--- product_id: 15474150 title: "Will Bonsall's Essential Guide to Radical, Self-Reliant Gardening: Innovative Techniques for Growing Vegetables, Grains, and Perennial Food Crops with Minimal Fossil Fuel and Animal Inputs" brand: "will bonsall" price: "KD 14.85" currency: KWD in_stock: true reviews_count: 11 url: https://www.desertcart.com.kw/products/15474150-will-bonsalls-essential-guide-to-radical-self-reliant-gardening-innovative store_origin: KW region: Kuwait --- # Will Bonsall's Essential Guide to Radical, Self-Reliant Gardening: Innovative Techniques for Growing Vegetables, Grains, and Perennial Food Crops with Minimal Fossil Fuel and Animal Inputs **Brand:** will bonsall **Price:** KD 14.85 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Will Bonsall's Essential Guide to Radical, Self-Reliant Gardening: Innovative Techniques for Growing Vegetables, Grains, and Perennial Food Crops with Minimal Fossil Fuel and Animal Inputs by will bonsall - **How much does it cost?** KD 14.85 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.com.kw](https://www.desertcart.com.kw/products/15474150-will-bonsalls-essential-guide-to-radical-self-reliant-gardening-innovative) ## Best For - will bonsall enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted will bonsall brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Will Bonsall's Essential Guide to Radical, Self-Reliant Gardening: Innovative Techniques for Growing Vegetables, Grains, and Perennial Food Crops with Minimal Fossil Fuel and Animal Inputs ## Images ![Will Bonsall's Essential Guide to Radical, Self-Reliant Gardening: Innovative Techniques for Growing Vegetables, Grains, and Perennial Food Crops with Minimal Fossil Fuel and Animal Inputs - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91HnPzkQ00L.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The definitive resource *by S***Z on Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2015* This is *the* book. There are a lot of other fine books out there but if you want to achieve food self-sufficiency living off your own land, particularly if you won't be adding animal inputs for any reason, this is a very straightforward, well-organized and well-written guide. Bonsall's practices are a result of decades of research and experimentation. Because he lives in mountainous west-central Maine, his book is tailored to the short growing season and acidic, rocky, forest-derived soils of the area. He doesn't have the fertility of midwest soils, or the long growing season of the west. Bonsall has discovered how to maximize fertility for a difficult growing region, using the most inexpensive equipment and inputs. Everything in this book is directly relevant to what I personally need to know to produce well on my own property, including unusual self-sufficiency subjects like how to grow grain in a garden plot, how to construct a very efficient composing system, how to fertilize with available inputs like leaves, how to neutralize acid with available inputs like wood ash, how to choose the right cover crop, when to plant, what tools to use, I could go on and on.Bonsall is much in demand in his region for lectures because he is an engaging, entertaining speaker and this comes through in his book. In person, he answers a straight question with a straight answer, and that is how his book is. He gets to the point, doesn't dither, gives you concrete, practical information born of a boundless curiosity and long experience.What's more, all his decisions are backed by an essential desire to work _with_ nature and not against it, to farm ethically and eat ethically. You could love his book for his philosophy alone. Bonsall is known for his Scatterseed Project, which makes sure that plant diversity is maintained in an era when a few corporate seed giants have virtually eliminated thousands of plant varieties. The danger of our food sources being reduced to only a few landraces is that this threatens a food with extinction if a disease or insect should wipe out the breed. Bonsall's Seed Saver's network is literally behind ensuring that we and our progeny will have food in the future. This is only relevant to the book in that he mentions certain varieties of vegetables and grains that work with various climatic or soil challenges. He demonstrates that the choice of plant variety alone can make you productive when the industrial seeds do not work in your region.Get this book. It's terrific. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ One Man's Lifetime of Experience *by K***R on Reviewed in the United States on August 5, 2016* Most gardening books are written based on information from other gardening books - I never realized that until I read this book. It isn't that he disagrees with conventional information, it is that he seems to have developed his knowledge and skills in a vacuum. Every chapter contains ideas that blow my mind.For example, composting books all talk about manure, manure, manure. In chapter one, this author points out that manure is less efficient than just taking the same grass and composting it. It is obvious, but it provided a totally new perspective to me. In chapter two, he casually gives a run down of green manures (cover crops) and each of their individual strengths and weaknesses that is better than anything I have read elsewhere. In chapter three, he makes a very strong case for just using shredded leaves as a primary fertility builder for a garden, rather than smaller amounts of richer fertilizer - again, something I had not heard of before or seriously considered.He goes on like this, chapter after chapter. Part of the reason his viewpoint is so unique is precisely because he is so radical. He still uses an outhouse and based on his writing style, I think he is probably a very uncompromising man. Plus, he is in Maine, so anything that works for him will probably work anywhere. I have read a lot of gardening books, and this is a rare masterpiece. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I love this book! *by J***E on Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2017* This book exceeded my expectations! I have been gardening for over 40 years and I learned new, valuable things from Mr. Bonsall's book. I love his writing style, his sense of humor, and the practical information he shares. He doesn't give shallow, general information like so many gardening books but goes deeper and shares the results of his garden experiments and experiences, shares time and energy saving tips, companion planting tips that actually make sense, tips on cover crops, growing and harvesting grains, growing fruit crops. I own dozens of gardening books on various topics and I'll have to say that this is one of the most informative and entertaining gardening books I have ever read for the experienced gardener. It is probably not the best for the beginning gardener looking for the basic how-tos but it is a joy to read anyway! --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.com.kw/products/15474150-will-bonsalls-essential-guide-to-radical-self-reliant-gardening-innovative](https://www.desertcart.com.kw/products/15474150-will-bonsalls-essential-guide-to-radical-self-reliant-gardening-innovative) --- *Product available on Desertcart Kuwait* *Store origin: KW* *Last updated: 2026-05-20*