The Grow System: True Health, Wealth, and Happiness Come from the Ground

The Grow System: True Health, Wealth, and Happiness Come from the Ground

by Marjory Wildcraft
The Grow System: True Health, Wealth, and Happiness Come from the Ground

The Grow System: True Health, Wealth, and Happiness Come from the Ground

by Marjory Wildcraft

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Overview

Grow your own food and medicine with a step-by-step guide from the founder of The Grow Network

Imagine cultivating enough food to slash your grocery shopping in half—all in less than an hour a day in your own backyard. Sounds impossible, right? Marjory Wildcraft says it's not: She's been homesteading for almost twenty years and founded The Grow Network to teach hundreds of thousands of others—some with very little space or time, some city dwellers with rooftop gardens—how to do the same, from gardening, to raising chickens, to composting, to medicine-making.

Wildcraft started her homesteading journey in search of a more sustainable and financially secure way of life. As she says, self-sufficiency offers practical rewards, but the real payoff is "true wealth": health, family, community, meaningful work, and living a life with purpose. This empowering way of life is possible for anyone who has a patch of dirt, small or large. The Grow System includes:
 
   Essential advice for creating a balanced ecosystem in your backyard, with a basic recipe for homemade fertilizer
   Step-by-step instructions for setting up a chicken coop and information on choosing the right breed
   Home remedies for 12 common ailments, with 8 must-know medicine preparations. 

The Grow System provides a comprehensive strategy for producing healthy food and herbal medicine at home, and reclaiming the skills our ancestors used every day. It helps connect us to the environment and empowers us to lead healthier lives, without relying on big systems that are out of our control and insecure. It offers a path to a rich, reliable, and deeply satisfying life.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780593330364
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 05/11/2021
Pages: 288
Sales rank: 38,530
Product dimensions: 7.30(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Marjory Wildcraft is an expert on sustainable living and the founder and CEO of The Grow Network, the online home of a global network of people dedicated to self-reliance, community, and protecting the planet through homegrown food.

Table of Contents

Introduction ix

Part I Grow your own groceries

Chapter 1 True Wealth Comes from the Ground 3

Chapter 2 The Garden: Growing Your Own Food Is Like Printing Your Own Money 11

Chapter 3 The Eggs: Easily Grow 365 Breakfasts and Dozens of Deviled Eggs 41

Chapter 4 The Meat: Produce Half the Protein for a Family of Four in Less Than 10 Minutes a Day 61

Chapter 5 The Soil: Compost and Other Secrets to a Green Thumb 87

Chapter 6 Foraging and Wild Tending 109

Part II Become a home medicine-maker

Chapter 7 The Process: Seven Stages to Becoming a Medicine Woman or Man 131

Chapter 8 The Preparations: Eight Types of Medicine, from Pills to Poultices, and How to Make Them 155

Chapter 9 Herbal Medicine in Action: My Snakebite Story 201

Part III Safeguard your family, now and for the future

Chapter 10 Real Nutrition: Why You Need It and How to Get It with Nutrient-Packed Infusions 221

Chapter 11 Growing Your Legacy: Seed Saving, Regeneration, and More 245

A Final Farewell 261

Acknowledgments 263

Index 265

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