[PDF] Self-Sufficiency Gardening: Financial, Physical and Emotional Security from Your Own Backyard Martin P. Waterman

This concise book shows how the self-sufficient gardener can go one step further and generate income from excess produce. Waterman, a horticulturalist and journalist, stresses preplanning and target marketing, with practicial examples and suggestions. He covers individual vegetables, fruits, nuts, herbs, livestock, and nonfood plant sources such as woodlots. He also discusses greenhouse and hydroponic options, and dispenses advice on how to use edible landscaping to produce surprising amounts of food from small suburban lots. Each chapter ends with a short annotated bibliography for further reading on the topic. An appendix lists pertinent periodicals, associations, and seed companies. Of special note is a chapter discussing the use of computer programs and the Internet as gardening information sources. While there is plenty of information here that is useful to the beginning gardener, this is an excellent resource for any person ready to consider the next step after “grow your own”.