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Synopsis
This is a handbook for growing a Victory Garden when the enemy is global warming. Acadia Tucker, who farms in New Hampshire, grounds her call-to-action in the principles of regenerative agriculture. It's an approach that has the potential to revolutionize the way food is farmed by promoting water conservation, drastically cutting the need for chemical pesticides and fertilizer, and putting carbon back in the soil.
Tucker takes these sustainable agricultural practices and translates them into methods gardeners can use. She wants to inspire people to take up regenerative gardening, not just as a hobby, but as a powerful way to care for the planet.
Tucker tells aspiring gardeners how to build the soil by disturbing it as little as possible, covering it with organic material, and using only natural fertilizers. And she tells you why it matters. Feeding the soil reduces carbon in the atmosphere. If enough of us did it we could reverse global warming.
Her strategy for turning more of us into gardening activists relies on using a pared-down approach to growing food. In a series of steps simple enough for anyone new to trowels and pitchforks to understand, Tucker explains how to mulch, compost, weed, water, and harvest. She offers specific advice for growing 20 crops, 10 of which are resilient perennials, like broccoli, artichokes, and sweet potatoes. For the tomatoes, beans, and other annuals included here, she offers advice on how to grow them regenerative methods.
This handbook is illustrated with beautiful pen & ink drawings and includes a list of resources. It's call-to-gardening activism between two covers. Practical guidance on how to change the world, and grow some really good food while you're at it.
Growing Good Food: A Citizen's Guide to Backyard Carbon Farming is part of our Growing Food series. It's a companion guide to Growing Perennial Foods: A Field Guide to Raising Resilient Herbs, Fruits, and Vegetables, also written by Acadia Tucker and set to publish in Fall 2018.
Synopsis
A handbook for growing a victory garden when the enemy is global warming
Written by regenerative farmer Acadia Tucker, Growing Good Food calls on us to take up regenerative gardening, also known as carbon farming, for the good of the planet. By building carbon-rich soil, even in a backyard-sized patch, we can capture greenhouse gases and mitigate climate change, all while growing nutritious food.
To help us get started, and quickly, Tucker draft plans for gardeners who have no space, a little space, or a lot of space. She offers advice on how to prep soil, plant food, and raise the most popular fruits and vegetables using regenerative methods. She shares the gardening tools you need to get started, the top reasons gardens fail and how to fix them, and how to make carbon farming count when the only dirt you have is in pots.
The book includes calls to action and insights from leaders in the regenerative movement, including David Montgomery, Gabe Brown, and Tim LaSalle. Aimed at beginners, the book is designed to inspire an uprising of citizen gardeners.
Growing Good Food suggests what could happen if more of us saw gardening as a civic duty. By the end of it, you'll know how to grow some really good food and build a healthier world, too.
Growing Good Food: A citizen's guide to backyard carbon farming is part of Stone Pier's "Growing Good Food" series. It joins Growing Perennial Foods: A field guide to raising resilient herbs, fruits, and vegetables, also written by Acadia Tucker.
Synopsis
This is a handbook for growing a
Victory Garden when the enemy is global warming.
Acadia Tucker,
a carbon farmer and gardener, invites us to think of gardening as civic action. By building carbon-rich soil, even in a backyard-sized patch, we can capture greenhouse gases and mitigate climate change, all while growing nutritious food.
To help us get started, and quickly, Tucker drafts victory gardening instructions for gardeners who have a little ground or a lot of it. She offers advice on how to prep soil, plant food, and raise fruits, herbs, and vegetables using regenerative methods. She describes the climate changes taking place in our own backyards and the many steps we can take to boost a garden's resilience.
Growing Good Food includes calls to action and insights from leaders in the regenerative movement, including David Montgomery, Anne Bikl , Gabe Brown, Wendell Berry and Mary Berry, and Tim LaSalle. By the end of it, you'll know how to grow some really good food, and build a healthier world, too.
Learn how to grow: blackberries, currants, fruit trees, herbs, rhubarb, strawberries, walking onions, peppers, tomatoes, green beans, cabbage, carrots, cucumbers, garlic, kale, lettuce, peas, potatoes, radishes, spinach, squash.
Growing Good Food: A citizen's guide to backyard carbon farming is part of Stone Pier's "Citizen Gardening" series, which highlights how to grow food and garden in ways that are good for the planet. The series includes Lawns Into Meadows: Growing a regenerative landscape, Growing Perennial Foods: Raising resilient herbs, fruits and vegetables, and Tiny Victory Gardens Growing good food without a yard.
Synopsis
Growing Good Food is a beginner's guide to growing your own herbs, fruits, and vegetables using organic and sustainable practices. It's for home gardeners who want to raise food on their own patch of soil--all while cultivating a microbe-rich, carbon-sucking, regenerative foodscape.
Acadia Tucker, a regenerative farmer, gardener, and climate activist, invites us to think of gardening as civic action. By building organically-rich soil, even in a backyard, we can capture greenhouse gases in the very place we're growing nutritious food.
To help us get started, Tucker drafts plans for gardeners who have a little ground or a lot of it. She offers advice on how to prep and clear land, cultivate healthy soil, plant food from seeds or starts, fend off pests and disease, and grow 21 popular perennials and annuals, including fruit trees, herbs, strawberries, peppers, tomatoes, cabbage, carrots, garlic, beans, peas, and potatoes.
Tucker also describes the climate changes taking place in our own backyards, and the various steps we can take to boost a garden's resilience.
Growing Good Food includes calls to action and insights from leaders in the regenerative growing movement, including David Montgomery, Anne Bikl , Gabe Brown, Wendell Berry and Mary Berry, and Tim LaSalle. By the end of this book, you'll know how to grow some really good food, and build a healthier world, too.
Synopsis
Recipient of the GardenComm Emergent Communicator Award for 2023: Acadia Tucker
Growing Good Food is a beginner's guide to growing your own herbs, fruits, and vegetables using organic and sustainable practices. It's for home gardeners who want to raise food on their own patch of soil--all while cultivating a microbe-rich, carbon-sucking, regenerative foodscape.
Acadia Tucker, a regenerative farmer, gardener, and climate activist, invites us to think of gardening as civic action. By building organically-rich soil, even in a backyard, we can capture greenhouse gases in the very place we're growing nutritious food.
To help us get started, Tucker drafts plans for gardeners who have a little ground or a lot of it. She offers advice on how to prep and clear land, cultivate healthy soil, plant food from seeds or starts, fend off pests and disease, and grow 21 popular perennials and annuals, including fruit trees, herbs, strawberries, peppers, tomatoes, cabbage, carrots, garlic, beans, peas, and potatoes.
Tucker also describes the climate changes taking place in our own backyards, and the various steps we can take to boost a garden's resilience.
Growing Good Food includes calls to action and insights from leaders in the regenerative growing movement, including David Montgomery, Anne Bikl , Gabe Brown, Wendell Berry and Mary Berry, and Tim LaSalle. By the end of this book, you'll know how to grow some really good food, and build a healthier world, too.