Let's Plant & Grow Together (eBook)

Your community gardening handbook

Ben Raskin (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024 | New Edition
200 Seiten
Leaping Hare Press (Verlag)
978-0-7112-8737-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Start and nurture your own thriving community garden with this seasoned guide to cultivating your local outdoor space. Community gardening is a growing movement that is taking root in towns and cities all over the world. Groups of likeminded people are transforming neglected plots of land into green, flourishing spaces for everyone to enjoy. In Let's Plant & Grow Together, conservationist and community gardener Ben Raskin shares his keen expertise in his introduction to collective self-sufficiency, encouraging a community audience to grow food and garden together. With a thoughtful foreword by Helena Dove, Head of Kitchen at the admired Kew Gardens, London, UK, this guide is uniquely placed to teach you how to make urban spaces bloom. A look into the background of community gardening and its benefits is followed by a practical guide: planning advice is laid out, alongside essential etiquette tips for running a successful site. Learn about these and other practical considerations, including:   Soil fertility Fundraising Business plans Guerrilla gardening Access rights Marketing Leases Add a community-minded directory of the top vegetables, flowers, fruit, and herbs to plant, with key tips on growing in containers to maximize your space, and you can get ready to dig for a community garden that will blossom and thrive for everyone.With clear instructions for all ages and backgrounds, your collective will learn to grow and harvest:   Kale Pears Beetroot Asparagus Gooseberries Oregano Currants Melons Figs This book contains everything you need to start gardening in a group. Whether that's with family, neighbors, or allotment co-owners, you'll find practical steps to promote harmony, grow more successfully, and make space for everybody. Written by an expert in the field, this insightful and comprehensive guide leaves no stone unturned when it comes to building and maintaining your dream co-gardening space. If you like this book, you may also like Plant a Tree and Retree the World, by the same author.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.1.2024
• Reihe/Serie: Let's...
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Garten
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Schlagworte: Activities • Agriculture • allotments • animals • Autumn • Beneficial Insects • biodiversity • children • Community • Community Gardens • composting • Connect • crop rotation • crops • eco-conscious • eco-friendly • Edible Landscapes • Environment • Events • Family • farm-to-table • flowerbeds • Flowering Shrubs • Flowers • food security • Friends • fruits • Garden Art • garden beautification • garden crafts • Garden design • garden education • garden experiments • Gardening • gardening for kids • gardening hacks • gardening techniques • gardening tips • gardening workshops • garden maintenance • Garden therapy • garden tools • garden tours • Green • green fingers • greenhouse • growing • Guerrilla Gardening • Harvesting • heirloom varieties • herbs • Homegrown • Indigenous Plants • Landscaping • Meeting • native species • Natural pesticides • Nature • Networks • Nutrition • Orchard • organic • Organic Gardening • organic produce • Outdoors • Patch • permaculture • pest control • plant care • Planting • plants • Plot • pollinators • Project • pruning • Rainwater harvesting • raised beds • saving • seasonal • seasonal produce • Seedlings • seeds • seed swap • SHARE • Soil • space • Spring • Summer • sustainability • Sustainable living • Team • Therapeutic • together • Tree • Urban • Urban Farming • vegetables • watering • weeding • wildlife • Wildlife habitat • Winter
• ISBN-10: 0-7112-8737-6 / 0711287376
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7112-8737-2 / 9780711287372