num_pages: 324
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Resilient Gardener: Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times
publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing