The Suburban Micro-Farm by Amy Stross

The Suburban Micro-Farm by Amy Stross

Nonfiction Book Awards 2018 Gold Winner

Foreword INDIE Awards 2018 Gold Winner (Hobbies & Home category)

Nautilus Book Awards 2018 Silver Winner (Green Living & Sustainability category)

Reduce your lawn and your grocery budget. Take gardening to the next level

Would you like to grow healthy food for your table? Do you want to learn the secrets of farming even though you live in a neighborhood? Author Amy Stross talks straight about why the suburbs might be the ideal place for a small farm.

In these pages you'll learn:

• How to make your landscape as productive as it is beautiful
• Why the suburbs are primed with food-growing potential
• How to choose the best crops for success
• Why you don't need the perfect yard to have a micro-farm
• How to use easy permaculture techniques for abundant harvests

If you're ready to create a beautiful, edible yard, this book is for you.

The Suburban Micro-Farm will show you how to grow your own fruits, herbs, and vegetables even on a limited schedule. From seed to harvest, this book will keep you on track so you feel a sense of accomplishment for your efforts.

You'll learn gardening tricks that are essential to success, like how to deal with a 'brown thumb', how to develop and nurture healthy soil, and how to manage garden pests.

Although this book has everything a new gardener needs to get started, experienced gardeners will not be disappointed. With helpful tips throughout, you will love the in-depth chapters about permaculture and making money on the micro-farm.

Amy Stross is a home-scale food producer with a wide background in permaculture gardening, writing, and education. She found that healthy fruits and veggies could grow just outside her door after years of expertise as a professional gardener specializing in ecologically friendly and edible landscapes. She began designing ecologically regenerative and productive landscapes for others after getting her permaculture design certificate. Her personal 0.10-acre micro-farm, which included berry bushes, fruit trees, herbs, flowers, and vegetable gardens, became a thriving example. Amy also established and directed a five-year community food forest project at her local university, which includes a variety of edible gardens.

With her husband and a playful farm cat, she is currently developing a 3-acre property into a micro-farm. Her prominent website, TenthAcreFarm.com, reaches hundreds of millions of people with her travels and expertise in small-scale permaculture gardening.