Welcome to a strategy in which we humans can find our way back into proper relationship with nature, each other, and all of creation.

176 pp paperback, 2 b&w illustrations

A Conscious Gardener’s Guide

Can you really communicate with the ‘pests’ in your garden? Ellen Vande Visse believes that you can! She takes you, step-by-step, into her garden to encounter the onslaught of maggots, cutworms, slugs and other ‘pests’. She introduces you to the idea that you can make a deal with these ‘pests’ by communicating with them rather than waging chemical warfare on them.

Smile at Ellen’s first desperate attempts to communicate with the root maggot, follow her as she learns how to dialogue with the Devas of the ‘pests’ in her garden, begins to see them for the gift they are, and finally learns how to work in co-operation and harmony with all of the nature kingdom.

Ask Mother Nature is a unique combination of spiritual development manual and gardening guide. The narrative challenges you to actually live, apply and demonstrate a conscious life by directly communicating with nature. Ask Mother Nature provides:

Entertaining first-person stories that explain the steps you need to take to garden in co-operation with nature;

A simple method of communicating with the nature kingdoms that does not require you to be psychic or good at meditating;

The Devic perspective – read how the different nature beings voice their viewpoint.

Read a few sample pages below:

"A revolutionary approach to gardening, easily do-able by anyone. Learn how to get practical advice directly from the nature kingdom itself."
—Janice Schofield, author, Discovering Wild Plants and Beyond Road’s End

"It is wonderful to come across a book that deals with the intelligence of nature as well as giving precise and practical examples of creative cooperation with it."
—Dorothy Maclean, cofounder, Findhorn Community, and author, To Hear the Angels Sing

"A world of co-creative relationship with nature, teaching us how to work with the plants as living beings. This is one gardening book you’ll read to the end."
—Rosemary Gladstar, founder, the California School of Herbal Studies, and author, Herbal Healing for Women and Gladstar Family Herbal

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Since1987, Ellen Vande Visse has logged hundreds of hours communicating with Devas and Nature Spirits. Their guidance, jokes, and unconventional advice have directed how she operated her numerous organic market gardens, her growing of flowers, herbs, and vegetables for the National Outdoor Leadership School, Alaska Branch, her production of compost and compost tea for commercial and backyard growers, and her sustainable agriculture consultations. So far, their angelic counsel has never proved wrong!

Ellen is a frequent horticultural speaker and teaches courses about organic gardening methods through colleges, universities and her own Good Earth Garden School.