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Grow yourself healthy : gardening to transform your gut health all year round / Beth Marshall.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Marshall, Beth, author.
- Language:
- Egyptian
- Subjects (All):
- Gastrointestinal system--Microbiology.
- Gastrointestinal system.
- Gardening--Health aspects.
- Gardening.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (195 pages) : illustrations, photographs
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Frances Lincoln, 2020.
- Summary:
- This book gives gardeners all they need to know to improve their own and their family's microbiomes, to increase their health and happiness, through exposure to the soil, through growing a diverse and specific range of crops, through designing a gut-health garden, through harvesting, storing and fermenting their crops and preparing recipes for their preservation as far as the gut.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- THE SCIENCE EXPLAINED
- Why focus on gut health?
- Food for our microbiota
- Grow a rainbow
- Aim for diversity
- Secrets of ferments
- The plant microbiota
- Stress is best
- Choosing what to grow
- Dispelling myths
- VEGETABLES &
- FRUIT IN FOCUS
- Vegetables
- The onion family
- Onions
- Leeks
- Garlic
- The carrot family
- Carrots
- The beet family
- Beetroot
- Swiss chard
- Spinach
- The asparagus family
- Asparagus
- The sunflower family
- Globe artichokes
- Jerusalem artichokes
- Dandelions
- Chicory
- Lettuces
- The cabbage family
- Broccoli
- Brussels sprouts
- Kale
- Cabbages
- Cauliflower
- Radishes
- The squash family
- Courgettes
- Pumpkins &
- winter squashes
- The legume family
- Peas &
- beans
- Sweetcorn
- The potato family
- Potatoes
- Tomatoes
- Aubergines
- Chillies &
- peppers
- Herbs
- Fruit
- Apples
- Pears
- Peaches
- Berries
- Plums
- Figs
- GROW-FOR-HEALTH PROJECTS
- Square-metre plot
- Forager's border
- Ten prebiotic fibre superfoods
- Rainbow pots
- Rainbow allotment plot
- Polyphenol herb pots
- Ferment planters
- Food for plant microbes
- Sprouting seeds
- Edible flowers
- Edible seeds
- FERMENT RECIPES
- Fermenting for gut health
- Seakale with chicory, dill and lemon
- Fennel, asparagus and orange pickle
- Spicy sumac kohlrabi
- Kohlrabi with lovage and celery seed
- Rhubarb kombucha
- Kimchi with chive flowers
- Beetroot, carrot and caraway pickle
- Radish, turmeric and coriander pickle
- Fiery ferment with chilli, perilla and oregano
- Beetroot, apple and rosemary pickle
- Spicy seakale with fennel and chives
- Traditional sauerkraut
- Celeriac, apple, lemon and mustard-seed kraut
- REFERENCES
- INDEX
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H.
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Y
- Z
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-7112-5072-3
- OCLC:
- 1150155110
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