2.
Series:
The Two-Wheel Tractor Handbook
Small-Scale Equipment and Innovative Techniques for Boosting Productivity
Paperback
Zach Loeks
9780865719842
$39.99
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
Apr 04, 2023
Small but mighty – a comprehensive guide to the use of two-wheel tractors for gardeners, homesteaders, landscapers, and farmers More affordable than four-wheel tractors and infinitely more versatile than single- purpose power equipment such as rototillers, two-wheel tractors are an ideal solution for an astonishing array of garden, landscaping, and agricultural applications. Two-wheel tractors are multifunctional, economical, practical, maneuverable, portable, and low impact. Yet choosing the equipment is only half of it, the other half is int...
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10.
Series:
The New Farmer's Almanac, Volume VI
Adjustments and Accommodations
Paperback
Greenhorns
9780986320545
$34.95
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
Feb 14, 2023
The newest volume of the eclectic biannual anthology from Greenhorns, a grassroots network for recruiting, promoting, and supporting new American farmers. The New Farmer's Almanac Volume VI: Adjustments and Accommodations seeks to recognize our own collective agency in the face of sizable uncertainties. The morphing climate, ongoing culture of land dispossession, continuing global pandemic, shifting and intensifying weather patterns, and migrations of all species—spurned by political and environmental upheaval—are considered within. There is a...
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11.
Series:
Compost Science for Gardeners
Simple Methods for Nutrient-Rich Soil
Paperback
Robert Pavlis
9780865719767
$22.99
GARDENING
Jan 24, 2023
Create your own compost and grow better plants. With breathtaking clarity, Compost Science for Gardeners demystifies composting practices and helps readers determine the best technique for their unique situation. This comprehensive science-based book is your key to building healthier soil and growing better plants. Using plain language and easy-to-follow instructions, this essential resource distills and blends the latest scientific research with the author's many decades of knowledge and experience into manageable form, debunking a host of com...
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24.
Series:
A Food Forest in Your Garden
Plan It, Grow It, Cook It
Paperback
Alan Carter
9781856232999
$39.95
GARDENING
Mar 07, 2023
Grow your own seasonal food in a low maintenance, nature-friendly garden that feels like a woodland glade. Scottish plant expert Alan Carter shows you how to plan and plant a temperate forest garden for any sized plot—from a small terrace garden to an allotment or smallholding. Learn how to successfully layer root crops, fruit, perennial vegetables and edible shrubs below tree crops, cultivating an edible garden that doesn’t look like a traditional vegetable plot. A forest garden is wildlife friendly, provides nutrient-dense and often unusual ...
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25.
Series:
Wild Plant Culture
A Guide to Restoring Edible and Medicinal Native Plant Communities
Paperback
Jared Rosenbaum
9780865719804
$39.99
NATURE
Nov 22, 2022
Integrating restoration practices, foraging, herbalism, rewilding, and permaculture, Wild Plant Culture is a comprehensive guide to the ecological restoration of native edible and medicinal plant communities in Eastern North America. Blending science, practice, and traditional knowledge, it makes bold connections that are actionable, innovative, and ecologically imperative for repairing both degraded landscapes and our broken cultural relationship with nature. Coverage includes: Understanding and engaging in mutually beneficial human-plant conn...
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26.
Series:
Practical No-Till Farming
A Quick and Dirty Guide to Organic Vegetable and Flower Growing
Paperback
Andrew Mefferd
9780865719668
$34.99
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
Nov 01, 2022
No-till farming methods are taking small-scale farming by storm, promising less work, higher productivity, improved soil health, carbon sequestration, and weed control for organic growers. Yet there are many ways to do no-till, including mulching with compost, cardboard, straw, silage tarps, and more. Plus plenty of conflicting advice on how to get started. Practical No-Till Farming is here to help, sorting the wheat from the chaff and the horse manure from the plastic mulch. Coverage includes: How to assess your farm for no-till options consid...
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29.
Series:
The Seed Detective
Uncovering the Secret Histories of Remarkable Vegetables
Paperback
Adam Alexander
9781915294081
$29.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Sep 29, 2022
Meet the Indiana Jones of vegetables and join him on his quest to save our heritage produce. *Named BBC Radio 4's The Food Programme "Book of the Year" "The writing is rich . . . [This book] is a clarion call to think about our food in new ways and carefully consider where it comes from."—New Scientist "Copious but thoroughly engaging research . . . Alexander shares his excitement over the potential for rescuing this lost heritage. . . All of which makes this title worth a serious look."—Booklist (starred) Did you ever wonder how peas, kale...
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32.
Series:
The Light Between Apple Trees
Wild gardening, the climate ethic, and living with nature
Paperback
Priyanka Kumar
9781734901177
$27.95
GARDENING
Aug 29, 2022
What if turning to nature can help us heal the planet, and ourselves? A naturalist explores ways to engage with the land in a world changed by global warming, and returns with a bounty of options. The Light Between Apple Trees stretches the hearts and minds of readers toward a new, but age-old way of being in nature. A naturalist, birder, and award-winning writer, Priyanka Kumar illuminates the gift of the land as she takes readers on journeys to historic and wild fruit orchards, to ancient forests, and along pollinator corridors. At a time w...
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39.
Series:
Plant Science for Gardeners
Essentials for Growing Better Plants
Paperback
Robert Pavlis
9780865719736
$22.99
GARDENING
Jun 07, 2022
Plant Science for Gardeners empowers growers to analyze common problems, find solutions, and make better decisions in the garden for optimal plant health and productivity. Most gardeners learn by accumulating rules – water once a week, never dry out snowdrop bulbs, prune lilacs after flowering, plant garlic in October—the list is endless. Rules take years to learn and yet leave you floundering when the unexpected strikes and plants look unhealthy, produce poorly, or die. There is a better way. By understanding the basic biology of how plants gr...
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41.
Series:
The Home-Scale Forest Garden
How to Plan, Plant, and Tend a Resilient Edible Landscape
Paperback
Dani Baker
9781645020981
$44.95
GARDENING
May 20, 2022
"Thoroughly 'user friendly' in organization and presentation, The Home-Scale Forest Garden is unique and strongly recommended."—Midwest Book Review
57.
Series:
The Vertical Veg Guide to Container Gardening
How to Grow an Abundance of Herbs, Vegetables and Fruit in Small Spaces
Paperback
Mark Ridsdill Smith
9781645021506
$44.95
GARDENING
Mar 24, 2022
*Winner of the Garden Media Guild's The Peter Seabrook Practical Book of the Year Award 2022 From the creator of the wildly popular website “Vertical Veg” and with over 200k people in his online community of growers, comes the complete guide to growing delicious fruit, vegetables, herbs, and salad in containers, pots, and more—in any space, from window boxes to garden yards, no matter how small! "[A] thorough and enthusiastic guide to vegetable gardening . . . both handy and hefty...Aspiring urban gardeners will want to give this a look."—Pu...
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59.
Series:
The Orchard Book
Plan, Plant and Maintain Fruit from Garden to Field
Paperback
Wade Muggleton
9781856232951
$26.95
GARDENING
Mar 17, 2022
Wonderlands of bounty and beauty, orchards offer an abundance of fruit in a wildlife haven full of diversity. A well-managed orchard works with nature to provide maximum harvest for minimal effort. Wade Muggleton has distilled 20 years of orchard know-how into this practical handbook to help you plan, plant and manage your orchard, whatever your garden size or budget. With his expert guidance you can have an orchard on any plot—garden, yard, allotment or smallholding—and both maximise your harvest and minimise your outlay. The book covers: ...
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