Outside the Magic Square -- Author bio -- Health Warning -- Title page -- Imprint -- Dedication -- Contents page 1 -- Contents page 2 -- Contents page 3 -- Contents page 4 -- Introduction -- Where the Magic Square Began -- How to Use This Book -- PART ONE - Our Food Future -- Dreaming a Different Dream -- Our Modern Diet -- Inspiration from Abroad -- What is Food Made Of? -- The Omega‑3 & Omega‑6 Story -- Omega‑3 & Omega‑6 Content in Some Foods -- Food Labelling & Global Free Trade -- The Future of Food: Taming the Octopus -- Genetically Modified Food -- Simple Questions about GM Food -- How to Avoid Global Disasters -- All the Good Reasons Why -- Beating the Climate -- Ten Tips for Sustainable Living -- PART TWO - What to Grow & How -- Laying Out a Garden from Scratch -- How to Set Up a Food Plot -- Working with Weeds -- Water-saving Circle Gardens -- Wicking Beds -- Raised Garden Beds & Chicken-wire Beds -- Growing Food in Boxes -- The Ziggurat -- Easy Vegetables to Grow -- Vegetable Families -- Big Yielders & Gross Feeders -- Visitors from the Biosphere -- PART THREE - More Value from Home Produce -- Preserving & Using Home Produce -- More Value from Popular Vegetables -- Herby Meals from the Garden -- Fruit from Trees, Vines & Bushes -- Perennial Questions -- Cooking Shows & Contests -- School Garden & Home Garden -- Feeding Babies & Kids -- PART FOUR - New Plot Plans -- The Omega-3 Plots -- The Asian Greens Plot -- The Baby Greens Plot -- The Hearty Soup Plot -- Launch a Rocket Plot -- The Ginger or Galangal Plot -- The Chinese Melon Plot -- The Interlacing Plot -- The Sweet Potato Plot -- The Edible Flower Plot -- The Essential Herb Plot -- The Stinging Nettle Plot -- The Lime Plot -- PART FIVE - The Kitchen Garden -- A Kitchen Garden Blueprint -- Ornamental Kitchen Garden Vegetables, Herbs & Flowers -- PART SIX - The Bigger Picture.

Ancestral Links -- Hunting & Gathering -- The Farmers' Plight -- Growth Industry of the Future -- The Farm & Farmer of the Future -- Benefits of Growing Food at Home -- The Social Benefits -- The Importance of Seed Saving -- PART SEVEN - Food Gardens in Australia -- Food Gardens in Challenging Locations -- Sonny's Vegetable Garden, Northern Flinders Ranges -- Colin's Garden, Southern Flinders Ranges -- Vera & Pete's Box Garden, Barossa Valley -- Violet's Garden, Barossa Valley -- Sunningdale Farm, Mount Compass -- The Food Forest, Gawler -- Chris & John's Tree Change, Tasmania -- Robyn's Island Garden, King Island -- The Garden Barry Wasn't Going to Have, Victoria -- The Harvest Program, South Australia -- PART EIGHT - Food Growing in Other Countries -- Food Garden Travel -- Guatemala & India in What the World Eats -- Food Forests -- Curitiba, Southern Brazil -- People Feeding Each Other, Venezuela & Cuba -- Transition Towns, a World-wide Movement -- The White House Kitchen Garden, America -- Agriculture as Art, Japan -- PART NINE - Passing It On: Altogether Now! -- Reaching the Neighbourhood -- Food Gardening for People who are Confined -- Urban Orchard Swap Meets -- Urban Farms -- Botanical Gardens -- Community Gardens -- Jingle's Community Shed & Garden -- Duck Flat Community Garden -- St Andrew's Hospital Community Garden -- The Important Role of Land Developers -- Motivations -- Further Reading -- Useful Addresses -- Acknowledgements -- Index -- Back cover.