Gardening When It Counts: Growing Food in Hard Times

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Название: Gardening When It Counts: Growing Food in Hard Times

Автор: Steve Solomon

Издательство: BNew Society Publishers

Год: 2006

Количество страниц: 360

Язык: English

Формат: PDF

Размер: 34МБ

ISBN: 086571553X

The decline of cheap oil is inspiring increasing numbers of North Americans to achieve some measure of backyard food self-sufficiency. In hard times, the family can be greatly helped by growing a highly productive food garden, requiring little cash outlay or watering.

Currently popular intensive vegetable gardening methods are largely inappropriate to this new circumstance. Crowded raised beds require high inputs of water, fertility and organic matter, and demand large amounts of human time and effort. But, except for labor, these inputs depend on the price of oil. 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. Gardening When It Counts helps readers rediscover traditional low-input gardening methods to produce healthy food.