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The Resilient Gardener Table of Contents

Scientist/gardener Carol Deppe combines her passion for organic gardening with newly emerging scientific information from many fields — resilience science, climatology, climate change, ecology, anthropology, paleontology, sustainable agriculture, nutrition, health, and medicine. In the last half of The Resilient Gardener, Deppe extends and illustrates these principles with detailed information about growing and using five key crops: potatoes, corn, beans, squash, and eggs.

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The Resilient Gardener Table of Contents

Scientist/gardener Carol Deppe combines her passion for organic gardening with newly emerging scientific information from many fields — resilience science, climatology, climate change, ecology, anthropology, paleontology, sustainable agriculture, nutrition, health, and medicine. In the last half of The Resilient Gardener, Deppe extends and illustrates these principles with detailed information about growing and using five key crops: potatoes, corn, beans, squash, and eggs.

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CONTENTS

Acknowledgments ix

1. Gardening and Resilience 1


Hard Times Great and Small | Special Dietary Needs as Hard
Times—and an Invitation to Gardening Adventures | A Funny Thing
Happened on the Way to Y2K | Practicing Balance | Appropriate
Self-Sufficiency | How Much Land Do You Need? | Gardening—an
Essential Survival Skill

2. The Plant-Gardener Covenant: 33 Golden Gardening Rules 13


The Grand Alliance | The Covenant: The Contract between the
Domesticated Plant and Her Gardener | The 33 Golden Rules of
Gardening

3. Gardening in an Era of Wild Weather and Climate Change 27


Global Warming in Your Backyard | Adventures with Wild Weather
and What Happened the Year the Californians Stole Our Rain |
Lessons from the Little Ice Age—a Model for Agricultural Resilience
| Electricity | The Hopi Rule | Evaluating the Resilience and Use
Potential of Your Land | Gambling on Global Warming—Strategies
with Annuals and Perennials | Planting Depth, Soil Type, and
Weather | The Gambler’s Guide to Transplants | Presoaking Seeds
and Germination Tests | Climate Change, Diseases, and Pests |
Overwintering Crops, Staggered Planting, and Resilience | Eggs,
Baskets, and Diversity | On Making Hay while the Sun Shines

4. Diet and Food Resilience 53


Two Orange Trunks and a New England Flood | Buying Patterns,
Apples, and Resilience | The Nut Lady—on Nuts, Opportunism, and
Oral Tradition | Trading, Swapping, Borrowing, and Gifts | Water |
Choosing Your Calorie and Protein Staples | Wheat Allergies, Gluten
Intolerance, and Celiac Disease | Ideal Storage Conditions for 49
Fruits and Vegetables that Keep Longer than Two Months | Milling
and Storing Whole-Grain Flour | Using Whole-Grain Gluten-Free
Flours | Asthma, Allergies, and Adventures with Omega-3 Fatty
Acids | Buying Grass-Fed Meat and Dairy Products | The Missing
Ingredient—Can What We Aren’t Eating Make Us Fat? | How to
Let Your Body Tell You What It Needs | A Different Conceptual
Framework for Understanding Obesity | Sugar | Salt, High Blood
Pressure, and Edema | Other Oils and Fats | Vitamins, Minerals,
Phytochemicals, and Fiber | Special Implications for Vegetarians and
Those with Celiac Disease or Gluten Intolerance, or Who Can’t Eat
Dairy Products | Preserving and Storing Methods | Drying Fruits and
Vegetables | Drying Prune Plums (and Figs, Apricots, Peaches, and
Nectarines) | Dehydrators | Hoarding and Saving Seeds

5. Labor and Exercise 92


Purposeful Exercise | The All-or-Nothing Problem | Warming
Up and General Conditioning | Restless Leg Syndrome, Walking,
and Gardening | Gardening Styles and Labor—Beds versus Rows
| Choosing Gardening Styles, Planting Methods, and Tools to Fit
Your Body | Garden Beds—Double-Dug, Single-Dug, Sorta-Dug,
and Worm-Dug | The Peasant Hoe | Spacing and Labor | Planting |
The Furrowing Plow | Varying the Kinds of Labor | Weeds | Buying
Tools | Using the Peasant Hoe | Using Light Hoes | Sharpening Tools
| Mulch | Transplanting versus Direct Seeding, Revisited | Selective
Sloppiness | Knowing When to Stop | Easy on the Back (and Knees)
| Helpers

6. Water and Watering 120


The Essential Water-Nature of Your Land | Fruit and Nut Trees |
Ornamental and Landscape Plantings | Grass | Water and Spacing |
Water and Fertility | Water and Erosion | The Threefold Effects of
Mulch | Why I Hate Drip Irrigation | Soil Capillarity and the Pot
Effect | Planting in Dry Conditions | Overhead Watering | Water
Resilience and Vegetables | Water Resilience and Heirloom Varieties |
Becoming Native to the Land of Our Living

7. Soil and Fertility 140


The Big Picture | The Soil Test | Experiment | Stockpiling Fertility
| Add Fertilizer to the Right Place | Retaining Soil Fertility | On
Not Buying Things | Growing Our Own Fertility with Legumes |
Growing Our Own Fertility with Azolla | Manure | The Power of
Pee | Leaves | Fertilizing with Grass Clippings | Squanto and the
Raw Fish, Revisited | Why I Don’t Compost Anymore | A Debris
Pile Addendum
8. Potatoes 153
In Praise of Potatoes | Potatoes and Adventures in Resilience |
Potatoes, Nutrition, Diets, and Dieting | Potatoes, Glycoalkaloids,
and Solanum Sensitivity | A Potato for Every Purpose | Growing
Potatoes—Themes and Variations | Water | Harvesting | Potato
Yields | Storing Potatoes | Avoiding Potato Diseases | Saving Your
Own Potato Seed and Maintaining Potato Varieties | Basic Potato
Cooking Methods | Cooking White and Yellow Potatoes | Cooking
Blue Potatoes

9. The Laying Flock 178


Backyard Poultry | Ducks versus Chickens | Poultry for Various
Purposes: Choosing a Type and Breed | Laying Duck Breeds and
Behavior | Feeding the Free-Range Laying Flock in Ordinary Times
| Feeding Poultry in Hard Times | Ducks for Garden Pest Control |
Duck-Egg Cookery

10. Squash and Pumpkins 198


Why You Can’t Buy a Prime Winter Squash | Three Squash Species,
Three Curing and Use Patterns | Seven Superb, Gourmet-Quality,
Long-Keeping Winter Squash Varieties | Fall Squash—Delicious
Delicatas and ‘Small Sugar’ | Summer Squash | Following in Buffalo
Bird Woman’s Footsteps—Adventures with Drying Squash | A
Modern Squash-Drying Rack | Growing Squash and Pumpkins
| Harvesting, Storing, and Curing | The Perfect Pumpkin Pie |
Hoarding Seeds of Squash and Pumpkins | Saving Seeds of Squash
and Pumpkins

11. Beans 227


The Big Bean Picture | Cooking Beans for Maximum Flavor and
Minimum Toot | Selecting Our Own Friendly Microbial Members
of the Grand Alliance | Hold the Water | Bush Beans versus
Pole Beans for Dry Seed | Interplanting Corn and Beans | Bean
Strategies | Uncommon Common Beans | Fava Beans | Cowpeas
| Runner Beans | Popbeans | Tepary Beans | Why You Can’t
Recognize Bean Crosses; Seed Saving, Isolation Distances, and
Numbers | Harvesting and Threshing Beans | Turbo-Winnowing |
How Many Beans?
12. Corn 250
Corn and Nutrition | In Defense of Corn | Drying Sweet Corn |
Types of Grain Corn—Flints, Flours, and Dents | Rediscovering
Corn | Breaking the Cooking Code | Flint Corn Varieties and Uses
| Fast-Cooking Polenta | Carol’s Universal Skillet Bread | The
Dedicated Cornbread Skillet | Parching Corn | Flour Corn Varieties
and Uses | Semi-Universal Pancakes | Semi-Universal Sponge Cake
| ‘Magic Manna’ | Savory Corn Gravy | Saving Seed of Corn—
Isolation Tricks and Tactics | Avoiding Inbreeding Depression |
Selection | Growing, Harvesting, and Storing the Corn Crop | Yields
| Guerrilla Gardening

Appendix A.
Chapter Notes and References 289

Appendix B.
Seed Companies and Sources 307

Index 309

About the Author 324

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