Ultimate Guide to Growing Your Own Food (eBook)

Save Money, Live Better, and Enjoy Life with Food from Your Garden or Orchard

Monte Burch (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2011
240 Seiten
Skyhorse Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-62873-006-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Growing your own food is a hot topic today because of the high cost of transporting food long distances, the heightened problem of diseases caused by commercially grown foods, and concerns of the overuse of chemicals in mass food production. Many peoplefrom White House executives to inner-city kidshave recently discovered the benefits of homegrown vegetables and fruits. Community gardens, and even community canning centers, are increasingly popular and have turned roof-top gardening into a great and healthy food source. And on a smaller scale, some plants can even be grown in containers for the smallest backyard or patio. The possibilities for growing your own food are endless!The Ultimate Guide to Growing Your Own Food informs you how to grow all types of vegetables, fruits, and even grains on your own land or in any small space available to you and your family. Also included is information on specific health benefits, vitamins, and minerals for each food, as well as detailed instructions for fall and winter food growing. Learn how to grow for your family, harvest and store all types of home-grown produce, and find joy in eating foods planted with your own hands.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.7.2011
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Heimwerken / Do it yourself
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Garten
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Schlagworte: Aquaponics • backyard chickens • beginner gardener • biointensive • chicken tractor • color photos • Common sense • companion planting • composting • compost pile • containers • Diseases • family's food • Fertilizer • food production • Fresh produce • Fruit Trees • gardening knowledge • gardening method • gardening skills • gardening techniques • Gardens • garden season • graywater • greenhouse • grow food • home garden • homeowner • homesteading • Hydroponic • Indoors • intensive agriculture • Intensive Farming • intensive gardening • jeavons • killing chickens • Landscaping • maximizing • mel self-sufficiency • novice gardener • Organic Gardening • pest control • Pests • plant types • plucker • Po • practical advice • Practical information • productive garden • pruning • quarter acre • raise chickens • raised beds • Raising chickens • reference guide • saving seeds • scale farming foot gardening • Seedlings • seed saving • self sufficiency • self sufficient • selling farm • soil amendments • Soil Composition • square feet • Square foot • starting seeds • step guide • vegetable garden • vegetable gardening • veggie garden
• ISBN-10: 1-62873-006-4 / 1628730064
• ISBN-13: 978-1-62873-006-7 / 9781628730067