Gardening with Grains

Bring the Versatile Beauty of Grains to Your Edible Landscape

Brie Arthur (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

2020
St. Lynn's Press (Verlag)
978-1-943366-35-4 (ISBN)

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Brie Arthur's Gardening with Grains is a passion project that grew from a light-bulb, aha moment - that's when she realized we've been missing a dynamic piece of the burgeoning foodscape movement.

Here is a bright new take on foodscaping your garden. Brie Arthur’s Gardening with Grains is a passion project that grew from a light-bulb moment. That is when she realized we’ve been missing a dynamic piece of the burgeoning foodscape movement.We’ve learned the joys of interplanting our blooming flowerbeds with veggies, herbs and berries, but what about the grains, those ancient and beautiful grasses that practically gave us civilization? Why couldn't we grow wheat, barley and oats for winter; corn, rice and sorghum for the warm season?

Gardening with Grains is a pioneering book, a companion to Arthur’s The Foodscape Revolution. Richly illustrated, it combines history, environmental benefits and personal stories with simple how-to’s for planning, growing and harvesting those six important grains...plus 12 chef-tested recipes for inspiration.

This is a design book, too, with planting patterns and suggestions, no matter how much or how little garden space you have. These grains are ornamental grasses, and they show off beautifully in any setting. The grouped plantings reveal the grains’ varied colors and textures, interplanted with flowers like poppies, larkspur, snapdragons, nigella, zinnias, sunflowers and marigolds. Not only flowers, but salad greens and other decorative veggies play well with grains.

Gardening with Grains is foodscaping for fun, beauty and bragging rights. . . and maybe even some homemade beer and bread.(Genus illustrations and garden plans by landscape architect and botanical artist Preston Montague.)

Brie Arthur is recognized as one of the young leaders who are helping to determine the future of the horticulture industry. In 2017 she was awarded the first “Emerging Professional” distinction by the American Horticultural Society, and was named in Grower Product News to the Class of 2017’s “40 Under 40.” Brie is the founder of Emergent: A Group for Growing Professionals, and is vice president of the International Plant Propagators Society, Southern Region (president in 2020). She has a degree in Landscape Design from Purdue University and is a correspondent on the PBS television show “Growing a Greener World,” where she shares practical advice from her own one-acre suburban foodscape near Raleigh, North Caroline. Recently, she did grain installations on NYC’s High Line, on rooftop gardens at NYU, and at Crystal Bridges Museum in Arkansas. As a professional garden industry communicator, Brie is committed to getting the message out that all things horticultural are the way to create a healthier future for the world.

Introduction: “Greetings from my sunny front yard in Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina.”

PART ONE: The Story

Chapter 1: My Grain Journey

Chapter 2: What are Grains and Why Should You Grow Them?

Chapter 3: The Entwined History of Humans and Cereal Grains (briefly told)

Chapter 4: Ancient Grains, Heirloom Grains, Chemistry and more

PART TWO: Meet the Grains

Chapter 5: Six Great Grains To Grow: Cool Season: Barley, Oats, Wheat; and Warm Season: Corn, Rice, Sorghum

*Genus illustrations by Preston Montague

Chapter 6: Other Grains I’ve Grown (or tried to grow!): Amaranth, Buckwheat, Millet, Quinoa, Rye

PART THREE: In the Garden

Chapter 7: Designing with Grains and Companion Plants
*Landscape drawings by Preston Montague

Chapter 8: Harvesting, Processing and Storing Your Grains

PART FOUR: What’s Your Pleasure?

Chapter 9: Decorating with Grains: Bringing the Beauty Indoors

Chapter 10: Cooking with Homegrown Grains: 12 easy recipes for a yard-to-table adventure

Conclusion

Resources

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum	30.10.2018
Zusatzinfo	full color photos throughout
Sprache	englisch
Maße	203 x 203 mm
Gewicht	590 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Garten
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
ISBN-10	1-943366-35-7 / 1943366357
ISBN-13	978-1-943366-35-4 / 9781943366354
Zustand	Neuware