Your Edible Yard: Landscaping with Fruits and Vegetables

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The author of Grow Create Inspire gives readers “a beautiful synthesis of organic, regenerative, and permaculture practices for an abundant yard anywhere” (Matt Powers, author of Regenerative Soil).

Journey into the good food movement by unleashing the potential of your yard, transforming it into a beautiful and vibrant space that offers a continuous supply of food.

Using dozens of beautiful color photographs and watercolor planting charts, infographics, and landscaping designs, Your Edible Yard is the comprehensive how-to guide you need to turn your yard into a bountiful feast.

It features:

Practical gardening methods and maintenance from weeding to wintering, including foodscaping, container gardening, and saving seedsPermaculture principles including soil building techniques, garden preparation, raised beds, and natural/non-toxic DIY pesticide alternativesHow to integrate culinary and medicinal herbs, edible flowers, mushrooms, fruits, vegetables, and wild ediblesGardening resources: where to go for help, buy seeds, and source supplies on a budgetInstructions on preserving, fermenting, freezing, drying, and making simple medicinesGeneral tips, such as how to find loopholes in laws preventing edible front yards

Whether you’re a beginner or experienced gardener in the city, the suburbs, or the country, this manual is the A-Z guide for how to make use of the space you have, highlighting the colorful and abundant array that edible landscapes promise.

“Crystal lays out the path for us to turn our bland yards into the gardens of our dreams, full of healthy food, while saving us money at the grocery store and precious environmental resources. This book has the potential to change the landscaping of our nation and the design of our lives.” ―Rob Greenfield, author of Dude Making a Difference

From the Publisher

Building Healthy Soils with Compost and Vermicompost

Each of us can play a role in building healthy soils. Whether through backyard gardening, composting, vermicomposting, or adding soil amendments — every bit helps.

Permaculture in Your Backyard

Permaculture incorporates the existing ecosystem into the development plans without compromising the integrity of the land, water or habitat of native flora and fauna.

Natural Alternatives to Herbicides and Pesticides

There are many methods of natural weed & pest management including sheet mulching, solarizations, landscape fabric, companion painting and the use of beneficial insects.

Choosing the Right Plants

Choosing the right plants for your regions is an important step to a successful garden or edible landscape. In order for plants to thrive, they need proper nutrition, the right soil type, adequate sunlight or shade and space to spread out.

Edible Landscaping Designs

Mapping out the layout of your farm, garden, or edible landscape before starting with planting will help you achieve the overall goals of the space. Map out the area after planting to track and record information over time

Yard-to-Table Recipes and Preserving the Harvest

Choosing to cook with food from your garden or a local farm significantly reduces the number of travel miles and resources needed. Growing your own food truly reduces your carbon footprint in a very significant way.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ New Society Publishers (February 18, 2020)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0865719225
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0865719224
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.47 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 0.69 x 9 inches
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