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The Alternative Kitchen Garden: An A-Z
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The Alternative Kitchen Garden: An A-Z
Amazon Price: $21.24 (as of 02/09/2010)
376 pages, 190 colour photographs
RRP £14.95
Praise for 'The Alternative Kitchen Garden: An A to Z'
"An indispensable compendium for a new generation of eco-conscious kitchen gardeners." Elspeth Thompson, The Sunday Telegraph gardening columnist
"An ideal companion for anyone getting dirt under their fingernails for the first time." Tracey Smith, writer / broadcaster on sustainable living, author of The Book of Rubbish Ideas
"Emma's style is light and friendly yet at the same time informative and based on personal experience.... A dual purpose book - a concise and valuable practical guide, but at the same time a lovely little read for the deck chair or hammock!" Graham Burnett, permaculture teacher and author (read his Permaculture Magazine review here)
"Emma Cooper is an unstoppable force, one of life's positive people, and The Alternative Kitchen Garden sets out her inspiring personal vision of how to grow your own." Emma Townshend, Independent on Sunday gardening columnist
"Hallelujah - a kitchen garden handbook for the genuine newbie. Instead of dry facts and statistics, here you have a description of the life and soul of a garden." Corrina Gordon-Barnes, award-winning writer of The World Needs Your Passion web site
"The Alternative Kitchen Garden is not just an A-Z, it is an inspirational tour of an edible garden that can be recreated in the smallest of backyards. An essential guide for a new generation of gardeners who are keen to join the kitchen garden revolution." Karen Cannard, blogger and author of The Rubbish Diet
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- Plants For A Future - 7000 useful plants
- Plants For A Future is a resource centre for rare and unusual plants, particularly those which have edible, medicinal or other uses. We practice vegan-organic permaculture with emphasis on creating an ecologically sustainable environment and Perennial plants.
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- Otter Farm
- Otter Farm lies on the sunny banks of the River Otter in Devon and is home to some of the finest food you can grow.
Succulent peaches and apricots, olives, pecans and persimmons grow in young orchards alongside the more traditional, forgotten fruit of mulberries, medlars and quinces. Wine grapes ripen in the vineyard.
A forest garden and perennial allotment are filled with everything from white cherries to almonds, Chilean guava to creeping Japanese raspberries, and kiwis to loquats. Climbing akebia make silky chocolate pulp, the pineapple guava ripen their succulent flesh, while the Szechuan peppers grow their punchy peppercorns.
New hedges of autumn olive, rosa rugosa, grinding pepper, Jerusalem artichokes and bay provide perfect foraging, while the older boundaries offer the nettles for beer, the elderflower for 'champagne' and cordial, and young lime leaves for spring salads.
The veg patch is unlike any other. Gone are the everyday potatoes, onions, and carrots, making room for little-known gourmet delights including salsify, Egyptian walking onion, yacon and kai lan. Edible flowers, aromatic lemongrass and sweet cicely grow alongside only the finest varieties of the more familiar veg such as asparagus, salad leaves and peas. Everywhere is dedicated to the finest flavour. - Vegan Organic Network
- Vegan-organics is any system of cultivation that avoids artificial chemicals and sprays, livestock manures and animal remains from slaughter houses. Alternatively, fertility is maintained by vegetable compost, green manures, crop rotation, mulches, and any other method that is sustainable, ecologica
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