GROW BIOINTENSIVE workshops with John Jeavons

How to Register Topics/Schedule Locations Required Reading Food and Lodging

Required Reading for the Workshop:

The list below contains required reading, which you should do before you come to the Workshop, as well as other materials that you should bring with you. You can order the full or partial set of these publications by visiting Bountiful Gardens.

Required Reading (read before the Workshop, and bring with you)

How to Grow More Vegetables, 7th ed., 2006
The Sustainable Vegetable Garden
EA Booklet #14: The Complete 21-Bed Biointensive Mini-Farm
EA Booklet #26: Learning How To Grow All Your Own Food

Recommended Reading

One Circle (especially pp. i-vi, 1-72, 125-128)
EA Booklet #32: GROW BIOINTENSIVE Composting and Growing Compost Materials

Optional Reading

General Perspective:

The Backyard Homestead, Mini-Farm and Garden Log Book (Chapter 2)

Diet / Compost / Income:

EA Booklet #15: One Basic Mexican Diet
EA Booklet #25: One Basic Kenyan Diet
EA Booklet #28: The Smallest Possible Area to Grow Food and Feed

Compost Materials / Carbon:

Booklet #12: Growing and Gathering Your Own Fertilizer

Research Perspective:

EA Booklet #1: Cucumber Bonanza

Saving Seeds:

Booklet #13: Growing to Seed (rev. ed. 1999)
Saving Seeds, Marc Rogers (Storey, 1990)

Flowers:

EA Booklet #18: Cut, Dried and Edible Flowers for Income, Pleasure and Taste

Transforming Human Waste:

Future Fertility

Fertility:

EA Booklet #29: Test Your Soil with Plants!

Questions To Ask When Beginning To Farm:

EA Booklet: Another Way to Wealth

Teacher Training:

EA Booklet #30: GROW BIOINTENSIVE Sustainable Mini-Farming\Teacher-Training and Certification Program