The Resilient Gardener

Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times

Carol Deppe

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Chelsea Green Publishing Co
22 September 2010

Sustainable agriculture; Self-sufficiency; Gardening; Gardening: growing fruit & vegetables; Organic gardening

"Scientist/gardener Caarol Deppe combines her passion for gardening with newly emerging scientific information from many fields - resilience science, climatology, ecology, anthopology, sustianable 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 this book you'll 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; and 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, 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."

By: Carol Deppe
Imprint: Chelsea Green Publishing Co
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 242mm, Width: 191mm, Spine: 26mm
Weight: 748g
ISBN: 9781603580311
ISBN 10: 160358031X
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 22 September 2010
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for The Resilient Gardener: Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times

ForeWord Reviews -In The Resilient Gardener, scientist and author Carol Deppe offers readers an inspiring approach to gardening. For many, gardening is a hobby-a source of solace and an experiment in self-sufficiency. Gardens are designed to offer up good things during good times-handfuls of bulbous tomatoes after weeks of careful watering, weeding, and monitoring for invading insects, for example. But what happens when gardeners-along with the rest of society-face uncertain times?Uncertain times, caused by an unstable economy, changing weather patterns, or personal injury, result in an expanse of time when the garden suffers because people have other priorities. With this premise in mind, Deppe introduces the concept of resilient gardening. In Deppe's world, gardening transcends the world of leisurely pursuit and transforms into an act of empowerment.In twelve intensely detailed chapters, The Resilient Gardener empowers readers with the knowledge they need to design, build, and