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Wicked Plants

The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities

by Amy Stewart ...

The author of The Drunken Botanist "offers practical and tantalizing composite views of toxic, irritating, prickly, and all-around ill-mannered plants" ( Booklist ).American Horticultural Society Book Award WinnerChosen One of the Best Gardening Books of the Year by the Washington Post and National Pub... ... Read more

$12.99 USD

The author of The Drunken Botanist "offers practical and tantalizing composite views of toxic, irritating, prickly, and all-around ill-mannered plants" ( Booklist ).American Horticultural Society Book Award WinnerChosen One of the Best Gardening Books of the Year by the Washington Post and National Pub...
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Composting for the Absolute Beginner

How to Improve Your Soil for Better Organic Gardening

by Dede Cummings ...

In this comprehensive guide, you’ll learn everything you need to know about the various methods of composting and how to adapt them to your home and garden. With full-color photographs and easy-to-follow instructions, this will be an essential addition to every gardener’s library.Great compost is one of the most important secrets of successful organic gardening. Topics covered here include:What ... Read more

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In this comprehensive guide, you’ll learn everything you need to know about the various methods of composting and how to adapt them to your home and garden. With full-color photographs and easy-to-follow instructions, this will be an essential addition to every gardener’s library.Great compost is one of the most important secrets of successful organic gardening. Topics covered here include:What
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Let it Rot!

The Gardener's Guide to Composting (Third Edition) (Storey's Down-To-Earth Guides)

by Stu Campbell ...

"The little classic that introduced thousands to composting." – The Boston GlobeTransform leaves, grass, and kitchen scraps into gardener's gold! This easy-to-use guide shows you how to turn household garbage and backyard refuse into nutrient-filled compost that can nourish your soil and promote a thriving garden. You'll soon be saving money, minimizing waste, and enjoying bountiful harvests."The ... Read more

$12.99 USD

"The little classic that introduced thousands to composting." – The Boston GlobeTransform leaves, grass, and kitchen scraps into gardener's gold! This easy-to-use guide shows you how to turn household garbage and backyard refuse into nutrient-filled compost that can nourish your soil and promote a thriving garden. You'll soon be saving money, minimizing waste, and enjoying bountiful harvests."The
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The Gardening Book

An Accessible Guide to Growing Houseplants, Flowers, and Vegetables for Your Ideal Garden

by Monty Don ...

A fresh approach to gardening by bestselling author and England’s favorite gardener Monty Don.“Think of your garden like a meal. When you select a recipe, you’re choosing it based on inclination, experience and circumstance. Making a garden, big or small, uses exactly the same process.”If you are new to gardening, it can seem daunting—with Latin names, various soil types and seasonal requirements, ... Read more

$11.99 USD

A fresh approach to gardening by bestselling author and England’s favorite gardener Monty Don.“Think of your garden like a meal. When you select a recipe, you’re choosing it based on inclination, experience and circumstance. Making a garden, big or small, uses exactly the same process.”If you are new to gardening, it can seem daunting—with Latin names, various soil types and seasonal requirements,
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Wild DFW

Explore the Amazing Nature In and Around Dallas–Fort Worth

by Amy Martin ...

Series series Wild Series
Discover all the unexpected nature Dallas-Fort Worth has to offer with this enlightening guidebook!Dallas-Fort Worth is more than just a bustling metroplex, it’s full of amazing wildlife. You just need to know where to find it! Equal parts natural history, field guide, and trip planner, Wild DFW has something for everyone. This handy yet extensive guide looks at the factors that shape local nature ... Read more

$12.99 USD

Discover all the unexpected nature Dallas-Fort Worth has to offer with this enlightening guidebook!Dallas-Fort Worth is more than just a bustling metroplex, it’s full of amazing wildlife. You just need to know where to find it! Equal parts natural history, field guide, and trip planner, Wild DFW has something for everyone. This handy yet extensive guide looks at the factors that shape local nature
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Rodale's Ultimate Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening

The Indispensable Green Resource for Every Gardener

by Fern Marshall Bradley, Barbara W. Ellis, Ellen Phillips, Deborah L. Martin ...

Series series Rodale Organic Gardening
Rodale's Ultimate Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening has been the go-to resource for gardeners for more than 50 years, and the best tool novices can buy to start applying organic methods to their fruit and vegetable crops, herbs, trees and shrubs, perennials, annuals, and lawns. This thoroughly revised and updated version highlights new organic pest controls, new fertilizer products, improved ... Read more

$14.99 USD

Rodale's Ultimate Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening has been the go-to resource for gardeners for more than 50 years, and the best tool novices can buy to start applying organic methods to their fruit and vegetable crops, herbs, trees and shrubs, perennials, annuals, and lawns. This thoroughly revised and updated version highlights new organic pest controls, new fertilizer products, improved
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A Crash Course on How to Test Soil pH Level

by Ramon Harris ...

A Crash Course on How to Test Soil pH Level This book covers several topics including: - How to Test Your Garden's pH Level - Reading your pH Level Results - Changing Your Garden Plot's Soil pH Level - Changing Alkaline Soil - How to change the soil pH level to a higher reading and much more! Scroll up... and click on "Buy Now" to deliver almost instantly to your Kobo or other reading device. ... Read more

$6.97 USD

A Crash Course on How to Test Soil pH Level This book covers several topics including: - How to Test Your Garden's pH Level - Reading your pH Level Results - Changing Your Garden Plot's Soil pH Level - Changing Alkaline Soil - How to change the soil pH level to a higher reading and much more! Scroll up... and click on "Buy Now" to deliver almost instantly to your Kobo or other reading device.
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The Self-Sufficient Life and How to Live It

The Complete Back-to-Basics Guide

by John Seymour ...

The Self Sufficient Life and How to Live It is the only book that teaches all the skills needed to live independently in harmony with the land harnessing natural forms of energy, raising crops and keeping livestock, preserving foodstuffs, making beer and wine, basketry, carpentry, weaving, and much more. Our 2003 edition included 150 new full-color illustrations and a special section in which John ... Read more

$14.99 USD

The Self Sufficient Life and How to Live It is the only book that teaches all the skills needed to live independently in harmony with the land harnessing natural forms of energy, raising crops and keeping livestock, preserving foodstuffs, making beer and wine, basketry, carpentry, weaving, and much more. Our 2003 edition included 150 new full-color illustrations and a special section in which John
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Epic Homesteading

Your Guide to Self-Sufficiency on a Modern, High-Tech, Backyard Homestead

by Kevin Espiritu ...

Followed by millions @epicgardening, Author Kevin Espiritu has built a modern, high-tech homestead on a modest urban lot. In Epic Homesteading, he teaches you how to do the same, wherever you live.As Kevin has proven—thanks to his enthusiasm and willingness to experiment—there’s no need to go “back to the land,” live off-grid, and leave behind modern conveniences to improve your self-sufficiency ... Read more

$21.59 USD

Followed by millions @epicgardening, Author Kevin Espiritu has built a modern, high-tech homestead on a modest urban lot. In Epic Homesteading, he teaches you how to do the same, wherever you live.As Kevin has proven—thanks to his enthusiasm and willingness to experiment—there’s no need to go “back to the land,” live off-grid, and leave behind modern conveniences to improve your self-sufficiency
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The Postage Stamp Vegetable Garden

Grow Tons of Organic Vegetables in Tiny Spaces and Containers

by Karen Newcomb ...

One of the best books for beginning and experienced vegetable gardeners, this clear, straightforward, easy-to-read gardening bestseller (over 500,000 copies sold) uses organic, biodynamic methods to produce large amounts of vegetables in very small spaces.To accommodate today's lifestyles, a garden needs to fit easily into a very small plot, take as little time as possible to maintain, require a ... Read more

$14.99 USD

One of the best books for beginning and experienced vegetable gardeners, this clear, straightforward, easy-to-read gardening bestseller (over 500,000 copies sold) uses organic, biodynamic methods to produce large amounts of vegetables in very small spaces.To accommodate today's lifestyles, a garden needs to fit easily into a very small plot, take as little time as possible to maintain, require a
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Creative Vegetable Gardening

by Joy Larkcom ...

Joy Larkcom believes passionately that a vegetable garden, whatever its size, can be as beautiful as a conventional garden of flowers and shrubs. In Creative Vegetable Gardening she shows how the principles of good design can be applied to a kitchen plot and how to use the vibrant textures, colours, and forms of vegetables, herbs and fruit to create glorious effects and intriguing patterns without ... Read more

$3.99 USD

Joy Larkcom believes passionately that a vegetable garden, whatever its size, can be as beautiful as a conventional garden of flowers and shrubs. In Creative Vegetable Gardening she shows how the principles of good design can be applied to a kitchen plot and how to use the vibrant textures, colours, and forms of vegetables, herbs and fruit to create glorious effects and intriguing patterns without
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Backyard Farming on an Acre (More or Less)

Eat Healthy, Save Money, and Live Sustainably in the Space You Have

by Angela England ...

Series series A Living Free Guide
For urban and country dwellers alike, a quarter acre is all the space you need to farm all the food you need! Homesteading allows you to feed your family healthy meals harvested right from your own backyard while also reducing your environmental footprint.Live off the land you have. Plant a successful and sustainable farm—on a quarter acre to a full acre and beyond—where you can raise your own ... Read more

$10.99 USD

For urban and country dwellers alike, a quarter acre is all the space you need to farm all the food you need! Homesteading allows you to feed your family healthy meals harvested right from your own backyard while also reducing your environmental footprint.Live off the land you have. Plant a successful and sustainable farm—on a quarter acre to a full acre and beyond—where you can raise your own
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Tree Crops: A Permanent Agriculture

by J.Russell Smith ...

This annotated version includes annotations that:- Provide updated information on some crops- Present-day potential sources for parent trees- Permaculture guild-planting ideas that pertain to some of the trees mentioned.The electronic edition of this book has been carefully re-formatted for easy reading.Author J. Russell Smith (1874-1966) travelled widely and shares his insights and research into ... Read more

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This annotated version includes annotations that:- Provide updated information on some crops- Present-day potential sources for parent trees- Permaculture guild-planting ideas that pertain to some of the trees mentioned.The electronic edition of this book has been carefully re-formatted for easy reading.Author J. Russell Smith (1874-1966) travelled widely and shares his insights and research into
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How Not to Kill Your Houseplant New Edition

Survival Tips for the Horticulturally Challenged

by Veronica Peerless ...

How to keep alive 119 gorgeous indoor plants, then help them bloom and thrive.You've welcomed a plant into the home: Now what? Your first job is to keep it alive, then after that help it bloom and thrive. Learn all the tips and tricks you need to become a proud plant parent-of more than 100 different plants (if you're up for it)!Yellowed leaves, drooping leaves, dried leaves, even though you've ... Read more

$7.99 USD

How to keep alive 119 gorgeous indoor plants, then help them bloom and thrive.You've welcomed a plant into the home: Now what? Your first job is to keep it alive, then after that help it bloom and thrive. Learn all the tips and tricks you need to become a proud plant parent-of more than 100 different plants (if you're up for it)!Yellowed leaves, drooping leaves, dried leaves, even though you've
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Uprisings

A Hands-On Guide to the Community Grain Revolution

by Sarah Simpson, Heather McLeod ...

This practical guide explores the food security and community sufficiency benefits of growing local grain—and shows you how easy it is to get started.If we want to reduce our environmental impact, build resiliency in our community, and improve food security, it's up to us to make it happen. Uprisings shows how communities across North America can take action by reviving local grain production ... Read more

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This practical guide explores the food security and community sufficiency benefits of growing local grain—and shows you how easy it is to get started.If we want to reduce our environmental impact, build resiliency in our community, and improve food security, it's up to us to make it happen. Uprisings shows how communities across North America can take action by reviving local grain production
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Mother Earth News Almanac

A Guide Through the Seasons

by Mother Earth News ...

"A great resource for both professional and amateur gardeners. . . . This book provides hundreds of useful tips in a very easy, readable language and style." — The Washington Book ReviewMother Earth News Almanac is back—refreshed and ready for the next generation of self-sufficient makers and DIYers. The 1970s classic has been updated for today's readers, its information is as useful as ever. ... Read more

$14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

"A great resource for both professional and amateur gardeners. . . . This book provides hundreds of useful tips in a very easy, readable language and style." — The Washington Book ReviewMother Earth News Almanac is back—refreshed and ready for the next generation of self-sufficient makers and DIYers. The 1970s classic has been updated for today's readers, its information is as useful as ever.
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Hortus Miscellaneous

A Gardener's Hodgepodge of Information and Instruction

by Lorene Forkner, Linda Plato ...

From the kinds of trees standing at Great Dixter to the 20 deadliest flowers to the best small garden animals according to the Indiana Department of Agriculture—gardening is a pursuit with no end of information to sift through. Where does botany start but with the naming and grouping of all flora? List making is in the gardener’s blood, and this volume of random facts, data, and wisdom, will ... Read more

$9.99 USD

From the kinds of trees standing at Great Dixter to the 20 deadliest flowers to the best small garden animals according to the Indiana Department of Agriculture—gardening is a pursuit with no end of information to sift through. Where does botany start but with the naming and grouping of all flora? List making is in the gardener’s blood, and this volume of random facts, data, and wisdom, will
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Houseplants For All

How to Fill Any Home with Happy Plants

by Danae Horst ...

Danae Horst's Houseplants for All is a beautiful guide to selecting and growing the right plants for your home, complete with a plant profile quiz!Turn over a new leaf with Houseplants for All, and actually keep all your plant babies happy and healthy. Use the plant profile quiz to easily find your perfect match instead of picking up whatever catches your eye at the store and hoping that it'll ... Read more

$7.99 USD

Danae Horst's Houseplants for All is a beautiful guide to selecting and growing the right plants for your home, complete with a plant profile quiz!Turn over a new leaf with Houseplants for All, and actually keep all your plant babies happy and healthy. Use the plant profile quiz to easily find your perfect match instead of picking up whatever catches your eye at the store and hoping that it'll
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Simply Living Well

A Guide to Creating a Natural, Low-Waste Home

by Julia Watkins ...

Recipes, DIY projects, and inspiration for a beautiful and low-waste life, from the creator of @simply.living.well on InstagramIn this timely and motivational guide, author Julia Watkins shares rituals, recipes, and projects for living simply and sustainably at home. For every area of your household—kitchen, cleaning, wellness, bath, and garden—Julia shows you how to eliminate wasteful packaging, ... Read more

$13.99 USD

Recipes, DIY projects, and inspiration for a beautiful and low-waste life, from the creator of @simply.living.well on InstagramIn this timely and motivational guide, author Julia Watkins shares rituals, recipes, and projects for living simply and sustainably at home. For every area of your household—kitchen, cleaning, wellness, bath, and garden—Julia shows you how to eliminate wasteful packaging,
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Florida Gardener's Handbook, 2nd Edition

All you need to know to plan, plant, & maintain a Florida garden

by Tom MacCubbin, Joe Lamp'l, Georgia Tasker, Robert Bowden ...

Series series Gardener's Handbook
In this revised and updated 2nd edition of Florida Gardener's Handbook, gardeners in the Sunshine State are handed all the know-how they'll need to grow a lush, productive garden.The environmentally sound growing info for both edible and ornamental plants found here is your green thumb map to success. With profiles of more than 300 plants proven to thrive in Florida's unique climate, inclu... ... Read more

$19.49 USD

In this revised and updated 2nd edition of Florida Gardener's Handbook, gardeners in the Sunshine State are handed all the know-how they'll need to grow a lush, productive garden.The environmentally sound growing info for both edible and ornamental plants found here is your green thumb map to success. With profiles of more than 300 plants proven to thrive in Florida's unique climate, inclu...
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The Humane Gardener

Nurturing a Backyard Habitat for Wildlife

by Nancy Lawson ...

In this eloquent plea for compassion and respect for all species, journalist and gardener Nancy Lawson describes why and how to welcome wildlife to our backyards. Through engaging anecdotes and inspired advice, profiles of home gardeners throughout the country, and interviews with scientists and horticulturalists, Lawson applies the broader lessons of ecology to our own outdoor spaces.Detailed ... Read more

$2.99 USD

In this eloquent plea for compassion and respect for all species, journalist and gardener Nancy Lawson describes why and how to welcome wildlife to our backyards. Through engaging anecdotes and inspired advice, profiles of home gardeners throughout the country, and interviews with scientists and horticulturalists, Lawson applies the broader lessons of ecology to our own outdoor spaces.Detailed
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Marijuana Growing Secrets: The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Personal and Medical Marijuana Cultivation Indoors and Outdoors. Discover How to Grow Top Quality Weed and Advanced Cannabis Growing Tips

by Calvin Newman ...

The Ultimate Blueprint For Growing Your Own Marijuana (Even If You've Never Grown A Plant Before)Do you have a health condition like chronic pain or a mental health issue where medical cannabis would help?Or are you simply interested in growing weed for recreational purposes but don't know where to start?Either way, this is the only cannabis growing book you'll ever need.This marijuana growing ... Read more

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The Ultimate Blueprint For Growing Your Own Marijuana (Even If You've Never Grown A Plant Before)Do you have a health condition like chronic pain or a mental health issue where medical cannabis would help?Or are you simply interested in growing weed for recreational purposes but don't know where to start?Either way, this is the only cannabis growing book you'll ever need.This marijuana growing
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The Trees in My Forest

by Bernd Heinrich ...

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The Encyclopedia of Country Living, 50th Anniversary Edition

The Original Manual for Living Off the Land & Doing It Yourself (Homesteading & Off-Grid Survival)

by Carla Emery ...

OVER 1 MILLION COPIES SOLD: The 50th anniversary edition of the classic manual for sustainable living—with 900+ pages covering basic country skills and wisdom for living off the land!Whether you’re homesteading, prepping, or living off-grid, keep your family healthy, safe, and self-sufficient—no matter what’s going on in the world.From homesteaders to urban farmers, and everyone in between, there ... Read more

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OVER 1 MILLION COPIES SOLD: The 50th anniversary edition of the classic manual for sustainable living—with 900+ pages covering basic country skills and wisdom for living off the land!Whether you’re homesteading, prepping, or living off-grid, keep your family healthy, safe, and self-sufficient—no matter what’s going on in the world.From homesteaders to urban farmers, and everyone in between, there
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