Tis the season for giving thanks and for, well, giving. So, from now until Christmas, I'll be reviewing and giving away 8 books and a bunch of stuff for the Freeze Yer Buns Challenge. This means that I'll be holding giveaways at least once and sometimes twice a week. Today's giveaway is for the fantastic book, Fresh Food from Small Spaces: The Square-Inch Gardener's Guide to Year-Round Growing, Fermenting, and Sprouting.
If you don't live on a farm, have any acreage or, heck, even a backyard, this book will show you how to maximize growing your own food even if you only have a spare closet and a windowsill to work with. Of course, if you have a backyard there's a lot more you can do, but even if you have a shared space (condo or apartment), it's possible to squeeze in chickens and beekeeping if you pull a few strings.
In addition to teaching you the basics of gardening and composting, this book tells you which fruit trees work well in containers, how to sprout grains, beans, wheatgrass and sprouts in your kitchen, and how to cultivate mushrooms. There's also a chapter on making your own yogurt (the author even mentions my Euro Cuisine yogurt maker) and other fermented foods.
Finally, this book wraps it up with a section on how to survive during resource shortages that takes a well balanced look at a possible future living with less without going overboard. He even offers some tips on how to help build a sustainable future.
So, if you are short on space but long on dreams of self-sufficiency, this book is an excellent starting point to get you going. The only draw-back is that it will get you so excited to start some of these projects, you'll wish it weren't November.
If you want to be entered in this book giveaway, add your name to the comments of this post. This giveaway is open until Wednesday, November 19th, 6:00 pm PST. I'll be doing a random drawing and announcing a winner on Thursday, November 20th.
Related books:
All New Square Foot Gardening
Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long
Gardening When It Counts: Growing Food in Hard Times
216 comments:
«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 216 of 216I totally want this book! We have a lot of space now, but we'll be downsizing in about a year or so and I want to be prepared.
I'd love the extra inspiration to coax more out of the land we have. Please enter me in the drawing.
Great blog and great giveaway idea.Consider me, please. :)
Add me to the entry list!
Sprouting wheat grass, yum! Sign me up!
I need this book! My garden did not fare so well...
Please count me in, too. ^_^
Please enter me in the drawing!!
Melissa
We have a tiny strip of soil in our condo courtyard, and this book sounds right up my alley... I want to get into fermenting foods and I am very concerned about how to take care of ourselves in times of shortage.
I want in too! that sounds like a goody.
Holy crap I need this book!
I'm de-lurking to enter your wonderful contest - I recently looked longingly at that very book at a local bookstore, though I ended up, rather regretfully leaving it on the bookshelf, as I couldn't justify the expense right at the moment. Thanks for providing the opportunity - and for the many entertaining and thought-provoking posts I've read here.
Yay, both my sis and I would love this book! I promise to pass it on...
Megan from Fix
Please enter me for the draw. I picked this book up and then in a moment of frugality didn't buy it.
sign me up, crunch!
Please add me to the list for the book drawing. Small-yard gardener needs high-yield ideas!
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