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.
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