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The Climate Change–Resilient Vegetable Garden: How to Grow Food in a Changing Climate
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.
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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.
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
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.
208 pages, Paperback
Published February 27, 2024
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January 30, 2024
While the topic may be a bit sobering for those worried about climate change, I felt that this vegetable gardening book had a lot of fantastic advice. So much of the book focuses on changing how we think of gardening, ranging from forgoing power tools to repurposing items to help improve our gardens. While some topics are pretty typical for organic gardening (which is important for beginners), it is excellent to see advice from more experienced gardeners, such as natural pest control and remembering that quick fixes can cause more damage than you want for your environment.
For example, she spends much time focusing on the dangers of insecticides, fungicides, and herbicides since they usually cause more harm than the manufacturer describes. I avoid them because we have adorable wildlife in our yard (we have cute salamanders that live in my garden area and eat unwanted bugs). They are one of the little creatures that can easily be killed off by the horrible chemicals, not to mention you don’t want to be eating vegetables that are contaminated by the chemicals in the soil. As someone who worries about climate change, I consider The Climate Change Resilient Vegetable Garden a must for any gardener or homeowner wanting a vegetable garden!
For example, she spends much time focusing on the dangers of insecticides, fungicides, and herbicides since they usually cause more harm than the manufacturer describes. I avoid them because we have adorable wildlife in our yard (we have cute salamanders that live in my garden area and eat unwanted bugs). They are one of the little creatures that can easily be killed off by the horrible chemicals, not to mention you don’t want to be eating vegetables that are contaminated by the chemicals in the soil. As someone who worries about climate change, I consider The Climate Change Resilient Vegetable Garden a must for any gardener or homeowner wanting a vegetable garden!
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November 25, 2023Originally posted on my blog Nonstop Reader.
The Climate Change–Resilient Vegetable Garden is a sobering and well written book about regenerative gardening within the constraints of a rapidly changing climate written by Kim Stoddart. Due out 6th Feb 2024 from Quarto on their Cool Springs Press imprint, it's 208 pages and will be available in paperback and ebook formats.
The author's clear and long experience (and love of) gardening comes through very clearly. This is a well written, illustrated, concise guide to gardening including lots of tips for best practice to navigating our way through unprecedented and rapidly worsening climate challenges.
She talks about our interconnectedness and our dependence on other species in terms of stewardship and regeneration (where possible). It's nice that she also tackles over-dependence on power tools and chemical treatments. The book touches on seed saving, planning, and executing garden plans, species selection, and with a large focus on wise resource use. The specific aim of the book is food-production/vegetable growing, and they take up the bulk of the content.
Four and a half stars. This would be a great selection for public or school library acquisition, home use, smallholders, allotment/community garden groups, and similar.
Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.
The Climate Change–Resilient Vegetable Garden is a sobering and well written book about regenerative gardening within the constraints of a rapidly changing climate written by Kim Stoddart. Due out 6th Feb 2024 from Quarto on their Cool Springs Press imprint, it's 208 pages and will be available in paperback and ebook formats.
The author's clear and long experience (and love of) gardening comes through very clearly. This is a well written, illustrated, concise guide to gardening including lots of tips for best practice to navigating our way through unprecedented and rapidly worsening climate challenges.
She talks about our interconnectedness and our dependence on other species in terms of stewardship and regeneration (where possible). It's nice that she also tackles over-dependence on power tools and chemical treatments. The book touches on seed saving, planning, and executing garden plans, species selection, and with a large focus on wise resource use. The specific aim of the book is food-production/vegetable growing, and they take up the bulk of the content.
Four and a half stars. This would be a great selection for public or school library acquisition, home use, smallholders, allotment/community garden groups, and similar.
Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.
March 25, 2024
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From killing heat to floods to brutal cold, gardening is no longer for the weak-hearted. It takes determination and a willingness to adapt when old methods no longer work. Thus the need for this book, which is written by an award-winning gardening journalist based in Wales, where flooding and rising heat are the big threats, along with new pests and diseases. All topics are addressed in this 208-page illustrated book. Eleven chapters address everything from soil health to saving time, effort and money by borrowing and repurposing materials to throwing out the idea of tilling tidy rows in favour of no-till mixed beds that thwart pesky bugs and disease. But not all bugs are bad – Stoddart makes a case for building biodiversity and using natural predators to manage the pests. (I adore that bug hotel!) She also provides guidance in planning ahead for threats and climate change, water collecting and conserving, seed saving and making your own compost. There’s a short list of resources, and an excellent index. I particularly appreciate Stoddart’s emphasis on the importance of the gardener’s resilience. Gardening is an act of hope, a source of comfort, and gives you joy as well as food. So dig in! My thanks to Quarto’s Cool Springs Press for the temporary reading copy provided digitally through NetGalley in exchange for my honest review.
From killing heat to floods to brutal cold, gardening is no longer for the weak-hearted. It takes determination and a willingness to adapt when old methods no longer work. Thus the need for this book, which is written by an award-winning gardening journalist based in Wales, where flooding and rising heat are the big threats, along with new pests and diseases. All topics are addressed in this 208-page illustrated book. Eleven chapters address everything from soil health to saving time, effort and money by borrowing and repurposing materials to throwing out the idea of tilling tidy rows in favour of no-till mixed beds that thwart pesky bugs and disease. But not all bugs are bad – Stoddart makes a case for building biodiversity and using natural predators to manage the pests. (I adore that bug hotel!) She also provides guidance in planning ahead for threats and climate change, water collecting and conserving, seed saving and making your own compost. There’s a short list of resources, and an excellent index. I particularly appreciate Stoddart’s emphasis on the importance of the gardener’s resilience. Gardening is an act of hope, a source of comfort, and gives you joy as well as food. So dig in! My thanks to Quarto’s Cool Springs Press for the temporary reading copy provided digitally through NetGalley in exchange for my honest review.
December 25, 2023
This is a great resource for new or experienced gardeners. I appreciated all the tips about all kinds of gardening issues facing us with a changing climate, from fire protection to what to do if the garden floods to what to plant that's drought tolerant. There's information about saving seed (easy ways!), making your own seed starting mix without peat and with easy things like shredded leaves, indoor gardening, pest control, and much more. There are lots of photos of the author and her own garden, and I appreciate that she's a busy woman who doesn't make it into some enormous project that would take hours every week, but shows how anybody can make a more resilient garden. Highly recommended.
I read a temporary digital ARC of this book for review.
I read a temporary digital ARC of this book for review.
November 22, 2023
I really enjoyed reading this book and it was filled with good information about gardening while keeping in mind climate change and it's affects on your garden. I loved the tips the author included and even some surprise recipes! Overall, this was a fantastically informative book that I cannot wait to gift to other family members that garden.
May 28, 2024
Actual Rating - 4.75☆
The Climate Change Resilient Vegetable Garden is a new approach to gardening. A great read for every kind of gardener; new and old, money saving, and sustainable gardeners. Kim offers some excellent advice.
The Climate Change Resilient Vegetable Garden is a new approach to gardening. A great read for every kind of gardener; new and old, money saving, and sustainable gardeners. Kim offers some excellent advice.
March 19, 2024
Beautifully collected information that will help even beginning gardeners to make changes that will make their garden more sustainable and stronger.
March 22, 2024
Another great handbook to help you make the most of your home garden. Good ideas for those with limited resources, changing climate, and beginning knowledge.
March 9, 2024
If you're having difficulty keeping up with climate change in your garden, this book will help you learn some great techniques to help you battle climate change in your garden.
I found this book easy to understand and lots of pictures to help along the way, I learned quite a few ideas from this book that will help me battle the heat in Tennessee. Tips and recipes are added too, you can't lose with starting you're garden with this book.
I found this book easy to understand and lots of pictures to help along the way, I learned quite a few ideas from this book that will help me battle the heat in Tennessee. Tips and recipes are added too, you can't lose with starting you're garden with this book.
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