The food garden
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Self-sufficiency and no tillage
Doing what you believe in every day? That’s the choice Marie-Thérèse Thévard (Marie-Thé, to her friends) made some thirty years ago when she successfully developed her food self-sufficiency by not tilling the soil in the Saguenay, her adopted home in Quebec. Le jardin vivrier is the story of his practices, convictions and research into embodying an ecological way of life based on independence from fossil fuels, resilience, healthy eating, permaculture, agroecology and community living. Designed to take you month by month through all the stages involved in creating a thriving organic vegetable garden, this manual details the principles and techniques for growing vegetables, fruit, pulses and even cereals. One guiding principle: no tillage. Faced with the depletion of the soil that is the lot of industrial agriculture, Marie-Thé defends ‘soil engineering’, avoiding ploughing while enriching it with mulch. All this in a boreal climate, in a context considered difficult for market gardening.
Marie-Thé’s many years of experience will teach you :
The principles of permaculture, agro-ecology and non-tillage;
Crop combinations to create a living, resilient ecosystem;
Techniques for protecting crops from the cold;
Biological ways of getting rid of the main pests;
A toolbox for organising your garden (storage, tools, sowing, planting and harvesting schedules);
Methods for preserving vegetables and seasonal recipes;
All you need to know about raising poultry.
Written by Marie-Thé’s daughter, Le jardin vivrier is the essential manual for making a success of your no-till food garden and gradually achieving food self-sufficiency. Richly illustrated with diagrams and photos, this book is a must-have for ecological gardening.
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