Gardening When It Counts: Growing Food in Hard Times (Mother Earth News Wiser Living Series, 5)

Description

“Shows us how to garden like our ancestors gardened . . . with just four basic
hand tools, and with little or no electricity or irrigation.” ―Carol Deppe,
author of The Resilient Gardener In hard times, the family can be greatly
helped by growing a highly productive food garden, requiring little cash
outlay or watering. This book shows that any family with access to 3-5,000 sq.
ft. of garden land can halve their food costs using a growing system requiring
just the odd bucketful of household wastewater, perhaps two hundred dollars’
worth of hand tools.Gardening When It Counts helps readers rediscover
traditional low-input gardening methods to produce healthy food. Currently
popular intensive vegetable gardening methods are largely inappropriate to the
new circumstances we find ourselves in. Crowded raised beds require high
inputs of water, fertility and organic matter, and demand large amounts of
human time and effort. Prior to the 1970s, North American home food growing
used more land with less labor, with wider plant spacing, with less or no
irrigation, and all done with sharp hand tools. But these sustainable systems
have been largely forgotten.Designed for readers with no experience and
applicable to most areas in the English-speaking world except the tropics and
hot deserts, Gardening When It Counts is inspiring increasing numbers of North
Americans to achieve some measure of backyard food self-
sufficiency.“Delightfully informative and abundantly rich with humor and
grandfatherly wisdom. A must-read for anyone wanting a feast off the land of
their own making.” ―Elaine Smitha, host of the “Evolving Ideas” cable talk
show and author of If You Make the Rules, How Come You’re Not Boss? Read more

Features:

Product Details:

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ New Society Publishers; 59538th edition (April 1, 2006)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Paperback ‏ : ‎ 360 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 086571553X
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 30
• Reading age ‏ : ‎ 16 years and up
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.32 pounds
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.9 x 9 inches
• Best Sellers Rank: #156,004 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #100 in Sustainable Agriculture (Books) #135 in Organic & Sustainable Gardening & Horticulture #166 in Vegetable Gardening
• #100 in Sustainable Agriculture (Books)