Straw Bale Solutions ─ Creative Tips for Growing Vegetables in Bales at Home, in Community Gardens, and Around the World

Start vegetable gardening without weeding, in the city, or even without soil. Oh yes, it's true.

By now, even the most casual gardeners have heard of straw bale gardening, the pioneering method to gardening introduced by Joel Karsten. This method of growing vegetables has exploded in popularity and is now being practiced across the world. Come along on this guided tour of Straw Bale Solutions where you are sure to answers to every question you've ever had about starting your own SBG.

Straw Bale Solutions doesn't just teach from example, it also traces the evolution of the SBG movement from its inception on a small tree farm in Minnesota. This is more than just a home gardening phenomenon; it’s an institution that is being employed to combat world hunger in countries including Cambodia, Argentina, and Costa Rica.

This guidebook is filled with practical information for home gardeners who want to adopt the method. You'll see the countless iterations of the method in a huge variety of climates and situations, giving you the best road map to adapting the method to make their own gardens even more successful.