The Grow System: True Health, Wealth, and Happiness Come from the Ground

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Grow your own food and medicine with a step-by-step guide from the founder of The Grow Network
Imagine cultivating enough food to slash your grocery shopping in half–all in less than an hour a day in your own backyard. Sounds impossible, right? Marjory Wildcraft says it’s not: She’s been homesteading for almost twenty years and founded The Grow Network to teach hundreds of thousands of others–some with very little space or time, some city dwellers with rooftop gardens–how to do the same, from gardening, to raising chickens, to composting, to medicine-making.
Wildcraft started her homesteading journey in search of a more sustainable and financially secure way of life. As she says, self-sufficiency offers practical rewards, but the real payoff is “true wealth”: health, family, community, meaningful work, and living a life with purpose. This empowering way of life is possible for anyone who has a patch of dirt, small or large. The Grow System includes:
 
  •  Essential advice for creating a balanced ecosystem in your backyard, with a basic recipe for homemade fertilizer
  •  Step-by-step instructions for setting up a chicken coop and information on choosing the right breed
  •  Home remedies for 12 common ailments, with 8 must-know medicine preparations. 
The Grow System provides a comprehensive strategy for producing healthy food and herbal medicine at home, and reclaiming the skills our ancestors used every day. It helps connect us to the environment and empowers us to lead healthier lives, without relying on big systems that are out of our control and insecure. It offers a path to a rich, reliable, and deeply satisfying life.

From the Publisher

The perfect recipe for a backyard flock of laying chickens that will easily produce 365 breakfasts and dozens of deviled eggs.

A humble cup of tea is an incredibly potent medicine and can be powerfully healing.

The first step in learning to live off the land is knowing how to identify plants and understanding that true wealth comes from the ground.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Avery
Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 11, 2021
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0593330366
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0593330364
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.45 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.36 x 0.71 x 9.21 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #544,044 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #339 in Vegetable Gardening #790 in Herbal Remedies (Books) #803 in Sustainable Living
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Customers find this gardening book informative and easy to read, with specific instructions that help them get started. Moreover, the content goes beyond just growing food, with one customer noting it covers all the most common home-garden vegetables and herbs. Additionally, customers appreciate the book’s entertainment value, with one mentioning it makes the information fun to read.