Grow Yourself Healthy: Gardening to transform your gut health all year round

Review ‘Exploring the ways vegetables actively contribute to good health - and how to grow them. A warm motivating book, particularly if you are interested in preventative care or are on the cusp of developing reversible age-related diseases. Beth includes the more fashionable elements of the topic such as prebiotics, gut health, beneficial soil microbes and recipes for ferment, but there are thoughts on the best ways to preserve nutrients in vegetables, too.’ ― The English Garden 'Grow fruit, veg, herbs and edible flowers in ways that supercharge their nutritional value with Beth Marshall's beautiful guide.' ― Sunday People Published On: 2020-03-15 The Best Gardening Books to Read Now ― Country and Town House Product Description Supercharge your health and your harvests with a wealth of edible projects, planting plans and probiotic recipes. Let gut-health expert Beth Marshall show you how to boost your immune system, satisfy your gut microbiome and transform your diet. Based on Beth's experience of growing fruit, vegetables and herbs in ways that supercharge their nutritional value, Grow Yourself Healthy is a practical guide to planning and managing an edible garden for gut health, providing food for us and the trillions of microbes within us. It describes the science behind the subject in an accessible way and shows how to grow an incredible diversity of fruit, vegetables, herbs and edible flowers, even in a small space. The book describes the best types of fruit and vegetable to choose and how to grow them to optimize their health boosting properties. It brings together the latest scientific research into different organic growing, harvesting and processing methods that will empower the reader to take back control of the nutritional value of the food they eat. Through this book you will: Discover how to grow 50 vegetables, fruit & herbs to maximise their nutritional value Plan a gut-health garden using 11 easy projects, with planting plans and best varieties Follow 13 recipes for delicious sauerkraut, kimchi, pickles, and fermented drinks to multiply the benefits and enjoy all year round Understand the science of gut-health gardening and how it affects our health and well-being Find everything you need to transform your garden and your family’s health and happiness! About the Author Beth Marshall is a professional horticulturist, who has trained with the RHS and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. She has worked in various prestigious gardens in the UK including RHS Harlow Carr; Kew; for the Royal Household at Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace, and Chelsea Physic Garden. Beth lives and works as Head Gardener on a private estate near Henley in Berkshire, managing an organic kitchen garden, ornamental walled garden, and a 57-acre estate including woodlands and wildflower meadows. Beth also has a strong interest in native flora, conservation, foraging, plant-based cooking and beekeeping. Marianne Majerus is a prestigious and prolific international photographer of gardens and winner of the Garden Media Guild Features Photographer of the Year Award 2013 as well as the GMG Photographer of the Year 2010. A contributor and sole photographer of many gardening books, her new title Highgrove: A Garden Celebrated was a best-seller in 2014. Marianne lives and has a studio in London.