Evan Ryan, Lehua Vander Velde

Hawai'i Home Gardens (eBook, ePUB)

Growing Vegetables in the Subtropics Using Holistic Methods

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Hawai'i Home Gardens is a step-by-step, comprehensive guide to a successful home vegetable gardening experience. Incorporating holistic practices from organic gardening, permaculture, regenerative agriculture, and biointensive design, this book offers simple, practical, and effective approaches to growing food.

This book includes all the basics you need to know to grow healthy vegetables. Hawai'i has more than 140 soil types, 10 microclimates, and year round growing conditions, providing the opportunity to harvest a diversity of fresh food year round. This book provides insight into design, implementation, and care, focusing on the challenges of growing food in this unique climate, including:

• Holistic design for subtropical climates
• Strategies for getting started and choosing which plants to grow
• Composting, cover crops, and fertilization
• Propagation and planting
• Irrigation and water conservation
• Seed saving to create locally-adapted varieties
• Preventing pests, diseases, and weeds Implementing the strategies shared in Hawai'i Home Gardens will save you time and money.

This valuable resource will also inspire you to get out and grow! It will build confidence in home gardeners, both new and experienced, as well as landscape professionals, and beginning farmers. Evan Ryan and Lehua Vander Velde have over 30 years combined experience growing food in Hawai'i.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pono Grown LLC
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780692903872
• Artikelnr.: 49884824

Autorenporträt

My life choices are inspired by my love of clean air, fresh water, nourishing food, and community connection. I have been graced with opportunities to live and work with many indigenous cultures throughout the world. These experiences have instilled in me a great appreciation for the simple, yet successful farming technologies that have been cultivated over many generations. These systems rely on the land as a teacher and a guide for living in harmony with the earth. In 2000, I began gardening and farming on Maui, and am still loving it today as an agricultural landscape consultant, designer, farmer, project manager, and educator. My focus is applying permaculture systems to production agriculture, and integrating these principles into home gardens, orchards, and commercial farms. I am grateful to see how holistic land care practices consistently yield positive results in any landscape or microclimate. The exponential growth of the farm and garden community on Maui inspired my early involvement as a board member of the Hawai'i Farmer's Union United. Working with the Hawai'i Public Seed Initiative, I have been able to offer free seed and plant exchanges as well as seed saving classes. This multi-island initiative has inspired the Hawai'i Seed Grower's Network, a marketplace for locally grown seeds! In 2015, I began Pono Grown Farm Center, a non-profit organization focused on agricultural education with a mission to increase the connection people have to the land, and empower them to better care for it. This diverse 15-acre farm in upcountry Maui has a vibrant intern program, extensive vegetable gardens, hundreds of fruit trees, chickens, and bees. We farm with rainwater catchment, solar electricity, and power our vehicles with locally produced biodiesel. I am blessed to live onsite at the farm with my loving wife, Danielle and our joyful son, Bija.