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Your Edible Yard

Autor Crystal Stevens
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 feb 2020

Transform your yard into a beautiful and vibrant space offering a continuous supply of food

Has the potential to change the landscaping of our nation and the design of our lives.
¿ ROB GREENFIELD, author, Dude Making a Difference
A beautiful synthesis of organic, regenerative, and permaculture practices for an abundant yard anywhere.
¿ MATT POWERS, author and educator, ThePermacultureStudent.com
Your Edible Yard is the comprehensive how-to guide you need to turn your yard into a bountiful feast. Illustrated throughout with dozens of beautiful color photographs, water color planting charts, infographics, and landscaping designs, it covers:
  • Practical gardening methods and maintenance from weeding to wintering, including foodscaping, container gardening, and saving seeds
  • Permaculture principles including soil building techniques, garden preparation, raised beds, and natural/non-toxic DIY pesticide alternatives
  • How to integrate culinary and medicinal herbs, edible flowers, mushrooms, fruits, vegetables, and wild edibles
  • Gardening resources: where to go for help, buy seeds, and source supplies on a budget
  • Instructions on preserving, fermenting, freezing, drying, and making simple medicines
  • General tips, such as how to find loopholes in laws preventing edible front yards.
Whether you're a beginner or experienced gardener in the city, the suburbs, or the country, this manual is the A-Z guide for growing an abundant edible landscape.
A timely, clear, inspiring, and valuable resource for anyone interested in the why and how of getting started in transitioning your yard from lawn to edible garden.
¿ ZEN HONEYCUTT, founding executive director, Moms Across America, author, Unstoppable
Crystal Stevens is an artist, folk herbalist, regenerative farmer, permaculturist, and author of the award-winning Grow Create Inspire and Worms at Work. She lives with her husband and two children on a 10-acre permaculture-inspired micro-farm along the rolling hills
of the Mississippi River.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780865719224
ISBN-10: 0865719225
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 191 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.71 kg
Editura: New Society Publishers

Notă biografică

Crystal Stevens is an author, artist/art teacher, folk herbalist, regenerative farmer, and permaculturist. She is the co-founder of Flourish, and the author of the award-winning Grow Create Inspire, and Worms at Work. Crystal lives with her husband and two children on a 10-acre permaculture-inspired micro farm along the rolling hills of the Mississippi River.

Cuprins

Dedication and Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Detriment of the Lawn Obsession
Chapter 2: It Shouldn't Be a Crime to Grow Vegetables!
Chapter 3: Building Healthy Soils with Compost and Vermicompost
Chapter 4: Permaculture in Your Yard/Bed Prep
Chapter 5: Your Edible Yard - Natural Alternatives to Herbicides and Pesticides
Chapter 6: Choosing the Right Plants
Chapter 7: Edible Landscaping Designs
Chapter 8: Edible Landscape Showcase
Chapter 9: Yard-to-Table Recipes and Preserving the Harvest
Chapter 10: DIY Herbal Remedies and Recipes
Notes
Index
About the Author
A Note about the Publisher

Descriere

Your Edible Yard is the comprehensive how-to guide to turn your yard into a beautiful, bountiful feast. With dozens of color photographs and watercolor illustrations, and landscaping designs for gardeners with any amount of space, it covers everything from design to harvesting instructions/recipes.