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Amy Stross has not only written a helpful book, but an important one too. Suburbia is ripe with healthy and delicious food-growing potential. Amy shows us how to tap this potential by sharing practical tips gleaned from her own experience as a micro-farmer on one-tenth of an acre. Get ready to feel both empowered and inspired! - Roger Doiron, Founding Director of Kitchen Gardeners International Bored with the lawn? Learn how to turn your suburban yard into a suburban farm with Amy Stross' concise, detailed and well organized how-to garden manual. - Erik Knutzen and Kelly Coyne, authors of The Urban Homestead and Making It: Radical Home Ec for a Post Consumer World .. .this book takes a permaculture approach to starting a micro-farm in the suburbs that speaks not just to a stay-at-home mom or dad, but to all busy people. Indeed, it is one of the few gardening books that is aware that you may not have a lot of time to start a garden, and shows you that it's still possible anyway. - Jesse Frost, HobbyFarms.com For new gardeners, the biggest problem is often simple overwhelm. In The Suburban Micro-Farm, Amy Stross breaks the giant topic of 'gardening' into bite-sized tasks to help readers begin to grow their own food, no matter their experience level or space limitations. The information and guidance offered in this book will put you on your way to a productive backyard oasis. - Kris Bordessa, AttainableSustainable.net Amy Stross digs deep into restorative gardening techniques such as permaculture, showing how to develop healthy soils and plan and plant edible landscapes and food forests. A must-read for suburban growers, The Suburban Micro-Farm will inspire you to make the most of your small yard and empower you to grow more food than you thought possible! - Teri Page, Homestead-Honey.com The Suburban Micro-Farm should be the go-to resource for the time-crunched suburbanite foodie. This is the book that will turn any yard no matter how large or small into a homegrown food oasis. Loaded with practical advice - The Suburban Micro-Farm covers it all in down-to-earth fashion. - Kathie Lapcevic, HomespunSeasonalLiving.com Amy's writing is direct, practical, and insightful. She understands the challenges we face in trying to add growing food to our already busy lives. She offers suggestions and strategies based on her own experiences, and her years of working with communities and individuals trying to expand their home-grown food production. - Michelle Van Doren, SeekingJoyfulSimplicity.com In her funny and uplifting writing style that matches her personality, Amy has put together a book that can help you realize your micro farm dreams! You could be harvesting from your own, truly organic and fresh produce aisle - all of a few feet from your table. - LeAnn Edmondson, HomesteadDreamer.com I have been a reader of Amy's blog TenthAcreFarm.com for some time. She's my go-to permaculture gardener and I know I can count on her to take a project and break it down into steps I can understand. She's put her considerable knowledge into this new book. - Shelle Wells, PreparednessMama.com If you are new to permaculture gardening, The Suburban Micro-Farm is a treasured resource to help you find your way, through the permaculture mindset and jargon, and into a productively landscaped yard. - Chris Dalziel, JoybileeFarm.com Stross' effort is more than just your average gardening manual. Underpinning the book's helpful growing guides and detailed how-tos is an important message: The suburbs present great potential for helping the world feed itself. - Deb Neyens, CountingMyChickens.com

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