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Deep-Rooted Wisdom Skills and Stories from Generations of Gardeners

Handbook / Manual Out of Print
By: Augustus Jenkins Farmer(Author), Felder Rushing(Foreword By)
248 pages, colour illustrations
Publisher: Timber Press
Deep-Rooted Wisdom
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  • Deep-Rooted Wisdom ISBN: 9781604694529 Paperback Mar 2014 Out of Print #214173
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Augustus Jenkins Farmer (aka Jenks) started gardening in the third grade in a corner of the family farm filled with rocks, scrap metal, and crinum and spider lilies. He was free to dig, transplant, and design in any way he wanted by making do with what he had. Thirty years later, he continues to garden this way in his own gardens in Columbia and Beech Island, South Carolina. His style of gardening is in stark contrast to the gardening industry's steady stream of new products, new advertising, and new rules that create unneeded complexities that intimidate future gardeners and obscure the joy of gardening.

Deep-Rooted Wisdom is Farmer's antidote to this corporate-driven model of gardening. In it he shares the traditional skills and techniques he has learned over the years from generations of gardeners, like gardening with pass-along plants, harnessing the natural power of worms and mushrooms, saving heirloom seeds, and making handmade garden structures out of available materials. Along the way, he introduces us to a cast of unforgettable characters, like Yvrose Valdez, a woman from Haiti who uses legumes in lieu of fertilizer, and Bennet Baxley, who has a 20-acre yard filled almost entirely with scavenged plants.

This is garden mentorship at its best and most honest that shows us all a way back to a more joyful, simple style of gardening.

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Augustus Jenks Farmer's vision for reflective, soulful gardening guided gardeners, craftsmen, volunteers, and scientists to create two lauded public botanical gardens as well as art museums, city parks, and private enclaves. His connoisseurs' nursery promoted the renaissance of the crinum lily, a forgotten, beloved plant of early American gardens. Today, he ships organically grown crinum lilies all over the US.

Handbook / Manual Out of Print
By: Augustus Jenkins Farmer(Author), Felder Rushing(Foreword By)
248 pages, colour illustrations
Publisher: Timber Press
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