventional and organic (a mid to late 20th century phenomenon) gardening. When this book was written, there was limited access to synthetic pesticides and fertilizers. So growing organically was the only choice!”

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