The Green Gardener's Guide: Simple, Significant Actions to Protect & Preserve Our Planet
by Joe Lamp'l
363 pages
Cool Springs Press, 2008
List price: $16.95
I have a confession to make. I'm not a gung-ho green gardener. Sometimes when I'm among my gardening cohorts on Twitter, Facebook, or my gardening blog, Our Little Acre, I feel a little guilty that I'm not out there being more of a cheerleader for the ecology than I am. Oh, I'm a believer in 90% of it, but I know I don't do all I could to back up what I believe.
What I also know is that everyone can do something and something is...well...something.
"What can I do?" you might ask.
Joe Lamp'l to the rescue! In The Green Gardener's Guide: Simple, Significant Actions to Protect & Preserve Our Planet
, the key to answering that question is in the title. In Joe's book, appropriately labeled as a guide, he lays out many simple tips for being more responsible gardeners in a format that lends itself to quick reads. No single suggestion in the book is more than three or four pages long - many are shorter. With each idea presented, Joe gives us the logic behind it and the results achieved when it's followed. When you know that things you do have an impact, no matter how small, it provides the motivation to do them.
The Green Gardener's Guide is just the type of book that gets people talking over the fence, which happens to be one of Joe's suggestions. When you find helpful tips in this book, tell your friends and neighbors! Before you know it, you'll be feeling good about taking better care of not only your little corner of the world, the rest of it will be better off, too.
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Joe Lamp'l, also known as Joe Gardener®, is a nationally syndicated garden writer and host of the PBS series GardenSmart and DIY Network's Fresh from the Garden. Joe has emerged as one of the most recognized national gardening communicators - and certainly one of the most stimulating personalities in the "green" sector, with his passion for gardening and environmental stewardship. You can also find him on his website, Joe Gardener: Growing a Greener World.
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3 comments:
I met Joe several years ago at a Garden Writers Association meeting in Philly. We've stayed in touch ever since. He's an upfront guy, and one of the nicest (and most knowledgeable) garden gurus you'll ever come across. I think I need to contact him again and buy a signed copy of the book you reviewed. Like you, I too don't swing fully from the going green gardening vine. So, I know "The Green Gardener's Guide" would be of great benefit to me.
TC ~ I love my lawn! ;-) Lots of fun has been had in the grass of this lawn! Games of croquet, softball, badminton, volleyball, football, etc. We don't water our lawn because there's too much to do that and Romie mows high, which is good for the lawn and saves gas. It has clover, crab grass, dandelions and other "stuff," but is still pretty good, considering. We spot treat some of that, but don't spray the grass for weeds.
Lucky you, to have met Joe. He seems like a down-to-earth good guy. He even talked to me on Twitter. :-)
I have plans to attend the yearly symposium next fall in Dallas, so perhaps I'll have the chance to meet him, too. And YOU. Are you planning to be there?
I liked this book a lot too. I hate how politicized so much of the pro-environment stuff has gotten. I like how Joe presents realistic things to do to make a difference without beating you over the head with politics and doesn't have a holier-than-thou attitude.
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