Crystal Stevens

Your Edible Yard (eBook, ePUB)

Landscaping with Fruits and Vegetables

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: New Society Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781771423113
• Artikelnr.: 56835902

Autorenporträt

Crystal Stevens is an author, an artist/art teacher, a folk herbalist, a regenerative farmer, and a Permaculturist. She is the author of award-winning Grow Create Inspire, and Worms at Work. She co-founded Flourish, and has written for such publications as Permaculture Magazine, Grit, Mother Earth News Blog, The Healthy Planet Magazine, and Elephant Journal. Crystal is a prominent speaker at conferences and workshops, focusing on a myriad of topics including gardening, small-scale farming, ethical foraging, herbal medicine, natural household, and healthy cooking. She lives with her husband and two children on a 10-acre permaculture-inspired micro farm along the rolling hills of the Mississippi River. www.growcreateinspire.com

Inhaltsangabe

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