The Resilient Gardener: Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncert...

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 whole-grain, corn-based breads and cakes using the author's original gluten-free recipes involving no other grains, artificial binders, or dairy products
Grow and use popbeans and other grain legumes
Grow, store, and use summer, winter, and drying squash
Keep a home laying flock of ducks or chickens; integrate them with your gardening, and grow most of their feed.

The Resilient Gardener is both a conceptual and a hands-on organic gardening book, and is suitable for vegetable gardeners at all levels of experience. Resilience here is broadly conceived and encompasses a full range of problems, from personal hard times such as injuries, family crises, financial problems, health problems, and special dietary needs (gluten intolerance, food allergies, carbohydrate sensitivity, and a need for weight control) to serious regional and global disasters and climate change. It is a supremely optimistic as well as realistic book about how resilient gardeners and their vegetable gardens can flourish even in challenging times and help their communities to survive and thrive through everything that comes their way -- from tomorrow through the next thousand years. Organic gardening, vegetable gardening, self-sufficiency, subsistence gardening, gluten-free living.

Screen Shot 20200229 at 07.27.48.png

I enjoy the way Carole Deppe takes an open-minded view of 'climate change' focusing on the opportunities it can create for us as gardeners.

Screen Shot 20200229 at 07.44.10.png

She goes into great detail on the 'five crops we need to survive and thrive'

Screen Shot 20200229 at 07.45.54.png

And includes a few pictures in the middle of the book.

Screen Shot 20200229 at 07.47.41.png

How can you download this book?

Set up an account with LBRY here if you don't already have one.
(this way you will earn LBC every time you view my content)

THIS LINK will take you directly to the book.

If the PDF doesn't load immediately hit the icon in the middle.

Once uploaded please be sure to save it on your device, preferably something small, portable and easily chargeable, like a tablet or decent sized smart phone.

THE NEED FOR SOLAR

If we are going to ensure that we have always have access to these books (no matter what is happening in the world) we must have a solar charger for our device.

It is for this reason that I ask you to save the books on your device rather than assuming they will always be available to you through my LBRY account.

Fortune favours the prepared.

The JouleStick

I have seen many solar products in my time and this I can confidently say is one of the best because it is practical, functional, durable & inexpensive. It can be a torch or a lamp and most importantly, it can charge your device.

When enough of you indicate to me you are interested I will buy a box of these JouleSticks and sell them on to you for the equivalent of around $50 (plus postage), payable in fiat or crypto.

I want to mention also that the JouleStick is compatible with the JouleBox, should you ever decide to expand on your kit.

The JouleBox

Screen Shot 20170515 at 11.16.17.jpg

By the way, I made both of the above films and even took the JouleBox for a test run on an off grid island in Indonesia. My product review can be seen here. Bottom line: I seriously love these products!