Emily Murphy

Grow Now (eBook, ePUB)

How We Can Save Our Health, Communities, and Planet-One Garden at a Time

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Homeowners are looking for actionable ways to help conserve the environment, and this hopeful, heartfelt guide offers them specific guidance on how to do so in their own home gardens.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Timber Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781643261218
• Artikelnr.: 64262910

Autorenporträt

Emily Murphy is a regenerative organic gardener, photographer, and designer. She's the author of Grow What You Love and creator of the celebrated blog passthepistil.com. She's trained in ethnobotany and environmental science and has dedicated herself to nature-based garden education and nature advocacy.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Introduction: The Simple Act of Growing
Grow a Garden, Change Your Life
1. Hope from Action
2. Planet A: The Biodiversity and Climate Crises
3. The Spaces We Plant and Grow Make a Difference
4. Change Starts at Home
5. Nurture Your Nature
6. The Biodiversity Hypothesis
7. Your Nature Quotient
8. The Power of Our Patchwork of Gardens
Go Beyond Organic
1. Carbon Cycling Basics
2. Revive. Restore. Regenerate.
3. Regenerative Organic Agriculture for Home Gardens
4. How Regenerative Gardening Works
5. The No-Dig Approach
6. Getting Started with Compost
7. The Right Compost System for You
Lay the Groundwork
1. Planning Where You’ll Grow
2. Preparing Ground for No-Dig Planting
3. Raised Garden Beds and Boxes
4. Filling Small Containers
5. Planning What You’ll Grow
Plants for People and the Planet
1. Traditional Edible Perennials
2. Edible Forest Garden Perennials
3. Edible Perennial Vines
4. Perennial Herbs
5. Annual Vegetables and Fruits
6. Root Vegetables
7. Berries
8. Fruit Trees and Shrubs
9. Plants for Butterflies
10. Bird Favorites
11. Soil-Building Plants
Grow and Gather
1. Getting to Know Your Plants
2. Grow Your Way to a Smaller Carbon Foodprint
3. Starting Seeds
4. Transplanting Seedlings
5. Troubleshooting the Growing Process
6. Nonfertilizer Fertilizing
7. Harvesting Your Produce
8. Methods of Home Preserving
Rewilding to Support Biodiversity
1. The Role of Native Plants
2. Biodiversity Begets Biodiversity
3. When Insects Disappear
4. Growing Habitat Starts at Home
5. Living Greenways
Grow More Good
1. What You Plant for Tomorrow, You Grow Today
2. Power to the People Who Plant
3. Swap. Barter. Give.
4. Become a Citizen Scientist
5. We All Love a Good Story
6. A New Normal
Helpful Resources
Many Thanks
Photo and Illustration Credits
Index