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[Keith D Johnson <keithdj@mindspring.com>]

Peter Bane is also writing a review of this book (which he likes a lot) and 
we will soon be adding it to the Pc Activist catalog.


-----Original Message-----
>From: SArjuna@aol.com
>Sent: Aug 14, 2010 9:37 AM
>To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
>Subject: [permaculture] New book! Food Production and Self-Reliance in 
>Uncertain Times
>
>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.
>
>~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>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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