num_pages: 280
description: Acadia Tuckers long love affair with perennial foods has produced this easy-to-understand guide to growing harvesting and eating them.A regenerative farmer and gardener deeply concerned about global warming Tucker believes there may be no better time to plant perennials. Sturdy and deep-rooted perennials can weather climate extremes more easily than annuals. They can thrive without chemical fertilizers and pesticides. And they dont need as much water either. These long-lived plants also help build healthy soil turning the very ground we stand on into a carbon sponge.In this book Tucker lays the groundwork for tending an organic sustainable garden. She includes practical growing guides for 34 popular perennials among them basil blueberries grapes strawberries artichokes asparagus garlic radicchio spinach and sweet potatoes and wraps in a recipe for each of the plants profiled. Growing Perennial Foods is for gardeners who want more resilient plants. Its for people who want to do something about climate change and the environment. Its for anyone who has ever wanted to grow food and is ready to begin.
language: English
title: Growing Perennial Foods: A Field Guide to Raising Resilient Herbs, Fruits, and Vegetables
publisher: Stone Pier Press