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The Backyard Homestead: Produce All the Food You Need on Just a Quarter Acre!
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Include books by the same authorAnimal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
Barbara Kingsolver, Steven L. Hopp, Camille Kingsolver · 384 pages
Bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver returns with her first nonfiction narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat."As the U.S. population made an unprecedented mad dash for the Sun Belt, one carload of us paddled against the tide, heading for the Promised Land where water falls from the sky and green stuff grows all around. We were about to begi
Happy Snacking, Don't Die!: Foraging and Vegan Recipes with Black Forager (A Cookbook)
Alexis Nikole Nelson · 272 pages
Eating on the Wild Side: The Missing Link to Optimum Health
Jo Robinson · 407 pages
"Approximately 10,000 years ago our ancestors began to domesticate animals for food and choose plants to grow in their gardens. The choices we have been making ever since then about what to feed those animals and what plants to grow have had a huge impact on our diets. In Pasture Perfect Jo explained the benefits of eating meats, eggs, and dairy products from animals raised on pasture – their nati
All New Square Foot Gardening
Mel Bartholomew · 271 pages
Second Nature: A Gardener's Education
Michael Pollan · 291 pages
One day, Harper's Magazine editor Michael Pollan bought an old Connecticut dairy farm. He planted a garden and attempted to follow Thoreau's example: do not impose your will upon the wilderness, the woodchucks, or the weeds. That ethic, of course, did not work. But neither did pesticides or firebombing the woodchuck burrow. So Pollan began to think about the troubled borders between nature and con
Under the Tuscan Sun
Frances Mayes · 287 pages
Now in paperback, the #1 San Francisco Chronicle bestseller that is an enchanting and lyrical look at the life, the traditions, and the cuisine of Tuscany, in the spirit of Peter Mayle's *A Year in Provence*. Frances Mayes entered a wondrous new world when she began restoring an abandoned villa in the spectacular Tuscan countryside. There were unexpected treasures at every turn: faded frescos b
The Unlikely Lavender Queen: A Memoir of Unexpected Blossoming
Jeannie Ralston · 263 pages
"I couldn't help but question how I'd gotten to this strange spot in my life, so far from what I'd expected for myself. Yes, there had been a heady romance a few years back. Then a slew of subsequent decisions, fueled by love and yearnings I didn't even know I had. But I never, ever would have suspected that this was where the sum total of them would bring me. That afternoon a new doubt dripped in
Prodigal Summer
Barbara Kingsolver · 444 pages
Prodigal Summer weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives inhabiting the forested mountains and struggling small farms of southern Appalachia.From her outpost in an isolated mountain cabin, Deanna Wolfe, a reclusive wildlife biologist, watches a den of coyotes that have recently migrated into the region. She is caught off guard by a young hunter who invades her
Chez Panisse Vegetables
Alice Waters · 344 pages
Recipes from the famous Berkeley, California restaurant.
Vegetable Literacy: Cooking and Gardening with Twelve Families from the Edible Plant Kingdom
Deborah Madison · 405 pages
Shows how vegetables from the same family can be interchanged to complement other flavors and includes over three hundred recipes, including griddled asparagus with tarragon butter, potato cake with red chile molido, and chive and saffron crepes.
Tender: Volume II: A Cook's Guide to the Fruit Garden
Nigel Slater · 620 pages
Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World
Dan Koeppel · 281 pages
A gripping biological detective story that uncovers the myth, mystery, and endangered fate of the world's most humble fruitTo most people, a banana is a banana: a simple yellow fruit. Americans eat more bananas than apples and oranges combined. In others parts of the world, bananas are what keep millions of people alive. But for all its ubiquity, the banana is surprisingly mysterious; nobody knows
Mycophilia: Revelations from the Weird World of Mushrooms
Eugenia Bone · 358 pages
The Mushroom Hunters: On the Trail of an Underground America
Langdon Cook · 296 pages
"In the dark corners of America's forests grow culinary treasures. Chefs pay top dollar to showcase these elusive and beguiling ingredients on their menus. Whether dressing up a filet mignon with smoky morels or shaving luxurious white truffles over pasta, the most elegant restaurants across the country now feature an abundance of wild mushrooms. The mushroom hunters, by contrast, are a rough lot.
Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-scale Permaculture
Toby Hemenway · 231 pages
Whatever size yard or garden you have to work with, you can apply basic permaculture principles to make it more diverse, more natural, more productive, and more beautiful. Best of all, once it's established, an ecological garden will reduce or eliminate most of the backbreaking work that's needed to maintain the typical lawn and garden.
The New Organic Grower: A Master's Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market Gardener
Eliot Coleman · 304 pages
Covers soil, farm economics and labor, crop planning, equipment, green manures, tillage, organic fertilizers, pests, and livestock.
Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt
Kate Messner · 53 pages
In this exuberant and lyrical follow-up to the award-winning Over and Under the Snow, discover the wonders that lie hidden between stalks, under the shade of leaves . . . and down in the dirt. Explore the hidden world and many lives of a garden through the course of a year! Up in the garden, the world is full of green--leaves and sprouts, growing vegetables, ripening fruit. But down in the dirt ex
Edible Wild Plants: Wild Foods from Dirt to Plate
John Kallas · 288 pages
Introduction to Permaculture
Bill Mollison, Reny Mia Slay · 216 pages
Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front
Joel Salatin · 345 pages
Food Not Lawns: How to Turn Your Yard Into a Garden and Your Neighborhood Into a Community
Heather Flores · 344 pages
The Way of Herbs
Michael Tierra · 378 pages
A Classic book to help people who want to learn about and use herbal medicine. Michael Tierra has studied both Eastern and Western herbal medicine. Plants are identified by scientific, traditional herb, and Chinese names. There are very specific instructions on how to prepare and use tinctures, infusions, poultices, etc. This book is an excellent introduction to herbal medicine for the beginner, a