The Resilient Gardener: Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times

Name: The Resilient Gardener: Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times
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“The Resilient Gardener is so essential, timely and important, and I will recommend it to everyone I know. It doesn’t matter if you garden or if you don’t-this is practical wisdom good for humans to know.”—Deborah Madison, Author of Local Flavors and Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone
Scientist/gardener Carol Deppe combines her passion for organic gardening with newly emerging scientific information from many fields — resilience science, climatology, climate change, ecology, anthropology, paleontology, sustainable agriculture, nutrition, health, and medicine. In the last half of The Resilient Gardener, Deppe extends and illustrates these principles with detailed information about growing and using five key crops: potatoes, corn, beans, squash, and eggs.
In this book you’ll learn how to:
•Garden in an era of unpredictable weather and climate change
•Grow, store, and use more of your own staple crops
•Garden efficiently and comfortably (even if you have a bad back)
•Grow, store, and cook different varieties of potatoes and save your own potato seed
•Grow the right varieties of corn to make your own gourmet-quality fast-cooking polenta, cornbread, parched corn, corn cakes, pancakes and even savory corn gravy
•Make whole-grain, corn-based breads and cakes using the author’s original gluten-free recipes involving no other grains, artificial binders, or dairy products
•Grow and use popbeans and other grain legumes
•Grow, store, and use summer, winter, and drying squash
•Keep a home laying flock of ducks or chickens; integrate them with your gardening, and grow most of their feed.
The Resilient Gardener is both a conceptual and a hands-on organic gardening book, and is suitable for vegetable gardeners at all levels of experience. Resilience here is broadly conceived and encompasses a full range of problems, from personal hard times such as injuries, family crises, financial problems, health problems, and special dietary needs (gluten intolerance, food allergies, carbohydrate sensitivity, and a need for weight control) to serious regional and global disasters and climate change. It is a supremely optimistic as well as realistic book about how resilient gardeners and their vegetable gardens can flourish even in challenging times and help their communities to survive and thrive through everything that comes their way — from tomorrow through the next thousand years. Organic gardening, vegetable gardening, self-sufficiency, subsistence gardening, gluten-free living.
“The Resilient Gardener is brilliantly timely, and shows us how to create gardens that can survive our increasingly erratic weather, while supplying key nutrition lacking in most vegetable gardens. This book fills a critical niche, and I recommend it unreservedly.”—Toby Hemenway, author of Gaia’s Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture

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A conceptual and hands-on gardening book for all levels of experience!

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“These days, we tend to design our gardens and our gardening for good times, times when everything is going well. That isn’t what we need. Reality is, there is almost always something going wrong. Hard times are normal. . . . My garden needed to be designed around the reality that life has its ups and downs. It has good times and bad. How to garden in the best of times was not the issue. I didn’t need a “good-time garden.” I needed to understand more about how to garden in hard times. I needed a more resilient garden. And I needed a garden that better enhanced my own resilience, in all kinds of times, good and bad.”

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Chelsea Green; 1st edition (September 22, 2010)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 384 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 160358031X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1603580311
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.75 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.51 x 0.96 x 9.48 inches

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Customers find this gardening book extremely informative and practical, praising its stellar writing style and down-to-earth approach. The book covers food production in detail, including vegetable breeding and nutrition density, while also providing helpful information on seed recovery and storage techniques. Customers appreciate the book’s focus on resilience and self-reliance in uncertain times.