Sustainable Food Gardens

Dismantle your gardening myths. Grow a garden grounded in fact. Edible landscaping pioneer Robert Kourik deftly guides the reader through the mysteries of growing plants, designing landscapes in temperate climates and suburbs, and using all-natural, sustainable methods to grow and maintain a healthy variety of plants. Would you like to garden without digging, composting, buying fertilizers, spraying with pesticides, or lamenting low yields? If so, Sustainable Food Gardens is the book you’ve been waiting for, with over 450 pages, 13 chapters, and 487 color photos, illustrations, charts, and graphs. Author Robert Kourik began his career in natural landscape design and maintenance in 1974 with one of the country's first sustainably oriented organic gardening businesses. In Sustainable Food Gardens, you’ll learn to: Design your own “edible landscapes.” Use no-till techniques to preserve the integrity of your soil Adapt your growing space to fit into a wide range of USDA garden zones Revie