This is such an interesting idea! I'd really like to try this type of gardening, but I need a different yard.....

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A very good reference about Straw Bale Gardening Concept. The books explores the strategies around the world using Straw Bale Gardening specially in cold zones as the American Northwest, Switzerland and Canada,

This book is a successor to Karsten's first book that describes HOW to do Straw Bale Gardening. Though this book also has a brief introduction, it focuses primarily on stories of people who have successfully used Straw Bale Gardening throughout the world. It's truly inspirational to see that this can be a real solution to difficult growing areas. The multitude of illustrations show that it doesn't have to look ugly, either! In fact, it's convinced me to try it also, instead of building raised beds. I may have to get his first book!

This book takes me back to the 1970s when we had our first garden, we grew vegetables based on the same principal, where we were living then was cold, and wet and the straw bales offered warmth and protection.
Reading this book just reminded me again about this process, and how well it will work where we live now, which is very hot, dry with very cold winters.
I highly recommend this book to anyone that want to grow fresh vegetables in a multitude of climates, organically and little effort. This book offers examples of various people, in various parts of the world using this method of growing. Stood the test of time.

Wow! I really enjoyed this book! I have heard about straw bale gardening but didn't know too much about it. I enjoyed the way this book is organized. It gives you the information you need to get started and then also shares stories of people around the world with all different kinds of challenges they have faced with gardening and how straw bale gardening has allowed them to be successful. The pictures of people's straw bale gardens are really something. I will be getting started on my own garden soon!

This book has a ton of great ideas with helpful advice from a lot of seasoned straw bale gardeners so I don’t think I will have any problems with this one and it is a good way to garden without digging up the yard or even if you only have a small outdoor space. I had never heard of this style of gardening, I knew you could use straw bales as walls to make a temporary cold frame but never tried to use them as the “raised bed”. It’s still winter here so I can’t try it out yet but I already have a couple of bales of horse hay that I can’t use for feed so I have followed the easy instructions on how to prep them to so they will be ready to plant in the spring

Hello to Straw Bale Gardening and Goodbye to Weeds!
I have a weedy patch in my backyard where I desperately would like to plant some vegetables.
So far I have been scratching my head how I would be able to do that on a very tight budget and with the little time I have during the week to actually tend to my garden.
Straw bale gardening is a new and fascinating concept for me. With Joel Karsten's valuable instructions, straw bale gardens are very easy to set up and it does not need much maintenance to produce a home grown crop of vegetables and even to feature some flowers. And, most importantly, I can basically forget about the weeds! All I need to do is to put some kind of weed barrier on the ground between the bales, plant my vegetable plants on the bales, keep them moist, and watch them grow.
I love that Joel Karsten gives many examples of people from all over the globe who have had a lot of success with straw bale gardening. Often these people have faced less than ideal conditions in their gardens, like hard to work and unfertile soil, uneven terrain, or seasonal flooding. The photographs of their straw bale gardens showing lush plants growing on them are a testimony to how well the concept seems to work. The book also shows examples of community gardens with straw bales that can be set up in all kinds of spaces. I cannot wait to buy a couple of straw bales and see how it goes.