Gardening When It Counts: Growing Food in Hard Times Mother Earth News Wiser Living Series

Crowded raised beds require high inputs of water, fertility and organic matter, and demand large amounts of human time and effort. Prior to the 1970s, with less or no irrigation, North American home food growing used more land with less labor, with wider plant spacing, and all done with sharp hand tools.

But, except for labor, these inputs depend on the price of oil. Gardening when it Counts Growing Food in Hard Times. Ft. In hard times, the family can be greatly helped by growing a highly productive food garden, requiring little cash outlay or watering. Currently popular intensive vegetable gardening methods are largely inappropriate to this new circumstance.

The decline of cheap oil is inspiring increasing numbers of North Americans to achieve some measure of backyard food self-sufficiency. But these sustainable systems have been largely forgotten. Of garden land can halve their food costs using a growing system requiring just the odd bucketful of household waste water, perhaps two hundred dollars worth of hand tools, and about the same amount spent on supplies — working an average of two hours a day during the growing season.

Steve solomon is a well-known west coast gardener and author of five previous books, including Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades which has appeared in five editions. Gardening when it counts helps readers rediscover traditional low-input gardening methods to produce healthy food.

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The Intelligent Gardener: Growing Nutrient Dense Food

This practical step-by-step guide and the accompanying customizable web-based spreadsheets go beyond organic and are essential tools for any serious gardener who cares about the quality of the produce they grow. Vegetables, fruits, and grains are a major source of vital nutrients, but centuries of intensive agriculture have depleted our soils to historic lows.

This is a matter for serious concern, high blood pressure, obesity, since poor nutrition has been linked to myriad health problems including cancer, heart disease, and diabetes. The intelligent gardener demystifies the process while simultaneously debunking much of the false and misleading information perpetuated by both the conventional and organic agricultural movements.

. For optimum health we must increase the nutrient density of our foods to the levels enjoyed by previous generations. As a result, the broccoli you consume today may have less than half of the vitamins and minerals that the equivalent serving would have contained a hundred years ago. Steve solomon is the author of several landmark gardening books including Gardening When it Counts and Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades.

Used book in Good Condition. To grow produce of the highest nutritional quality the essential minerals lacking in our soil must be replaced, but this re-mineralization calls for far more attention to detail than the simple addition of composted manure or NPK fertilizers. In doing so, healthy food, it conclusively establishes the link between healthy soil, and healthy people.




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The Resilient Gardener: Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times

Scientist/gardener carol deppe combines her passion for organic gardening with newly emerging scientific information from many fields ― resilience science, paleontology, climatology, anthropology, health, climate change, nutrition, ecology, sustainable agriculture, and medicine. In the last half of the resilient gardener, corn, Deppe extends and illustrates these principles with detailed information about growing and using five key crops: potatoes, squash, beans, and eggs.

Used book in Good Condition. Used book in Good Condition. The resilient gardener is both a conceptual and a hands-on organic gardening book, and is suitable for vegetable gardeners at all levels of experience. Resilience here is broadly conceived and encompasses a full range of problems, and special dietary needs gluten intolerance, family crises, from personal hard times such as injuries, financial problems, carbohydrate sensitivity, food allergies, health problems, and a need for weight control to serious regional and global disasters and climate change.

It is a supremely optimistic as well as realistic book about how resilient gardeners and their vegetable gardens can flourish even in challenging times and help their communities to survive and thrive through everything that comes their way ― from tomorrow through the next thousand years. In this book you’ll learn how to: •garden in an era of unpredictable weather and climate change •grow, parched corn, artificial binders, and use more of your own staple crops •garden efficiently and comfortably even if you have a bad back •Grow, store, cornbread, or dairy products •Grow and use popbeans and other grain legumes •Grow, corn-based breads and cakes using the author’s original gluten-free recipes involving no other grains, corn cakes, store, pancakes and even savory corn gravy •Make whole-grain, and drying squash •Keep a home laying flock of ducks or chickens; integrate them with your gardening, winter, and use summer, store, and cook different varieties of potatoes and save your own potato seed •Grow the right varieties of corn to make your own gourmet-quality fast-cooking polenta, and grow most of their feed.

Organic gardening, self-sufficiency, subsistence gardening, vegetable gardening, gluten-free living.


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The Planet Whizbang Idea Book For Gardeners

Used book in Good Condition. And scattered throughout are numerous idea-excerpts gleaned from the author's collection of 19th century almanacs and farm journals. Among other things, you'll learn the following:How to make and use Whizbang solar pyramid clochesHow to make Whizbang T-post trellis spans. How to make Whizbang T-post hops poles.

How to make a Whizbang wood-and-wire garden tote. How to grow strawberries of the Largest & Finest Quality" from E. P. Roe, the acclaimed 19th-century berry-man. How to make a planet Whizbang wheel hoe with an oscillating stirrup blade. How to harvest, grind & use wood-stove biochar. How to grow "hugelberries. How to "steam-fryalize" compost with a milk-can rocket stove.

How to make a Whizbang T-post grape trellis. How to make forever plant tags. How to make a Whizbang shoulder yoke. How to make steve Lonsky's amazing siphon-tube rain barrels. How to make Mark-Albert-style caterpillar cloches. And much, a more clever gardener, you'll be a smarter gardener, much more!After you're done reading this book, and a Whizbang-inspired gardener.




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Where There Is No Dentist

Used book in Good Condition. Community health workers, educators and individuals from around the world use Where There Is No Dentist to help people care for their teeth and gums. This 2012 updated reprint features information on Atraumatic Restorative Treatment ART, a way to fill cavities without the use of a dental drill, as well as updated information on other training material and resources.

Expanded version - over 40 pages added. This book is an important companion to Hesperian's classic book Where There Is No Doctor. Used book in Good Condition. Covers proper care, cleaning, and diagnosing and treating common problems. All hesperian books are regularly updated and reprinted to reflect accurate medical information.

This book's broad focus makes it an invaluable resource. The author uses straightforward language and careful instructions to explain how toexamine patientsdiagnose common dental problemsmake and use dental equipmentuse local anestheticsplace fillingsand remove teethThere is also a special chapter on oral health and HIV/AIDS, well-illustrated discussion of the special problems faced by people living with HIV/AIDS, which provides the dental worker with a detailed, and appropriate treatment.

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Keeping the Harvest: Preserving Your Fruits, Vegetables and Herbs Down-to-Earth Book

Used book in Good Condition. Covers proper care, cleaning, and diagnosing and treating common problems. From canning, and pickling in autumn to curing and cold storage after the frost comes, drying, you’ll soon be a master at outwitting nature’s growing rhythms. Enjoy the bountiful produce picked straight from your backyard garden year-round with these simple yet satisfying home-preserving techniques.

Expanded version - over 40 pages added. Nothing says “cozy” like a rustic kitchen strung with dried garlic and herbs, while jars of handmade jelly sit on the counter waiting to be slathered onto freshly baked bread. Used book in Good Condition.


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Grow or Die: The Good Guide to Survival Gardening

You'll discover how to scrounge for seeds in unlikely places. How to convert a lawn into a food factory. How to garden to survive in emergencies and crises. From hand tools that will till the ground better than a tractor to plans for growing all the calories you need in a crisis to easy-to-follow crop rotations that will beat the pests, this book is the cheapest insurance you can own against the crash we all know is coming sooner or later.

Used book in Good Condition. It's perfect for those interested in preparedness, low-tech gardening and living with a lighter, more ecologically sustaining footprint. How to beat pests without poison. Easy to follow and entertaining, grow Or Die doesn't bog down in the technical details, but focuses on how you can turn your garden into a tool for survival.

And your life depended on growing your own food? Don't panic! Grow or Die: The Good Guide to Survival Gardening has the answers. Covers proper care, cleaning, and diagnosing and treating common problems. Expert gardener david the good, author of the bestselling Compost Everything: The Good Guide to Extreme Composting, has written the gardening book that could one day save your life.

Or water? what if you've never even planted a garden in your life.


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Making the Best of Basics: Family Preparedness Handbook

Stevens lays out a yearlong storage program of 15 food and nonfood categories, six of which water, "cooking catalysts" like salt and oil, dairy products, wheat and grains, sweeteners, and sprouting seeds are capable of sustaining life indefinitely in a no-frills diet. It happens all the time. When you imagine the security of not having to worry about going to the store for even a few weeks, a comprehensive storage system begins to make sense.

Now in its 11th edition, is one of the best-known preparedness bibles around. Close your eyes for a moment and imagine what would happen if you became ill and couldn't work, or if an earthquake or hurricane or bomb left your community devastated. The other 9 categories are designated "building Blocks, " and improve upon the basic diet and support a more routine, less Spartan existence while relying on stored supplies Used book in Good Condition.

Used book in Good Condition. Covers proper care, cleaning, and diagnosing and treating common problems. Expanded version - over 40 pages added. When unexpected disasters happen, people who are even a little prepared are much better off than those who have taken their dependence on outside resources for granted.

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Small-Scale Grain Raising: An Organic Guide to Growing, Processing, and Using Nutritious Whole Grains for Home Gardeners and Local Farmers, 2nd Edition

First published in 1977, this book—from one of America’s most famous and prolific agricultural writers—became an almost instant classic among homestead gardeners and small farmers. In this book, gene logsdon proves that anyone who has access to a large garden or small farm can and should think outside the agribusiness box and learn to grow healthy whole grains or beans—the base of our culinary food pyramid—alongside their fruits and vegetables.

There are even a few recipes sprinkled throughout, along with more than a little wit and wisdom. Now fully updated and available once more, from corn, flax, millet, wheat, Small-Scale Grain Raising offers a entirely new generation of readers the best introduction to a wide range of both common and lesser-known specialty grains and related field crops, spelt, rice, and rye to buckwheat, and even beans and sunflowers.

Used book in Good Condition. Covers proper care, cleaning, and diagnosing and treating common problems. More and more americans are seeking out locally grown foods, which are grown mainly on large, yet one of the real stumbling blocks to their efforts has been finding local sources for grains, distant corporate farms.

Expanded version - over 40 pages added. Starting from the simple but revolutionary concept of the garden “pancake patch, ” Logsdon opens up our eyes to a whole world of plants that we wrongly assume only the agricultural “big boys” can grow. Never has there been a better time, or a more receptive audience, for this book.




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LDS Preparedness Manual, V8, 2012 Edition Volume 8.xx

Information and examples contained within this booklet are provided for illustration and advice only. This is the new updated and revised 8th edition of the lds preparedness manual for 2012, celebrating it's 15th aniversary! This new edition includes significant new material never previously included in past editions and has DOUBLED the total content to over 500 pages! Please Note: The contents of this booklet are intended to assist individuals and families in coping with emergency preparations.

Therefore, no liability is assumed by the Editor or any of the Authors for the use or misuse of any information or products contained in this publication. However, final decisions on preparation for actions taken during an emergency are the sole responsibility of individuals. A special "lds authorized" edition of this book is available to Stakes and Wards upon written request from the Stake President or Ward Bishop that contains significant additional LDS copyrighted material not contained in this public version.

These articles have been bound together and are presented here to simplify your access to them. The lds preparedness manual contains over 130 IN-DEPTH articles on food storage and general Preparedness. Used book in Good Condition. This book is NOT an original work. Covers proper care, cleaning, and diagnosing and treating common problems.




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Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners, 2nd Edition

This book contains detailed information about each vegetable, required population size, flower structure and means of pollination, techniques for caging or hand-pollination, isolation distance, including its botanical classification, drying, cleaning, and also the proper methods for harvesting, and storing the seeds.

This newly updated and greatly expanded Second Edition includes additional information about how to start each vegetable from seed, which has turned the book into a complete growing guide. Seed to seed" is the wisest guide to seed saving and grassroots genetic preservation you will ever find. Local knowledge about seed starting techniques for each vegetable has been shared by expert gardeners from seven regions of the United States-Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Southeast/Gulf Coast, Southwest, Central West Coast, Midwest, and Northwest.

Used book in Good Condition. Expanded version - over 40 pages added. The author has grown seed crops of every vegetable featured in the book, and has thoroughly researched and tested all of the techniques she recommends for the home garden. Seed to seed is a complete seed-saving guide that describes specific techniques for saving the seeds of 160 different vegetables.

Covers proper care, cleaning, and diagnosing and treating common problems. Used book in Good Condition. Seed to seed is widely acknowledged as the best guide available for home gardeners to learn effective ways to produce and store seeds on a small scale.


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