<p>Scientist/gardener Carol Deppe combines her passion for organic gardening with newly emerging scientific information from many fields ¿ resilience science, climatology, climate change, ecology, anthropology, paleontology, sustainable agriculture, nutrition, health, and medicine. In the last half of <em>The Resilient Gardener</em>, Deppe extends and illustrates these principles with detailed information about growing and using five key crops: potatoes, corn, beans, squash, and eggs.</p><p>In this book you¿ll learn how to:</p><p>¿Garden in an era of unpredictable weather and climate change</p><p>¿Grow, store, and use more of your own staple crops</p><p>¿Garden efficiently and comfortably (even if you have a bad back)</p><p>¿Grow, store, and cook different varieties of potatoes and save your own potato seed</p><p>¿Grow the right varieties of corn to make your own gourmet-quality fast-cooking polenta, cornbread, parched corn, corn cakes, pancakes and even savory corn gravy</p><p>¿Make w