The Climate Change-Resilient Vegetable Garden - by Kim Stoddart (Paperback)

About the Book

"The Climate Change-Resilient Vegetable Garden shakes up the "old" rules of vegetable gardening and teaches the resilience and adaptation required to grow food in a rapidly changing climate"--

Book Synopsis

Discover a new, more dynamic and durable way to grow food in the extremes of our changing climate in The Climate Change-Resilient Vegetable Garden.

Whether it's water-usage restrictions, extended heat waves, disastrous flooding, "super weeds," or prolonged pest lifecycles, the coming years will be filled with daunting challenges for food growers around the world. What's a gardener to do? Author Kim Stoddart outlines a clear path toward building resilience in your vegetable plants, your soil, and yourself. With actionable tasks that reduce resource use, stabilize the garden's ecosystem, and offer regenerative solutions to the most challenging issues faced by gardeners, Kim comes to the rescue with advice to help you weather these storms with ease.

Learn to:

• Foster adaptation by selectively breeding your favorite veggie varieties for local growing conditions
• Nurture biologically active soils that are better able to support your plants
• Create bioswales, berms, and rain gardens to improve your garden's flood tolerance
• Plant windbreaks, erect cold frames, and make mini hoop tunnels to protect plants from wind, snow, and surprise frosts
• Enhance biodiversity in your garden to increase pest predation and keep "bad" insects in check
• Discover intensive planting techniques to improve yields while protecting your soil and reducing water usage
• Select the most adaptable fruit and vegetable crops to grow and tend them in a climate change-savvy way
• Recycle rainwater, repurpose household items, and live lightly on the land for a more resourceful gardening life

Even long-time vegetable gardeners will face unexpected challenges in the years to come. Take the time to build resilience in yourself and your garden by shifting your thinking today, and you'll be prepared for the unpredictable future ahead.

Review Quotes

"...focuses on edible gardening in a sustainable and resourceful way. This is an accessible guide to resilient gardening with lots of solid steps to implement."

--American Gardener

"...absolutely filled with clever and easy ideas to reduce time and effort and always keep an eye on waste and sustainability."

--Splash Magazine

"...packed with loads of tips and advice."

--Washington Gardener

About the Author

Kim Stoddart, co-author of The Climate Change Garden, also writes on climate change gardening and resilient gardening for publications such as The Guardian. She has gardening columns in several magazines, including Grow Your Own and Country Smallholding, and edits The Organic Way for Garden Organic. Kim also contributes regularly to a range of publications, such as Gardeners' World magazine, Bloom, The Telegraph, The Lancet, and The Daily Express. She is a homesteader and runs courses online and in person via greenrocketcourses.com.