One Circle: How to Grow a Complete Diet in Less Than 1,000 Square Feet [Paperback]

David Duhon (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Ecology Action of the (June 1985)
• ISBN-10: 9996395707
• ISBN-13: 978-9996395703
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.3 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,272,793 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Complete nutrition from a smallest area garden in lay terms!, November 23, 1998

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This review is from: One Circle: How to Grow a Complete Diet in Less Than 1,000 Square Feet (Paperback)

This book teaches you how to plan a garden which can meet all your RDA's for all nutrients. It is by definition a vegan diet. The writer has done extensive research for us into understanding the nutritional needs of vegans, vegetarians and, yes even those who choose to eat meat. The book is wonderfully footnoted and has great bibliography sections. The nutrition chapters are some of the most thoughtfully written discussions I have read on the topics. This could be all you ever read about nutrition and would provide a simple, complete understanding. Duhon gives us the tools for creating a garden plan, including demonstrating the use of slide rules for low tech people who do not posses a computer. This book stands on its own for what it teaches, however you will need to understand biointensive techniques as described in "How To Grow More Vegetables..." By John Jeavons, who is a contributing writer in "One Circle", to put it to full use. The book is amazing in that it places the power of balanced diet and supplementation through food consumption, in layperson terms, in the hands of anyone. With this book you can, if practicing full biointensive techniques, design a garden and grow all your food in a closed system which is sustainable ecologically (including making a moderate income from the garden!) The writing is at once poetical then shifts to an educational tone. We are given the chance to skip the more technical aspects in order to further understand the context. Then one can utilize the tools provided to become self-reliant. I am practicing this system and find it to be liberating. You do have to work for it but it is invigorating and provides some of the most serene hours of my day. Lastly, I know my food is pure and balanced, and ecologically I am not depleting the soil of any place in order to feed myself. Placed in the context of the world situations in soil depletion, loss of ground water, loss of genetic diversity, and starvation this book is a essential tool.