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Mens Original Bionic Gardening Glove

Mens Original Bionic Gardening Glove

It’s not easy to keep up with your gardening when your arthritis is acting up. That’s why Bionic has made the Original Gardening Glove. These gloves carry the Ease of Use Commendation by the Arthritis Foundation; independant research done for the Arthritis Foundation has shown that these gardening gloves increase grip, pinch, and torque strength for people with arthritis. The Original Gardening Glove features anatomic relief pads on the fingers and palm, neoprene wrist support and flex zones, and lycra breathability, making them the most technologically advanced gardening gloves ever made. Plus, they’re made with cabretta leather, a soft material that is machine washable and stays soft even after getting wet. These gloves have been featured in over 150 publications to date, and the LA Times named them ‘Best Gardening Glove on the Market’.

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Micro Eco Farming Prospering from Backyard to Small Acreage in Partnership with the Earth

Micro Eco Farming Prospering from Backyard to Small Acreage in Partnership with the Earth

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5 Stars Read it Three Times Already!!!
For the “independents” out there, this is a must have book! It will make you see how you can make a living on the tiniest piece of land, enjoy life again with your loved ones and mankind and be a good steward to mother earth. I continue to pick up this book and re-read it for continued inspiration in my own process of liberation and sanity. You won’t be sorry you bought this book if you want to get out of the rat race that is our society today.

5 Stars It’s all about the possibilities!
This is the right book, written at the right time, by the right author!

Barbara is on the money–it’s about exploring all the possibilities, enhancing the soil with trace minerals, learning how important innovative marketing is vs. just getting higher yield, showing that micro eco-farms are “design-your-own.” There’s not one cookie-cutter method everyone across the country can imitate (one of the main reasons small farms died out in the 80s — everyone doing surplus of the same thing), and something needed to be written for both newbies and generational farmers looking to diversify. This is the book. It is well-researched and well-written. If you’re about doing well by doing good, then this book is for you.

3 Stars I expected more too
It gives a true beginner some helpful insights into the different forms of micro-agriculture but it never goes into detail.

5 Stars The Future Of Farming
This is a concise review of where large and small farming is going. It needs to be read by all. Just reading this book has elevated my urban garden to unbelievable heights.

3 Stars Be careful about what you wish for
This is a very enchanting book, but I think the reader would be wise to take it with a grain of salt. The author makes a list of vegetables sound so good your mouth starts to water. Food literally comes to life. One farm has world class leafy lettuce. Another has miraculous tomatoes. A third has peppers for every taste. A fourth makes wool as smooth as silk.

On the other hand, some of the stories are fanciful at best. For example, there is the story of the ‘good’ coyote. A farmer takes pity on a limping coyote and offers it some food. The standard practice in the neighborhood was to shoot coyotes on sight, but this coyote touches the farmer somehow. The coyote mends. Once recovered, the coyote decides the farmer is ‘one of the pack’ and his chickens are ‘his things’. Thus, she identifies the farmer’s chickens as off limits and protects them from other coyotes, raccoons, and varmints. I’ve got chickens and cohabitate with coyotes. The idea of a coyote protecting the farmer’s hens was good for a hearty laugh.

Another story concerns the ‘good weed’. This story is part of section on letting plants restore soil depleted of essential trace minerals. The idea is that plants can concentrate trace minerals deep in the soil and deposit them on the surface. In this context, we meet the good thistle. The good thistle pulls out trace minerals out of the stony soil, then dies out as the soil returns to health. I had another good laugh with this story. In some ways there is truth in it, but let me tell you about my thistles. They are beautiful. Every year my soil gets better. I haven’t noticed them dying out, though. Maybe next year!

Finally, there is the story of the weak plant calling out to nearby insects to end it’s suffering. This theme is repeated numerous times. I guess it is the story of the ‘good’ bad insect. You see, those worms and beetles are not just eating any plant, they are consuming the suffering plant. I’m not going to argue that nature has a way of maintaining balance, but I had to laugh. I guess those squirrels that entirely consumed 3 trees of gorgeous, plump, red organic peaches were simply answering the peach trees cries of distress! I should have known!

If you want to grow your own food, more power to you. Don’t be surprised if Mother Nature throws you a few curve balls along the way, though. Don’t count on coyotes to protect your chickens, nor thistles to conveniently disappear.

Finally, Ms. Adams never mentions the local banker or tax man, which seems odd. I’ve never met a farmer that doesn’t have something to say about these friendly folks.

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