Liz's review
All New Square Foot Gardening: Grow More in Less Space!
by Mel Bartholomew
Liz's review
All New Square Foot Gardening: Grow More in Less Space! by Mel Bartholomew
Liz's review
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I agree with the review just before mine in almost every respect. What I personally found most insensitive in the book was his plan to bring his method of farming to so-called "developing nations". The way he talked about it was so patronizing that if only I had read that first (it's at nearly the end of the book) I would have never read any further. He dismisses other cultures' diets in a single sentence and, as the previous reviewer notes, acts like the only reason people anywhere are starving is because they don't know how to adequately farm. More generally I also found his method lacking for application in my own American garden, finding it much too highly engineered for my own taste and not in any way intuitive. To my own mind, perhaps people who want to so heavily control their own little space in this world should be doing something that's a little less messy and unpredictable than gardening.
