Meet Fern Marshall Bradley

Meet the editor of The All-New Illustrated Guide To Gardening--now all organic!

Fern Marshall Bradley is a freelance writer and editor whose favorite topics are organic gardening and sustainable living. She is the author of Rodale’s Vegetable Garden Problem Solver (Rodale, 2007) and the co-author of Vegetable Gardening (Reader’s Digest 2006). During the 1990s, Fern conceived and edited several of Rodale’s top-selling garden titles, including Rodale’s Chemical-Free Yard & Garden (1991), Rodale’s All-New Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening (1992), The Organic Gardener’s Handbook of Natural Insect and Disease Control (1992), The Experts Book of Garden Hints (1993), and Gardening with Perennials (1996).

Fern’s education and experience ideally support her passion for gardening and garden writing. She has degrees in plant science and horticulture from Cornell and Rutgers universities, and she honed her organic gardening skills while managing an organic market garden in western New Jersey. While living in Emmaus, she transformed a site that had been a commercial brickyard (talk about heavy clay soil), into productive and beautiful beds of vegetables, perennials, and herbs.

What are the three most important things about the book?

• It’s a comprehensive resource for gardeners—a book to last a lifetime.
• The new edition is all-organic.
• The quantity of plant information and how-to instructions is unmatched in the marketplace.

If you could say only one thing to about the book, what would it be?
It’s astounding that a book offering this much high-quality gardening information is still available today for only $35. Only the resources and integrity of a publisher like Reader’s Digest could make this book possible.

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