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Author
Publisher
New Society Publishers
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
In hard times, the family can be greatly helped by growing a highly productive food garden, requiring little cash outlay or watering. This book shows that any family with access to 3-5,000 sq. ft. of garden land can halve their food costs using a growing system requiring just the odd bucketful of household wastewater, perhaps two hundred dollars' worth of hand tools.
Gardening When It Counts helps readers rediscover traditional low-input gardening...
Author
Publisher
Cool Springs Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Just a couple of years ago almost no one in the gardening world had heard about Straw Bale Gardening. Today, it is the hottest new method for veggie growing, with tens of thousands of dedicated followers across the globe. ... Straw Bale Gardens: Get high yields; Never need weeding; Do not require soil; Extend the growing season by weeks; Can be conventional or 100 percent organic: Your choice; Can go anywhere--even balconies and driveways"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Super Sandcastle, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Presents information about kitchen gardens, discussing how to choose the right tools, start plants from seeds, save herbs, and follow safety rules, with instructions for setting up an herb planter and a pizza garden.
Publisher
Storey Pub
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
"39 building projects transform your modest vegetable garden into a model of efficiency and comfort. For a fraction of the cost of buying retail, you can build handsome, handcrafted items that will encourage your vegetables to thrive, extend your growing season, or simply offer a place to relax among your plants. Each building project is functional, attractive, and easy to complete with basic tools"--Cover, p. 4
32) Grow it, cook it
Publisher
DK Pub
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Showing how to grow plants and then how to use them in delicious kid-appealing recipes, "Grow It, Cook It" is more than a cookbook--it offers a fresh approach to healthy eating by getting children involved in food right from the start!
Author
Publisher
Chelsea Green Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Whether you're an experienced gardener, homesteader, or market farmer, this A-Z, soil-to-table guide shows you how to reduce chemical inputs; naturally enrich your growing ecology; and create a hardy, nutrient-dense, and delicious crop. In The Healthy Vegetable Garden, expert organic gardener Sally Morgan explains how to use natural approaches to cope with the challenges of a changing climate through principles from regenerative gardening, agroecology,...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Filled with easy-to-employ ideas and lessons for improving your food self-sufficiency no matter how much land you have, The Modern Homestead Garden focuses on planting, growing, harvesting, and preserving food"--
Homesteading is a lifestyle based on simple living, producing more than you consume, and treading lightly on the land. Pilarchik provides easy-to-employ ideas and lessons for improving your food self-sufficiency, no matter how much land...
Author
Publisher
Sasquatch Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Completely revised from cover to cover, this is the 35th anniversary release of Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades, the bible to organic vegetable gardening in the Pacific Northwest. Now in its seventh edition, the book has been thoroughly updated and includes a new formula for complete organic fertilizer and how to tweak it for a variety of different soil conditions, how-to sections for herbs and ornamental plants, new organization for better...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
For years, things have run quite smoothly for Perdita and her organic gardening business. So what if her hair needs a complete overhaul, her sweater has more holes than Swiss cheese, and there's no hope of a boyfriend on the horizon? The last thing Perdita wants is a meddlesome man in her life-but she's about to get one, in the form of her completely infuriating ex-husband, Lucas.
Lucas in disagreeable, curt, arrogant, and smolderingly gorgeous....
Author
Publisher
Storey
Pub. Date
c1991
Language
English
Description
Stretch the resources of your small backyard garden further than ever before, without devoting hundreds of hours to canning! This informative and inspiring guide shows you not only how to construct your own root cellar, but how to best use the earth's naturally cool, stable temperature as an energy-saving way to store nearly 100 varieties of perishable fruits and vegetables. Discover how easy it can be to turn some extra space in your basement, garage,...
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