How to Become a Gardener

Name: How to Become a Gardener
Brand: Allen & Unwin
SKU: 9780760374245
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Find empowerment in creating your own food security

By Ashlie Thomas

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Summary

In How to Become a Gardener, biologist and food security advocate Ashlie Thomas guides readers from food insecurity to cultivating their own nourishing harvests. Starting with identifying your personal motivations, the book takes you through lessons that transform gardening challenges into growth opportunities. Whether you use ground soil, raised beds, or containers, you will learn practical steps to grow your own food from seed to harvest, empowering you to reclaim food autonomy and connect with your community.
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This book is ideal for beginner gardeners interested in growing food at home, those facing food insecurity, and readers seeking wellness through sustainable, community-connected gardening.

An empowering guide to increasing your food security through the cultivation of your own homegrown harvests.

Description

Food insecurity impacts over 37 million in the US alone, with a higher prevalence occurring among people of colour. In How to Become a Gardener, biologist, gardener, and food security advocate Ashlie Thomas (@the.mocha.gardener) guides readers on their own life-changing path from food insecurity to nourishing homegrown harvests.

The journey begins with finding your "why" and continues through to the realisation that gardening challenges and failures are not an enemy but rather a tool for learning and growth. From starting seeds to reaping the harvest, you'll learn how to grow your own food, even if you're a complete beginner. Whether you garden in the ground, in raised beds, or in containers, it's always worth the time and the effort.

The power of growing your own food enables you to reclaim your food autonomy, connect with your community, and find freedom and wellness for yourself and your family.

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Washington Gardener Magazine praises the book as a beautiful encapsulation of Thomas's passion for gardening, offering everything needed to grow your own food and become the gardener you aspire to be. Better Homes & Gardens highlights the variety of crops you can cultivate and emphasises that a garden is not just a physical space but a path to cultivating yourself.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780760374245

Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 06 December 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: Cool Springs Press

Illustration: 200 color photos

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 203.0mm

Height: 254.0mm

Weight: 721g

Pages: 208

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Ashlie Thomas Home & Garden Non-Fiction

About the Author

Ashlie Thomas is a food security and home gardening advocate known on social media as The Mocha Gardener. Several years ago, Ashlie began her gardening journey with her husband on their one-acre North Carolina homestead. Through gardening, she has become more conscientious of local food systems and the health of the environment. Ashlie's love for wellness and the environment fuelled her passion to grow food and bring awareness through practice to growing issues of food insecurity in vulnerable communities around the country. After spending her childhood in a rural community that lacked sufficient access to nutritious foods, she understood that one way to address this barrier is through learning how to grow food and educating others on what quality foods consists of and from where it originates. Ashlie not only believes that her garden may serve as a spiritually enlightening place to ground and regenerate, but also as an opportunity to deeply connect and give reverence to what she feeds herself, her family, and her friends. It is her hope and mission to empower others to take control of their well -being through growing the very thing that sustains them...good, nutritious food.