Kitchen Garden Revival

Author: Nicole Johnsey Burke
Publisher: Cool Springs Press
ISBN: 0760366861
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 211

Book Description
Elevate your backyard veggie patch into a work of sophisticated and stylish art. Kitchen Garden Revival guides you through every aspect of kitchen gardening, from design to harvesting—with expert advice from author Nicole Johnsey Burke, founder of Rooted Garden, one of the leading US culinary landscape companies, and Gardenary, an online kitchen gardening education and resource company. Participating in the grow-your-own movement is important to both reduce your food miles and control what makes it onto your family’s table. If you’ve hesitated to take part because installing and caring for a traditional vegetable garden doesn’t seem to suit your life or your sense of style, Kitchen Garden Revival is here to show you there’s a better, more beautiful way to grow food. Instead of row after row of cabbage and pepper plants plunked into a patch of dirt in the middle of the yard, kitchen gardens are attractive, highly tailored food gardens consisting of easy-to-maintain raised planting beds laid out in an organized geometric pattern. Offering both four seasons of ornamental interest and plenty of fresh, homegrown fruits, vegetables, and herbs, kitchen gardens are the way to grow your own food in a fashionable, modern, and practical way. Kitchen gardens were once popular features of the European and early American landscape, but they fell out of favor when our agrarian roots were displaced by industrialization. With this accessible and inspirational guide, Nicole aims to return the kitchen garden to its rightful place just outside of every backdoor. Learn the art of kitchen gardening as you discover: What characteristics all kitchen gardens have in common How to design and install gorgeous kitchen garden beds using metal, wood, or stone Why raised beds mean reduced maintenance What crops are best for your kitchen garden A planting, tending, and harvesting plan developed by a pro Season-by-season growing guides It's time to join the Kitchen Garden Revival and start growing your own delicious, organic food.

Kitchen Garden Living

Author: Bailey Van Tassel
Publisher:
ISBN: 0760388997
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 186

Book Description
Kitchen Garden Living is an inspirational and enlightening look at how to start, plant, and care for a stylish modern food garden.

Inspired Innovations

Author: M. Stephen Miller
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 1584658509
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 242

Book Description
An exploration of the Shakers' innovative spirit that informed their legendary craftsmanship and led to a broad array of creations

The Moosewood Restaurant Kitchen Garden

Author: David P. Hirsch
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
ISBN: 9781580086660
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 308

Book Description
A guide to growing and using vegetables and herbs includes valuable tips on garden construction, gardening techniques, harvesting, and cooking techniques.

An Illustrated Guide to Grow Your Own Food in the Kitchen Garden

Author: Nigel M Openshaw
Publisher: Nigel M Openshaw
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 82

Book Description
Ready to enhance your gardening skills? Join me as we embark on a journey, helping you design and maintain an effective food garden, all while ensuring a successful and healthy harvest! With over 30 years of food garden design experience and a decade of teaching, I've poured my expertise into this book. I've cultivated numerous gardens throughout my career while continuously learning and growing. Drawing from this wealth of experience, I've crafted a comprehensive yet beginner-friendly guide that empowers gardeners of all levels. The invaluable benefits in these notes will lead you toward a bountiful harvest. Let's explore some of the key highlights: MASTER THE FUNDAMENTALS: Lay a strong foundation by understanding your long-term goals, soil composition, weather patterns, and how to avoid toxins. DESIGN YOUR SPACE: Create a customized garden by sketching your ideas, dividing your space effectively, and considering financial and accessibility aspects. RESOURCEFUL HABITS: Prioritize practicality, acquire essential tools, and embrace resourcefulness for efficient gardening. MAXIMIZE POTENTIAL: Start plants indoors, choose between seeds or plug plants, optimize growth through proper sowing techniques, and explore new plant varieties. CULTIVATE A SUCCESSFUL GARDEN: Embrace the unpredictability of nature, address soil nutrition, water your plants effectively, support their growth, and implement natural pest control methods. HARVESTS AND WELLNESS: Learn when to harvest crops, streamline storage, practice sustainability, and nourish your body and soul with nutritious produce. Design your growing area to maximize yields and efficiently use space, regardless of whether you have a small balcony or a sprawling farm. This book caters to all gardening spaces. Be motivated to "construct your cold-frames," know how to "avoid bolting plants," or decide between "seeds or plugs." This comprehensive book is your trusted guide to transforming your gardening skills, providing design tips, maintenance strategies, and advice for a successful and healthy harvest. With visual illustrations, practical solutions, and a strong emphasis on well-being and cost-saving measures, it empowers gardeners of all levels to create productive and fulfilling gardens. Are you ready to unlock your fullest potential and establish your own "foodie's paradise" in your backyard? Let's make the most of your growing area. Grab your copy of this book, and let's embark on your gardening journey today!

American Grown

Author: Michelle Obama
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0307956032
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 274

Book Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The former First Lady, author of Becoming, and producer and star of Waffles + Mochi tells the inspirational story of the White House Kitchen Garden and how gardens can transform our lives and the health of our communities. Early in her tenure as First Lady, despite being a novice gardener, Michelle Obama planted a kitchen garden on the White House’s South Lawn. To her delight, she watched as fresh vegetables, fruit, and herbs sprouted from the ground. Soon the White House Kitchen Garden inspired a new conversation all across the country about the food we feed our families and the impact it has on the nutrition and well-being of our children. In American Grown, Mrs. Obama invites you inside the White House Kitchen Garden, from the first planting to the satisfaction of the seasonal harvest. She reveals her early worries and struggles—would the new plants even grow?—and her joy as lettuce, corn, tomatoes, collards and kale, sweet potatoes and rhubarb flourished in the freshly tilled soil. She shares the stories of other gardens that have moved and inspired her on her journey across the nation. And she offers what she learned about planting your own backyard, school, or community garden. American Grown features: • a behind-the-scenes look at every season of the garden’s growth • unique recipes created by White House chefs • striking original photographs that bring the White House garden to life • a fascinating history of community gardens in the United States From a modern-day vegetable truck that brings fresh produce to underserved communities in Chicago, to Houston office workers who make the sidewalk bloom, to a New York City school that created a scented garden for the visually impaired, to a garden in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, that devotes its entire harvest to those less fortunate, American Grown isn’t just the story of a single garden. It’s a celebration of the bounty of our nation and a reminder of what we can all grow together.

The Summer Book

Author: Susan Branch
Publisher: Little Brown & Company
ISBN: 9780316106665
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description
A hand-lettered, hand-painted book of everything related to summer has a hundred summer recipes--including Blueberry Bread Pudding and Barbecued Bourbon Chicken--and features picnics, parties, gardening advice, herbal cooking, home remedies, and anecdotes. 100,000 first printing. Tour.

RHS Garden Bridgewater

Author: The Royal Horticultural Society
Publisher:
ISBN: 0711274339
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 210

Book Description
A celebration of RHS Garden Bridgewater, the Royal Horticultural Society's newly reopened public garden.

Tiny Victory Gardens

Author: Acadia Tucker
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781734901108
Category : GARDENING
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Climate activist and farmer Acadia Tucker fell in love with container gardening after glimpsing its potential to produce food-lots of food. By applying select growing practices, and managing for square inches rather than square feet, she has come up with instructions for growing a small-scale farm on your patio, your stoop, or in? your dining room. If what you want is a garden big enough to line a windowsill, she's got you covered there, too. Tiny Victory Gardens profiles 21 container-friendly crops, and includes recipes for cultivating bountiful gardens, with names like Tiny Herb Garden, Salsa Fresca, and Beans, Bees, and Butterflies, It outlines how to find the right containers (there are wrong ones), identify prime tiny real estate, make food gardens beautiful, and raise crops all year long. Tucker describes how to maximize the environmental impact of growing food in pots. She offers tips on attracting pollinators, shows how to build microbe-rich living soil, and explains ways to ditch harmful pesticides and fertilizers. Her goal is to make it easier for anyone with access to a patch of sun to grow food, no backyard required. This is the third book Tucker has written for Stone Pier Press's citizen gardening series, which highlights how to garden in ways that are good for the planet. Book jacket.

Darwin-Inspired Learning

Author: Carolyn J. Boulter
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9462098336
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 429

Book Description
Charles Darwin has been extensively analysed and written about as a scientist, Victorian, father and husband. However, this is the first book to present a carefully thought out pedagogical approach to learning that is centered on Darwin’s life and scientific practice. The ways in which Darwin developed his scientific ideas, and their far reaching effects, continue to challenge and provoke contemporary teachers and learners, inspiring them to consider both how scientists work and how individual humans ‘read nature’. Darwin-inspired learning, as proposed in this international collection of essays, is an enquiry-based pedagogy, that takes the professional practice of Charles Darwin as its source. Without seeking to idealise the man, Darwin-inspired learning places importance on: • active learning • hands-on enquiry • critical thinking • creativity • argumentation • interdisciplinarity. In an increasingly urbanised world, first-hand observations of living plants and animals are becoming rarer. Indeed, some commentators suggest that such encounters are under threat and children are living in a time of ‘nature-deficit’. Darwin-inspired learning, with its focus on close observation and hands-on enquiry, seeks to re-engage children and young people with the living world through critical and creative thinking modeled on Darwin’s life and science.