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Kitchen Garden Revival

A modern guide to creating a stylish, small-scale, low-maintenance, edible garden
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Kitchen Garden Revival by Nicole Johnsey Burke is a practical guide that inspires readers to reconnect with the joys of growing their own food. Focusing on reviving the tradition of kitchen gardens, it provides step-by-step instructions for designing, building, planting, and maintaining your own garden. The book combines expert advice with an enthusiastic approach to help anyone transform their outdoor space into a thriving, edible landscape.
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You might enjoy this book if you're looking to transform your backyard into a thriving kitchen garden. It's perfect for those interested in sustainable living, growing their own fresh produce, and enjoying organic gardening practices. Whether you're a beginner or have some gardening experience, it offers practical tips and inspiration to start and maintain your own edible garden space.

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Design and grow a beautiful, productive, small-scale vegetable garden with Kitchen Garden Revival. Discover which edibles grow best in kitchen gardens and get season-by-season advice on planting, tending, and harvesting.

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Elevate your backyard veggie patch into a work of sophisticated and stylish art. Kitchen Garden Revival guides you through every aspect of kitchen gardening, from design to harvesting, with expert advice from author Nicole Burke, founder of Rooted Garden, one of the leading US culinary landscape companies, and Gardenary, an online kitchen gardening education and resource company.

Participating in the grow-your-own movement is important to both reduce your food miles and control what makes it onto your family's table. If you've hesitated to take part because installing and caring for a traditional vegetable garden doesn't seem to suit your life or your sense of style, Kitchen Garden Revival is here to show you there's a better, more beautiful way to grow food.

Instead of row after row of cabbage and pepper plants plunked into a patch of dirt in the middle of the yard, kitchen gardens are attractive, highly tailored food gardens consisting of easy-to-maintain raised planting beds laid out in an organised geometric pattern. Offering both four seasons of ornamental interest and plenty of fresh, homegrown fruits, vegetables, and herbs, kitchen gardens are the way to grow your own food in a fashionable, modern, and practical way.

Kitchen gardens were once popular features of the European and early American landscape, but they fell out of favour when our agrarian roots were displaced by industrialisation. With this accessible and inspirational guide, Nicole aims to return the kitchen garden to its rightful place just outside of every backdoor.

Learn the art of kitchen gardening as you discover:

  • What characteristics all kitchen gardens have in common
  • How to design and install gorgeous kitchen garden beds using metal, wood, or stone
  • Why raised beds mean reduced maintenance
  • What crops are best for your kitchen garden
  • A planting, tending, and harvesting plan developed by a pro
  • Season-by-season growing guides

It's time to join the Kitchen Garden Revival and start growing your own delicious, organic food.

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Kitchen Garden Revival by Nicole Johnsey Burke has been praised for offering fresh perspectives on traditional gardening concepts, making it suitable for both beginners and seasoned gardeners. The book includes practical advice complemented by 230 vivid photographs that enhance its appeal. Burke infuses the guide with humour and personal anecdotes about her gardening journey, providing an engaging read while also educating readers on crop selection, garden construction, and the benefits of gardening.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780760366868

Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 05 May 2020

Country: United States

Imprint: Cool Springs Press

Illustration: 230 color photos

Contributors:

  • By Eric Kelley

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 203.0mm

Height: 254.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 208

About the Author

Nicole Burke is the founder of Rooted Garden, one of the leading culinary landscape companies in the US. They've worked with clients to design and build hundreds of kitchen gardens and provide the knowledge and resources their clients need to grow their own beautiful and delicious kitchen garden. Based in both Houston, Texas, and Chicago, Illinois, Nicole conducts dozens of personal on-site workshops each year to share her knowledge of kitchen gardening. She's also the force behind the website Gardenary, an online kitchen garden education and resource company that makes learning how to kitchen garden easy through digital courses and online garden coaching. Nicole's mission is to see every family growing some of their own food and for kitchen gardens to become an ordinary part of everyday life once again.

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