Scientist/gardener Carol Deppe combines her passion for gardening with newly emerging scientific information from many fields--resilience science, climatology, climate change, ecology, anthropology, paleontology, sustainable agriculture, nutrition, health, and medicine. Here, Deppe extends these principles with detailed information about growing and using five keystone crops that are especially important for anyone seeking greater self-reliance: potatoes, corn, beans, squash, and eggs.--From publisher description.

Gardening and resilience -- The plant-gardener covenant: 33 golden gardening rules -- Gardening in an era of wild weather and climate change -- Diet and food resilience -- Labor and exercise -- Water and watering -- Soil and fertility -- Potatoes -- The laying flock -- Squash and pumpkins -- Beans -- Corn.