While gardening as a hobby can be a calming and rewarding experience, gardening as a method to ensure you keep you and your family fed is the opposite. When you don't have the know-how or tools to plant your own crops, you are most likely to waste hours of physical and emotional labor.A book like this would not be complete without stories that honor the many gardeners, farmers and seed keepers that have dedicated their lives to stewarding these heritage varieties. Within these pages, the seed keepers themselves share their stories and help the reader to understand the importance of Saving Seeds Made Easy
The Right Reverend Dr. Peter Brain is the current bishop of Armidale in the Anglican Church of Australia.
Brain studied at Moore Theological College, and was formerly rector of Wanneroo parish in Western Australia. There he gained a reputation for encouraging his fellow-clergy. He has been bishop of the diocese since 2000.
The Armidale Diocese has the reputation of having the highest proportion of evangelical clergy of any Anglican diocese in the world (even higher, proportionally, than Sydney Diocese, which may be the largest Evangelical Diocese in terms of total population).
Brain obtained a Doctor of Ministry from Fuller Theological Seminary, and his doctoral work led him to write Going the Distance: How to Stay Fit for a Lifetime of Ministry, which achieved a "highly commended" in the 2004 Australian Christian Book of the Year awards.