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Slow Gardening: A No-Stress Philosophy for All Senses and All Seasons
Slow Gardening A NoStress Philosophy for All Senses and All Seasons Author:Felder Rushing Doing something slowly means savoring what you do. However, in just a few generations, we've gone from eating mostly home-cooked food and gardening with mostly local resources to a fast-food culture and cookie-cutter "mow-and-blow" landscapes filled with unproductive and high-maintenance plants from afar. Sure, we've shed a lot of the menial lab... more »or it takes to put both food on the table and flowers in the garden, but at what cost to the Earth, and our own bodies?Slow Gardening to the rescue! The name was inspired by Slow Food, an international movement that promotes local food systems and biological and cultural diversity. In much the same way, a slow-gardening approach can help us all appreciate and enjoy our gardens more, year in and year out.Slow doesn't mean simple or lazy. In fact, it can actually involve more work, just spread out over time, and in a leisurely fashion. Well-known Southern gardener Felder Rushing offers a commonsense, friendly, one-foot-in-front-of-the-other approach that will appeal to gardeners no matter where they live. Slow Gardening, is more than a bunch of tips for easy gardening; it's more about thinking "long haul" and "taking it easy." Life has lots of pressures-why include them in the garden?« less