Scientist/gardener Carol Deppe combines her passion for organic gardening with newly emerging scientific information from many fields - resilience science, climatology, climate change, ecology, anthropology, paleontology, sustainable agriculture, nutrition, health, and medicine. In the last half of The Resilient Gardener, Deppe extends and illustrates these principles with detailed information about growing and using five key crops: potatoes, corn, beans, squash, and eggs.
In this book you-ll learn how to:
-Garden in an era of unpredictable weather and climate change
-Grow, store, and use more of your own staple crops
-Garden efficiently and comfortably (even if you have a bad back)
-Grow, store, and cook different varieties of potatoes and save your own potato seed
-Grow the right varieties of corn to make your own gourmet-quality fast-cooking polenta, cornbread, parched corn, corn cakes, pancakes and even savory corn gravy
-Make w
