Overview
This definitive month-by-month guide brings gardeners into the delicious world of edible landscaping and helps take a load off the planet as we achieve greater food security. Full of illustrative colour photos and step-by-step instructions, The Zero-Mile Diet shares wisdom gleaned from 30 years of food growing and seed saving with comprehensive advice on: * Growing organic food year-round * The small fruit orchard and backyard berries * Superb yet simple seasonal recipes * Preserving your harvest * Seed saving and plant propagation * Dirt-cheap ways to nourish your soil * Backyard poultry--it's less time-consuming than you think * Growing vegetables in the easiest way possible * A-z guide to growing the best vegetables and herbs Put organic home-grown fruits and vegetables on your table throughout the year, using the time-saving, economical and sustainable methods of gardening outlined in The Zero-Mile Diet. This book is about REAL food and how eating it will change our lives for the better.
Full Product Details
Author: Carolyn Herriot
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Imprint: Harbour Publishing
Dimensions:
Width: 20.60cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 25.20cm
Weight: 0.784kg
ISBN: 9781550174816
ISBN 10: 1550174819
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 13 May 2010
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Temporarily unavailable
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Reviews
"""Last year's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessment stated that up to two billion people world-wide will face water shortages, and up to 30 per-cent of plant and animal species would be put at risk of extinction, if the average rise in temperature stabilises between 1.5 and 2.5 degrees. Ladies and Gentlemen, millions of people throughout the world are deeply concerned about what is happening to our planet, but they feel utterly powerless. So they look to national governments, the European Union and international agencies to act on their behalf, but too often they see nothing but argument, disagreement and prevarication. The point is that the solutions do not lie with just the private sector or just the public sector. Climate change presents such a threat that, uniquely in history, it will surely require the effort of every nation and every person to find and implement a solution before it is too late."" -- HRH The Prince of Wales, 14th February 2008 Harbour Publishing is pleased to announce that The Zero-Mile Diet has been short-listed for the 2011 Canadian Culinary Book Awards. The Canadian Culinary Book Awards are designed to recognize excellence in food and beverage writing and publishing while promoting Canadian culinary food culture. Initiated by Cuisine Canada in 1998 under Jo Marie Powers, the contest is now co-hosted by the University of Guelph Library. Gold and Silver prizes are awarded in three categories: Canadian food culture, cookbooks and special interest for both English-language and French-language books. The winners will be announced on November 7, 2011, at the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair in Toronto."
Last year's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessment stated that up to two billion people world-wide will face water shortages, and up to 30 per-cent of plant and animal species would be put at risk of extinction, if the average rise in temperature stabilises between 1.5 and 2.5 degrees. Ladies and Gentlemen, millions of people throughout the world are deeply concerned about what is happening to our planet, but they feel utterly powerless. So they look to national governments, the European Union and international agencies to act on their behalf, but too often they see nothing but argument, disagreement and prevarication. The point is that the solutions do not lie with just the private sector or just the public sector. Climate change presents such a threat that, uniquely in history, it will surely require the effort of every nation and every person to find and implement a solution before it is too late. -- HRH The Prince of Wales, 14th February 2008
Author Information
Carolyn Herriot is much in demand as a speaker and workshop leader on organic gardening in the Pacific Northwest, with regular columns in GardenWise and Common Ground magazines. Carolyn grows her certified-organic seed business, Seeds of Victoria, at the Garden Path Centre for Organic Gardening in Victoria, BC.
