Eat More Dirt: Diverting and Instructive Tips for Growing and Tending an Organic Garden
10 best books like Eat More Dirt: Diverting and Instructive Tips for Growing and Tending an Organic Garden (Ellen Sandbeck): Food Not Lawns: How to Turn Your Yard Into a Garden and Your Neighborhood Into a Community, Roses Love Garlic: Companion Planting and Other Secrets of Flowers, Roots, Shoots, Buckets Boots: Gardening Together with Children, The New Self-Sufficient Gardener, The Edible Front Yard: The Mow-Less, Grow-More Plan for a Beautiful, Bountiful Garden, Starter Vegetable Gardens: 24 No-Fail Plans for Small Organic Gardens, Week-by-Week Vegetable Gardener's Handbook: Perfectly Timed Gardening for Your Most Bountiful Harvest Ever, Fresh Food from Small Spaces: The Square-Inch Gardener's Guide to Year-Round Growing, Fermenting, and Sprouting, Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades: The Complete Guide to Natural Gardening, The Organic Gardener's Handbook of Natural Insect and Disease Control: A Complete Problem-Solving Guide to Keeping Your Garden and Yard Healthy Without Chemicals
Gardening can be a political act. Creativity, fulfillment, connection, revolution--it all begins when we get our hands in the dirt.
Food Not Lawns combines practical wisdom on ecological design and community-building with a fresh, green perspective on an age-old subject. Activist and...
Roses Love Garlic: Companion Planting and Other Secrets of Flowers
| Author | Louise Riotte |
| ISBN | 1580170285 |
From deterring insect pests with hot peppers to encouraging strawberries by bordering them with chrysanthemums, Louise Riotte shows you how to use the natural qualities of common plants to increase your garden’s productivity. Roses Love Garlic profiles hundreds of plants, features sample garden...
| Author | Sharon Lovejoy |
| ISBN | 0761110569 |
Plant a pumpkinseed with a child, and cultivate wonder. This simple act of reconnecting with children with nature is Sharon Lovejoy's purpose and joy and gift. Author of Sunflower Houses: Garden Discoveries for Children of All Ages and Hollyhock Days: Garden Adventures for the Young at Heart, Sharon...
The New Self-Sufficient Gardener
| Author | John Seymour |
| ISBN | 1405321334 |
When Seymour sets out to write a book about self-sufficiency in the home garden he leaves no stone un-turned. I would recommend this book for someone with a foundation in gardening although he does address the basics such as soil structure, plot layouts and compost creation. The book is straight-forward...
| Author | Ivette Soler |
| ISBN | 1604691999 |
“Front lawns, beware: The Germinatrix has you in her crosshairs! Ivette Soler is a welcome voice urging us to mow less and grow some food—in her uniquely fun, infectious yet informative way.” —Garden Rant
People everywhere are turning patches of soil into bountiful vegetable gardens,...
Starter Vegetable Gardens: 24 No-Fail Plans for Small Organic Gardens
| Author | Barbara Pleasant |
| ISBN | 1603425292 |
Develop your green thumb as you learn to grow your own food. In this introductory guide to growing vegetables, Barbara Pleasant addresses common problems that first-time gardeners encounter. Using simple language and illustrated garden layouts, Pleasant shows you how to start, maintain, and eventually...
| Author | Ron Kujawski |
| ISBN | 1603426949 |
Whether you’re a seasoned gardener determined to increase crop yields or starting your very first vegetable garden, the Week-by-Week Vegetable Gardener’s Handbook will help you manage your schedule and prioritize what’s important. Detailed weekly to-do lists break gardening down into...
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...
| Author | Steve Solomon |
| ISBN | 1570612404 |
This is the bible of vegetable gardening for anyone turning the soil west of the Cascade Mountains -- from Western British Columbia to Northern California. It includes the basics of soil, when best to plant, the art of composting, what varieties grow well here, which seed companies are reliable, information...
The Organic Gardener's Handbook of Natural Insect and Disease Control: A Complete Problem-Solving Guide to Keeping Your Garden and Yard Healthy Without Chemicals
| Author | Fern Marshall Bradley |
| ISBN | 0875967531 |
End your worries about garden problems with safe, effective solutions from The Organic Gardener's Handbook of Natural Insect and Disease Control!
* Easy-to-use problem-solving encyclopedia covers more than 200 vegetables, fruits, herbs, flowers, trees, and shrubs
* Complete directions...
Toolbox for Sustainable City Living: A Do-It-Ourselves Guide
| Author | Scott Kellogg |
| ISBN | 0896087808 |
The tools you need to create self-sufficient, ecologically sustainable cities
“A surprisingly effective model for connecting people with dreams to the resources they need.” —Austin Chronicle
With more than half the world’s population now residing—and struggling...
Eat Here: Reclaiming Homegrown Pleasures in a Global Supermarket
| Author | Brian Halweil |
| ISBN | 0393326640 |
Everyone everywhere depends increasingly on long-distance food. Since 1961 the tonnage of food shipped between nations has grown fourfold. In the United States, food typically travels between 1,500 and 2,500 miles from farm to plate—as much as 25 percent farther than in 1980. For some, the long-distance...
| Author | Norman Wirzba |
| ISBN | 1593760434 |
Agrarian philosophy, a compelling worldview with advocates around the globe, encourages us to develop practices and policies that promote the sustainable health of the land, community, and culture. In this remarkable anthology are fifteen essays from Wendell Berry, Vandana Shiva, Wes Jackson,...
| Author | Dave Jacke |
| ISBN | 1931498806 |
"Edible Forest Gardens" is a groundbreaking two-volume work that spells out and explores the key concepts of forest ecology and applies them to the needs of natural gardeners in temperate climates. Volume I lays out the vision of the forest garden and explains the basic ecological principles that...
| Author | Mary Appelhof |
| ISBN | 1612129471 |
For more than three decades, this best-selling guide to the practice of vermicomposting has taught people how to use worms to recycle food waste into nutrient-rich fertilizer for houseplants or gardens. Small-scale, self-contained worm bins can be kept indoors, in a basement or even under the kitchen...
The Gardener's A-Z Guide to Growing Organic Food: 765 varities of vegetables, herbs, fruits, and nuts
| Author | Tanya Denckla Cobb |
| ISBN | 1580173705 |
Enjoy the pleasures of growing your own delicious organic food. This plant-by-plant guide includes profiles of more than 765 tasty varieties of vegetables, herbs, fruits, and nuts. In addition to expert advice on selecting suitable plants and growing, harvesting, and storing them, this invaluable...
Backyard Orchardist: A Complete Guide to Growing Fruit Trees in the Home Garden
| Author | Stella Otto |
| ISBN | 0963452037 |
For every gardener desiring to add apples, pears, cherries, and other tree fruit to their landscape here are hints and solid information from a professional horticulturist and experienced fruit grower. The Backyard Orchardist includes help on selecting the best fruit trees and information about...
| Author | Gayla Trail |
| ISBN | 0743270142 |
This is not your grandmother's gardening book. You Grow Girl is a hip, humorous how-to for crafty gals everywhere who are discovering a passion for gardening but lack the know-how to turn their dreams of homegrown tomatoes and fresh-cut flowers into a reality.
Gayla Trail, creator of YouGrowGirl.com,...
Garden Anywhere: How to grow gorgeous container gardens, herb gardens, kitchen gardens, and more, without spending a fortune
| Author | Alys Fowler |
| ISBN | 0811868753 |
Have a small patch of soil? Or just a window box? Not a problem. Garden Anywhere shows how anyone can create an oasis in the smallest of spaces. We're not talking just a simple pot of marigolds, here. Garden Anywhere outlines everything an aspiring gardener needs to know to sow a bounteous, thriving garden....
One Magic Square: The Easy, Organic Way to Grow Your Own Food on a 3-Foot Square
| Author | Lolo Houbein |
| ISBN | 1615190120 |
A Hands-On Guide to Growing Organic Vegetables, Fruits and Herbs—Starting with Just One Square Yard!
Lolo Houbein has been growing food for more than 30 years—and now, drawing on her wide learning and hard-earned experience, she offers a wealth of information on how to turn small plots...
Don't Throw It, Grow It!: 68 Windowsill Plants From Kitchen Scraps
| Author | Deborah Peterson |
| ISBN | 1603420649 |
My dad always grew a series of avocado plants from the pit in water in the windowsill of our kitchen. I've always been the type to buy seeds and starts at a greenhouse or nursery, but when I saw this book, I thought I should give it a chance.
I had a difficult time reading this book because, for some...
The Earth Knows My Name: Food, Culture, and Sustainability in the Gardens of Ethnic Americans
| Author | Patricia Klindienst |
| ISBN | 0807085715 |
Patricia Klindienst crossed the country to write this book, inspired by a torn and faded photograph that shed new light on the story of her Italian immigrant family's struggle to adapt to America. She gathered the stories of urban, suburban, and rural gardens created by people rarely presented in books...
