A nourishing garden - From vegetable garden to barnyard, transform your garden and harvest produce

From vegetable garden to barnyard, a guide to food self-sufficiency and the creation of a nourishing garden.

Hidden behind their trimmed hedges, our gardens, whether rural or urban, are endowed with unsuspected potential. Our regularly mown lawns conceal fertile, nourishing spaces where a significant proportion of our family food could be produced, thanks to a vegetable garden, a few fruit trees, a small farmyard and, why not, beehives? Using simple methods inspired by permaculture, agroecology, agroforestry and market gardening on living soil, Maud Roulot accompanies us on the path to food gardens and shares her invaluable advice on how to eat fresh, healthy, local and seasonal produce all year round, while respecting the environment and biodiversity.

Create a family production ecosystem in your garden by taking into account the plants already in place, identifying gardeners' helpers, pests and diseases, and improving soil fertility naturally.

Grow your own fruit and vegetables from seed to plate, with a sowing calendar, descriptions of the different species and varieties, and a wealth of growing techniques.

Produce your own eggs, honey... thanks to small-scale animal husbandry accessible on a family garden scale, with precise advice for each species, from habitat to feeding, including egg incubation, animal care and disease treatment.

Month-by-month monitoring of the year's vegetable, fruit and poultry gardens and beehives.

Recipes and tips for transforming and preserving surplus produce: vegetable jars, jams, bread, cleaning products...

A nourishing garden on the road to food autonomy

Maud Roulot - Tana Editions - 248 pages