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Teaming with Microbes: A Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web

by Jeff Lowenfels & Wayne Lewis

Smart gardeners know that soil is anything but an inert substance. Healthy soil is teeming with life — not just earthworms and insects, but a staggering multitude of bacteria, fungi, and other microorganisms....

The Sustainable Vegetable Garden: A Backyard Guide to Healthy Soil and Higher Yields

by John Jeavons & Carol Cox

From the author of our best-selling and widely beloved HOW TO GROW MORE VEGETABLES comes this "quick and dirty" introduction to biointensive gardening that shows it is not only possible but easy to grow astonishing...

Garden Composting - How Garden Recycling Works

by Bill Butterworth

Hands-on, know-how and understanding of practical delivery of integrated, closed-loop gardening from waste delivering real sustainability. Includes your Safety Check List and how to calculate your own positive...

The Truth About Organic Gardening: Benefits, Drawnbacks, and the Bottom Line

by Jeff Gillman

Gardeners tend to assume that any organic product is automatically safe for humans and beneficial to the environment—and in most cases this is true. The problem, as Jeff Gillman points out in this fascinating,...

Organic Farming: Everything You Need to Know

by Peter V. Fossel

Going organic may be a clear way of getting back to basics-and getting away from the havoc chemicals can wreak on our health and our environment-but the basics themselves may not be so clear. How to begin? What...

Bioshelter Market Garden: A Permaculture Farm

by Darrell Frey

This comprehensive manual contains a wealth of information on creating sustainable food systems based on permaculture principles.

Talking Dirt: The Dirt Diva's Down-to-Earth Guide to Organic Gardening

by Annie Speigelman

A lively and practical guide to organic gardening from a renowned garden expert.

Annie Spiegelman's down-to-earth wit and wisdom create the perfect primer for anyone with a passion for home-grown veggies...

Food Grown Right in Your Backyard: A Beginner's Guide to Growing Crops at Home

by Colin McCrate & Brad Helm

* Full color with instructional photographs and garden-design illustrations

* Easy, inspiring intro for first-timers who want to grow their own food while saving money and time

* Written by the founders of...

Urban Farm Handbook: City Slicker Resources for Growing, Raising, Sourcing, Trading, and Preparing What You Eat

by Annette Cottrell, Joshua McNichols & Harley Soltes

* More than 150 sustainable resources for the Pacific Northwest

* More than 90 basic home-production recipes

* 75 black-and-white and 35 full color photographs

* Up-to-date information on Seattle-area urban...

Gardening for Geeks: DIY Tests, Gadgets, and Techniques That Utilize Microbiology, Mathematics, and Ecology to Exponentially Maximize the Yield of You

by Christy Wilhelmi

Geek out with Mother Nature!

There is much more to gardening than what you've learned in school. With Gardening for Geeks, you'll examine your ecosystem and discover how you can create the right environment...

Son Of A Farmer Child Of The Earth: A Pa

by Eric Herm

This book examines commercial agriculture's strain on our natural resources, ecosystems, and the farmer. As a fourth-generation farmer, Eric Herm deals with the harsh economic realities and complicated legislation...

Dead Snails Leave No Trails, Revised: Natural Pest Control for Home and Garden

by Janet Hogan Taylor & Loren Nancarrow

A practical guide to repelling indoor and outdoor pests using organic methods, updated with new information on getting rid of bedbugs and dust mites, plus includes updated online resources.

If you’ve ever...

There Is a Garden in the Mind: A Memoir of Alan Chadwick and the Organic Movement in California

by Paul A. Lee

There Is a Garden in the Mind presents an engaging look at the work and life of pioneering organic gardener Alan Chadwick and his profound influence on the organic farming movement. In this wide-ranging and...

Culture and Horticulture: The Classic Guide to Biodynamic and Organic Gardening

by Wolf D. Storl & Larry Berger

Various studies have shown time and again that small organic farms and home gardens are capable of producing more food per acre with less fossil energy than large-scale commercial agricultural installations...

The Intelligent Gardener: Growing Nutrient Dense Food

by Steve Solomon & Erica Reinheimer

Beyond organic-- a practical guide to nutrient-dense food.

The Garden Cottage Diaries: My Year in the Eighteenth Century

by Fiona J Houston

“Done with great wit and intelligent determination”( The Guardian) “A riveting tale of a rather extraordinary journey” (Family History Monthly) Bemoaning the evils of the modern diet, Fiona Houston was...

Harvest

by Richard Horan

Novelist and nature writer Richard Horan embarked on an adventure across America to reveal that farming is still the vibrant beating heart of our nation. Horan went from coast to coast, visiting organic family...

Easy Organic Gardening and Moon Planting

by Lyn Bagnall

A practicable and better alternative to chemical-dependent and environmentally unsustainable cultivation practices, organic gardening prevents soil damage and results in more nutritious food as well as fewer...

Teaming with Microbes: The Organic Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web, Revised Edition

by Jeff Lowenfels & Wayne Lewis

When we use chemical fertilizers, we injure the microbial life that sustains healthy plants, and thus become increasingly dependent on an arsenal of artificial substances, many of them toxic to humans as well...

Organic Gardening For Dummies

by For Dummies

Organic Gardening For Dummies, 2nd Edition shows readers the way to ensure a healthy harvest from their environmentally friendly garden. It covers information on the newest and safest natural fertilizers and...