Gardening Books

Keeping the Harvest

Keeping the Harvest: Discover the Homegrown Goodness of Putting Up Your Own Fruits, Vegetables & Herbs by Nancy Chioffi, Gretchen Mead   Ilustrated step-by-step instructions explain the techniques for canning, freezing, drying, and...

Let It Rot!: The Gardener's Guide to Composting (Third Edition)

By Stu Campbell Stu Campbell provides an in-depth explanation of how composting works and offers clear instructions for a variety of both traditional and modern methods for successfully creating your own compost.   Transform leaves, grass, and...

Medicinal Herbs for Family Health and Wellness: 123 Trusted Recipes for Common Concerns, from Allergies and Asthma to Sunburns and Toothaches

By JJ Pursell JJ Pursell, the bestselling author of The Herbal Apothecary and a trusted naturopath, shares 75 recipes for whole family health. All recipes are tailored to the needs of women, men, kids, babies, and the elderly. “A great...

Medicinal Herbs for Immune Defense: 104 Trusted Recipes for Fighting Colds, Flus, Fevers, and More

By JJ Pursell JJ Pursell, the bestselling author of The Herbal Apothecary and a trusted naturopath, shares 104 recipes that support immune defense. Includes antiviral medicine and safe solutions for common concerns like the flu, the common...

Midwest Medicinal Plants: Identify, Harvest, and Use 109 Wild Herbs for Health and Wellness

By Lisa M. Rose Midwest Medicinal Plants is an indispensable guide to finding, identifying, and using the wild medicinal plants of the heartland.   “This comprehensive, accessible, full-color guide includes plant profiles, step-by-step...

Mini Meadows

By Mike Lizotte   Create low-cost, low-maintenance flower-filled plots around the yard that provide habitat for pollinators, reduce mowing, and address problem areas with special plantings for shady, damp, erosion-prone, or deer-susceptible...

My First Book of Growing Food

by duopress labs, Åsa Gilland   An innovative, fully recyclable board book for babies and toddlers that introduces how to grow food at home and helps children connect with the natural world.Introducing Terra Babies at Home, a new...

No-Till Intensive Vegetable Culture

No-Till Intensive Vegetable Culture: Pesticide-Free Methods for Restoring Soil and Growing Nutrient-Rich, High-Yielding CropsBy Bryan O'Hara From a veteran organic grower: a unique agricultural methodology that delivers higher yields, higher...

Plant Grow Harvest Repeat

Plant Grow Harvest Repeat: Grow a Bounty of Vegetables, Fruits, and Flowers by Mastering the Art of Succession Planting by Meg McAndrews Cowden   In Plant Grow Harvest Repeat, home gardeners will learn how the principle of...

Plant Partners: Science-Based Companion Planting Strategies for the Vegetable Garden

By Jessica Walliser, Jeff Gillman   Reflecting the latest research on how plants influence and communicate with each other, Jessica Walliser offers a research-based guide to companion planting—a gardening method that uses strategic...

Recipes from the Root Cellar

Recipes from the Root Cellar by Andrea Chesman With this collection of more than 250 recipes, veteran cookbook author and gardening enthusiast Andrea Chesman deliciously demonstrates how locavores in all parts of North America can eat...

Roots, Shoots, Buckets & Boots: Gardening Together with Children

By Sharon Lovejoy Here are 12 spirited, easy-to-implement ideas for theme gardens that parents and kids can grow together, connecting children to nature through gardening. Each project includes a plan and the planting recipe--as well as a "Discovery...

Rosemary Gladstar's Medicinal Herbs: A Beginner's Guide: 33 Healing Herbs to Know, Grow, and Use

By Rosemary Gladstar   With this bestselling book by Rosemary Gladstar, the godmother of modern herbalism, learn how to grow, harvest, prepare, and use the 33 most common and versatile healing plants. Everyone will love this guide to inexpensive...

Seed to Seed

By Suzanne Ashworth Foreword by Kent Whealy Photographs by David Cavagnaro Seed to Seed is a complete seed-saving guide that describes specific techniques for saving the seeds of 160 different vegetables. This book...

Shallow-Pit Garden Composting: The Easy, No-Smell, No-Turning Way to Create Organic Compost For Your Garden

By Caleb Warnock Learn how to make your own shallow pit garden compost . . . without the smell! Many gardeners give up making backyard compost in frustration—the compost pile smells, it requires too much work to turn the heap, and the...