The Zero-Mile Diet: A Year-Round Guide to Growing Organic Food

By Carolyn Herriot

Book Overview

This definitive month-by-month guide brings gardeners into the delicious world of edible landscaping and helps take a load off the planet as we achieve greater food security. Full of illustrative colour photos and step-by-step instructions, The Zero-Mile Diet shares wisdom gleaned from 30 years of food growing and seed saving with comprehensive advice on:
* Growing organic food year-round
* The small fruit orchard and backyard berries
* Superb yet simple seasonal recipes
* Preserving your harvest
* Seed saving and plant propagation
* Dirt-cheap ways to nourish your soil
* Backyard poultry--it's less time-consuming than you
think
* Growing vegetables in the easiest way possible
* A-z guide to growing the best vegetables and herbs

Put organic home-grown fruits and vegetables on your table throughout the year, using the time-saving, economical and sustainable methods of gardening outlined in The Zero-Mile Diet. This book is about REAL food and how eating it will change our lives for the better

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1550174819
• ISBN13: 9781550174816
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Harbour Publishing
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.9" x 9.9"