I received this book during a hectic time here at The Land Institute when I had no time to read it. I thumbed through it and found it so compelling, it was hard to put down. I would pull away to tend to my business, and my eye would go back to the book and I would open it again. That book is a troublemaker for anyone who is busy. What a teacher Woody is. Our kind will meet his ways more fully on the other side of the peaks-population, oil, whatever- when we are forced to begin again. It is nothing less than a superb primer. (Wes Jackson, The Land Institute) "As a non-gardener with only a superficial awareness of the organic farming movement in the United States, I was amazed at how compelling a read this book became for me. The author"s personal, narrative style was inviting from the first chapters, and soon I found myself learning about biodynamics, and all that the term implies. Ultimately it is a book about values for our times - survival values in every sense of that word. As I read, various concepts, terms, and beliefs that are afloat out there in my surrounding social environment began to fit together for me for the first time, like pieces of a puzzle. ..." (Gayle Reichart)Woody Wodraska"s 40-year gardening career has taken him to 17 gardens and another dozen agricultural endeavors in almost as many states and provinces. Always the questions arose - how to grow food, how to live in beauty and abundance with grace and in harmony and in co-creation with Devas and Nature Spirits. From backyard family gardens to a CSA enterprise feeding 100 families, Woody started from scratch or built on other gardeners" vision.Woody Wodraska has been a writer of non-fiction since college days. he lives in British Columbia with his wife Barbara Mary Victoria Scott. Woody and Barbara have founded Aurora Farm Family Foundation with the mission of teaching gardening, seed saving, beekeeping, and other food-growing arts.