What we know about vegetables today is just the tip of a wonderful cipher, an almost magical script, as if the tactile and the suprasensory were on a single stem. "Suprasensory," because the biography of every garden plant constantly grows beyond itself into every strata of existence you can both eat the plants and use them as a map…. The plant is a wide-open creature, as wide as the landscape it grows in. It's creature of nodes and growth rings and cycles. What you see are not really leaves and flowers and fruits, but cycles that have jelled. The plant is a merely slight thickening of the cycles of rising and falling light, the jelled rhythm of cosmic activity. When you get to know a plant species, you see it merely as a shadow or ripple of a larger picture, which takes years to see as a whole. You get glimpses of the whole-and its therapeutic power-when you see for example how cabbage, kale, and broccoli are part of a larger transformation tat is never entirely visible in one snapshot. These transformations have always surrounded us, waiting for millennia to be noticed and employed. (from the Foreword), Organized alphabetically-from Asian Brassicas to Winter Squash-and filled with new perspectives and ways to work with soil and plants, this book is a priceless treasure trove of practical experience, deep thought, precise observation, and astonishing facts about more than 70 basic vegetables. The author writes: "I have included everything that is important to me as a dedicated gardener. I have lived, worked, observed, and even dreamed with plants for more than 40 years. My book includes all the horticultural details, organic and biodynamic, I have found to grow vegetables in ways that increase their astonishing spectrum of antioxidants. I describe the ecological history of each vegetable. In some cases, I describe imaginatively the vegetables dynamic form and how it fits into the garden ecosystem." For all home and professional gardeners and vegetable growers, and for everyone interested in knowing more about what they eat, Vegetable Gardening for Organic and Biodynamic Growers is destined to become not only a perennially useful guide but a favorite bedside book.