Imagine a food garden that you only have to plant once in your life-time, that takes up very little space, that will provide food for you and your family for the next 30 years; that can grow five times more food per square foot than traditional or commercial gardening; and where you never have to weed, never have to use fertilizers and never have to use pesticide-- ever. All diguised as overgrown underbrush, so nobody knows you have food growing there! This book will show you how to do it in one growing season! It's amazing how much information is packed into this book. It has everything a homesteading gardener should want to know. It is easy to read, makes perfect sense, and shows you how to do it step by step! Aside from showing the basics of creating a successful permaculture garden, it also shows how to build a grey water irrigation system, how to build a duck pond, how to preserve food, how to make a key-hole vegetable garden, and how to use natural pest control for bugs and for 4 legged garden robbers. If you are serious about putting food on your table, you need to get this book! Whoa Rick! I am on chapter 9 and am really loving your book! The last permaculture book I ordered is about 2" thick and really scary...! Your book makes so much sense, easy to read and understand, and pictures are very helpful! Now all I have to do is put all your awesome information into practice!!! You ROCK! MANY THANKS!!! Connie Great Book! Thanks! We certainly will be implementing your ideas - with Gratitude! We would like to receive your newsletter as advertised in your book! Please add us to your list: Thanks Again! Being Patient for your next titles! Be Well! Marilyn- Kansas Please add me to your email list. Secret Garden is the only practical guide I have found in 4yrs of searching! - THANX! Carl W [90yr old] in WI This book packs a ton of information into a single, compact resource. This was the best explanation of permaculture I've ever read. Many permaculture books are often intimidating due to their size, at many point confusing and laborious to read, and some are rather expensive ($100+). With Secret Garden of Survival, however, you come away understanding the how's and the why's of permaculture in record time. ...once you've read Rick's book, the other permaculture books all start to make a lot more sense. Save yourself the headache, and read this one first. HerbalPrepper.com The Secret Garden of Survival is based on years of research, experimentation and first hand experience on using permaculture concepts in a homestead orchard, vineyard and berry farm. These techniques work- amazingly well- because you simply let nature do what it wants to do, instead of trying to force nature to do what man wants it to do. All without using fertilizer, and without using pesticide. I have been asked to speak at numerous conferences to talk about my success, and I have been teaching people how to do this on their own homesteads. Many people have asked me to write a book on the subject, so here it is. I tried to make the book easy to follow, and easy to read. I tried to make it short and sweet, so people can get down to the meat of the subject. I used a lot of color pictures and illustrations, even though my publishers said this was going to be expensive- I knew it would be better for my readers to actually see how this is done, and with a picture being worth a thousand words, I guess I have saved you from reading over 120,000 additional words, by supplying you with these pictures. Nature has grown food this way for millions of years. Studies of native indigenous people around the world (people who have lived off the land for generations without electricity, without refrigeration, without commercial agriculture, and without pesticides and insecticides) showed that these people have lived primarily on perennials (plants that grow year after year without replanting) as opposed to annuals such as your typical grocery store vegetables (crops that you must replant each year). Aside from living off perennial fruits and nuts, these indigenous people also lived on small animal proteins ...In other words, people who have survived for generations, without the modern day comforts of a consumer society, have done so by eating fruits and nuts from the land, as well as small animals - (rabbits, birds, fish, etc.) In a future world where there is potentially no electricity, no refrigeration, no super markets, no seed stores, no fertilizers, no pesticides and no feed stores (for domestic farm animals), it makes sense to look at people who have managed to live successfully for generations without these "conveniences". Furthermore, these people are simply "hunter/gatherers"- so instead of spending their time planting and tending crops, these people spend the majority of their time harvesting their food, without all the "work" that you would typically think of with traditional gardening. These peo