The Climate Change–Resilient Vegetable Garden: How to Grow Food in a Changing Climate

The Climate Change–Resilient Vegetable Garden provides a clear path to building resilience in vegetable plants, soil, and yourself, with actionable tasks to reduce resource use, stabilize the garden ecosystem, and offer regenerative solutions to challenging issues.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 208 pages
Publication date: 29 February 2024
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc

The Climate Change-Resilient Vegetable Garden is a comprehensive guide for gardeners seeking to adapt to the challenges posed by climate change. Author Kim Stoddart offers practical advice on how to build resilience in vegetable plants, soil, and gardeners themselves, enabling them to thrive in a changing environment.

The book begins by outlining the daunting challenges faced by food growers, including water-usage restrictions, extended heat waves, devastating flooding, "super weeds," and prolonged pest lifecycles. Gardners are left wondering what they can do to prepare for these challenges.

In response, Kim provides a clear path toward building resilience in vegetable plants, soil, and gardeners. She offers actionable tasks that reduce resource use, stabilize the garden ecosystem, and offer regenerative solutions to the most challenging issues faced by gardeners. These tasks include selective breeding of favorite veggie varieties for local growing conditions, nurturing biologically active soils, creating bioswales, berms, and rain gardens to improve flood tolerance, planting windbreaks, erecting cold frames, and making mini hoop tunnels to protect plants from wind, snow, and surprise frosts, enhancing biodiversity in the garden to increase pest predation and keep "bad" insects in check, discovering intensive planting techniques to improve yields while protecting soil and reducing water usage, selecting the most adaptable fruit and vegetable crops to grow and tend them in a climate change-savvy way, recycling rainwater, repurposing household items, and living lightly on the land for a more resourceful gardening life.

Even long-time vegetable gardeners will face unexpected challenges in the years to come. To prepare for these challenges, Kim encourages gardeners to shift their thinking today and build resilience in themselves and their gardens. By taking the time to implement these strategies, gardeners can ensure that their gardens continue to produce food even in the face of climate change.

The Climate Change-Resilient Vegetable Garden is a valuable resource for gardeners of all levels, providing practical advice and actionable tasks to help them adapt to the changing climate. Whether you are a seasoned gardener or just starting, this book will help you build resilience in your vegetable plants, soil, and yourself, enabling you to thrive in a changing environment.

Weight: 668g
Dimension: 215 x 216 x 15 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780760384732