Grow your family their five a day, the organic way

www.grub4life.com today reports that Organic Vegetable Growing is an authoritative guide to producing your own nutritious and flavourful vegetables by Robert Milne, a father of four who led his family in self-sufficiency for over twenty years.

In 2003, impatient of the lack of information about soil in gardening books, Robert took a degree in soil science at the University of Reading and in his new book, he shares his expert knowledge on how to keep soil fertile and pests at bay.

Responding to global trends, including climate change and diminishing oil resources that will adversely affect food production, Milne writes with a passion to educate anyone who has not learnt about food gardening and who consequently lacks the necessary skills to adapt to the potential food shortages that may happen in their lifetime.

Commenting on the book, Milne says, "One of the motivations for writing this book was the hope that it would be useful to parents and teachers wishing to do gardening with children and young people. Two generations have passed through the education system since food gardening was treated seriously in schools as part of the rural science course. It seems that those who might expect to live longest in this century are not being given the skills to adapt to its probable requirements."

More information at: www.howtobooks.co.uk.