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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $15.54
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Manufacturer: Chelsea Green
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Toby Hemenway
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Publisher: Chelsea Green
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Dewey Decimal Number: 635.048
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Publication Date: 2001-04-01
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Reading Level: 240
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Description: Permaculture is a verbal marriage of “permanent” and “agriculture.” Australian Bill Mollison pioneered its development. Key features include:
use of compatible perennials;
non-invasive planting techniques;
emphasis on biodiversity;
specifically adaptable to local climate, landscape, and soil conditions;
highly productive output of edibles.
Now, picture your backyard as one incredibly lush garden, filled with edible flowers, bursting with fruit and berries, and carpeted with scented herbs and tangy salad greens. The visual impact is of Monet’s palette, a wash of color, texture, and hue. But this is no still life. The flowers nurture endangered pollinators. Bright-featured songbirds feed on abundant berries and gather twigs for their nests.
The plants themselves are grouped in natural communities, where each species plays a role in building soil, deterring pests, storing nutrients, and luring beneficial insects. And finally, you--good ol’ homo sapiens--are an integral part of the scene. Your garden tools are resting against a nearby tree, and have a slight patina of rust, because this garden requires so little maintenance. You recline into a hammock to admire your work. You have created a garden paradise.
This is no dream, but rather an ecological garden, which takes the principles of permaculture and applies them on a home-scale. There is nothing technical, intrusive, secretive, or expensive about this form of gardening. All that is required is some botanical knowledge (which is in this book) and a mindset that defines a backyard paradise as something other than a carpet of grass fed by MiracleGro.
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Price: $18.95
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Sale: $10.00
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Manufacturer: Storey Publishing, LLC
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Jeff Cox
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Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
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Edition: 3
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Dewey Decimal Number: 634.8
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Publication Date: 1999-01-03
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: Create you own backyard winery! From breaking ground to savoring the finished product, Jeff Cox's From Vines to Wines is the most complete and up-to-date guide to growing flawless grapes and making extraordinary wine. Wine connoisseurs, gardeners, and home winemakers will find the latest techniques in this fully revised and updated edition. With thorough, illustrated instructions, you'll learn how to: -- Choose and prepare a vineyard site -- Construct sturdy and effective trellising systems -- Plant, prune, and harvest the perfect grapes for your climate -- Press, ferment, age and bottle your own wine -- Judge wine for clarity, color, aroma, body, and taste
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Price: $39.95
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Sale: $25.05
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Manufacturer: Ten Speed Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: David Arora
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Publisher: Ten Speed Press
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Edition: 2
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Dewey Decimal Number: 589.222309794
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Publication Date: 1986-09
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Reading Level: 1020
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Description: This is the be-all and end-all of mushroom books! Truly an encyclopedia of mushroom facts and lore, lavishly illustrated with full-color photographs, literally everything you need to know about mushrooms, edible or not. Arora has taught mycology for close to twenty years and has hunted and photographed mushrooms across the North American continent. Threaded through the book are his wry and humorous observations and comments, making what could have been a rather dull, "just-the-facts, ma'am" reference book into a really enjoyable read. The stunning photographs of the incredible variety of fungi are fascinating and eye-opening, and while the author gives clear and factual information, the mysterious allure of mushrooms in their countless shapes, sizes and colors is only increased by this huge and delightful book. --Mark Hetts
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $12.46
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Manufacturer: Oasis Design
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Art Ludwig
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Publisher: Oasis Design
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Dewey Decimal Number: 628.13
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Publication Date: 2005-05-30
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Reading Level: 125
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Description: A do-it-yourself guide to designing, building, and maintaining water tanks, cisterns and ponds, and sustainably managing groundwater storage. It will help you with your independent water system, fire protection, and disaster preparedness, at low cost and using principles of ecological design. Includes building instructions for several styles of ferro cement water tanks.
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $14.91
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Manufacturer: Chelsea Green Publishing Company
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Eliot Coleman
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Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Company
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Edition: 2 Rev Exp
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Dewey Decimal Number: 635.0484
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Publication Date: 1995-10
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Reading Level: 304
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Price: $16.95
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Sale: $10.52
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Manufacturer: Storey Publishing, LLC
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Spiral-bound
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Author: Melissa Morgan-Oakes
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Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
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Dewey Decimal Number: 746.432041
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Publication Date: 2007-12-12
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Reading Level: 143
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Description: Sock knitters everywhere know the frustration of Second Sock Syndrome. It goes something like this: A cute new sock pattern and soft, foot-warming yarn lead to many happy knitting hours, resulting in . . . ONE sock. The first sock is done (and it's adorable!) but pattern distraction sets in. Who wants to knit the same project all over again? There are so many new projects waiting to be discovered.
Melissa Morgan-Oakes ends the drudgery of the second sock by showing knitters how to cast on and knit two socks at one time on one long circular needle! Her method is captured in step-by-step photographs, clearly showing knitters how to turn out two socks at the same time. Goodbye to lonely, abandoned single socks. Hello to unlimited pretty pairs, knit on one needle (often finished on the same day), and worn with pride and that gratifying sense of accomplishment.
Oakes is a dedicated knitter, knitwear designer, and knitting instructor who has known the frustration of Second Sock Syndrome. Her easy-to-learn technique enables sock stitchers to adapt any pattern to her two-at-a-time method. But before experimenting with other patterns, readers will want to try Morgan-Oakes's 15 original designs. Fun and creative, they include simple to complex choices, a variety of yarn weights, and designs for women, men, and children.
Socks are small, relatively inexpensive, and interesting to knit — a favorite portable choice of busy knitters. Keep the fun in sock-stitching with the innovative new technique that produces two socks — yes, that's one sock for each foot — at the very same time!
Consumer testimonial —
"I am a new knitter and purchased 2-at-a-time Socks. Perfect! This is a book is the best investment I've ever made! I have a lovely pair of socks ... for the first time! Very comprehensive instructions, as well as a very easy-to-understand glossary in the back. I recommend this book to anyone interested in knitting socks. So much easier than the double pointed needles! — Deborah, Colorado Springs, CO
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $12.69
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Manufacturer: Ten Speed Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: John Jeavons
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Publisher: Ten Speed Press
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Edition: 7
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Dewey Decimal Number: 635
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Publication Date: 2006-10-31
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Reading Level: 268
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Description: For over 30 years, this pioneering work has continued to revolutionize food production around the world. While many people tend to look for big solutions to global concerns such as malnutrition, environmental researcher John Jeavons proves that the answers are often found in our backyards -- that is, in how we grow our food. Written for the individual gardener, "How to Grow More Vegetables" is the bible on Grow Biointensive "RM" mini-farming, a method that produces high yields of food crops in very small spaces while nourishing the soil and reducing the use of chemicals. This newly revised and significantly expanded edition incorporates the latest techniques and methods developed by Jeavons and many others around the world who have adopted this increasingly necessary method of small-scale food production.
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Price: $35.00
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Sale: $21.90
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Manufacturer: Ten Speed Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Paul Stamets
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Publisher: Ten Speed Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 579.5163
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Publication Date: 2005-10-15
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Reading Level: 339
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Description: A groundbreaking manual for saving the world through mushroom cultivation! The science goes like this: fine filaments of living cells called mycelium, the fruit of which are mushrooms, already cover large areas of land around the world. As the mycelium grows, it silently breaks down plant and animal debris, recycling carbon, nitrogen and other essential elements in the creation of new soil. Read all about the newest trend in environmental science in Mycelium Running.
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Price: $5.00
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Sale: $1.82
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Manufacturer: DK ADULT
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Harry Tomlinson
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Publisher: DK ADULT
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 635.9772
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Publication Date: 2003-09-08
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Reading Level: 72
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Description: Breaks down key information on cultivating bonsai into 101 easy-to-grasp tips and gives quick answers to all your questions. Harry Tomlinson is one of Europe's leading bonsai artists and instructors. He has exhibited and judged bonsai all over the world. He is also the author of several books including DK's The Complete Book of Bonsai.
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Price: $21.95
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Sale: $13.00
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Manufacturer: Harper Paperbacks
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Steve Brill
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Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 581.630973
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Publication Date: 1994-05-20
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Reading Level: 336
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Description: Identifying and Harvesting Edible and Medicinal Plants in Wild (and Not So Wild) Places shows readers how to find and prepare more than five hundred different plants for nutrition and better health, including such common plants as mullein (a tea made from the leaves and flowers suppresses a cough), stinging nettle (steam the leaves and you have a tasty dish rich in iron), cattail (cooked stalks taste similar to corn and are rich in protein), and wild apricots (an infusion made with the leaves is good for stomach aches and disgestive disorders). More than 260 detailed line drawings help readers identify a wide range of plants -- many of which are suited for cooking by following the more than thirty recipes included in this book. There are literally hundreds of plants readily available underfoot waiting to be harvested and used either as food or as a potential therapeutic. This book is both a field guide to nature's bounty and a source of intriguing information about the plants that surround us.
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