permaculture

[SArjuna@aol.com]

There's a great new book available, The Resilient Gardener: Food Production 
and Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times, by Carol Deppe.   Below is info. 
about it.
-Shivani in WI   (with no financial connections to author or publisher)

 Scientist/gardener Carol Deppe combines her passion for gardening with 
newly emerging scientific information from many fields - resilience science, 
climatology, climate change, ecology, anthropology, paleontology, sustainable 
agriculture, nutrition, health, and medicine. In The Resilient Gardener, 
Deppe extends these principles with detailed information about growing and 
using five keystone crops that are especially important for anyone seeking 
greater self-reliance: potatoes, corn, beans, squash, and eggs.

In this book you'll learn how to:
     o      Garden in an era of climate change and unpredictable weather
     o      Grow, store, and use more of your own staple crops
     o      Garden efficiently and comfortably (even if you have a bad 
back)
     o      Save your own seed potatoes, or find sources who sell certified 
seed
     o      Grow, store, and cook different varieties of potatoes
     o      Grow corn to make your own fast-cooking polenta, cornbread, 
parching corn, corn cakes, and even savory corn gravy
     o      Make whole-grain corn-based breads and cakes using the author's 
original gluten-free recipes involving no other grains, artificial binders, 
or dairy products
     o      Grow and use popbeans and other grain legumes
     o      Grow, store, and use summer, winter, and drying squash
     o      Keep a home laying flock of ducks or chickens, while 
integrating them with your gardening activities and growing most of their 
feed.

The Resilient Gardener is both a conceptual and a hands-on gardening book, 
and is suitable for gardeners at all levels of experience. "Resilience" here 
is broadly conceived, and encompasses a full range of problems, from 
personal hard times such as injuries, family crises, financial problems, 
health 
problems, and special dietary needs (gluten intolerance, food allergies, 
carbohydrate sensitivity, and a need for weight control) to serious regional 
and 
global disasters and climate change. In the end, though, this is a supremely 
optimistic as well as realistic book about how resilient gardeners (and 
their gardens) can flourish even in challenging times and help their 
communities to survive and thrive through everything that comes their way - 
whether 
it's tomorrow or in the next thousand years.

Reviews

The Resilient Gardener is the most comprehensive and detailed book about 
gardening that I have read to date, and I could not find one sentence that I 
would quibble with. Not only does Deppe discuss all the immediate, nose- to- 
the- grindstone kind of information about producing and using homegrown 
food, but also all the surrounding environmental and cultural aspects of 
gardening that are so vital to success. A must read for beginning gardeners, 
and 
full of details even the most experienced will find invaluable.--Gene 
Logsdon, 
author of Small-Scale Grain Raising and Holy Shit: Managing Manure to Save 
Mankind

In the years since Carol Deppe wrote the classic Breed Your Own Vegetable 
Varieties, she has continued to grow in deep wisdom and experience. The 
Resilient Gardener is brilliantly timely, and shows us how to create gardens 
that 
can survive our increasingly erratic weather, while supplying key nutrition 
lacking in most vegetable gardens. I recommend it unreservedly.--Toby 
Hemenway, author of Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home Scale Permaculture

Carol Deppe's celiac-friendly approach to gardening and nutrition provides 
a wealth of information on how to overcome food intolerances many are 
confronted with each day. If you struggle with food allergies or 
sensitivities--or 
want to use natural resources to create a healthy world for you and your 
family--this book is for you.--Peter HR Green, MD, Director, Celiac Disease 
Center at Columbia University

About the Author

Carol Deppe has a BS in zoology from the University of Florida, a PhD in 
biology from Harvard University, and specializes in developing public-domain 
crops for organic growing conditions, sustainable agriculture, and human surv
ival for the next thousand years. She is author of Breed Your Own Vegetable 
Varieties: The Gardener's and Farmer's Guide to Plant Breeding and Seed 
Saving (Chelsea Green, 2000) and Tao Te Ching: A Window to the Tao through 
the 
Words of Lao Tzu. See www.caroldeppe.com for news and further adventures.   
She lives in Corvallis, Oregon.

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You can purchase the book for $29.95 at Chelsea Green (URL above) or $19.77 
at 
www.amazon.com/Resilient-Gardener-Production-Self-Reliance-Uncertain/dp/160358031X/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1281470183&sr=1-2

If you order it from Amazon, and are interested in plant breeding, you can 
get her book Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties in the same order and get 
free postage.   This is the book that inspired me to start what has become a 
very large winter squash breeding project.





 















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