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Growing Food in the Southwest Mountains: A Permaculture Approach to Home Gardening Above 6,500 Feet in Arizona, New Mexico, Southern Colorado & Southern Utah

Lisa Rayner

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Description:Welcome to organic food gardening in the high-altitude Southwest! This book is written primarily for gardeners who live in the Ponderosa pine transition zone around 7,000 feet in altitude. However, most of the information is also applicable to lower elevation Pinyon-Juniper woodlands and higher elevation Spruce-Fir forests.Many gardeners new to the high-altitude Southwest come here from other places with far different climates from ours. They bring their ideas about gardening with them and try to replicate those ideas here. However, our climate is quite different from the East Coast, the Midwest or California. Growing a garden here the way you've always done it elsewhere can lead to much frustration and disappointment. Many new residents try gardening here for a summer and then decide that maybe it just can't be done. If you are not already away aware that it is possible to grow a wide variety of fruits, herbs vegetables, grains, beans and other foods here, I hope this book convinces you that it can be done — whether you just want to plant a small kitchen garden or aspire to year-round food self-sufficiency.While it's true that our high-altitude, semiarid climate makes gardening and farming a challenge, a wide variety of healthful foods can be grown organically and harvested wild in our bioregion. Indigenous peoples both here and around the world in similar climates have successfully gardened for thousands of years. Many of their solutions, as well as newly invented designs and techniques, are presented in this book.Gardening challenges in this bioregion include: Clay, sand and volcanic cinder soils that are very low in organic matter. A yearly average precipitation range of 18 to 25 inches, which classifies our ecosystem as a semiarid dryland. Our high altitude, approximately 6,500 to 8,000 feet, which provides us with string sunlight, cold winters and large day-night temperature swings. Windy weather, especially during our spring and fall dry seasons. A number of local "pest" animals and insects, including elk, javelina and gophers. Ecological farming and gardening techniques suited to the Colorado Plateau and other high-altitude locations in the Southwest include ways to conserve water and heat; shelter crops from sun, wind and insect and animal pests; and build up soil. These techniques involve raised beds, mulch, shade plants, windbreaks, rainwater harvesting, gray water reuse, drip irrigation and many other simple and reliable methods.This book approaches organic gardening from a permaculture perspective. Permaculture is a design process that works with Nature to turn human garden, homes and communities into fully functioning ecosystems. First, there is an introduction to the idea of creating a sustainable bioregional food system that includes home gardens, community gardens, farms and market gardens. Then there is an introduction to permaculture design principles and strategies. Next is a discussion and listing of food plants adapted to the Southwest mountains, a growing season planting timetable, an annual harvest calendar, and an introduction to seed starting and seed saving. The following chapters explain native soil, strong sunlight and wind, and local plant and animal garden "pests" and diseases.The appendix contains a glossary of lesser-known food plants that grow well here, and a large resource section listing numerous books, catalogs, magazines, videos, arboretums and permaculture institutes especially useful for our bioregion.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Growing Food in the Southwest Mountains: A Permaculture Approach to Home Gardening Above 6,500 Feet in Arizona, New Mexico, Southern Colorado & Southern Utah. To get started finding Growing Food in the Southwest Mountains: A Permaculture Approach to Home Gardening Above 6,500 Feet in Arizona, New Mexico, Southern Colorado & Southern Utah, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Welcome to organic food gardening in the high-altitude Southwest! This book is written primarily for gardeners who live in the Ponderosa pine transition zone around 7,000 feet in altitude. However, most of the information is also applicable to lower elevation Pinyon-Juniper woodlands and higher elevation Spruce-Fir forests.Many gardeners new to the high-altitude Southwest come here from other places with far different climates from ours. They bring their ideas about gardening with them and try to replicate those ideas here. However, our climate is quite different from the East Coast, the Midwest or California. Growing a garden here the way you've always done it elsewhere can lead to much frustration and disappointment. Many new residents try gardening here for a summer and then decide that maybe it just can't be done. If you are not already away aware that it is possible to grow a wide variety of fruits, herbs vegetables, grains, beans and other foods here, I hope this book convinces you that it can be done — whether you just want to plant a small kitchen garden or aspire to year-round food self-sufficiency.While it's true that our high-altitude, semiarid climate makes gardening and farming a challenge, a wide variety of healthful foods can be grown organically and harvested wild in our bioregion. Indigenous peoples both here and around the world in similar climates have successfully gardened for thousands of years. Many of their solutions, as well as newly invented designs and techniques, are presented in this book.Gardening challenges in this bioregion include: Clay, sand and volcanic cinder soils that are very low in organic matter. A yearly average precipitation range of 18 to 25 inches, which classifies our ecosystem as a semiarid dryland. Our high altitude, approximately 6,500 to 8,000 feet, which provides us with string sunlight, cold winters and large day-night temperature swings. Windy weather, especially during our spring and fall dry seasons. A number of local "pest" animals and insects, including elk, javelina and gophers. Ecological farming and gardening techniques suited to the Colorado Plateau and other high-altitude locations in the Southwest include ways to conserve water and heat; shelter crops from sun, wind and insect and animal pests; and build up soil. These techniques involve raised beds, mulch, shade plants, windbreaks, rainwater harvesting, gray water reuse, drip irrigation and many other simple and reliable methods.This book approaches organic gardening from a permaculture perspective. Permaculture is a design process that works with Nature to turn human garden, homes and communities into fully functioning ecosystems. First, there is an introduction to the idea of creating a sustainable bioregional food system that includes home gardens, community gardens, farms and market gardens. Then there is an introduction to permaculture design principles and strategies. Next is a discussion and listing of food plants adapted to the Southwest mountains, a growing season planting timetable, an annual harvest calendar, and an introduction to seed starting and seed saving. The following chapters explain native soil, strong sunlight and wind, and local plant and animal garden "pests" and diseases.The appendix contains a glossary of lesser-known food plants that grow well here, and a large resource section listing numerous books, catalogs, magazines, videos, arboretums and permaculture institutes especially useful for our bioregion.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Growing Food in the Southwest Mountains: A Permaculture Approach to Home Gardening Above 6,500 Feet in Arizona, New Mexico, Southern Colorado & Southern Utah. To get started finding Growing Food in the Southwest Mountains: A Permaculture Approach to Home Gardening Above 6,500 Feet in Arizona, New Mexico, Southern Colorado & Southern Utah, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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