Growing Good Food (Paperback)

Paperback. Growing Good Food is a beginner's guide to growing your own herbs, fruits, and vegetables using organic and sustainable practices. It's for home gardeners who want to raise food on their own patch of soil-all while cultivating a microbe-rich, carbon-sucking, regenerative foodscape.Acadia Tucker, a regenerative farmer, gardener, and climate activist, invites us to think of gardening as civic action. By building organically-rich soil, even in a backyard, we can capture greenhouse gases in the very place we're growing nutritious food.To help us get started, Tucker drafts plans for gardeners who have a little ground or a lot of it. She offers advice on how to prep and clear land, cultivate healthy soil, plant food from seeds or starts, fend off pests and disease, and grow 21 popular perennials and annuals, including fruit trees, herbs, strawberries, peppers, tomatoes, cabbage, carrots, garlic, beans, peas, and potatoes.Tucker also describes the climate changes taking place in our own backyards, and the various steps we can take to boost a garden's resilience.Growing Good Food includes calls to action and insights from leaders in the regenerative growing movement, including David Montgomery, Anne Bikle, Gabe Brown, Wendell Berry and Mary Berry, and Tim LaSalle. By the end of this book, you'll know how to grow some really good food, and build a healthier world, too. A Field Guide to Raising Resilient Herbs, Fruits, and Vegetables. Acadia Tucker's long love affair with perennial foods has produced this easy-to-understand guide to growing and harvesting them. 'Growing Perennial Foods' is illustrated with dozens of pen and ink drawings and ends with a short chapter on frequently asked questions. And since this is a field guide, each profile gives readers enough space to write in any additional notes. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…