No Dig Organic Home & Garden
Grow, Cook, Use & Store Your Harvest
Charles Dowding author Stephanie Hafferty author
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Permanent Publications
Published:21st Jun '17
Should be back in stock very soon
This guide offers practical insights into no dig gardening, featuring techniques for composting, soil enrichment, and growing food. No Dig Organic Home & Garden is a valuable resource.
In No Dig Organic Home & Garden, experts Charles Dowding and Stephanie Hafferty provide a comprehensive guide to establishing a no dig garden. They delve into essential techniques such as composting, soil enrichment, and harvesting, while also sharing insights on preparing food and creating natural beauty and cleaning products. This method not only saves time but also promotes a healthier garden environment, leading to improved soil structure, increased fertility, and reduced weed growth.
The authors emphasize that no dig gardening is versatile and can be applied to both small spaces and expansive gardens. Drawing on their combined expertise, they offer practical advice on growing, preparing, and storing a variety of plants. Readers will find an array of delicious vegetable recipes and ideas that encourage self-reliance, sustainable living, and the joy of cultivating one's own food throughout the year.
Charles Dowding, with over 35 years of experience, is recognized as a leading authority on no dig gardening, while Stephanie Hafferty brings her passion for kitchen gardening and creating no dig spaces for various settings. Together, they present seasonal recipes that highlight the potential of home-grown produce and demonstrate how to utilize common plants for handmade preparations in the home and garden. No Dig Organic Home & Garden serves as an invaluable resource for anyone interested in sustainable gardening practices.
“The no-dig method is steadily gaining a devoted following because it is simple, logical and it provides good results with minimal work.... Dowding’s new book with Stephanie Hafferty explains the theory and method in detail and with characteristic thoroughness...it goes on to cover every possible aspect of growing, cooking and preserving, combining all of Dowding and Hafferty’s knowledge, ideas and recipes. All of these extras combine to make this more of a manual for self-sufficiency than a straight gardening book…a brilliant place for a beginner to start and will also give old timers pause to consider doing things in this alternative way.”—Lia Leendertz, Gardens Illustrated
“A treasure of information, it is a complete guide to fertility and healthiness, from soil to body, made clear through real life experience.”—Lorenzo Costa, Permaculture magazine
“This is what I would call a complete 'organic lifestyle' book. The lifestyle is that you, the reader, can learn about how to grow his or her own organic vegetables and use recipes that give you inspiration for what to do with some of the produce. It is beautifully produced with lots of detailed pictures to help guide you.”—Richard Swann, Star & Furrow (Journal of The Biodynamic Association)
- Winner of Practical Book of the Year at The Garden Media Guild Awards 2017 2017
ISBN: 9781856233019
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