Landscaping on lava

[Glenn P]

I love gardening and landscaping and am very excited about moving to the B.I. within in the next year. We bought three acres in Orchidland but the soil is close to nonexistant. My question is how do you go about planting trees, bushes flowers when there is so little soil? I plan to use raised beds for vegetables but what is the conventional wisdom for everything else? Do you have soil trucked in? Are there any good landscaping books that are germane for growing on lava? Any garden club links for the East side? Thanks, Glenn P