Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels
- Age: 8
- Grade: 3
Description
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.
About the author
Carolyn Herriot is the author of the bestselling A Year on the Garden Path: A 52-Week Organic Gardening Guide, The Zero-Mile Diet: A Year-Round Guide to Growing Organic Food and, most recently, The Zero-Mile Diet Cookbook: Seasonal Recipes for Delicious Homegrown Food. She is much in demand as a speaker and workshop leader on organic gardening in the Pacific Northwest, with regular columns in BC Living 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.
Librarian Reviews
The Zero-Mile Diet: A Year-Round Guide to Growing Organic Food
Herriot’s The Zero-Mile Diet is her vision for greater regional food security. Alarmed at the inability of communities to feed themselves, terminator technology used to sterilize seeds and the threat of global warming to monoculture and factory farms, she proposes a five-year plan for families to become more self-sufficient. Children and adults alike reconnecting with their environment and real food is an added benefit. For each month of the year, Herriot educates the reader on gardening basics from composting to seed saving, watering to weeding. Seasonally appropriate recipes lend ideas on using and preserving the garden’s bounty.Herriot is the author of A Year On The Garden Path.
Source: The Association of Book Publishers of BC. BC Books for BC Schools. 2010-2011.
