Filled with easy-to-employ ideas and lessons for improving your food self-sufficiency no matter how much land you have, The Modern Homestead Garden focuses on planting, growing, harvesting, and preserving food.

The Modern Homestead Garden: Growing Self-sufficiency in Any Size Backyard

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Pilarchik, Gary

Gardening & Landscape Design

Cool Springs Press

Convert your unproductive lawn and landscape areas into fruitful edible gardens with this practical guide overflowing with ideas, plans, designs, and know-how. Out with the lawn and in with the food! That's the battle cry of millions of modern gardeners who are not only looking to reduce the amount of time and energy they have to spend tending a lawn, but they're also looking to improve the lives of their family, friends, and neighbors by supplying them with fresh, homegrown food. In the United States alone, 46 million acres of land are covered in turfgrass (that's more acreage than corn and soybeans combined!). Imagine all the good that would come if that land were dedicated to growing food instead!&nbsp; Converting unused areas of the landscape into food gardens&nbsp;helps mitigate the effects of climate change, reduces food miles, improves food security, and allows us to be a better steward of our little slice of the planet. But how do you get started? Which plants do you choose? Is there a series of best practices to follow to successfully convert your yard into an edible oasis so that it's not just high-yielding, but it's also attractive? Growing an Edible Landscape is here to help answer all of these questions and many more. Setting up an edible landscape is much more than just placing a few tomato-filled raised beds in the middle of the lawn, though for some gardeners, this might be a logical place to start. The eventual goal, however, is to have a landscape filled with layers of fruitful plants combined together to produce edible harvests for as many months of the year as possible. To reach that end, there's much to plan and do to ensure your success. Authors Gary Pilarchik of @therustedgarden and Dr. Chiara D'Amore have devised the perfect guidebook to take you from "turfgrass overwhelm" to consistent harvests of a huge diversity of homegrown edible plants. And the best part is--you can create an edible paradise whether your yard is large or small, sunny or shaded, urban or rural, or level or sloped.&nbsp; A few highlights of the systems and techniques outlined in these pages include:&nbsp; &nbsp; <ul> <li>The phases of the transformation process and how they are different for everyone</li> <li>Real-world, sensible garden design options&nbsp;for edible yards&nbsp;</li> <li>Step-by-step projects to get growing today</li> <li>How to choose the edible plants that are best for your conditions&nbsp;</li> <li>Practical plant-care tips for everything from seed starting to fertilizing and&nbsp;watering</li> <li>Pick-and-choose menus to help you combine productive plants in an attractive way&nbsp;</li> <li>Ways in which&nbsp;your edible landscape can cultivate community&nbsp;</li> </ul> Also included are 25 profiles of common and uncommon plants for an edible yard. From raspberries and asparagus to fruit trees and dandelions, these food plants are great additions to any edible landscape plan. Start small or go big--it's your choice! By saying goodbye to lawn and hello to an edible landscape, you'll soon be starting on a deeply personal journey toward a more self-sufficient and flavorful life.

Growing an Edible Landscape: How to Transform Your Outdoor Space into a Food Garden

D'Amore, Chiara

A Serving of Humanity and Other Poems to Dine On delivers poetry that captures the essence of our struggles. It offers glimpses into the world of mental illness as a way to understand and feel the disease. It presents perspectives on social issues, delves into the emotional world of inadequacy, self-doubt, and depression. Found within the pages are pockets of hope, understanding, and desire. This book brings the human struggle, at both an individual and social level, to dinner. It is an opportunity to reflect, learn, share and feel those things we all experience.

A Serving of Humanity: And Other Poem to Dine on

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Sun Rising Poetry Press

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