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The Resilient Gardener

Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times
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The Resilient Gardener by Carol Deppe is a practical guide that focuses on gardening for self-reliance and sustainability. The book combines wisdom on growing essential crops with personal anecdotes, offering strategies for resilient gardening in the face of climate change and unpredictable events. It delves into cultivating five key crops—potatoes, corn, beans, squash, and eggs—tailoring advice to both beginner gardeners and seasoned growers alike.
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This book may appeal to you if you are interested in cultivating a diverse and resilient home garden that thrives despite challenges like climate changes or personal limitations. It offers insightful techniques and principles for gardening enriched with wisdom on food security and sustainability.

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Both a conceptual and hands-on gardening book, suitable for gardeners at all levels The Resilient Gardener extends the principles of sustainable agriculture, nutrition and ecology.

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Scientist and gardener Carol Deppe combines her passion for gardening with newly emerging scientific information from many fields, including resilience science, climatology, ecology, anthropology, sustainable agriculture, nutrition, and health science.

In this book, Deppe extends these principles with detailed information about growing and using five keystone crops that are especially important for anyone seeking greater self-reliance: potatoes, corn, beans, squash, and eggs.

In The Resilient Gardener, you will learn how to:

  • Garden in a time of climate change and unpredictable weather.
  • Grow, use, and store more of your staple crops.
  • Save your own seeds and seed potatoes.
  • Keep a flock of ducks and chickens whilst integrating them into your gardening activities and growing most of their feed.

The Resilient Gardener is both a conceptual and hands-on gardening book. "Resilience" here is broadly conceived and encompasses a full range of challenges, from the personal, financial, health, and dietary to serious regional disasters and global climate change.

However, this is a supremely optimistic and realistic book about how resilient gardeners (and their gardens) can flourish even in challenging times and help their communities to survive through everything that comes their way, tomorrow or in the next thousand years.

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The Resilient Gardener by Carol Deppe offers an empowering approach to gardening, focusing on adaptability in the face of challenges such as health issues, dietary restrictions, and changing climates. Readers find valuable insights on cultivating staple crops like potatoes, corn, beans, squash, and duck eggs, with special attention to those with gluten intolerance. Deppe's blend of scientific knowledge and personal experience gives the book a practical yet intimate tone, making it a treasured resource for both novice and seasoned gardeners interested in sustainability and resilience. Her work is praised for its detailed guidance and relevance in an era of uncertain global conditions.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781603580311

Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Co

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 18 June 2013

Country: United States

Imprint: Chelsea Green Publishing Co

Illustration: Index; Bibliography; Illustrations, color

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 26.0mm

Width: 191.0mm

Height: 242.0mm

Weight: 748g

Pages: 384

About the Author

Oregon plant breeder Carol Deppe specialises in developing public-domain crops for organic growing conditions, sustainable agriculture, and human survival for the next thousand years.

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