Fresh Food from Small Spaces The Square Inch Gardener's Guide to Year-Round Growing, Fermenting, and Sprouting

Name: Fresh Food from Small Spaces
Author: R.J. Ruppenthal

Auteur: R.J. Ruppenthal

Taal: Engels

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Uitgever: Chelsea Green Publishing Co

Auteur: R.J. Ruppenthal

Engels
Paperback
9781603580281
05 november 2008
178 pagina's

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A practical, comprehensive, and downright fun guide to growing food in small spaces. Provides readers with the knowledge and skills necessary to produce their own fresh vegetables, mushrooms, sprouts, and fermented foods as well as to raise bees and chickensóall without reliance on energy-intensive systems like indoor lighting and hydroponics.

Creating a Food System for Your Space

Deciding What to Grow in Your Garden Space

How to Buy or Build Productive Vegetable Containers

Using Vertical Space and Reflected Light

Starting Transplants and Cycling Your Crops

Growing Fruit and Berries in Your Small Space

Sprouting Grains, Beans, Wheatgrass, and Salad Sprouts

Making Yogurt, Kefir, and Fermented Foods

Cultivating Mushrooms

Raising Chickens and Honeybees in the City

Making Compost and Partnering with Worms

Survival During Resource Shortages

Helping to Build a Sustainable Future

Notes

Resources

Index

Books on container gardening have been wildly popular with urban and suburban readers, but until now, there has been no comprehensive "how-to" guide for growing fresh food in the absence of open land. Fresh Food from Small Spaces fills the gap as a practical, comprehensive, and downright fun guide to growing food in small spaces. It provides readers with the knowledge and skills necessary to produce their own fresh vegetables, mushrooms, sprouts, and fermented foods as well as to raise bees and chickens—all without reliance on energy-intensive systems like indoor lighting and hydroponics.

Readers will learn how to transform their balconies and windowsills into productive vegetable gardens, their countertops and storage lockers into commercial-quality sprout and mushroom farms, and their outside nooks and crannies into whatever they can imagine, including sustainable nurseries for honeybees and chickens. Free space for the city gardener might be no more than a cramped patio, balcony, rooftop, windowsill, hanging rafter, dark cabinet, garage, or storage area, but no space is too small or too dark to raise food.

With this book as a guide, people living in apartments, condominiums, townhouses, and single-family homes will be able to grow up to 20 percent of their own fresh food using a combination of traditional gardening methods and space-saving techniques such as reflected lighting and container "terracing." Those with access to yards can produce even more.

Author R. J. Ruppenthal worked on an organic vegetable farm in his youth, but his expertise in urban and indoor gardening has been hard-won through years of trial-and-error experience. In the small city homes where he has lived, often with no more than a balcony, windowsill, and countertop for gardening, Ruppenthal and his family have been able to eat at least some homegrown food 365 days per year. In an era of declining resources and environmental disruption, Ruppenthal shows that even urban dwellers can contribute to a rebirth of local, fresh foods.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 05 november 2008
Aantal pagina's: 178
Illustraties: Met illustraties

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Hoofdauteur: R.J. Ruppenthal
Hoofduitgeverij: Chelsea Green Publishing Co

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Extra groot lettertype: Nee
Product breedte: 171 mm
Product hoogte: 13 mm
Product lengte: 254 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 171 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 13 mm
Verpakking lengte: 254 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 408 g

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EAN: 9781603580281

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