The essential manual for successful gardening without depleting the soil and achieving food self-sufficiency.
Act daily according to your convictions? This is the choice that Marie-Thérèse Thévard (Marie-Thé, for short) made around thirty years ago when she successfully developed her food self-sufficiency by not working the soil in Saguenay, her home region. adoption in Quebec. The food garden is the story of his practices, convictions and research to embody an ecological lifestyle based on independence from fossil fuels, resilience, healthy eating, permaculture, agroecology and community living . Developed to follow all the steps month by month to obtain a thriving organic vegetable garden, this manual details the principles and techniques for growing vegetables, fruits, legumes and even cereals. A guiding principle guides his approach: non-tillage. Faced with the exhaustion of the soil which is the lot of industrial agriculture, Marie-Thé defends “the genius of the soil”, by avoiding plowing it 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, agroecology and no-till;
- Crop associations to create a living and resilient ecosystem;
- Crop protection techniques against the cold;
- Biological ways to get rid of the main pests;
- A toolbox to organize your garden (storage, tools, sowing, planting and harvest calendars);
- Vegetable preservation methods and seasonal recipes;
- The essential things to know about poultry farming.
Written by Marie-Thé’s daughter, The food garden is the essential manual for successfully growing a non-tillage food garden and gradually achieving food self-sufficiency. Richly illustrated with diagrams and photos, this book is a must-have for ecological gardening.
384 pages
