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1 online resource (263 pages) : color illustrations |
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"100 recipes made with ingredients from your yard; how to raise chickens; keep bees; brew beer; make wine, and more; garden plans for 4 seasons"--Cover. |
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Includes index. |
| Contents |
The one-block garden warm-season planting plan and timeline -- The one-block garden cool-season planting plan and timeline -- Essential gardening guidelines. Before you plant ; How to plant ; How to water ; How to fertilize -- Summer. The story of our summer feast ; Garden : summer garden plan ; Projects. How to raise honeybees (and make honey) ; How to make cheese (part I). Fresh chive cheese ; Oregano queso blanco ; How to make beer. Summer wheat beer ; Belgian Abbey ale ; How to raise chickens ; Recipes -- Fall. The story of our fall feast ; Garden : fall garden plan ; Projects. How to make wine. Syrah ; Chardonnay ; How to make vinegar ; How to make cheese (part II). Ricotta ; Fromage blanc ; Feta ; Gouda ; How to grow mushrooms ; How to make olive oil ; Recipes -- Winter. The story of our winter feast ; Garden : winter garden plan ; Projects. How to make salt ; How to make escargots (from your own garden snails) ; Garlic butter escargots ; How to make mead (Honey wine) ; Recipes -- Spring. The story of our spring feast ; Garden : spring garden plan ; Projects. How to own (or co-own) a dairy cow ; How to make tea ; Recipes -- Appendix. Regional planting and harvesting timelines for your own one-block feasts. |
| Summary |
Draws on "Sunset magazine's" One-Block Diet blog to instruct readers on how to raise and produce all ingredients for numerous "from-scratch" meals, providing plans that include a sustainable vegetable garden, backyard bee hives, and a chicken roost. |
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Vegetable gardening.
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Cooking (Natural foods)
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Local foods.
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Sustainable living.
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Chickens.
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Bees.
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Wine and wine making.
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Beer.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Sunset Magazine (Firm)
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| Other Form: |
Print version: True, Margo. One-block feast. 1st ed. Berkeley [Calif.] : Ten Speed Press, c2011 9781580085274 (DLC) 2011280274 (OCoLC)613432163 |
| ISBN |
9781607740599 (electronic bk.) |
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1607740591 (electronic bk.) |
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