Growing Good Food: A citizen's guide to climate victory gardening

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Growing Good Food: A citizen's guide to climate victory gardening, by Acadia Tucker

Your own personal Climate Victory Garden can suck tons of carbon out of the air and store it in the soil and in the bodies of plants, animals, and all the other kingdoms. This is carbon storage, not carbon sequestration, because all those carbon atoms are still part of the carbon cycle; but the actions of each gardener can keep carbon in the carbohydrate step of the cycle for years or centuries, instead of sending them to the landfill, where they will undergo anaerobic decomposition and turn into methane.

Eating fresh tomatoes from your garden is also good. Tucker talks a bit about how to do both, producing tomatoes out of the soil while still driving carbon into the soil.

Comments

[the_siobhan]

This is very relevant to my interests.

[lunabee34]

I remember the first time I ate a store bought tomato after having grown up eating most of our produce from a huge garden. It tasted like despair. LOL

[boxofdelights]

Yes!

[the_siobhan]

I have heirloom tomatoes in my garden for the first time ever and when I bit into the first one a couple of days ago I was all "THIS IS WHAT I REMEMBER!"

[lunabee34]

It's so so so much better. :)

[enemyofperfect]

Thank you for this review!

[seascribble]

This house came with tomatoes and, mysteriously, a chive plant, and I said I was going to do more gardening, but I...didn't. Next summer, maybe. This seems like a good book.