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Lessons from Desert Farmers on accommodate to Climate dubiousness

Gary Paul Nabhan

Paperback

$ 34.95

How to glean water and nutrient , prime drought - tolerant plants , and create raw variety

Growing Food in a Hotter, Drier Land

Because climatic uncertainty has now become “ the new normal , ” many farmers , gardener and orchard - keepers in North America are desperately seek ways to adapt their intellectual nourishment product to become more resilient in the face of such “ global weirding . ” This rule book draws upon the wisdom and technical knowledge from desert land traditions all around the world to offer clock time - tried strategies for :

Gary Paul Nabhan is one of the domain ’s experts on the agricultural traditions of arid ground . For this Bible he has chaffer autochthonic and traditional farmers in the Gobi Desert , the Arabian Peninsula , the Sahara Desert , and Andalusia , as well as the Sonoran , Chihuahuan , and Painted deserts of North America , to determine firsthand their techniques and conception place at abbreviate hotness and drouth stress on orchards , fields , and dooryard gardens . This practical Koran also let in colorful “ parable from the field ” that represent how desert Farmer think about increasing the carrying capability and resilience of the domain and waters they steward . It is replete with detailed description and diagram of how to implement these desert - adapted practices in your own backyard , orchard , or farm .

This unique account book is useful not only for farmers and permaculturists in the arid reaches of the Southwest or other desert region . Its proficiency and prophetic vision for accomplish nutrient security in the nerve of climate change may well require to be follow up across most of North America over the next half - hundred , and are already applicable in most of the semiarid West , Great Plains , and the U.S. Southwest and adjacent part of Mexico .

Garden Writers Association Media Award , Silver Award for AchievementNew Mexico - Arizona Book Awards , Gardening Category

“ All of Gary Nabhan ’s book deport us on abstruse , enchanting journeys to the philia of the great unwashed , plants , and culture across the world . . . I ’m inspired and heartened by this timely and important offer from a true desert sage . ”—Toby Hemenway , author ofGaia ’s Garden : A Guide to Home - Scale Permaculture

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