Edible Landscaping with a Permaculture Twist

Author: Michael Judd
Publisher: Ecologia Mental
ISBN: 9780615873794
Category : Edible landscaping
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Edible Landscaping with a Permaculture Twist is a how-to manual for the budding gardener and experienced green thumb alike, full of creative and easy-to-follow designs that guide you to having your yard and eating it, too. With the help of more than 200 beautiful color photos and drawings, permaculture designer and avid grower Michael Judd takes the reader on a step-by-step process to transform a sea of grass into a flourishing edible landscape that pleases the eye as well as the taste buds. With personality and humor, he translates the complexities of permaculture design into simple self-build projects, providing full details on the evolving design process, material identification, and costs. Chapters cover: Herb Spirals Food Forests Raised-Bed Gardens Earthen Ovens Uncommon Fruits Outdoor Mushroom Cultivation, and more . . . The book's colorful pages are filled with practical designs that Judd has created and built over years of workshops, homesteading, and running an edible landscaping business. Though geared toward suburban gardeners starting from scratch, the book's designs can be easily grafted to the micro-habits of the urban landscape, scaled up to the acreage of homesteads, or adapted to already flourishing landscapes. Edible Landscaping with a Permaculture Twist is a tool to spark and inform the imagination of anyone with a desire to turn their landscape into a luscious and productive edible Eden.

Wild Edibles

Author: Sergei Boutenko
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
ISBN: 1583946276
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 297

Book Description
Sergei Boutenko’s groundbreaking field guide to the art and science of foraging and preparing wild edible plants—includes 300+ photos of 60 plants **An Amazon Editors' Pick -- Best Cookbooks, Food & Wine** In Wild Edibles, Sergei Boutenko’s bestselling work on the art and science of live-food wildcrafting, readers will learn how to safely identify 60 delicious trailside weeds, herbs, fruits, and greens growing all around us. It also outlines basic rules for safe wild-food foraging and discusses poisonous plants, plant identification protocols, gathering etiquette, and conservation strategies. But the journey doesn’t end there. Rooted in Boutenko’s robust foraging experience, botanary science, and fresh dietary perspectives, this practical companion gives hikers, backpackers, raw foodists, gardeners, chefs, foodies, DIYers, survivalists, and off-the-grid enthusiasts the necessary tools to transform their simple harvests into safe, delicious, and nutrient-rich recipes. Special features include: 60 edible plant descriptions, most of them found worldwide 300+ color photos that make plant identification easy and safe 67 tasty, high-nutrient plant-based recipes, including green smoothies, salads and salad dressings, spreads and crackers, main courses, juices, and sweets For the wildly adventurous and playfully rebellious, Wild Edibles will expand your food options, providing readers with the inspiration and essential know-how to live more healthy (yet thrifty), more satisfying (yet sustainable) lives.

The Edible Garden

Author: Alys Fowler
Publisher: Cleis Press
ISBN: 1936740540
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 257

Book Description
In this timely new book, BBC star and Gardening World's thrifty and resourceful Alys Fowler shows that there is a way to take the good life and re-fashion it to fit in with life in the city. Abandoning the limitations of traditional gardening methods, she has created a beautifully productive garden where tomatoes sit happily next to roses, carrots are woven between the lavenders and potatoes grow in pots on the patio. And all of this is produced in a way that mimics natural systems, producing delicious homegrown food for her table. And she shares her favorite recipes for the hearty dishes, pickles and jams she makes to use up her bountiful harvest, proving that no-one need go hungry on her grow-your-own regime. Good for the pocket, good for the environment and hugely rewarding for the soul, The Edible Garden urges urbanites everywhere to chuck out the old gardening rules and create their own haven that's as good to look at as it is to eat.

Eat Your Yard

Author: Nan Chase
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
ISBN: 1423616731
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 162

Book Description
Edible plants provide spring blossoms, colorful fruit and flowers, lush greenery, fall foliage, and beautiful structure, but they also offer fruits, nuts, and seeds that you can eat, cook with, and preserve. Eat Your Yard! includes ideas for creating the landscape as well as an overview and tips on canning, pickling, dehydrating, freezing, juicing, and fermenting.

Food Not Lawns

Author: H. C. Flores
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN: 193339207X
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 354

Book Description
Combines practical wisdom on ecological design and community-building with a fresh, green perspective on an age-old subject. Activist and urban gardener Heather Flores shares her nine-step permaculture design to help farmsteaders and city dwellers alike build fertile soil, promote biodiversity, and increase natural habitat in their own "paradise gardens." This joyful lifestyle manual inspires readers to apply the principles of the paradise garden--simplicity, resourcefulness, creativity, mindfulness, and community--to all aspects of life. Plant "guerrilla gardens" in barren intersections and medians; organize community meals; start a street theater troupe or host a local art swap; free your kitchen from refrigeration and enjoy truly fresh, nourishing foods from your own plot of land; work with children to create garden play spaces. Flores cares passionately about the damaged state of our environment and our throwaway society. Here, she shows us how to reclaim the earth, one garden at a time.--From publisher description.

The Edible Front Yard

Author: Ivette Soler
Publisher: Timber Press
ISBN: 1604691999
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 215

Book Description
“Front lawns, beware: The Germinatrix has you in her crosshairs! Ivette Soler is a welcome voice urging us to mow less and grow some food—in her uniquely fun, infectious yet informative way.” —Garden Rant People everywhere are turning patches of soil into bountiful vegetable gardens, and each spring a new crop of beginners pick up trowels and plant seeds for the first time. They're planting tomatoes in raised beds, runner beans in small plots, and strawberries in containers. But there is one place that has, until now, been woefully neglected—the front yard. And there's good reason. The typical veggie garden, with its raised beds and plots, is not the most attractive type of garden, and favorite edible plants like tomatoes and cucumbers have a tendency to look a scraggily, even in their prime. But The Edible Front Yard isn't about the typical veggie garden, and author Ivette Soler is passionate about putting edibles up front and creating edible gardens with curb appeal. Soler offers step-by-step instructions for converting all or part of a lawn into an edible paradise; specific guidelines for selecting and planting the most attractive edible plants; and design advice and plans for the best placement and for combining edibles with ornamentals in pleasing ways. Inspiring and accessible, The Edible Front Yard is a one-stop resource for a front-and-center edible garden that is both beautiful and bountiful year-round.

Stop Wasting Your Yard!

Author: Kate Russell
Publisher: Solificatio
ISBN: 9780997761962
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 394

Book Description
Remember that watery, tasteless tomato you got from the grocery store? How about those strawberries that grew fuzz faster than you could eat them? If you grow some of those groceries at home, you will be amazed at how much better they taste! Imagine opening your backdoor onto a garden filled with attractive herbs and berry bushes, where fruit and nut trees share space with bell peppers, pole beans, artichokes, and the sweetest, most flavorful tomatoes you've ever eaten, still warm from the sun. Where a quick snip of parsley and basil, some dusty garlic cloves, and an onion bulb are free for the taking. You can't buy that in a grocery store. But you can grow it at home. And this book is going to help you do just that! You don't need to know anything about gardening. You don't need to rip out your landscape. You can do it over time, a little here, a little there. Stop Wasting Your Yard! shows you how simple it is to transform your ornamental landscape into an edible sanctuary.

Edible Landscaping

Author: Patricia Loofbourrow
Publisher: Red Dog Press, LLC
ISBN: 1944223401
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 17

Book Description
"I Just Want To Know Where To Begin!" Your #1 question, answered. The most frequently asked question I get about creating a beautiful food garden is "where do I begin?". Over the years, I've written several articles on this subject, but I decided to publish them in one booklet so that everyone can benefit. This 14-page ebook includes the exclusive articles: "What exactly is edible landscaping?" "Can I really design my own garden?" "Where to begin?" "Planning your edible yard" "Should you start all over?" It also covers: What do you want your yard to do? What if I have a plan, but I'm afraid to start? and What do I do next? (for those of you who already have a design plan) Are you ready to begin your beautiful food garden? Short, gentle, and informative - without any fluff - this will help ease your mind, build your courage, and give you direction on how to begin. Scroll up, click the button to order, and let's get started on your beautiful food garden!

Easy Edible Landscapes

Author: Patricia Loofbourrow
Publisher: Red Dog Press, LLC
ISBN: 1370622112
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 45

Book Description
Overwhelmed with information on how to create your own food garden? This little ebook makes it easy! Since 2010, I've been helping homeowners create beautiful, easy to care for food gardens. Enhance your home's landscaping with beautiful food plants you and your neighbors will love. And even if you've never done anything with plants before, you can set this up in less than an hour a day - because it's EASY! Use your current irrigation and hardscape - no construction and minimal digging. Keep the weeds and pests that plague your neighbors' gardens away from yours with easy techniques from nature. Guidance on choosing delicious, easy-to-care-for plants for your zone or location, that fit your dietary needs, in colors, shapes, and textures you love, that make your home and yard - front or back - look even better! Without rows, boxes, back-breaking labor, or heavy equipment (unless that's what you want) Scroll up, click to order, and let's get your beautiful food garden started!

Attracting Songbirds to Your Backyard

Author: Sally Roth
Publisher: Rodale Books
ISBN: 160961755X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 355

Book Description
The best ways to attract melodic birds, with insight into their rapidly changing habits The American robin and northern cardinal are two of the best-loved songbirds, but newer backyard arrivals, like rose-breasted grosbeaks and scarlet tanagers, quickly captivate with their vivid colors and unique songs. Bird lovers will learn to attract new visitors by offering treats that songbirds like best, such as soft, easy-to-peck foods that closely mimic caterpillars, their top food preference. And planting just a few carefree perennials and shrubs can provide opportunities for cover and nesting. Sally Roth's Attracting Songbirds to Your Backyard draws on the latest science and 50 years of observation to reveal these fascinating details: • In the wee hours, it's the robins that sing first, followed by the babble of house wrens and the whistle of cardinals • Some birds learn birdsongs throughout their lives, while others stop learning once they can mimic their parents' song • It's Dad, not Mom, who teaches the young birds to sing Simple tips, ideas, and recipes, as well as an understanding of why songbirds are coming from the treetops into the backyard, will help any bird enthusiast create a songbird sanctuary.