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Transform your yard into a beautiful and vibrant space offering a continuous supply of food"Has the potential to change the landscaping of our nation and the design of our lives."- ROB GREENFIELD, author,
Dude Making a Difference"A beautiful synthesis of organic, regenerative, and permaculture practices for an abundant yard anywhere."- MATT POWERS, author and educator, ThePermacultureStudent.com
Your Edible Yard is the comprehensive how-to guide you need to turn your yard into a bountiful feast. Illustrated throughout with dozens of beautiful color photographs, water color planting charts, infographics, and landscaping designs, it covers:
- Practical gardening methods and maintenance from weeding to wintering, including foodscaping, container gardening, and saving seeds
- Permaculture principles including soil building techniques, garden preparation, raised beds, and natural/non-toxic DIY pesticide alternatives
- How to integrate culinary and medicinal herbs, edible flowers, mushrooms, fruits, vegetables, and wild edibles
- Gardening resources: where to go for help, buy seeds, and source supplies on a budget
- Instructions on preserving, fermenting, freezing, drying, and making simple medicines
- General tips, such as how to find loopholes in laws preventing edible front yards.
Whether you're a beginner or experienced gardener in the city, the suburbs, or the country, this manual is the A-Z guide for growing an abundant edible landscape.
"A timely, clear, inspiring, and valuable resource for anyone interested in the why and how of getting started in transitioning your yard from lawn to edible garden."- ZEN HONEYCUTT, founding executive director, Moms Across America, author,
UnstoppableCrystal Stevens is an artist, folk herbalist, regenerative farmer, permaculturist, and author of the award-winning
Grow Create Inspire and
Worms at Work. She lives with her husband and two children on a 10-acre permaculture-inspired micro-farm along the rolling hills
of the Mississippi River.
List of contents
Dedication and Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Detriment of the Lawn Obsession
Chapter 2: It Shouldn't Be a Crime to Grow Vegetables!
Chapter 3: Building Healthy Soils with Compost and Vermicompost
Chapter 4: Permaculture in Your Yard/Bed Prep
Chapter 5: Your Edible Yard - Natural Alternatives to Herbicides and Pesticides
Chapter 6: Choosing the Right Plants
Chapter 7: Edible Landscaping Designs
Chapter 8: Edible Landscape Showcase
Chapter 9: Yard-to-Table Recipes and Preserving the Harvest
Chapter 10: DIY Herbal Remedies and Recipes
Notes
Index
About the Author
A Note about the Publisher
About the author
Crystal Stevens is an author, artist/art teacher, folk herbalist, regenerative farmer, and permaculturist. She is the co-founder of Flourish, and the author of the award-winning
Grow Create Inspire, and
Worms at Work. Crystal lives with her husband and two children on a 10-acre permaculture-inspired micro farm along the rolling hills of the Mississippi River.
Summary
Unleash the potential of your yard by transforming it into a beautiful and vibrant space offering a continuous supply of food
Journey into the good food movement by unleashing the potential of your yard, transforming it into a beautiful and vibrant space that offers a continuous supply of food.
Using dozens of beautiful color photographs and watercolor planting charts, infographics, and landscaping designs, Your Edible Yard is the comprehensive how-to guide you need to turn your yard into a bountiful feast.
It features:
- Practical gardening methods and maintenance from weeding to wintering, including foodscaping, container gardening, and saving seeds
- Permaculture principles including soil building techniques, garden preparation, raised beds, and natural/non-toxic DIY pesticide alternatives
- How to integrate culinary and medicinal herbs, edible flowers, mushrooms, fruits, vegetables, and wild edibles
- Gardening resources: where to go for help, buy seeds, and source supplies on a budget
- Instructions on preserving, fermenting, freezing, drying, and making simple medicines
- General tips, such as how to find loopholes in laws preventing edible front yards.
Whether you're a beginner or experienced gardener in the city, the suburbs, or the country, this manual is the A-Z guide for how to make use of the space you have, highlighting the colorful and abundant array that edible landscapes promise.
Foreword
- Co-op Available
- Pitch to appropriate podcasts like Small Town Homestead, Ideas on the Verge, Permaculture Podcast
- Features offered to Mother Earth News, Organic Gardener, Civil Eats, Home & Garden section of daily newspapers
- Excerpts offered to Taproot, Garden Design, Eat, Food Revolution
- Publicity and promotion in conjunction with the author's speaking engagements
- Simultaneous ebook release and promotion
- Promotion on New Society Publishers social media platforms including Facebook, Twitter, our blog, Pinterest, Instagram, and Youtube
- Promotion on authors website: www.growcreateinspire.com
