{"product_id":"grow-a-sustainable-diet-9780865717565","title":"Grow a Sustainable Diet","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e Row by row - maximize your harvest and feed your soil by developing a customized plan for your garden \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e Grow a Sustainable Diet \u003c\/em\u003e 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: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e Which food and cover crops are best for your specifi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGrow A Sustainable Diet is just the book you have been looking for! ---John Jeavons, author of How To Grow More Vegetables--and Fruits, Nuts Berries, Grains and Other Crops Than You Ever Thought Possible On Less Land Than You Can Imagine Amid the plethora of how-to garden books, this book stands out as the comprehensive resource written from the lifetime of rich experience of a successful gardener. Cindy not only gives us experienced guidelines for the management of a healthy organic garden, but clearly explains the practical details of every aspect of managing a successful garden-homestead from planning, tending, harvest and storage to preserving the harvest. If you are seeking one book to to carry you through the full cycle of gardening, seek no further! ---Eli Rogosa . Heritage Grain Conservancy, growseed.org Grow a Sustainable Diet is both timely and timeless. Cindy Connor's book is a valuable addition to current locavore lexicon. The practical down home advice she provides will be of use for generations of gardeners to come. Cindy speaks with authority, drawing on her real life experience, her teaching skills and her love of the earth, providing practical guidance to help readers to design the garden and to grow, store and use the fruits of their labor. A combination of bio-intensive gardening, permaculture planning , and straight forward down home wisdom Grow a Sustainable Diet shows us that good nutrition is a close as our own back yard. ---Darrell E. Frey, Three Sisters Farm, author of The Bioshelter Market Garden Are you looking for ways to better nourish your family, care for your garden, and walk more lightly on the planet? Come spend a day, a season or the cycle of seasons with one of the nation's leaders in ecological home food production in the pages of Grow a Sustainable Diet. Ms. Conner's practical innovations will guide your homesteading endeavors, and her commitment to living in harmony with all life will inspire you. --- Mark Schonbeck, consultant in sustainable agriculture Too many of us see gardening as an analog in miniature to Big Ag--an essentially extractive process powered by machines and fossil fuel, requiring purchased inputs to replace depleted soil fertility and protect crops from insects. Imagine gardening instead as a process which improves the soil even as we grow our crops, helps balance and enrich the ecology, relies on free services of nature rather than purchased inputs--and is powered with energy from the nearest star. That is the way of gardening Cindy Conner offers in Growing a Sustainable Diet. ~ ---Harvey Ussery, author of The Small-Scale Poultry Flock\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e Foreword \u003c\/strong\u003e by \u003cem\u003e John Jeavons \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e First, a little history \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e 1. Sustainable Diet \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e What If the Trucks Stop Coming? \u003cbr\u003e Making Changes \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e 2. Garden Maps \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Plan Outside the Box \u003cbr\u003e Permaculture Plan \u003cbr\u003e Tools for Map Making \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e 3. Crop Choices \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Growing Calories \u003cbr\u003e Growing Protein \u003cbr\u003e Growing Calcium \u003cbr\u003e Oils and Sweeteners \u003cbr\u003e Other Crops \u003cbr\u003e More Planning Tools \u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e Worksheet \u003c\/em\u003e : Temperatures \u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e Worksheet \u003c\/em\u003e : Precipitation \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e 4. How Much to Grow \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e Worksheet: \u003c\/em\u003e How Much to Grow \u003cbr\u003e Biosphere 2 \u003cbr\u003e Homegrown Fridays \u003cbr\u003e Oils and Sweeteners \u003cbr\u003e Keeping Records \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e 5. Cover Crops and Compost— Planning for Sustainability \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Beware of Bringing in Outside Inputs \u003cbr\u003e Grow Your Own Compost \u003cbr\u003e Sixty Percent Compost Crops \u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e Worksheet: \u003c\/em\u003e 60\/40 Bed Crop Months \u003cbr\u003e Cutting Rye at Pollen Shed \u003cbr\u003e Harvesting the Grain \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e 6. Companion Planting \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Potatoes \u003cbr\u003e Achieving Balance \u003cbr\u003e Borders \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e 7. Plan for Food When You Want It \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Frost Dates \u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e Worksheet \u003c\/em\u003e : Plant\/Harvest Times \u003cbr\u003e Plant\/Harvest Times \u003cbr\u003e Length of Harvest \u003cbr\u003e Determinate and Indeterminate \u003cbr\u003e Plant and Harvest Schedule \u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e Worksheet \u003c\/em\u003e : Plant\/Harvest Schdeule \u003cbr\u003e Plan for Special Events \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e 8. Rotations and Sample Garden Maps \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Transition Garden \u003cbr\u003e Quartet of Beds \u003cbr\u003e Garden of Ideas \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e 9. Seeds \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Seed Inventory \u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e Worksheet: \u003c\/em\u003e Seed Inventory \u003cbr\u003e How Many Seeds? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e Worksheet \u003c\/em\u003e : Seeds and Plants Needed \u003cbr\u003e Germination Test \u003cbr\u003e Save Your Own \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e 10. Including Animals \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chickens \u003cbr\u003e Dairy — Goats and Cows \u003cbr\u003e Swine \u003cbr\u003e Rabbits \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e 11. Food Storage and Preservation \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Make Use of the Space You Already Have \u003cbr\u003e Crawl Space Root Cellar \u003cbr\u003e Pantry \u003cbr\u003e Cooling Cabinet \u003cbr\u003e Fermentation \u003cbr\u003e Canning \u003cbr\u003e Solar Food Dryers \u003cbr\u003e Grain Mills \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e 12. 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