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Acknowledgments
1. Gardening and Resilience
Hard Times Great and Small
Special Dietary Needs as Hard Times—and an Invitation to Gardening Adventures
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Y2K
Practicing Balance
Appropriate Self-Sufficiency
How Much Land Do You Need?
Gardening—an Essential Survival Skill
2. The Plant-Gardener Covenant: 33 Golden Gardening Rules
The Grand Alliance
The Covenant: The Contract between the Domesticated Plant and Her Gardener
The 33 Golden Rules of Gardening
3. Gardening in an Era of Wild Weather and Climate Change
Global Warming in Your Backyard
Adventures with Wild Weather and What Happened the Year the Californians Stole Our Rain
Lessons from the Little Ice Age—a Model for Agricultural Resilience
Electricity
The Hopi Rule
Evaluating the Resilience and Use Potential of Your Land
Gambling on Global Warming—Strategies with Annuals and Perennials
Planting Depth, Soil Type, and Weather
The Gambler’s Guide to Transplants
Presoaking Seeds and Germination Tests
Climate Change, Diseases, and Pests
Overwintering Crops, Staggered Planting, and Resilience
Eggs, Baskets, and Diversity
On Making Hay while the Sun Shines
4. Diet and Food Resilience
Two Orange Trunks and a New England Flood
Buying Patterns, Apples, and Resilience
The Nut Lady—on Nuts, Opportunism, and Oral Tradition
Trading, Swapping, Borrowing, and Gifts
Water
Choosing Your Calorie and Protein Staples
Wheat Allergies, Gluten Intolerance, and Celiac Disease
Ideal Storage Conditions for 49 Fruits and Vegetables that Keep Longer than Two Months
Milling and Storing Whole-Grain Flour
Using Whole-Grain Gluten-Free Flours
Asthma, Allergies, and Adventures with Omega-3 Fatty Acids
Buying Grass-Fed Meat and Dairy Products
The Missing Ingredient—Can What We Aren’t Eating Make Us Fat? How to Let Your Body Tell You What It
A Different Conceptual Framework for Understanding Obesity
Sugar
Salt, High Blood Pressure, and Edema
Other Oils and Fats
Vitamins, Minerals, Phytochemicals, and Fiber
Special Implications for Vegetarians and Those with Celiac Disease or Gluten Intolerance, or Who Can
Preserving and Storing Methods
Drying Fruits and Vegetables
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