Download or read book Homegrown Pantry written by Barbara Pleasant and published by Storey Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now that you’ve mastered gardening basics, you want to enjoy your bounty year-round, right? Homegrown Pantry picks up where beginning gardening books leave off, with in-depth profiles of the 55 most popular crops — including beans, beets, squash, tomatoes, and much more — to keep your pantry stocked throughout the year. Each vegetable profile highlights how many plants to grow for a year’s worth of eating, and which storage methods work best for specific varieties. Author Barbara Pleasant culls tips from decades of her own gardening experience and from growers across North America to offer planting, care, and harvesting refreshers for every region and each vegetable. Foreword INDIES Silver Award Winner GWA Media Awards Silver Award Winner

Download or read book Save the Planet Growing Your Own Garden written by Rebecca Hirsch and published by Cherry Lake. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Save the Planet: Growing your own Garden, applies the NCTE/IRA Standards to science and social studies content. Each book sends the reader on a fact-finding mission, posing an initial challenge and concluding with questions and answers. Through engaging, interactive scenarios, learners can experiment with text prediction, purpose-driven research, and creative problem solving—all critical thinking skills—while learning about ways to care for our planet.

Download or read book Veg in One Bed written by Huw Richards and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gardening YouTube sensation Huw Richards shows how to inexpensively grow year-round vegetables from just one raised bed. Keyed to a temperate coastal climate but adaptable to variations in temperature and rainfall, Huw's clear, practical advice will help you produce a bountiful harvest with minimal space and effort. In just one raised bed, green thumb wunderkind Huw Richards shows you how to grow vegetables easily, organically, abundantly, and inexpensively so you have something to harvest every month of the year. Month by month, discover what you need to do and how to do it. Try it in your yard, a small garden, or even on a roof terrace. Everything is explained in clear, photographed steps: building your bed, growing from seed, planting, feeding, and harvesting. Huw shows how to guarantee early success by starting off young plants on a windowsill. He suggests what to grow in each part of the bed and provides alternative vegetables to swap in or out depending on what you like eating. No-dig gardening methods remove most of the back-breaking work, too. Veg in One Bed goes beyond the inspiring demonstrations on his YouTube channel Huw's Nursery. In this book, he organizes all of his ideas and suggestions into a blueprint for growing your own vegetables month by month. Very little growing experience? Only a small space? No matter--with Veg in One Bed, you can still eat food you have grown throughout the year.

Download or read book The Humane Gardener written by Nancy Lawson and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 chapters address planting for wildlife by choosing native species; providing habitats that shelter baby animals, as well as birds, bees, and butterflies; creating safe zones in the garden; cohabiting with creatures often regarded as pests; letting nature be your garden designer; and encouraging natural processes and evolution in the garden. The Humane Gardener fills a unique niche in describing simple principles for both attracting wildlife and peacefully resolving conflicts with all the creatures that share our world.

Download or read book The Vegetable Grower s Handbook written by Huw Richards and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Garden efficiently and grow more food - Huw Richards shows you how. Following the success of Veg in One Bed and Grow Food for Free, in The Vegetable Grower's Handbook Huw shares his tried-and-tested approaches from his own garden so you can unearth your garden's potential. With simple yet effective methods, such as nurturing healthy soil, optimizing space, and following a planting plan, anyone can be a productive vegetable grower while working in harmony with nature. As well as Huw's recommendations on good planning and infrastructure, he has tips for plenty of quick wins too, such as how to attract beneficial pollinators. You'll be amazed at what you can achieve by setting goals, planning ahead, and trialling new ideas. Every successful business has a strategy. Why not apply one to your vegetable patch?

Download or read book Grow Food For Free written by Huw Richards and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Huw Richards set himself a challenge - to grow his own fruit and veg for free for a year. He succeeded and now wants to help you do the same. Can't afford a raised bed? Try repurposing an old wooden pallet. Don't want to spend money on buying plants? Look in the fridge and your kitchen cupboards for food that you can plant. Need a particular tool? Barter or borrow from a neighbor. Don't have a garden? See if someone in your area has an untended patch you can turn into a well-loved veg plot. Huw's Grow Food for Free has the inspiration and practical advice you need to start, grow, love, propagate and harvest your own fruit and veg organically and at zero-cost. This is real sustainability!

Download or read book The Prairie Homestead Cookbook written by Jill Winger and published by Flatiron Books. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jill Winger, creator of the award-winning blog The Prairie Homestead, introduces her debut The Prairie Homestead Cookbook, including 100+ delicious, wholesome recipes made with fresh ingredients to bring the flavors and spirit of homestead cooking to any kitchen table. With a foreword by bestselling author Joel Salatin The Pioneer Woman Cooks meets 100 Days of Real Food, on the Wyoming prairie. While Jill produces much of her own food on her Wyoming ranch, you don’t have to grow all—or even any—of your own food to cook and eat like a homesteader. Jill teaches people how to make delicious traditional American comfort food recipes with whole ingredients and shows that you don’t have to use obscure items to enjoy this lifestyle. And as a busy mother of three, Jill knows how to make recipes easy and delicious for all ages. "Jill takes you on an insightful and delicious journey of becoming a homesteader. This book is packed with so much easy to follow, practical, hands-on information about steps you can take towards integrating homesteading into your life. It is packed full of exciting and mouth-watering recipes and heartwarming stories of her unique adventure into homesteading. These recipes are ones I know I will be using regularly in my kitchen." - Eve Kilcher These 109 recipes include her family’s favorites, with maple-glazed pork chops, butternut Alfredo pasta, and browned butter skillet corn. Jill also shares 17 bonus recipes for homemade sauces, salt rubs, sour cream, and the like—staples that many people are surprised to learn you can make yourself. Beyond these recipes, The Prairie Homestead Cookbook shares the tools and tips Jill has learned from life on the homestead, like how to churn your own butter, feed a family on a budget, and experience all the fulfilling satisfaction of a DIY lifestyle.

Download or read book Tiny Victory Gardens written by Acadia Tucker and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate activist and farmer Acadia Tucker fell in love with container gardening after glimpsing its potential to produce food-lots of food. By applying select growing practices, and managing for square inches rather than square feet, she has come up with instructions for growing a small-scale farm on your patio, your stoop, or in? your dining room. If what you want is a garden big enough to line a windowsill, she's got you covered there, too. Tiny Victory Gardens profiles 21 container-friendly crops, and includes recipes for cultivating bountiful gardens, with names like Tiny Herb Garden, Salsa Fresca, and Beans, Bees, and Butterflies, It outlines how to find the right containers (there are wrong ones), identify prime tiny real estate, make food gardens beautiful, and raise crops all year long. Tucker describes how to maximize the environmental impact of growing food in pots. She offers tips on attracting pollinators, shows how to build microbe-rich living soil, and explains ways to ditch harmful pesticides and fertilizers. Her goal is to make it easier for anyone with access to a patch of sun to grow food, no backyard required. This is the third book Tucker has written for Stone Pier Press's citizen gardening series, which highlights how to garden in ways that are good for the planet. Book jacket.

Download or read book Grow Now written by Emily Murphy and published by Timber Press. This book was released on 2022-02 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homeowners are looking for actionable ways to help conserve the environment, and this hopeful, heartfelt guide offers them specific guidance on how to do so in their own home gardens.

Download or read book Kitchen Garden Revival written by Nicole Johnsey Burke and published by Cool Springs Press. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elevate your backyard veggie patch into a work of sophisticated and stylish art. Kitchen Garden Revival guides you through every aspect of kitchen gardening, from design to harvesting—with expert advice from author Nicole Johnsey Burke, founder of Rooted Garden, one of the leading US culinary landscape companies, and Gardenary, an online kitchen gardening education and resource company. Participating in the grow-your-own movement is important to both reduce your food miles and control what makes it onto your family’s table. If you’ve hesitated to take part because installing and caring for a traditional vegetable garden doesn’t seem to suit your life or your sense of style, Kitchen Garden Revival is here to show you there’s a better, more beautiful way to grow food. Instead of row after row of cabbage and pepper plants plunked into a patch of dirt in the middle of the yard, kitchen gardens are attractive, highly tailored food gardens consisting of easy-to-maintain raised planting beds laid out in an organized geometric pattern. Offering both four seasons of ornamental interest and plenty of fresh, homegrown fruits, vegetables, and herbs, kitchen gardens are the way to grow your own food in a fashionable, modern, and practical way. Kitchen gardens were once popular features of the European and early American landscape, but they fell out of favor when our agrarian roots were displaced by industrialization. With this accessible and inspirational guide, Nicole aims to return the kitchen garden to its rightful place just outside of every backdoor. Learn the art of kitchen gardening as you discover: What characteristics all kitchen gardens have in common How to design and install gorgeous kitchen garden beds using metal, wood, or stone Why raised beds mean reduced maintenance What crops are best for your kitchen garden A planting, tending, and harvesting plan developed by a pro Season-by-season growing guides It's time to join the Kitchen Garden Revival and start growing your own delicious, organic food.

Download or read book The Year Round Vegetable Gardener written by Niki Jabbour and published by Storey Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2011-12-14 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even in winter’s coldest months you can harvest fresh, delicious produce. Drawing on insights gained from years of growing vegetables in Nova Scotia, Niki Jabbour shares her simple techniques for gardening throughout the year. Learn how to select the best varieties for each season, the art of succession planting, and how to build inexpensive structures to protect your crops from the elements. No matter where you live, you’ll soon enjoy a thriving vegetable garden year-round.

Download or read book Gardening with Grains written by Brie Arthur and published by . This book was released on 2019-11 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brie Arthur's Gardening with Grains is a passion project that grew from a light-bulb, aha moment - that's when she realized we've been missing a dynamic piece of the burgeoning foodscape movement. We've learned the joys of interplanting our blooming flowerbeds with veggies, herbs and berries - but what about the grains, those ancient and beautiful grasses that practically gave us civilization: wheat, barley and oats for winter; corn, rice and sorghum for the warm season. Gardening with Grains is a pioneering book, a companion to Arthur's The Foodscape Revolution. Richly illustrated, it combines history, environmental benefits and personal stories with simple how-to's for planning, growing and harvesting 6 important grains. Includes 12 chef-tested recipes for inspiration. This is a design book, too, with planting patterns and suggestions, no matter how much or how little garden space you have. These grains are ornamental grasses, and they show off beautifully in any setting. The grouped plantings reveal the grains' varied colors and textures, interplanted with flowers like poppies, larkspur, snapdragons, nigella, zinnias, sunflowers and marigolds. Not only flowers, but salad greens and other decorative veggies play well with grains. Gardening with Grains is foodscaping for fun, beauty and bragging rights. . . and maybe even some homemade beer and bread.(Genus illustrations and garden plans by landscape architect and botanical artist Preston Montague.)

Download or read book Garden To Save The World written by Joe Clark and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2024-04-11 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No matter your space, this planet-friendly introduction to gardening will get you growing your own fruit, veg and flowers in no time! Gardening expert and social media sensation Joe Clark of @joesgarden shares everything he has learned about the power of gardening to bring you joy, save you money and help the planet. You will: Learn when and how to grow your own food, even in small spaces like containers or raised beds Find advice on attracting garden-friendly insects and wildlife, including a how-to guide for building your own hedgehog hotel and rewilding tips Make your own organic pest controls, plant food and rainwater collector so you can nourish your garden while being kind to the planet Discover useful food sustainability tips, from extending the shelf life of your produce to avoiding food waste and preserving your food Find ideas on how you can use you gardening to improve your mental and physical health With beautiful illustrations and easy-to-understand instructions and growing tips, this is the perfect book for budding or seasoned nature lovers who want to use their green-fingers to make a difference.

Download or read book Mates Dates and Saving the Planet written by Cathy Hopkins and published by Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.. This book was released on 2008-05-01 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Find out how to be a Queen of green with the MATES, DATES girls. Lucy, Izzie, Nesta and TJ, stars of the brilliant MATES, DATES series, are here to help you be green and gorgeous! The girls share their top tips on all the little things you can do to make a big difference, including: -How to reduce your carbon footprinthow to be green at home -How to make your wardrobe green -How to be green in what you eat -Recycling and cutting down on waste An essential guide for every MATES, DATES fan who wants to be green and do her bit for the planet - without giving up on all the things you love about being a girl.

Download or read book Gardening by Cuisine written by Patti Moreno and published by Union Square + ORM. This book was released on 2013-01-29 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grow an Asian Stir Fry Garden, a Mediterranean Vegetable Garden, a Latin-Caribbean Sofrito Garden, and more with this “guide for yard-to-table foodies” (The New York Times). Even urban dwellers, with little more than a balcony or tiny backyard or windowsill, can grow their own food, thanks to Patti Moreno’s groundbreaking gardening guide! Moreno, host of the most popular garden videos on the web, has devised a unique plan for creating low-maintenance organic “cuisine gardens”—including Italian Best-Ever Marinara Sauce Garden, Asian Stir Fry Garden, and Mediterranean Vegetable Garden—that produce the vegetables, fruits, and herbs people love and eat. She supplies dozens of easy plans, plus a generous collection of simple, delicious recipes and menus that will make the most of any garden’s bounty. Moreno’s colorful illustrations and comprehensive instructions will encourage gardeners both new and experienced to embrace sustainable living with ease and enthusiasm.

Download or read book 101 Life Skills Every Kid Needs to Know How to set goals cook clean garden be a good friend succeed at school save money deal with emergencies mind your pet manage your time and more tips written by Matilda Walsh and published by Thady Publishing. This book was released on with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ultimate Life Skills Guide for Kids: How to Thrive at Home, in School and Beyond! As children grow up, there is a lot to learn! From making friends, cooking, learning about the environment and growing vegetables to managing time and stress, there are a lot of challenges and life experiences ahead of them. This book is a comprehensive guide to help kids build the confidence and self-reliance they need to succeed in school, at home, and in life. This book is a comprehensive guide to help kids develop the skills they need to succeed, with fun exercises, real-life examples, and practical advice. Here are just some of the valuable life lessons you’ll discover in this book: - Learn how to succeed at school, handy tips on doing your homework, setting goals, time management, and how to get help for ANY problem when you need it! - Have fun taking care of your dog or cat, learn about taking care of the environment, how to grow vegetables and flowers and start cooking some simple meals! - Discover strategies for making and maintaining friendships, as well as how to handle peer pressure, bullies and build lifelong friendships. - Develop strong communication skills to express yourself clearly and assertively, in any situation. Plus find out how to stay safe online and deal with any type of emergency. - Learn how to stay healthy, like eating well, exercising, trying yoga and taking care of yourself. - Build self-confidence and resilience to overcome obstacles and setbacks. - And lots more… But what if you don’t like reading? Well, this book is jam packed full of interesting tips and cute illustrations that you’re going to find impossible to put this book down. You'll even be a little bit sad when you turn the final page, it's got that many useful tips! So if you're a kid between the ages of 8 and 12 who wants to develop the skills you need to succeed in life, "101 Life Skills Every Kid Needs to Know" is the book for you. With practical advice, fun exercises, and real-world examples, this book is the perfect gift to help you build confidence and self-reliance. So don't wait any longer! Pick up a copy of "The 101 Life Skills Every Kid Needs to Know" and start your journey to becoming the best version of yourself.

Download or read book How to Save the World For Free written by Natalie Fee and published by Laurence King Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-21 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Just what we need to get the job done” - Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall Are you worried about the effects of climate change on our environment? Want to help but don’t know where to start? Natalie Fee’s new handbook to green living will help you to make small lifestyle changes which will make a big difference to our planet. We know that a better world is possible. One where we all get to breathe clean air, marvel at the abundance of wildlife and enjoy life without worrying if it’s about to self-destruct. But how do we get there? And can it really be ... easy? And fun? And free? How to Save the World for Free by environmental campaigner Natalie Fee will galvanise you to think and live differently, covering all key areas of our lives, from food and travel to politics and sex, author and environmental campaigner Natalie Fee will galvanise you to think and live differently. You will feel better, live better and ultimately breathe better in the knowledge that every small change contributes towards saving our world. Examples of Natalie’s tips include voting with climate change policies in mind, carrying a reusable coffee cup, buying bamboo toothbrushes, packaging-free toiletries and ditching plastic based pads and tampons in favour of a menstrual cup, all of which will reduce your environmental impact while also saving you money. Unlike other guides to green living, How to Save the World For Free also addresses the big barriers to change, including broken political systems, capitalism and consumerism – and gives us practical and engaging ways to disrupt them. Perfect for fans of Lucy Siegle's Turning the Tide on Plastic and Greta Thunberg’s No One is Too Small to Make a Difference. Whether you are a signed-up member of Extinction Rebellion or if you’re just starting out on your environmental journey, How to Save the World for Free includes helpful and approachable advice for everyone. Let’s save the world together! #HowToSaveTheWorldForFree 10% of all profits from the book will go to City to Sea, a non-profit organisation running campaigns to stop plastic pollution at source. Watch Natalie’s TEDx talk on the devastating effect of plastic in our oceans here: https://bit.ly/2N1mzlr This book has been printed on FSC-certified paper and uses nontoxic vegetable-based inks. Laurence King Publishing is committed to ethical and sustainable production, and are proud participants in The Book Chain Project ® bookchainproject.com