Acadia Tucker's long love affair with Perennial Foods has produced this easy-to-understand guide to Growing and harvesting them.
Growing Perennial Foods is part of our Growing Food book series and a companion guide to Growing Good Food: A Citizen's Guide to Backyard Carbon Farming, which is also written by Acadia Tucker and set to publish in the summer of 2019..
While designed for gardening novices, this book is also for experienced gardeners who want to grow more resilient crops, and could use a little guidance.
And since this is a field guide, each profile gives readers enough space to write in any additional notes.
Growing Perennial Foods is illustrated with dozens of pen & ink drawings and ends with a short chapter on frequently asked questions.
Tucker also offers suggestions on how to store and preserve perennials.
But most of the book is dedicated to profiles of popular Perennial herbs, fruit, and vegetables, with explicit instructions on how to plant, grow, and harvest them.
She highlights the 10 steps she recommends gardeners take to help Perennial Foods thrive.
Tucker inspires action by first laying the groundwork for tending an organic, regenerative garden.
In short, the world is a better place with more perennials in it and this book intends to get us there.
They taste good, pack lots of nutrients, and require little tending.
Many can be harvested year round.
Perennials can weather climate extremes, promote healthy soil, mitigate drought conditions, and thrive without chemical fertilizers and pesticides.
A regenerative farmer who is deeply concerned about global warming, Tucker believes there may be no better time to plant these hardy crops.
Acadia Tucker's long love affair with Perennial Foods has produced this easy-to-understand guide to Growing and harvesting them
