"If you wish to live well and eat well no matter what is going on in the rest of the world, this book is for you. . . .  Will Bonsall will help you enjoy the good life under any and all conditions."—Eliot Coleman, author of The New Organic Grower "Society does not generally expect its farmers to be visionaries." Perhaps not, but longtime Maine farmer and homesteader Will Bonsall does possess a unique clarity of vision that extends all the way from the finer points of soil fertility and seed saving to exploring how we can transform civilization and make our world a better, more resilient place.In Will Bonsall''s Essential Guide to Radical, Self-Reliant Gardening, Bonsall maintains that to achieve real wealth we first need to understand the economy of the land, to realize that things that might make sense economically don''t always make sense ecologically, and vice versa.The marketplace distorts our values, and our modern dependence on petroleum in particular presents a serious barrier t