Edible Landscaping
10 best books like Edible Landscaping (Rosalind Creasy): Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us, Quichotte, Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-scale Permaculture, French Women Don't Get Fat: The Secret of Eating for Pleasure, The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks, The Beautiful Edible Garden: Design A Stylish Outdoor Space Using Vegetables, Fruits, and Herbs, Room on the Broom, Teaming with Microbes: A Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web, The Backyard Homestead: Produce All the Food You Need on Just a Quarter Acre!, Trick or Treat, Pout-Pout Fish
Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
| Author | Michael Moss |
| ISBN | 1400069807 |
Every year, the average American eats 33 pounds of cheese and 70 pounds of sugar. They ingest 8,500 milligrams of salt a day, double the recommended amount, almost none of which comes from salt shakers. It comes from processed food, an industry that hauls in $1 trillion in annual sales.
In Salt...
In a tour-de-force that is both an homage to an immortal work of literature and a modern masterpiece about the quest for love and family, Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie has created a dazzling Don Quixote for the modern age.
Inspired by the Cervantes...
| Author | Toby Hemenway |
| ISBN | 1890132527 |
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...
French Women Don't Get Fat: The Secret of Eating for Pleasure
| Author | Mireille Guiliano |
| ISBN | 0375435484 |
So, two winters ago when I started to put on a little weight, I didn't sweat it at first. I figured "hey, it's normal to put on a few pounds when it's cold out." But when one morning I had difficulty zipping up my pants, I decided to get serious and apply the ideas from this book.
Confession: in the past,...
The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks
| Author | Amy Stewart |
| ISBN | 1616200464 |
Every great drink starts with a plant. Sake began with a grain of rice. Scotch emerged from barley. Gin was born from a conifer shrub when a Dutch physician added oil of juniper to a clear spirit, believing that juniper berries would cure kidney disorders. "The Drunken Botanist" uncovers the enlightening...
| Author | Leslie Bennett |
| ISBN | 1607742330 |
From the founders of landscape design firm Star Apple Edible & Fine Gardening in the San Francisco Bay Area comes a stylish, beautifully-photographed guide to artfully incorporating organic vegetables, fruits, and herbs into an attractive modern garden design.
We’ve all seen the...
| Author | Julia Donaldson |
| ISBN | 0142501123 |
The witch and her cat are happily flying through the sky on a broomstick when the wind picks up and blows away the witch's hat, then her bow, and then her wand! Luckily, three helpful animals find the missing items, and all they want in return is a ride on the broom. But is there room on the broom for so many...
| Author | Jeff Lowenfels |
| ISBN | 0881927775 |
Smart gardeners know that soil is anything but an inert substance. Healthy soil is teeming with life — not just earthworms and insects, but a staggering multitude of bacteria, fungi, and other microorganisms. When we use chemical fertilizers, we injure the microbial life that sustains healthy...
The Backyard Homestead: Produce All the Food You Need on Just a Quarter Acre!
| Author | Carleen Madigan |
| ISBN | 1603421386 |
This book didn't work for me for a number of reasons...
1. This book tries to do the old "everything for everyone" feat, and fails. Too many topics are (attempted to be) covered in the single volume, so that each is dealt with only superficially.
2. Related to the first issue, topics are...
Trick or Treat, Pout-Pout Fish
| Author | Deborah Diesen |
| ISBN | 0374301913 |
A short and sweet mini-adventure especially created to introduce the youngest guppies to the popular Pout-Pout Fish.
It's Halloween under the sea! Mr. Fish is wearing his costume, but what is he dressed as? A goblin? An astronaut in space? A pirate at the helm of the spooky submarine? Tiny tots...
