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We Can’t Eat Grass: For Food Security Trade Your Lawn For An Ecologically Sustainable Victory Garden
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Commencer à lire- Éditeur:
- Velum
- Sortie:
- Apr 23, 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781393123521
- Format:
- Livre
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Dedicated to Earth Day, this little book is designed to encourage replacement of non-functional, bright green lawns, with more diverse plant life and vegetable gardens. There is nothing like home grown garden produce.
This book will teach you how to take the hard work out of the process.
The author encourages the reader to work with Nature, rather than fighting every step of the way.
Having created vegetable gardens in a range of locations and climates, the author is well aware of the challenges. He learned to let worms do the digging, develop ground cover to suppress weeds, maintain moisture, and reduce soil loss due to runoff during heavy rains. He plants beans and broadcasts clovers, to provide nitrogen, along with many other tricks and tips for enjoyable vegetable gardening.
As an avid gardener an vegan, Dr. Morgan knows a great deal about vegetables, and the joys of their cultivation, culinary preparation, and consumption.
Gardening does not have to be back breaking toil.
The author is in his mid-70s, and is able to maintain his vegetable garden in his stride, without an aching back.
In times of food insecurity, due to societal unrest, climate change, and and other pressures, a vegetable garden can take the pressure off of your anxiety. Furthermore, what is more calming than working with the soil, watching nature at work, and enjoying garden produce straight "off the vine?"
The book focuses on our need for a better understanding ecology, how plants and animals interact, especially with ongoing climate change. Awareness of local "agroecological" situations in your garden will increase your awareness of the critical nature of ecology, when it comes to protecting our precious planet for future generations.
The author suggests we do this work one little vegetable garden at a time, while simultaneously reducing the acreage of environmentally damaging bright green lawns, which consume vast quantities of lethal fossil fuel products, further exacerbating the climate challenge.
Fossil fuels will eventually run out, so the author would like us to be prepared.
He wishes you happy gardening, delicious garden produce, and a long healthy life for you, your descendants, on Space Ship Earth.
Informations sur le livre
We Can’t Eat Grass: For Food Security Trade Your Lawn For An Ecologically Sustainable Victory Garden
Description
Dedicated to Earth Day, this little book is designed to encourage replacement of non-functional, bright green lawns, with more diverse plant life and vegetable gardens. There is nothing like home grown garden produce.
This book will teach you how to take the hard work out of the process.
The author encourages the reader to work with Nature, rather than fighting every step of the way.
Having created vegetable gardens in a range of locations and climates, the author is well aware of the challenges. He learned to let worms do the digging, develop ground cover to suppress weeds, maintain moisture, and reduce soil loss due to runoff during heavy rains. He plants beans and broadcasts clovers, to provide nitrogen, along with many other tricks and tips for enjoyable vegetable gardening.
As an avid gardener an vegan, Dr. Morgan knows a great deal about vegetables, and the joys of their cultivation, culinary preparation, and consumption.
Gardening does not have to be back breaking toil.
The author is in his mid-70s, and is able to maintain his vegetable garden in his stride, without an aching back.
In times of food insecurity, due to societal unrest, climate change, and and other pressures, a vegetable garden can take the pressure off of your anxiety. Furthermore, what is more calming than working with the soil, watching nature at work, and enjoying garden produce straight "off the vine?"
The book focuses on our need for a better understanding ecology, how plants and animals interact, especially with ongoing climate change. Awareness of local "agroecological" situations in your garden will increase your awareness of the critical nature of ecology, when it comes to protecting our precious planet for future generations.
The author suggests we do this work one little vegetable garden at a time, while simultaneously reducing the acreage of environmentally damaging bright green lawns, which consume vast quantities of lethal fossil fuel products, further exacerbating the climate challenge.
Fossil fuels will eventually run out, so the author would like us to be prepared.
He wishes you happy gardening, delicious garden produce, and a long healthy life for you, your descendants, on Space Ship Earth.
- Éditeur:
- Velum
- Sortie:
- Apr 23, 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781393123521
- Format:
- Livre
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We Can’t Eat Grass - Kevin Thomas Morgan
We Can’t Eat Grass
For Food Security Trade Your Lawn For An Ecologically Sustainable Victory Garden
Kevin Thomas Morgan
I dedicate this little book to Earth Day, in the hopes of making a contribution to the health of our lovely planet, Spaceship Earth.
In dwelling, live close to the ground,
In thinking, keep to the simple,
In conflict, be fair and generous,
In governing, don’t try to control,
In work, do what you enjoy,
In family life, be completely present.
- Tao te Ching by Lao-tzu, translated by Steven Mitchell
Contents
Foreword
Also by Kevin Thomas Morgan
Food security
An adventure
Sustainability
1. Another book on gardening?
2. Eye of the beholder
3. The Power of diplomacy
4. Three zones
5. A piece of ground
6. Experience instead of hard work
7. Starting
8. Drainage
9. Fencing and Sharing
10. Sunlight
11. Worms
12. Equipment
13. Ground Cover
14. Compost
15. Planting
16. Herbs
17. Vertical Space
18. Rotation
19. Plant for the Season
20. Diseases and Pests
21. Watch, Learn and Enjoy
22. Unwelcome Guests
23. Always Pace Yourself
24. Barter is alive and well
25. Hidden Treasure
Afterword
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Foreword
You might be thinking, The author has a house, a nice piece of land, and it’s easy for him.
This took a while, with plenty of mistakes along the way.
My first vegetable garden was created in Penicuik, Scotland, while kids were being born, back in the late 1970s. Money was tight. I sure couldn’t pay anyone for anything when it came to the garden. Fortunately, we’d just bought our first small house, one for which we could barely afford the mortgage on my British Civil Service paycheck.
How did I create a great vegetable garden? Discipline, hard work and imagination. I was in my early twenties back then, with plenty of energy to spare. The ground was heavy clay and rocks. Lots of rocks! They seemed to appear out of the ground. The topsoil was sparse, thin, and covered in construction debris.
What did I do, with my endlessly burning desire to grow food?
I’d take the kids up to the local woods, with a bucket each, and we’d harvest
topsoil, of which there was plenty in an old hardwood forest. We’d bring it home, and start a little patch. Plant a few things using seed from a local store. Neighbors would often give us free seed and plants. It was that kind
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