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Teaming With Microbes: The Organic Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web
Written by Jeff Lowenfels and Wayne Lewis
Narrated by Chris Lutkin
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This must-have guide is for everyone, from those devoted to organic gardening to weekend gardeners who simply want to grow healthy plants without resorting to chemicals.
Author
Jeff Lowenfels
Jeff Lowenfels is a well-respected and popular national garden writer. The former president of the Garden Writers of America, he was made a GWA Fellow in 1999. He is also the founder of Plant a Row for the Hungry, a program that advocates for food donation and has led to over a million pounds of produce being donated to the hungry every year. He currently resides in Anchorage, Alaska.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I like the book so far, but the pH value is explained wrong
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Amazing book I look forward to reading the others in the series