Frost Dancing: Tips from a Northern Gardener

by Sue Robishaw

Overview

“Frost Dancing” is a pithy, fun garden book packed with more than 240 useful and usable tips and ideas particularly for short season gardeners. But no matter where your garden is located you’ll find something of interest here. The information is firmly grounded in decades of experience growing food on a northwoods homestead; no fluff, just good old down-to-earth advise, well mulched and healthy. Sue gardens where 90 frost free days is a very good year and frost every month not unheard of yet there is never a year that her garden hasn't put food on their table and surplus to store. She shares from her own thirty plus years of gardening notes to help readers do the same, with a sustainable and organic philosophy that is easy and natural. Divided into five seasonal chapters there are tips for every garden and gardener. Whether you are new to gardening or have been at it a while you are sure to discover ideas to help you grow your own food in your own garden and have fun doing so. This book is short, sweet, useful -- and green!

Product Details

BN ID:	2940045556484
Publisher:	ManyTracks
Publication date:	01/02/2014
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	217,027
File size:	333 KB

About the Author

Sue Robishaw has thirty five years of magazine articles and six books to her credit, mostly from the forty years she and her husband, Steve Schmeck, have spent building and living on their off-grid Upper Peninsula Michigan homestead. Her life is full of variety and interest. A large organic garden and orchard provides most of their food and unending topics for her writing. All of the pieces of her world are woven together in a way that suits her belief in the joy of life -- gardening, homesteading, hiking, writing, watercolor, music, dance, community, and designing and knitting colorful wool socks for warmth and fun!