Steve Solomon

Steve Solomon has been writing Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades since 1979. The book has evolved and grown as the author has researched, practiced, and refined the methods of organic gardening. He has homesteaded in Oregon because he believed in living self-sufficiently; he founded the Territorial Seed Company; in 2001 he moved to Tasmania, where he gardens a quarter-acre vegetable plot.Territorial Seed Company was beginning to flourish and Marina McShane joined the crew at the Territorial Seed Company in 1981 working in the seed room and helping Steve Solomon in the trial grounds.a It was an intensive immersion into the philosophy and practices of the organic gardening of vegetables. Thirty years later, Marina lives outside Eugene, OR, where she gardens in an acre of deer fenced botanical wonderland, including about 1,200 square feet of vegetable garden.