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1 online resource |
| Contents |
All the Good Reasons WhyBeating the Climate; Ten Tips for Sustainable Living; PART TWO -- What to Grow & How; Laying Out a Garden from Scratch; How to Set Up a Food Plot; Working with Weeds; Water-saving Circle Gardens; Wicking Beds; Raised Garden Beds & Chicken-wire Beds; Growing Food in Boxes; The Ziggurat; Easy Vegetables to Grow; Vegetable Families; Big Yielders & Gross Feeders; Visitors from the Biosphere; PART THREE -- More Value from Home Produce; Preserving & Using Home Produce; More Value from Popular Vegetables; Herby Meals from the Garden; Fruit from Trees, Vines & Bushes |
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Perennial QuestionsCooking Shows & Contests; School Garden & Home Garden; Feeding Babies & Kids; PART FOUR -- New Plot Plans; The Omega-3 Plots; The Asian Greens Plot; The Baby Greens Plot; The Hearty Soup Plot; Launch a Rocket Plot; The Ginger or Galangal Plot; The Chinese Melon Plot; The Interlacing Plot; The Sweet Potato Plot; The Edible Flower Plot; The Essential Herb Plot; The Stinging Nettle Plot; The Lime Plot; PART FIVE -- The Kitchen Garden; A Kitchen Garden Blueprint; Ornamental Kitchen Garden Vegetables, Herbs & Flowers; PART SIX -- The Bigger Picture; Ancestral Links |
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Hunting & GatheringThe Farmers' Plight; Growth Industry of the Future; The Farm & Farmer of the Future; Benefits of Growing Food at Home; The Social Benefits; The Importance of Seed Saving; PART SEVEN -- Food Gardens in Australia; Food Gardens in Challenging Locations; Sonny's Vegetable Garden, Northern Flinders Ranges; Colin's Garden, Southern Flinders Ranges; Vera & Pete's Box Garden, Barossa Valley; Violet's Garden, Barossa Valley; Sunningdale Farm, Mount Compass; The Food Forest, Gawler; Chris & John's Tree Change, Tasmania; Robyn's Island Garden, King Island |
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The Garden Barry Wasn't Going to Have, VictoriaThe Harvest Program, South Australia; PART EIGHT -- Food Growing in Other Countries; Food Garden Travel; Guatemala & India in What the World Eats; Food Forests; Curitiba, Southern Brazil; People Feeding Each Other, Venezuela & Cuba; Transition Towns, a World-wide Movement; The White House Kitchen Garden, America; Agriculture as Art, Japan; PART NINE -- Passing It On: Altogether Now!; Reaching the Neighbourhood; Food Gardening for People who are Confined; Urban Orchard Swap Meets; Urban Farms; Botanical Gardens; Community Gardens |
| Summary |
This book considers issues of food security and offers solutions at the street, neighbourhood and global levels. Mixing gardening advice and food plot design with discussion of issues like global warming, dwindling oil supplies, the future for farmers and GM foods, Lolo Houbein challenges us to mobilise for food security |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Kitchen gardens -- Australia
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Vegetable gardening -- Australia
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GARDENING -- Essays.
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GARDENING -- Reference.
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GARDENING -- Vegetables.
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Horticulture.
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Kitchen gardens
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Vegetable gardening
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Australia
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781743050217 |
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1743050216 |
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