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"ForeWord Reviews"-In "The Resilient Gardener," scientist and author Carol Deppe offers readers an inspiring approach to gardening. For many, gardening is a hobby-a source of solace and an experiment in self-sufficiency. Gardens are designed to offer up good things during good times-handfuls of bulbous tomatoes after weeks of careful watering, weeding, and monitoring for invading insects, for example. But what happens when gardeners-along with the rest of society-face uncertain times?Uncertain times, caused by an unstable economy, changing weather patterns, or personal injury, result in an expanse of time when the "garden suffers because people have other priorities." With this premise in mind, Deppe introduces the concept of resilient gardening. In Deppe's world, gardening transcends the world of leisurely pursuit and transforms into an act of empowerment.In twelve intensely detailed chapters, "The Resilient Gardener" empowers readers with the knowledge they need to design, build, and maintain gardens that can withstand intense hardship and thrive despite periods of complete neglect. The first half of the book marries the practice of gardening with emerging global issues, such as climate change, increasing attention to weight control, and the rise of food allergies. Readers must first achieve a firm grasp of how these issues intersect with the process of gardening in order to fully benefit from the hands-on guidelines provided later in the book. Deppe's analysis is thorough; her research delves deep. By discussing the interaction between gardening and prevalent world issues, she establishes gardeners as hubs of sustainability and survival, their individual efforts producing movements of resilience that can benefit society as a whole.One of the major strengths of this book-and what sets it apart from the deluge of gardening books currently on bookstore shelves-is the union of Deppe's scientific knowledge with her personal gardening experience. The second half of the
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Scientist/gardener Caarol Deppe combines her passion for gardening with newly emerging scientific information from many fields - resilience science, climatology, ecology, anthopology, sustianable agriculture, nutrition, and health science. In this book Deppe extends these principles with detailed information about growing and using five keystone crops that are especially important for anyone seeking greater self-reliance: potatoes, corn, beans, squash and eggs. In this book you'll learn how to: garden in a time of climate change and unpredictable weather; grow, use, and store more of your staple crops; save your own seeds and seed potatoes; and keep a flock of ducks and chickens whilst integrating them into your gardening activities, and growing most of their feed. The Resilient Gardener is both a conceptual and hands-on gardening book. "Resilience" here is broadly conceived, and encompasses a full range of challenges, from the personal, financial, health, dietary - to serious regional disasters and global climate change. However this is a supremely optimistic and realistic book about how resilient gardeners (and their gardens) can flourish even in challenging times and help their communities to survive through everything that comes their way - tomorrow or in the next thousand years.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I noticed that some of the reviews said that many of the crops mentioned in the book were not suitable for UK conditions, and wanted to correct that assumption.
The book covers ducks, potatoes, corn, squash, and beans, all of which an be grown in this country. The author gives detailed information about all of these, and that information includes the length of growing season needed for those that are frost tender.
The book contains masses of information, and it's principle strength is that it covers the five crops in great detail, rather than lots of crops in outline. The information inludes growing, harvesting, storage, seed saving, breeding, an cooking.
If you are conerned about providing your own food, then this is worth reading. I refer to my copy regularly.
The book covers ducks, potatoes, corn, squash, and beans, all of which an be grown in this country. The author gives detailed information about all of these, and that information includes the length of growing season needed for those that are frost tender.
The book contains masses of information, and it's principle strength is that it covers the five crops in great detail, rather than lots of crops in outline. The information inludes growing, harvesting, storage, seed saving, breeding, an cooking.
If you are conerned about providing your own food, then this is worth reading. I refer to my copy regularly.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The author, Carol Deppe, covers an extraordinary range of gardening and living topics that are actually important for non-gardeners as well. Carol provides useful tips on gardening as an essential survival skill, climate change issues, choosing and obtaining gardening land, diversification, diets and allergies, seed husbandry, labour and exercise, water and watering, soil and fertility and the essential survival crops: potatoes, corn, beans, squash and eggs.
This is a book that I will constantly be referring back to until I've been gardening long enough for it to become second nature.
This is a book that I will constantly be referring back to until I've been gardening long enough for it to become second nature.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Whilst the topics covered were well detailed, many of the crops described were totally
unsuited for the United Kingdom. Particularly Scotland where the growing seasons are
very short.
unsuited for the United Kingdom. Particularly Scotland where the growing seasons are
very short.
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The Resilient Gardener
Although this book is very interesting and does have some new ideas, the fact that the book is American does mean that some of the items covered do not necessarily apply to the UK... Read more
Published 7 months ago by TinaWaller
Quite useful but rambling
Very much a personal point of view from Deppe with much information that is only really useful if you live in her part of America. Read more
Published 16 months ago by magpie
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