Grow a Sustainable Diet: Planning and Growing to Feed Ourselves and the Earth

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Row by row – maximize your harvest and feed your soil by developing a customized plan for your garden

Everyone loves to prepare a meal with ingredients fresh from their own garden. But for most of us, no matter how plentiful our harvest, homegrown produce comprises only a fraction of what we eat. And while many gardening guides will tell you everything you ever wanted to know about individual crops, few tackle the more involved task of helping you maximize the percentage of your diet you grow yourself.

Grow a Sustainable Diet will help you develop a comprehensive, customized garden plan to produce the maximum number of calories and nutrients from any available space. Avoid arriving in August buried under a mountain of kale or zucchini (and not much else) by making thoughtful choices at the planning stage, focusing on dietary staples and key nutrients. Learn how to calculate:

Which food and cover crops are best for your specific requirements How many seeds and plants of each variety you should sow What and when to plant, harvest and replant for maximum yield.

Focusing on permaculture principles, biointensive gardening methods, getting food to the table with minimum fossil fuel input, and growing crops that sustain both you and your soil, this complete guide is a must-read for anyone working toward food self-sufficiency for themselves or their family.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ New Society Publishers
Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 1, 2014
Edition ‏ : ‎ Illustrated
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 240 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0865717567
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0865717565
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 14.4 ounces
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 16 years and up
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.25 x 0.48 x 9 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #1,564,339 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #806 in Sustainable Agriculture (Books) #1,152 in Organic & Sustainable Gardening & Horticulture
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