Food self-sufficiency Basic permaculture techniques for vegetable gardening, keeping chickens, raising bees, and more
Book - 2022
"What if you could really raise or grow all the food your family needs? In this fully illustrated book, you'll learn to create an autonomous, diversified, and sustainable garden and to cultivate and maintain it following the main principles of permaculture. If you want to move towards greater food autonomy and you have sufficient space, you can also grow grains, keep chickens, and have a few beehives."--
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New York :
Skyhorse Publishing
[2022]
- Language
- English
French - Main Author
- Other Authors
- Item Description
- Includes index.
"150 ways to live off your land"--Cover.
"First published in French by Rustica, Paris, France--2021 under the title En route vers l'autosuffisance alimentaire!"--Title page verso. - Physical Description
- 160 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
- ISBN
- 9781510768215
- Foreword
- 1. Food Self-Sufficiency
- Vegetables
- Mushrooms
- Herbs
- Fruits and nuts
- The chicken and the egg
- 2. A Fertile and Generous Soil
- Plants need the soil...
- ... and the soil needs plants
- Organic matter and humus
- Flatbed gardening
- What if I have very low-quality soil?
- 3. Water Independence and Sourcing Plant Material
- Water availability
- Meeting your own organic matter needs
- Using organic matter in the garden
- 4. Making Your Own Garden Soil
- A composite growing medium
- Where to start
- Making green compost
- Composting chicken manure
- Collecting topsoil
- Mixing your garden soil
- 5. Seed Production
- Simple, but also complicated ...
- Seed longevity
- Testing your seeds
- Precautions to take
- Choosing the right varieties
- Harvesting and storing seeds
- 6. Cultivating Your Garden and Starting Seedlings
- Direct-seeding
- Direct-seed or transplant?
- Transplanting with soil blocks
- Seeding a tray
- Repotting seedlings before planting them in the garden
- Propagation by division and cuttings
- Nine months of kitchen gardening
- Propagating fruit trees and bushes
- 7. Keeping Chickens
- Chicken coop components
- Food and drink
- How many chickens?
- Choosing chicken breeds
- Happy hens
- Your first hens
- Creating a sustainable flock
- Maintaining your henhouse
- 8. Beekeeping
- A fascinating and complex universe
- Getting started ...
- The beekeeper's calendar
- Kenya top-bar hives
- 9. Grain Production
- Should I grow grain?
- Fall planting ...
- ...And spring planting
- How to plant grain seed
- Harvesting, storing, and using grains
- 10. Harvest
- Spring harvests
- Summer harvests
- Fall harvests
- Winter harvests
- 11. Storing and Preserving Your Harvest
- Root cellars
- Cold storage
- Canning
- Freezing
- Other food preservation techniques
- 12. Garden Calendar for a Self-Sufficient Year
- Garden 10 minutes/120 square yards day
- Why your garden needs you all year Long ...
- 13. Permaculture and Autonomy
- Using nature as a model
- The right way to solve a problem
- Best practices
- Simplified interventions
- Index