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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorHappy Snacking, Don't Die!: Foraging and Vegan Recipes with Black Forager (A Cookbook)
Alexis Nikole Nelson · 272 pages
Animal, 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
The Backyard Homestead: Produce All the Food You Need on Just a Quarter Acre!
Carleen Madigan · 367 pages
**From a Quarter of An Acre, You Can Harvest:** 1400 Eggs 50 Pounds of Wheat 60 Pounds of Fruit 2000 Pounds of Vegetables 280 Pounds of Pork 75 Pounds of Nuts **The Indispensable Guide to Food Self-Sufficiency** Learn How To: -milk a goat -prime a fruit tree -dry herbs -make dandelion wine -bake whole-grain bread -tap a maple tree -make fresh mozzarella -brew beer -mill grains
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
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.
Mycophilia: Revelations from the Weird World of Mushrooms
Eugenia Bone · 358 pages
Rosemary Gladstar's Medicinal Herbs: A Beginner's Guide
Rosemary Gladstar · 224 pages
Oaxaca Journal
Oliver Sacks · 176 pages
"Ferns are what lured Oliver Sacks to Oaxaca, but those who know him will expect his journal to be filled with much more - and they won't he disappointed.". "It's a diverse, casually erudite assemblage of professional and amateur botanists who gather in this extraordinary corner of Mexico, each bringing a different perspective and fresh insights to the endeavor. And what a richly varied part of t
The Garden Primer
Barbara Damrosch · 820 pages
A comprehensive gardening reference jam-packed with useful information, advice, tips, and quirky wisdom. Includes complete instructions for growing and tending 300 plants, plus 365 illustrations, easy-to-read diagrams, and design plans for all types of gardens.
Orchid Fever: A Horticultural Tale of Love, Lust, and Lunacy
Eric Hansen · 288 pages
Explores the lesser-known political and bureaucratic adventures surrounding the orchid; reveals its esoteric uses, from elephant medicine to aphrodisiac; and considers its horticultural mysteries and the lengths to which some have gone for its cultivation.
The Oldest Living Things in the World
Rachel Sussman · 269 pages
"The Oldest Living Things in the World is an epic journey through time and space. Over the past decade, artist Rachel Sussman has researched, worked with biologists, and traveled the world to photograph continuously living organisms that are 2,000 years old and older. Spanning from Antarctica to Greenland, the Mojave Desert to the Australian Outback, the result is a stunning and unique visual coll
A Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants: Eastern and Central North America
Lee Allen Peterson · 330 pages
The Lost Language of Plants: The Ecological Importance of Plant Medicine to Life on Earth
Stephen Harrod Buhner · 330 pages
"Enraged, Energized, Exultant. You won't know how to feel after reading Stephen Harrod Buhner's The Lost Language of Plants. This is a devastating expose about how we are polluting our environment with the pharmaceuticals that Western medicine has developed to heal us. We are ingesting Prozac, Premarin, and antibiotics whether we want to or not." "Yet, as we foul air and water with toxic residues
Lab Girl
Hope Jahren · 408 pages
An illuminating debut memoir of a woman in science; a moving portrait of a longtime friendship; and a stunningly fresh look at plants that will forever change how you see the natural world Acclaimed scientist Hope Jahren has built three laboratories in which she’s studied trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. Her first book is a revelatory treatise on plant life—but it is also so much more. Lab
Food for Free
Richard Mabey · 256 pages
This new format of a best-selling title provides a portable guide for all those who enjoy what the countryside has to offer. Over 100 plants are listed, fully illustrated and described, together with recipes and other fascinating information about their use throughout the ages. The recipes are listed so that you can plan your foray with a feast in mind. This is the ideal book for both nature-lover
The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady
Edith Holden · 177 pages
A look through a naturalist's eyes as the seasons change in Warwickshire. Edith Holden carefully captures nature as it unfolds in her charming diary, starting on January 1st, 1906, and takes you along for the journey. The diary features Edith Holden's own thoughts, delightful illustrations, and wonderful facets of knowledge on flora and fauna. It is informative, light-hearted, and serene.
Seeds of Hope: Wisdom and Wonder from the World of Plants
Jane Goodall, Gail Hudson · 426 pages
"Renowned naturalist and bestselling author Jane Goodall examines the critical role that trees and plants play in our world"--Provided by the publisher.
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
Wildwood: A Journey through Trees
Roger Deakin · 403 pages
Accompanying famed British nature writer Deakin through the woods of Britain, Europe, Kazakhstan, and Australia in search of what lies behind man's profound and enduring connection with trees. Deakin lives in forest shacks, goes "coppicing" in Suffolk, swims beneath the walnut trees of the Haut-Languedoc, and hunts bushplums with Aboriginal women in the outback. Along the way, he ferrets out the m
The Yoga of Herbs: An Ayurvedic Guide to Herbal Medicine
David Frawley, Vasant Dattatray Lad · 271 pages
The Man Who Planted Trees: Lost Groves, Champion Trees, and an Urgent Plan to Save the Planet
Jim Robbins · 236 pages
Describes the efforts of a former alcoholic nurseryman, whose near-death experience prompted him to attempt to find the best specimens of the U.S.'s 872 known species of trees and use them to propagate their offspring around the world.
This Organic Life: Confessions of a Suburban Homesteader
Joan Dye Gussow · 280 pages
"Joan Dye Gussow brings the heart of a pioneer to the suburbs in New York. By taking at face value the basic assumption that we are what we eat, she presents a delightful new version of The Good Life within the grasp of all of us."--BOOK JACKET.
The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring
Richard Preston · 294 pages
Hidden away in foggy, uncharted rain forest valleys in Northern California are the tallest organisms the world has ever sustained--the coast redwood trees. 96% of the ancient redwood forests have been logged, but the fragments that remain are among the great wonders of nature. The biggest redwoods can rise more than thirty-five stories above the ground, forming cathedral-like structures in the air