Glowing Review for The Organic Home Gardener

From the blog of Douglas Nadar, a glowing review for The Organic Home Gardener. “There is no such thing as a green pepper… All peppers start out some shade of green (either dark, light or yellowish) and gradually turn red, yellow, orange or even purple as they mature and sweeten. A green pepper, like a green tomato, is simply unripe.” Patrick Lima and John Scanlan’s The Organic Home Gardener. “Nature loves man, beetles, and birds…

Great Review for The Organic Home Garden

A great review for Patrick Lima’s The Organic Home Garden appears in the Fall 2011 edition of Garden Making magazine, written by Betty Fox, editor. Sage advice for the veg bed Once upon a time, before supermarkets and fast food, we grew most of what we ate, learning how to garden almost by osmosis — everyone in the family pitched in. But for the legions of us who didn’t grow up with a spade in…

Organic Home Garden Now Available in Canada

We’re ridiculously excited to announce the Canadian availability of Patrick Lima and John Scanlan’s updated, revised, simply fabulous The Organic Home Garden. This is simply the ultimate gardening book. 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,…

Stonehouse Cooks Contest

Later this year Five Rivers will release a completely revised and updated gardening book from the masters of land husbandry, Patrick Lima and John Scanlan. The Organic Home Gardener, which isn’t like any other gardening book available, will feature not only invaluable information about starting and maintaining your own all-natural, environmentally responsible, body-loving vegetable garden, but a few recipes as well. As a companion piece and expansion to The Organic Home Gardener, Five Rivers will…