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Knowledge and Resilience of the World

The Three Sisters is one technique. This guide gives you the whole toolkit.

Cultivating During Wartime: 134 pages of growing methods that farmers used to keep their families fed through world wars, sieges, droughts and exile. Every one of them works in an ordinary garden today.

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  • 4.6 ★40 Amazon ratings
  • 134illustrated pages
  • 3chapters, past to future
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What is inside

Three gardens, three eras, one question: how do people keep eating?

Each chapter pairs portraits of real farmers with step by step instructions you can follow at home.

Chapter 1

The Nourishing Garden

Lessons from the past

  • Calculate how much land feeds your household
  • Victory Gardens, the green answer to wartime
  • Heritage plants and how to choose varieties
  • Compost that maximizes yields
  • Techniques to store your harvest
  • War bread: the Kriegsbrot recipe
Chapter 2

The Self-Sufficient Garden

Lessons from the present

  • Calculate your household's energy needs
  • Integrate animals into your garden
  • Eco-grazing, working with animals
  • Feed your soil with biomass
  • Build your own solar oven
  • Weave with flax and hemp
Chapter 3

The Resilient Garden

Lessons from the future

  • Calculate your household's water needs
  • Design a hydroponic system step by step
  • Irrigate outdoor crops with ollas
  • Combine crops with ancestral knowledge
  • Grow alongside trees: agroforestry
  • Experiment with natural remedies
Inside the guide: Letter from Tigray, Ethiopia, 2021 Inside the guide: integrating goats and manure into the garden Inside the guide: parsnip and rutabaga plant profiles
Real farmers, real places

Written with the people who lived it

  • Letter from the Berry region, France, 1915
  • Cuba's Special Period
  • Dalit women farmers of Telangana
  • Letter from Tigray, Ethiopia, 2021
  • Pastoralism in the Sahel
  • The Tongogara refugee camp
  • Vegetable seeds sent to Ukraine
  • Rooftop gardens in Syria
  • A reconciling garden in Lebanon
“I am from Cuba, and I was surprised to see how well it explained a harsh time in Cuba in the 1990s.”Yordi Cobas, Amazon review
The 30-day resilient garden challenge

Your first resilient garden in 30 days

At the end of the guide you will find a 30-day challenge. Choose 3 edible crops, plant them, add one resilience technique and watch what happens. A few pots on a balcony are enough.

  1. Week 1 Know your garden: space, light, soil, climate
  2. Week 2 Choose only 3 crops and plant them
  3. Week 3 Add one technique: mulch, compost, shade or an olla
  4. Week 4 Observe, learn, adapt
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From readers of this guide

4.6 out of 5 on Amazon

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“It is an excellent book for anyone who loves to garden, as it gets you to think outside the box with a focus on food self-sufficiency.”

Nick SC · Amazon
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“I rarely pick up a book as sobering and inspiring as Cultivating During Wartime.”

Renaut Martens · Amazon
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“Wonderfully illustrated and highly recommended as an introductory guide.”

DavidKernot · Amazon
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“It’s more than simply crops; it’s about families, communities, and resiliency.”

Philip C · Amazon
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“The key feature is accomplishing self-sufficiency without having to rely on external inputs.”

J. Stanley · Amazon
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“The premise of this book is unique, and needed.”

Diane R · Amazon

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