Gardening When It Counts: Growing Food in Hard Times (Mother Earth News Wiser Living Series),   ISBN:9780865715530

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Great Service... Book wanders. Seems like the author lost track of what he wanted to talk about. Not actually on the title topic.

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Despite the naysayers whining about Mr. Solomon's condescending tone and lack of compost expertise, I found his information to be amazingly practical and useful.

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This is overall a fair to good gardening manual, and it presents a different viewpoint, which makes you think.
But....., it's not a survival type gardening manual, so I think that its title is not accurate.

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This book was interesting for me but not really useful. The author, Steve Solomon was very up front in saying that his methods do not apply to desert areas which is where I live. Unfortunately this was not mentioned until I was deep in the book. Having said that, there are a lot of useful concepts worth exploring in the book. If you live in a similar climate or are new to gardening this book will give you a lift over the bumps and is helpful. If you live in the desert it is not truly helpful. I would suggest something in the xeric line.

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I had very high hopes for this book. My family has started the path to self sufficiency and we were all looking forward to reading the wonderful information touted by some of the reviewers on Amazon. However, the author is condescending and pompous. He seems more interested in showing others how smart he is than writing a meaningful book. He constantly treats the reader like he/she is an idiot, not capable of intelligent, independent thought. Perhaps he has some good information. I don't know. Every time I pick the book up to read, he starts a paragraph with a condescending remark and I put it away. Horrible, horrible book. Run. There are much better books out there. If there were a zero star option, I would have chosen it.