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Eat More Dirt: Diverting and Instructive Tips for Growing and Tending an Organic Garden

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EAT MORE DIRT is fun! More than just a gardening handbook, it's about how to get what you REALLY want out of your garden (all the time -- not just when you're resting on the lawn, avoiding the mower.) It's about how to provide the very best for all involved by using what you have to your advantage, and refusing to poison your soil, your plants, and yourself. (You might be surprised at what constitutes poison.) It's also an acerbic sort of love song for the land, one that will inspire you to "sing" organically to your own little corner of Mother Earth. (Whether or not you choose to literally sing to your plants is up to you -- and perhaps your neighbors!)

As a novice gardener, I was raised by parents whom I always felt used too many chemicals and WAY too much water! Of course, their garden is beautiful, and in that I hope to emulate them, but I'll be using Ellen Sandbeck's organic advice, appreciating her alternately dry and silly wit along the way. Check out this book: it's a joy to read and a BIG help in the garden.

EAT MORE DIRT, by Ellen Sandbeck, is a fun and informative way to learn more about organic gardening. I laughed, I cried and I learned a lot! I loved the original art work by Sandbeck and all the tips that I can use right away to improve my garden's health! It was such a fun, painless read that I sat down and read the whole thing! Check out all the great illustrations, too!

Like gardening with your favorite aunt--the sensible one who has sifted through a lot of foolishness to pass on the information that truly matters.

by Chapter 3 I had some real info to get me started on my very first garden. Good detailed info on starting compost and tilling up my yard to start and organic garden. But, I will be avoiding tilling, and using more of her methods to create great soil. Love her thoughts on the hygiene hypothesis and how she related it to soil.

Informative tips and stories that will keep you glued to the book. The author's sense of humor and wit make this book a highly entertaining read. The stories do not ramble along and are interesting without becoming a bore. I can't say enough nice things about this book.

Eat More Dirt is a great read: funny and informative. I read it cover to cover on a flight and then started reading it over again. It is full of great tips for organic gardening that are easy to implement. It helped me realise that my garden doesn't need to be "flawless" to be beautifuland that I need to design it around the work that I enjoy and have time for so that it is a pleasure, not a rod for my own back. Thank you Ellen Sandbeck. Keep writing. I am going to order your last book right now!

This book is an enjoyable journey--and tribute--toward a better world. Written by Sandbeck after the 9/11 tragedy, she wrote this book with the purpose of creating a safer environment, beginning in our own backyard. At times, this book is whimsical; at times, it is philosophical. But the theme of greener living resounds throughout. A very thoughtful and thought-provoking read for those of us that want to be more eco-minded.

in addition to her practical organic knowledge, ellen sandbeck writes with whimsy & a knowledge of history - taking the reader on amusing & informative tangents while passing on some simple techniques to make gardening more productive & more enjoyable.