fresh, healthy alternative to the tasteless and woody fruits and vegetables bred for long-distance transportation and shipped to our grocery stores from all over the world. In this book, we show how, with just a little effort, you can augment your landscape with edibles of every description in an environmentally sustainable manner:* Veggie favorites: tomatoes, lettuce, carrots, beans and onions* Berries: blueberries, raspberries, blackberries and strawberries* The superhealthy: flax, broccoli, kale and garlic* The oddly beautiful: Brussels sprouts, kohlrabi, asparagus and artichokes* The ancient and exotic: quinoa, fennel and hardy kiwi* Plus starting, maintaining and harvesting an edible garden, propagation and winter care, and solutions to common garden problems.

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