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The Suburban Micro-Farm: Modern Solutions for Busy People Spiral-Bound |

Amy Stross

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A real world, step-by-step guide for anyone interested in turning their suburban lawn into a source of healthy food

Nonfiction Book Awards 2018 Gold Winner

Foreword INDIE Awards 2018 Gold Winner (Hobbies & Home category)

Nautilus Book Awards 2018 Silver Winner (Green Living & Sustainability category)

Reduce your lawn and your grocery budget. Take gardening to the next level!

Would you like to grow healthy food for your table? Do you want to learn the secrets of farming even though you live in a neighborhood? Author Amy Stross talks straight about why the suburbs might be the ideal place for a small farm.

In these pages you'll learn:

  • How to make your landscape as productive as it is beautiful
  • Why the suburbs are primed with food-growing potential
  • How to choose the best crops for success
  • Why you don't need the perfect yard to have a micro-farm
  • How to use easy permaculture techniques for abundant harvests

 If you're ready to create a beautiful, edible yard, this book is for you.

The Suburban Micro-Farm will show you how to grow your own fruits, herbs, and vegetables even on a limited schedule. From seed to harvest, this book will keep you on track so you feel a sense of accomplishment for your efforts.

You'll learn gardening tricks that are essential to success, like how to deal with a 'brown thumb', how to develop and nurture healthy soil, and how to manage garden pests.

Although this book has everything a new gardener needs to get started, experienced gardeners will not be disappointed. With helpful tips throughout, you will love the in-depth chapters about permaculture and making money on the micro-farm.

Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Original Binding: Paperback
Pages: 356 pages
ISBN-10: 0997520833
Item Weight: 1.6 lbs
Dimensions: 8.5 x 1.2 x 8.5 inches

Library Journal-

"Permaculture expert Stross outlines city and suburban small-space farming, taking into account space and time. Tackling everything from raised beds and compact spaces to an “edible front yard” and community gardens, the author explores soil preparation, fruit and vegetable options, harvesting, and making money. Frequent color photographs add to the visual appeal. Stross refers to her website, which features downloadable planting schedules and other resources. VERDICT: Great for green thumbs or anyone ready to think about seed catalogs, spring planting, and biting into fresh figs or tomatoes. Consider for most libraries.”

Amy Stross is a permaculture gardener, writer, and educator with a varied background in home-scale food production.

Through years of experience as a professional gardener specializing in ecologically friendly and edible landscapes, she discovered that healthy fruits and vegetables could actually grow right outside her own door.

After receiving her permaculture design certificate, she began to design ecologically regenerative and productive landscapes for others. Her own 0.10-acre micro-farm became a thriving example, with berry bushes, fruit trees, herbs, flowers, and vegetable gardens.

Amy also founded and ran a 5-year community food forest project at her local university, which included a variety of edible gardens.

Her current adventure is transforming a 3-acre property into a micro-farm with her husband and mischievous farm cat. She reaches hundreds of thousands of people with her adventures and expertise in small-scale permaculture gardening on her popular website, TenthAcreFarm.com.