Market Gardening & Agroforestry - Leon Schleep - Non-fiction

From vegetables and trees, basics and role models, or: How to make your vegetable farm super resilient with trees
Using vegetables and trees to create a sustainable future: the world needs more market gardeners.

Market gardening is booming. People want to know where their food comes from, how vegetables, fruit, and everything else on their plates end up, how they're produced, and under what conditions – regionality and seasonality are paramount. Week after week, brightly colored vegetable boxes are delivered, picked up, or left on doorsteps. Crooked cucumbers, misshapen carrots, maximum variety – and this is reflected in so many ways in this small box: in the quantity, in appearance, and in taste. The bright orange snack peppers are incredibly sweet, the arugula tastes so nutty, tangy, and intense – your taste buds have never experienced anything like it. The principle of biointensive vegetable farming is simply ingenious: you can harvest a bumper crop in a very small area. And if the right tree is planted alongside it, it creates the perfect symbiosis: for the soil, biodiversity, and the vegetables. What do the terms biointensive vegetable farming and agroforestry mean? Where do they come from, and what's behind them? Would you like to learn more? Then you've come to the right place.

With 8 planting instructions: From simple and narrow to fruity and nutty – plant your own tree in your garden with 8 different sample plans.

This book is produced in a climate-positive way, printed cradle-to-cradle, and remains unpackaged and plastic-free.

Publisher: Löwenzahn
Number of pages: 192 pages, hardcover