num_pages: 168
description: Growing Good Food is a beginners guide to growing your own herbs fruits and vegetables using organic and sustainable practices. Its for home gardeners who want to raise food on their own patch of soilall while cultivating a microbe-rich carbon-sucking regenerative foodscape.Acadia Tucker a regenerative farmer gardener and climate activist invites us to think of gardening as civic action. By building organically-rich soil even in a backyard we can capture greenhouse gases all while growing nutritious food. To help us get started Tucker drafts plans for gardeners who have a little ground or a lot of it. She offers advice on how to prep and clear land cultivate healthy soil plant food from seeds fend off pests and disease and grow 21 popular perennials and annuals including fruit trees herbs strawberries peppers tomatoes cabbage carrots garlic beans peas and potatoes. Tucker also describes the climate changes taking place in our own backyards and the various steps we can take to boost a gardens resilience.Growing Good Food includes calls to action and insights from leaders in the regenerative growing movement including David Montgomery Anne Bikl Gabe Brown Wendell Berry and Mary Berry and Tim LaSalle. By the end of this book you'll know how to grow some really good food and build a healthier world too.Acadia Tucker tells us that what we do matters and if we have access to any piece of ground we can start addressing climate change. My father Wendell Berry says that this kind of work is radical now when public attention is focused on global solutions. This work is what people are for. -Mary Berry New Castle Kentucky
language: English
title: Growing Good Food: A Citizen's Guide to Backyard Farming
publisher: Stone Pier Press