In The Organic Home Garden, Patrick and John, take readers step-by-step through the engaging process of growing the best possible food — from spring’s first spinach, asparagus and salad greens, through the summer abundance of tomatoes, cucumbers, melons and all, right into fall’s harvest of squash, leeks, carrots and potatoes. Often, a small timely tip makes all the difference, and this dynamic team leaves nothing out. Whether you tend a small city yard, a full-size country garden or something in between, their instructive, easy to follow and often humorous advice will ensure you make the very best use of the space you have — and you can’t get any more local, seasonal and organic than food from your own yard. Combine this with John’s unique and vibrant artistic paintings, and you have a book that stands out from the wall of glossy, manufactured gardening publications, making The Organic Home Garden a stand-alone, stand-out book sure to intrigue and capture gardeners, artists and customers who conduct their lives to a different rhythm.

Patrick Lima and John Scanlan escaped to a flat field full of hip-high seedy hay grass, some scrubb chokecherries crusted with black not and a few leaning fence posts looped with rusty wire in Dyer’s Bay in 1975. Since then they’ve transformed fallow land into an oasis known to gardeners everywhere as Larkwhistle. Their books have been published by Key Porter. They’ve lectured and toured about their love of the land and their love of green and growing things, offering hope and insight for those who share land husbandry. Five Rivers is thrilled to have Patrick and John join our community.

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