Vertical Gardening:The Beginner's Guide To Organic & Sustainable Produce Production Without A Backyard (vertical gardening, urban gardening, urban homestead, Container Gardening Book 1)
Olivia Abby - 2016
You’ll learn how vertical gardening works, how to prepare for sowing your garden, and how to care for your beloved plants!
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With the right tools, tips, and techniques, you can grow delicious and nutritious vegetables, the natural way. You’ll learn why compost is the only fertilizer you’ll ever need, how to identity and control garden pests, and which plants keep the bugs away!
You’ll even find out how to make your own organic pesticide!
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Don't Throw It, Grow It!: 68 Windowsill Plants From Kitchen Scraps
Deborah Peterson - 2008
From the common carrot to the exotic cherimoya, you’ll be amazed at the gardening possibilities hidden in the foods you eat.
The Humanure Handbook: A Guide to Composting Human Manure
Joseph C. Jenkins - 1996
The Humanure Handbook, third edition, will amuse you, educate you, and possibly offend you, but it will certainly pertain to you--unless, of course, your bowels never move. This new edition of The Humanure Handbook is:The Tenth Anniversary EditionRichly illustrated with eye-candy artworkPerfect for reading while sitting on the "throne"Revised, improved, and updated256 pages of crap
The Wildlife-Friendly Vegetable Gardener: How to Grow Food in Harmony with Nature
Tammi Hartung - 2013
You’ll be amazed at how a variety of natural pollinators, pest predators, and soil enrichers can promote vibrant and healthy vegetables. Discover how a slug problem disappears once you’ve introduced a pond housing bullfrogs, how wasps can take care of tomato hornworms, and why skunks aren’t so bad after all. Learn how to garden with animals, rather than against them, and reap your most bountiful harvest yet.
Gaining Ground: A Story of Farmers' Markets, Local Food, and Saving the Family Farm
Forrest Pritchard - 2013
What ensues—through hilarious encounters with all manner of livestock and colorful local characters—is a crash course in sustainable agriculture. Pritchard’s biggest ally is his renegade father, who initially questions his son’s career choice and eschews organic foods for sugary mainstream fare. But just when the farm starts to turn heads at local markets, his father’s health takes a turn for the worse. With poetry and humor, this timely memoir tugs on the heartstrings and feeds the soul long after the last page is turned.
The Rodale Book of Composting: Easy Methods for Every Gardener
Grace Gershuny - 1979
Gardeners know it is the best way to feed the soil, while others look to composting as a way to dispose of grass clippings, autumn leaves, and tree trimmings. The Rodale Book of Composting edited by Grace Gershuny and Deborah L. Martin offers:* Easy-to-follow instructions for making and using compost* Helpful tips for apartment dwellers, suburbanites, farmers and community leaders* Ecologically sound solutions to growing waste disposal problems
Stocking Up: The Third Edition of America's Classic Preserving Guide
Carol Hupping - 1986
With detailed illustrations and easy-to-follow directions, this encyclopedic resource makes “stocking up” easy. Follow step-by-step instructions for: -Freezing, canning, drying, and preserving fruits, vegetables, meats, fish, and poultry -Harvesting nuts, seeds, sprouts, fruits, and vegetables -Preparing pickles, relishes, jams, jellies, butters, cheeses, and breads. With more than 300 recipes for preservable foods—from old standards like casseroles, fruit leather, and ice cream to new favorites such as sun-dried tomatoes, herb vinegars, and salt- and sugar-free versions of basic fare, Stocking Up covers everything for the home cook. Hundreds of charts and illustrations simplify preserving chores and choices for everyone interested in stocking up on wholesome, natural foods.
Chicken Tractor: The Permaculture Guide to Happy Hens and Healthy Soil
Patricia L. Foreman - 1994
The chickens peck and scratch the soil, eat pest bugs and weed seeds, and fertilize the beds with their manure. Best of all, they provide eggs and meat.
Projects to Get You Off the Grid: Rain Barrels, Chicken Coops, and Solar Panels
Instructables.com - 2010
Twenty Instructables illustrate just how simple it can be to make your own backyard chicken coop, or turn a wine barrel into a rainwater collector.Illustrated with dozens of full-color photographs per project accompanying easy-to-follow instructions, this Instructables collection utilizes the best that the online community has to offer, turning a far-reaching group of people into a mammoth database churning out ideas to make life better, easier, and in this case, greener, as this volume exemplifies.
Pure Soapmaking: How to Create Nourishing, Natural Skin Care Soaps
Anne-Marie Faiola - 2016
And with the help of author Anne-Marie Faiola, it's easy to make luscious, all-natural soaps right in your own kitchen. This collection of 32 recipes ranges from simple castile bars to intricate swirls, embeds, and marbled and layered looks. Begin with a combination of skin-nourishing oils and then add blueberry puree, dandelion-infused water, almond milk, coffee grounds, mango and avocado butters, black tea, or other delicious ingredients -- and then scent your soap with pure essential oils. Step-by-step photography guides you through every stage of cold-process soapmaking.
Self Sufficiency for the 21st Century
Dick Strawbridge - 2010
This haven of ecologically friendly practices has been the focus of BBC Two's popular series It's Not Easy Being Green, a title at least somewhat belied by the simplicity of the practical changes suggested in Self Sufficiency for The 21st Century. (Hand-selling tip: It's important to realize that low impact living isn't generally a one-jump leap. The incremental changes recommended in this book can help people take their first major steps in that direction.)
A Householder's Guide to the Universe: A Calendar of Basics for the Home and Beyond
Harriet Fasenfest - 2010
Harriet Fasenfest's A Householder's Guide to the Universe takes up the banner of progressive homemaking and urban farming as a way to confront the political, social, and environmental issues facing the world. While offering plenty of useful advice on how to do common household chores sustainably, Fasenfest goes deeper to discuss the philosophy of "householding." The book is organized in monthly installments according to season, and the author invites readers into her own home, garden, and kitchen to consider concrete tools for change. Streetwise and poetic, fierce and romantic, the book is more than just a blueprint for escaping the current economic and environmental logjam — it’s also a readable and pithy analysis of how we got there.
The Good Life: Helen and Scott Nearing's Sixty Years of Self-Sufficient Living
Helen Nearing - 1970
This couple abandoned the city for a rural life with minimal cash and the knowledge of self reliance and good health.
Feed Me I'm Yours: Baby Food Made Easy
Vicki Lansky - 1974
Fully updated, this new edition includes information on the newest Food Pyramid Guide, sample servings for young children, organic baby food options, when to introduce new solids and which to try first, vegetarian baby food options, handling and storing baby food, safe uses of microwaves, the latest equipment for making baby food at home, foods likely to cause allergies and how long to delay introduction of these foods. More than just a cookbook, Feed Me I'm Yours provides time-saving, trouble-saving, and money-saving tips. It also contains entertaining "edible craft" activities for celebrating birthdays, the seasons and major holidays.
Handy Farm Devices: And How to Make Them
Rolfe Cobleigh - 1996
Practical projects as useful today as when first published 75 years ago.