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  • From: Keith D Johnson <keithdj@mindspring.com>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] New book! Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times
  • Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 11:38:32 -0400 (GMT-04:00)

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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