The Zero-Mile Diet: A Year-Round Guide to Growing Organic Food
Product Description
The Zero-Mile Diet: A Year-Round Guide to Growing Organic Food
- Year-Round Organic Gardening
- Fruit Orchards & Backyard Berries
- Seasonal Recipes for Your Harvest
- Harvest Preservation Techniques
- Seed Saving & Plant Propagation
- Affordable Soil Nourishment
- Effortless Backyard Poultry
- Easy Vegetable Gardening
- A-Z Guide to Growing Herbs & Veggies
This definitive month-by-month guide brings gardeners into the delicious world of edible landscaping and helps take a load off the planet as we achieve greater food security. Full of illustrative colour photos and step-by-step instructions, The Zero-Mile Diet shares wisdom gleaned from 30 years of food growing and seed saving with comprehensive advice on:
* Growing organic food year-round
* The small fruit orchard and backyard berries
* Superb yet simple seasonal recipes
* Preserving your harvest
* Seed saving and plant propagation
* Dirt-cheap ways to nourish your soil
* Backyard poultry--it's less time-consuming than you
think
* Growing vegetables in the easiest way possible
* A-z guide to growing the best vegetables and herbs
Put organic home-grown fruits and vegetables on your table throughout the year, using the time-saving, economical and sustainable methods of gardening outlined in The Zero-Mile Diet. This book is about REAL food and how eating it will change our lives for the better.
