Resilient Gardener - Food Production and Self-reliance in Uncertain Times (Deppe Carol)(Paperback) - diskuze

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 gardener
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