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Urban Gardening
More and more people are growing food in urban and suburban areas - backyards, balconies, and other small spaces. This encouraging trend has spawned a range of new books that discuss how to maximize your returns and better utilize space.
Apartment Gardening
by Amy Pennington
No yard? No problem. From starting plants on your kitchen table to planting lettuce on your balcony, Amy Pennington details how to start and cultivate an edible garden in the heart of the city. Amy's voice is funny, irreverent, and to the point. Apartment Gardening includes instructions on how to build your own planter box, grow lettuce in recycled containers, keep bees on your patio, and infuse spirits with herbs grown right in your kitchen. Eating locally starts at home: every surface holds an opportunity for something planted, pickled, or preserved. Grow squash on your patio, flowers in your window box, and pick blackberries from your parking strip. It's a DIY world - we're just growing it.
182 pages.
Big Gardens in Small Spaces
A very handy and useful ideas resource for urban gardeners working with limited space. Cox covers all kinds of ways to maximize growing space, including walls, windowsills, patios, containers, and shaded areas. Special attention is given on growing food in constricted spaces - even in shade! Lots of colour photos throughout provide great inspiration. 220 pages.
Bringing Nature Home
By Douglas W. Tallamy
Tallamy takes an obvious observation—wildlife is threatened when suburban development encroaches on once wild lands—and weds it to a novel one: that beneficial insects are being deprived of essential food resources when suburban gardeners exclusively utilize nonnative plant material. Such an imbalance, Tallamy declares, can lead to a weakened food chain that will no longer be able to support birds and other animal life. Once embraced only by members of the counterculture, the idea of gardening with native plants has been landscape design's poor stepchild, thought to involve weeds and other plants too unattractive for pristine suburban enclaves. Not so, says Tallamy, who presents compelling arguments for aesthetically pleasing, ecologically healthy gardening. With nothing less than the future of North American biodiversity at stake, Tallamy imparts an encouraging message: it's not too late to save the ecosystem-sustaining matrix of insects and animals, and the solution is as easy as replacing alien plants with natives. 360 pages.
Building Chicken Coops
From the author of The Chicken Health Handbook, comes this useful, concise reference to the basics of chicken coop design: flooring, ventilation, temperature control, nest boxes, roosts, water and feed supplies, space requirements... Before you build your urban coop, have a look at this book! 32 pages.
Chickens in Your Backyard
by Rick & Gail Luttmann
Your backyard can be the source of the best eggs and meat you've ever tasted. The answer is chickens - endearing birds that require but a modest outlay of time, space, and food. Throughout the book, the Luttmanns express their wonder at the personalities of chickens - the role of the roosters and the instinctive motherliness of the hens. Chickens provide backyard farmers with an enjoyable pastime as well as a supply of good food. 150 pages.
Fresh Food From Small Places
By R.J. Ruppenthal
Books on container gardening have been wildly popular with urban and
suburban readers, but until now, there has been no comprehensive
"how-to" guide for growing fresh food in the absence of open land. Fresh Food from Small Spaces
fills the gap as a practical, comprehensive, and downright fun guide to
growing food in small spaces. It provides readers with the knowledge
and skills necessary to produce their own fresh vegetables, mushrooms,
sprouts, and fermented foods as well as to raise bees and chickens—all
without reliance on energy-intensive systems like indoor lighting and
hydroponics. With this book as a guide, people living in apartments, condominiums,
townhouses, and single-family homes will be able to grow up to 20
percent of their own fresh food using a combination of traditional
gardening methods and space-saving techniques such as reflected
lighting and container "terracing." Those with access to yards can
produce even more. 240 pages.
From Container to Kitchen
By D.J. Herda
More and more people are recognizing the need for nutritious, local, sustainable food, but organic options can be costly, and the produce sections of most supermarkets are packed with fruits and vegetables that have racked up more frequent flier miles than a rock band on world tour. How can urban dwellers without ready access to fertile land enjoy the benefits of traditional gardening? And for those with a yard, how do you maximize the harvest of fresh, healthy edibles?
In From Container to Kitchen, D.J. Herda shows that there is a way. Written for the novice home gardener as well as the seasoned pro, this fully illustrated, comprehensive guide will show you how to save up to 70% on your produce bill by growing fruits and vegetables in pots. 234 pages.
How to Grow a School Garden
by Arden Bucklin-Sporer and Rachel Kathleen Pringle of the San Francisco Green Schoolyard Alliance
A Complete Guide for Parents and Teachers: School gardens answer kids' biggest questions: Where does my food come from? Is nature important to me? Can I work with others to make a place that is beautiful and a source of pride? With this book, you can help kids reclaim a piece of neglected play yard and transform it into an ecologically rich garden that nourishes children, parents, teachers, and your community for years to come. Packed with strategies, to-do lists, detailed lesson plans, easy recipes, and tricks of the trade for grades K-8, this is the complete school gardens handbook for parents, teachers, and administrators. 224 pages.
Mini Farming
By Brett Markham
Self-Sufficiency on 1/4 Acre! A large format, full colour book that looks, from an organic approach, at saving selecting, and buying seeds; maintaining and improving soil; compost, crop rotation and timing; canning freezing and dehydrating; and how to raise chickens for eggs and slaughter. If you've got a small plot, a large backyard, or a tiny farm, this is a very useful reference on how to improve yields and efficiency. 228 pages.
Sugar Snaps and Strawberries
by Andrea Bellamy, with photos by Jackie Connelly
Simple Solutions for Creating Your Own Small-Space Edible Garden. Vancouver-based garden lover (and founder of the blog Heavy Petal), Andrea Bellamy looks at all kinds of cool ways to increase the amount of organic food you can harvest from a small urban space. This is a very attractive and well laid-out book full of practical tips on container gardening, how to build raised beds, vertical growing, stretching the seasons, feeding the soil, dealing with pests, and lots more. The section on Edibles A to Z covers apples to zucchinis, and is worth the cover price on its own.
Signed copies now available!
224 pages.
The Backyard Homestead
By Carleen Madigan
Home-produced food almost always begins in the vegetable garden. So, too, begins "The Backyard Homestead". Planning charts and a thorough vegetable-by-vegetable growing guide are accompanied by simple techniques for canning, drying, and freezing the garden's bounty. The plant section continues with the hows, whens, and wheres of growing fruits, herbs, and nuts. Hardworking food growers will be delighted to reward themselves with healthful herbal teas and homemade wines and cordials. Recipes and simple techniques are included for the beginning home wine maker. Part two moves from plant to animal products, beginning with an overview of chicken keeping. Readers will find charts, lists, and helpful tips for collecting, storing, and using eggs, along with advice on butchering chickens and cooking the meat. Additional chapters focus on raising larger animals, such as cows, sheep, and goats, either for their meat or for their milk. Milk producers will find plenty of information on making simple yogurt, butter, and ice cream, as well as all the basics on getting started with cheese making. Additional information on rabbits and pigs rounds out the meat-raising sections. An overview of foraging and detailed information on installing and caring for honeybees wrap up "The Backyard Homestead". Storey's trusted advice on gardening, cooking, brewing, cheese making, and raising animals proves once and for all that it truly is possible to eat entirely from the backyard.
368 pages.
The Chicken Health Handbook
By Gail Damerow
Simply the best, most thorough reference to keeping chickens and keeping chickens healthy. Whether you have a backyard pair or a large farm flock, this book will help you learn how to hatch healthy chicks, provide proper nutrition, combat parasites, catch diseases and infections in their early stages, protect your birds from predators, build safe houses and yards, and much more. 344 pages.
"If you don't have any books on chickens, this is the only one you need. If you have a bookshelf full of books, you still need this one." - Poultry Press
The Edible Front Yard
by Ivette Soler
The Edible Front Yard helps you combine the loveliest and tastiest edibles and ornamentals in a garden that is a year-round feast for the eyes. Soler teaches all the tricks, from laying out the design and choosing the best front yard plants, to clear instruction for a bounty of exciting projects like a fragrant carpet of herbs, a trellis privacy screen using runner beans, and an eye-catching raised bed that turns the hellstrip into a little patch of paradise. From the curb right up to your front door, the information in these pages includes everything you need to have a beautiful front yard and eat it too!
214 pages.
The Family Kitchen Garden
By Karen Liebreich, Jutta Wagner, and Annette Wendland
Everyone wants healthy children who choose potatoes over chips and oranges over Oreos, but it isn't always easy to convince a picky child to try something new. The Family Kitchen Garden integrates the garden and kitchen in a simple, fun way that parents and children can enjoy together. By teaching kids how to garden, they will be more likely to eat what they grow -- what a rewarding way to encourage healthy foods! Unlike other guides to gardening with children, these are not simple projects just for kids. Rather, the authors believe that kids can do -- and will enjoy -- the same type of gardening that adults do. Part One focuses on the nitty-gritty of gardening with kids: how to keep sessions short, tips on how much to grow, and important safety precautions. Part Two is a month-by-month guide on what to sow, plant, harvest, and eat. Seasonal recipes include nutritious, kid-friendly foods like parsnip chips, rhubarb cake, and homemade ketchup. Part Three is an A-Z guide to vegetables, fruit, herbs, and flowers. Icons note which are plants particularly easy to grow and suitable for young children.
The Family Kitchen Garden is for parents who want to get their kids outside and for families looking for simple ways to lead a healthier life. Grab your kids and get gardening! 224 pages.
Vertical Gardening
By Derek Fell
Vertical gardening is an innovative, effortless, and highly productive growing system that uses bottoom-up and top-down supports for a wide variety of plants in both small and large garden spaces. Fell has experimented with thousands of vegetable, fruit, and flowering plants, and he recommends the best climbers for space-saving vertical gardens. In addition, many ground-level plants make good companions underneath and alongside climbing plants, so you can combine different types of plants to create a lush curtain of flowers, foliage, and fruits.
6.5 x 9", 372 pages.
Your Farm in the City
by Lisa Taylor
Got a few feet of space in the sun? That's all you need to grow bowls of gourmet salad, a basket of heirloom tomatoes, an armful of green beans, and a big batch of herbs. Or you could raise two hens for nearly 600 fresh eggs a year. Or keep bees and harvest more honey than your family can eat. Written specifically for city dwellers, this great resource tells how to grow organic produce, raise livestock (including chickens, ducks, rabbits, and goats), and even run a small farm in any urban environment, from a rooftop or window box to a city lot or backyard.
336 pages.