The Country House Kitchen Garden
by C. Anne Wilson
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Country house kitchen gardens were designed as perfect 'grow your own' environments and ensured that households were supplied with their own fruit and vegetables throughout the year. This book offers an insight into the digging and sowing of these gardens, as well as exploring how walled gardens contributed towards a sustainable lifestyle and often were a source of not just food, but also of natural medicines. A wealth of contemporary illustrations, material from archives, gardening manuals, show more seed catalogues, engravings and other documents, paint a vivid picture of the country house kitche show lessTags
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C. Anne Wilson is co-founder of the Leeds Symposium on Food History
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- Genres
- Home & Garden, Nonfiction, History, Food & Cooking, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 635.0941 — Applied science & technology Agriculture Garden crops (Horticulture) modified standard subdivisions History, geographic treatment, biography Europe British Isles -- Ireland & Scotland
- LCC
- SB320.8 .G7 .C68 — Agriculture Horticulture. Plant propagation. Plant breeding Plant culture
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- English
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- Paper, Ebook
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