Keyword: food

Winter Gardening in the Maritime Northwest
Cool-Season Crops for the Year-Round Gardener - Fifth Edition
by Binda Colebrook

Many gardeners can supply a significant amount of their own food during the plentiful summer harvest. But the key to substantial savings on your food bill is putting fresh, homegrown produce on your table every month of the year. And in the mild, …
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The Permaculture Handbook
Garden Farming for Town and Country
by Peter Bane
foreword by David Holmgren

The urban landscape has swallowed vast swaths of prime farmland across North America. Imagine how much more self-reliant our communities would be if 30 million acres of lawns were made productive again. Permaculture is a practical way to apply …
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Aquaponic Gardening
A Step-by-Step Guide to Raising Vegetables and Fish Together
by Sylvia Bernstein

Aquaponics is a revolutionary system for growing plants by fertilizing them with the waste water from fish in a sustainable closed system. A combination of the best of aquaculture and hydroponics, aquaponic gardening is an amazinglyproductive way to …
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The Urban Food Revolution
Changing the Way We Feed Cities
by Peter Ladner

Our reliance on industrial agriculture has resulted in a food supply riddled with hidden environmental, economic and health care costs and beset by rising food prices. With only a handful of corporations responsible for the lion’s share of the …
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Homegrown and Handmade
A Practical Guide to More Self-reliant Living
by Deborah Niemann

Our food system is dominated by industrial agriculture, and has become economically and environmentally unsustainable. The incidence of diet-related diseases including obesity, diabetes, hypertension, cancer, and heart disease has skyrocketed to …
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