Put Your Hands in the Soil!

A book which contains many tips for ecological vertical cultivation. The biologist Jürgen Herler illustrates the importance of urban greenery – including in the fight against global warming – and shows how vertical gardening can be used to create an abundant nutritional oasis even in the smallest of spaces, for example on house walls or on balconies and terraces. He helps the reader with many instructions for organic gardeners. He also gives practical tips for vertical low-energy vegetable cultivation in winter, and along with that he presents 30 frost-resistant, vitamin-rich varieties using both words and pictures.

This book is a guide for everyone who wants to eat healthily and with environmental awareness, by cultivating their own fruit and vegetables. At the same time, it’s a compass for architects and garden designers who want to come up with new approaches. The author also covers conventional, industrialized agriculture, the boom in organic food, microbiome research and biodiversity in cultivation and nutrition. With his book he both stimulates thought and summons us all to action.