Food from Dryland Gardens - An Ecological, Nutritional, and Social Approach to Small Scale Household Food Production (CPFE, 1991): Part III

Food from Dryland Gardens - An Ecological, Nutritional, and Social Approach to Small Scale Household Food Production (CPFE, 1991)

Part III - Garden harvest

		*(introduction...)*
		14. Saving seeds for planting
		15. Processing, storing, and marketing food from the garden
		16. Weaning foods from the garden
		17. Glossary
		18. Some crops for dryland gardens
		19. Resource organizations
		20. References

(introduction...)

In the Chapters of Part I we discussed the nutritional, economic, environmental, and social contributions of gardens to sustainable development. Part II presented the principles of plant, soil, and water management to meet these goals and ideas for applying these principles in ways consistant with the criteria for sustainable development. But the story does not end with the harvest. Many of the benefits of gardens depend on what happens to seeds and food after they are harvested. The goals of local self-reliance and control, and an approach to gardens that builds on local resources and knowledge, will help insure that the garden harvest promotes equity as well as social and environmental sustainability, and that the benefits will endure well beyond the life of the project.