{"product_id":"grow-a-sustainable-diet-planning-and-growing-to-feed-ourselves-and-the-earth-paperback","title":"Grow a Sustainable Diet: Planning and Growing to Feed Ourselves and the Earth - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCindy Conner\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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\n\u003cli\u003e Which food and cover crops are best for your specific requirements \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e How many seeds and plants of each variety you should sow \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e What and when to plant, harvest and replant for maximum yield. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e Focusing on permaculture principles, biointensive gardening methods, getting food to the table with minimum fossil fuel input, and growing crops that sustain both you and your soil, this complete guide is a must-read for anyone working toward food self-sufficiency for themselves or their family. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaximize Your Harvest and Feed Your Soil by Developing a Customized Plan for Your Garden \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Just the book you have been looking for! -- John Jeavons, author, \u003cem\u003e How To Grow More Vegetables (and Fruits, Nut, Berries, Grains and Other Crops) Than You Ever Thought Possible On Less Land Than You Can Imagine \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e A combination of biointensive gardening, permaculture planning and straightforward down-home wisdom, \u003cem\u003e Grow a Sustainable Diet \u003c\/em\u003e shows us that good nutrition is as close as our own backyard. -- Darrell E. Frey, Three Sisters Farm, author, \u003cem\u003e The Bioshelter Market Garden \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e IT'S NOT JUST \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e how \u003c\/em\u003e you grow -- what you grow and where you grow it are at the root of truly sustainable food production. \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, dietary staples and key nutrients from any available space. Learn how to calculate: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Which food and cover crops are best for your specific requirements \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e How many seeds and plants of each variety you should sow \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e What and when to plant, harvest and replant for maximum yield. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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. Focusing on permaculture principles, biointensive gardening methods, minimum fossil-fuel input and growing crops that sustain both you and your soil, \u003cem\u003e Grow a Sustainable Diet \u003c\/em\u003e is a must-read for anyone working toward food self-sufficiency for themselves or their family. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Imagine gardening 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 \u003cem\u003e Grow a Sustainable Diet \u003c\/em\u003e . -- Harvey Ussery, author, \u003cem\u003e The Small-Scale Poultry Flock \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e Cindy Conner \u003c\/strong\u003e is a permaculture educator, founder of Homeplace Earth and the producer of two popular instructional DVDs on sustainable gardening. Her passion lies in helping everyone to work towards growing a complete diet in a small space while minimizing the input of fossil fuels. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e To help bring you the very best inspiration and information about greener, more sustainable lifestyles, Mother Earth News is recommending select New Society Publishers books to its readers. This book is one of them. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Cindy Conner \u003c\/b\u003e is a permaculture educator and founder of Homeplace Earth. She is the producer of two popular instructional DVDs entitled \u003ci\u003e Develop a Sustainable Vegetable Garden Plan \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003e Cover Crops and Compost Crops IN Your Garden \u003c\/i\u003e . A former market gardener, Cindy was instrumental in establishing a sustainable agriculture program at her local community college which she taught for over a decade. 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