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Books > Health, Home & Family > Gardening > Specialized gardening methods
Millions of people are interested in natural and holistic health,
yet many are missing out on the key ingredient: Nature itself!
Rekindle your connection with the earth as you craft your own
herbal medicine with 75 delicious recipes and powerful healing
remedies. Herbalists Rosalee de la Foret and Emily Han expertly
guide you through the benefits of two dozen of the most important
and commonly found wild plants-many of which you can easily grow in
your own garden, if foraging isn't right for you. Detailed
illustrations and beautiful photography ensure that you won't make
a plant-identification misstep as you learn how to tend and
properly harvest the plant medicine growing right in your own
neighborhood. After reading Wild Remedies, you'll never look at
your backyard, a public park, or any green space in the same way
again. Instead of "weeds," you'll see delicious foods like
Dandelion Maple Syrup Cake, Nettle Frittata, and Chickweed Pesto.
You will revel in nature's pharmacy as you make herbal oils,
salves, teas, and many more powerful remedies in your own kitchen.
"Offering clear and comprehensive instructions for low-tech growing
for a range of budgets, interests, and scales, this book offers
practical inspiration and a sense that "hey, I can do this!" --
DANIELLE STEVENSON, owner, DIY Fungi DIY Mushroom Cultivation is
full of proven, reliable, low-cost techniques for home-scale
cultivation that eliminate the need for a clean-air lab space to
grow various mushrooms and their mycelium. Beautiful full-color
photos and step-by-step instructions accompany a foundation of
mushroom biology and ecology to support a holistic understanding of
the practice. Growing techniques are applicable year-round, for any
space from house to apartment, and for any climate, budget, or
goal. Techniques include: Setting up a home growing space
Inexpensive, simple DIY equipment Culture creation from mushroom
tissue or spores Growing and using liquid cultures and grain spawn
Growing mushrooms on waste streams Indoor fruiting Outdoor mushroom
gardens and logs Harvesting, processing, tinctures, and cooking.
Whether you hunt mushrooms or dream about growing and working with
them but feel constrained by a small living space, DIY Mushroom
Cultivation is the ideal guide for getting started in the
fascinating and delicious world of fungiculture.
One of House & Garden's book picks for 2020: 'Whether you dream
of a Mediterranean oasis, a rose-filled retreat or a tropical
jungle, Green will help you to make the most of your space, proving
that small can indeed be beautiful.' One of Daily Mail's best books
of the year: 'Can a really small space ever be turned into a
beautiful garden? Fashionable garden designer Ula Maria shows how
even the tiniest balcony or courtyard can become something special.
Featuring numerous case histories and practical advice on storage,
paving, furniture and lighting, this is an excellent reference
source for anyone with limited space and big dreams.' 'Garden
designer Ula Maria takes us on a safari through small but perfectly
formed oases...to inspire your very own Eden.' - Elle Deco 'Urban
garden design has inspired books ever since the Victorians started
to green their sprawling new neighbourhoods. But where Maria's
Green differs is that it focuses on the possibilities of growing in
small spaces rather than the restrictions. The 22 gardens she has
brought together (by various designers) erupt with potential...In
Green urban gardens, so often prone to a twinge of pity from those
who tend larger, more rural spaces, become deeply aspirational.' -
Alice Vincent, the Daily Telegraph 'A must for apprehensive city
gardeners and for anyone wanting to make the most out of their
outdoor space, no matter how small it might be. [...] Flicking
through it feels almost as enjoyable and relaxing as sitting in the
garden.' - Gardens Illustrated 'The first book from rising star Ula
Maria tackles the perennial challenge of how to create a garden in
a small space. [...] Whether you dream of a Mediterranean oasis, a
rose-filled retreat or a tropical jungle, Green will help you to
make the most of your space, proving that small can indeed be
beautiful.' - House & Garden 'Spending so much time outdoors in
my childhood made me think of a garden as a natural extension of my
home - an inseparable part of everyday life. It wasn't until I
moved into a rented property in the city that I felt an undeniable
urge to make the most of the little exterior space that we had and
re-evaluate it. In time, creating outdoor spaces that people truly
care for, no matter how small or large, became much more rewarding
than perfecting any indoor space. Many say that a home is a true
reflection of self, but I believe it is the garden, where
personalities and relationships with our surroundings truly
blossom.' - Ula Maria In Green, Ula Maria takes a completely fresh
look at creating a garden in whatever outdoor space is available -
be it a roof terrace, balcony, small back yard or patio. Perfect
for first-time gardeners, the book approaches creating a garden as
if decorating a room - exploring how to work with scale, colour and
texture, to choosing the plants that will thrive in an urban space.
At the heart of the book are 22 genuinely small and innovative
gardens with a dazzling range of ideas to copy - from a small
backyard garden using reclaimed timber, evergreens and grasses to a
rental rooftop terrace in the heart of the city where a
cottage-style garden has been created in simple containers. Using
low-maintenance plants and affordable furniture, lighting and
containers, Green offers simple solutions that don't involve major
structural work but will quickly result in a stylish and hugely
rewarding urban sanctuary. The book was shot by award-winning
photographer, Jason Ingram.
Gardening Under Lights details everything a gardener or hobbyist
needs to know to garden indoors. Part One starts with the basics of
photosynthesis, the science of light, and how to accurately measure
how much light a plant needs. Part Two provides an overview of the
most up-to-date tools and gear available. Parts Three and Four
offer tips and techniques for growing popular ornamental plants
(orchids, succulents, bonsai, and more) and edible plants (arugula,
cannabis, oregano, tomatoes, and more) independent of the
constraints of volatile outdoor conditions. Gardening Under Lights
is a highly-detailed, accessible guide for seed starters, plant
collectors, and anyone who wants to successfully garden indoors.
A joyous book - Alan Titchmarsh Bright, colourful and boundlessly
enthusiastic, this is also a practical guide to making your garden
a refuge for wildlife to fit all plots. - Chris Packham 'The
Wildlife Gardner' is a book which helps you to create wildlife
habitats in your very own garden, and is very handily split into
sections on shelter, food and water. Kate gives advice on the best
nectar and pollen plants to grow, dos and don'ts of bird feeding
and organic methods of pest control.There are also 10 step-by-step
projects that will help encourage wildlife into your garden, such
as: creating a bumblebee nester, making a green roof and building a
hedgehog box. With step-by-step pictures to help you follow the
instructions, these homely creations are all achievable in a
weekend and are suitable for even the smallest gardens. Also
included is a mini field guide, which will help you to identify the
birds and other creatures that you are likely to spot in your
garden. Kate gives tips on particular species, explaining what to
look out for and how to cater for specific birds, mammals, bees,
butterflies, moths and pond life. 'The Wildlife Gardener' is a
passionately written, practical book that is essential reading for
those who would like to make homes for wildlife in their garden.
'A beautifully photographed guide for gardeners' - Daily Telegraph
'Nick offers solutions for every season' - Country Living 'A
thought-provoking and beautifully written book' - Fergus Garrett,
Head Gardener, Great Dixter In 365 Days of Colour in Your Garden
BBC Gardeners' World presenter Nick Bailey shows you how to plant
and manage your garden, whatever its size, to ensure year-round
colour and interest. Initially explaining simple colour theory
principles and how to apply them to your garden, the book goes on
to highlight beautiful plants and planting combinations for every
season no matter what type of garden you have. With chapters
covering the longest flowering plants, pot recipes and gorgeous
plants for difficult sites, along with a comprehensive seasonal
directory, this book will inspire and delight both experienced
gardeners and beginners alike.
Enjoy your favorite container plants year after year! From
geraniums to fuchsias and beyond, many container plants can be
overwintered and enjoyed again the next season. Alice and Brian
McGowan offer simple techniques for overwintering a variety of
common tender perennial plants based on what kind of dormancy the
plants go through in their native environment. With a
plant-by-plant guide for quick reference, this Storey BASICS(R)
guide will inspire you to create a stunningly varied container
garden that comes to life every spring.
Piet Oudolf, one of world's most visionary and influential
landscape gardeners, is at the forefront of the New Perennial
planting movement. This glorious full-colour volume features
twenty-three of Oudolf's most beautiful public and private gardens.
Noel Kingsbury's accessible text places Oudolf's work in context,
and explains how each garden and the plants selected for it fit the
specific environment, while Oudolf's detailed plans provide
inspiration and insight for all those interested in small personal
gardens and the design of large-scale public landscapes alike.
"A simple, down-to-earth introduction to the method of biodynamic
gardening especially written for the backyard gardener." Long out
of print, this classic introduction to biodynamic gardening
introduces the gardener to an obvious, often forgotten principle:
gardening is about living things, life forces, and life as such. In
his introduction, John Philbrick talks of how each morning he was
in the habit of meditating and communing in his garden at sunrise,
until he gradually realized that the important things at work were
"the forces of life"-"life is the key to existence on this planet."
He also realized that most gardeners were more concerned with
death, with getting rid of things -bugs, weeds, fungi -than with
life. Biodynamics is based on the interrelatedness, or the
dynamics, of life forces. As Philbrick says: When you become aware
of biodynamics, you become aware that everything that is alive is
dependent upon everything else that's alive, and it's all a
marvelous network of living things which are constantly changing.
This book provides a simple and practical guide for the beginning
gardener. It deals with planning a vegetable garden: how, when, and
where to plant seeds and tools and compost making raised beds crop
rotation, mulching, and companion plants harvesting, cooking, and
preserving There are also sections on flowers, lawns, and home
orchards. GARDENING FOR HEALTH & NUTRITION concludes with a
useful chapter on "most frequently asked questions." If you are
planning a garden-or need a few tips for the one you have, this is
the book for you.
With carbon farming, agriculture ceases to be part of the climate
problem and becomes a critical part of the solution "This book is
the toolkit for making the soil itself a sponge for carbon. It's a
powerful vision."-Bill McKibben "The Carbon Farming Solution is a
book we will look back upon decades from now and wonder why
something so critically relevant could have been so overlooked
until that time. . . . [It] describes the foundation of the future
of civilization."-Paul Hawken In this groundbreaking book, Eric
Toensmeier argues that agriculture-specifically, the subset of
practices known as "carbon farming"-can, and should be, a linchpin
of a global climate solutions platform. Carbon farming is a suite
of agricultural practices and crops that sequester carbon in the
soil and in above-ground biomass. Combined with a massive reduction
in fossil fuel emissions-and in concert with adaptation strategies
to our changing environment- carbon farming has the potential to
bring us back from the brink of disaster and return our atmosphere
to the "magic number" of 350 parts per million of carbon dioxide.
Toensmeier's book is the first to bring together these powerful
strategies in one place. Includes in-depth analysis of the
available research. Carbon farming can take many forms. The
simplest practices involve modifications to annual crop production.
Although many of these modifications have relatively low
sequestration potential, they are widely applicable and easily
adopted, and thus have excellent potential to mitigate climate
change if practiced on a global scale. Likewise, grazing systems
such as silvopasture are easily replicable, don't require
significant changes to human diet, and-given the amount of
agricultural land worldwide that is devoted to pasture-can be
important strategies in the carbon farming arsenal. But by far,
agroforestry practices and perennial crops present the best
opportunities for sequestration. While many of these systems are
challenging to establish and manage, and would require us to change
our diets to new and largely unfamiliar perennial crops, they also
offer huge potential that has been almost entirely ignored by
climate crusaders. Many of these carbon farming practices are
already implemented globally on a scale of millions of hectares.
These are not minor or marginal efforts, but win-win solutions that
provide food, fodder, and feedstocks while fostering community
self-reliance, creating jobs, protecting biodiversity, and
repairing degraded land-all while sequestering carbon, reducing
emissions, and ultimately contributing to a climate that will
remain amenable to human civilization. Just as importantly to a
livable future, these crops and practices can contribute to broader
social goals such as women's empowerment, food sovereignty, and
climate justice. The Carbon Farming Solution is-at its root-a
toolkit and the most complete collection of climate-friendly crops
and practices currently available. With this toolkit, farmers,
communities, and governments large and small, can successfully
launch carbon farming projects with the most appropriate crops and
practices to their climate, locale, and socioeconomic needs.
Toensmeier's ultimate goal is to place carbon farming firmly in the
center of the climate solutions platform, alongside clean solar and
wind energy. With The Carbon Farming Solution, Toensmeier wants to
change the discussion, impact policy decisions, and steer
mitigation funds to the research, projects, and people around the
world who envision a future where agriculture becomes the
protagonist in this fraught, urgent, and unprecedented drama of our
time. Citizens, farmers, and funders will be inspired to use the
tools presented in this important book to transform degraded lands
around the world into productive carbon-storing landscapes.
To ensure food security and restore the health of the planet, we
need to move beyond industrial agriculture and return to the
practice of small-scale, local farming. Bioshelter Market Garden: A
Permaculture Farm describes the creation of a sustainable food
system through a detailed case study of the successful year-round
organic market garden and permaculture design at Pennsylvania's
Three Sisters Farm. At the heart of Three Sisters is its
bioshelter--a solar greenhouse that integrates growing facilities,
poultry housing, a potting room, storage, kitchen facilities,
compost bins, a reference library, and classroom area. Bioshelter
Market Garden examines how the bioshelter promotes greater
biodiversity and is an energy-efficient method of extending crop
production through Pennsylvania's cold winter months. Both
visionary and practical, this fully illustrated book contains a
wealth of information on the application of permaculture
principles. Some of the topics covered include: * Design and
management of an intensive market garden farm * Energy systems and
biothermal resources * Ecological soil management and pest control
* Wetlands usage * Solar greenhouse design and management Whatever
your gardening experience and ambitions, this comprehensive manual
is sure to inform and inspire. Darrell Frey is the owner and
manager of Three Sisters Farm, a five-acre permaculture farm, solar
greenhouse, and market garden located in western Pennsylvania.
Darrell writes extensively on permaculture design and ecological
land use planning and has been a sustainable community development
consultant and permaculture teacher for twenty-five years.
No matter how big or small a garden is, there is always room for a
container. They are available in a wide range of styles and sizes
and encompass everything from urns, troughs, planters and tubs, to
hanging baskets, window boxes and wall pots. They can be used on
terraces and patios to soften their appearance, form a point of
interest at the end of a path or showcase a particularly wonderful
plant. Whatever is needed in a garden, a container can be the
answer!Home Gardener's Container Gardens covers everything that you
need to know about container gardening - from the basics of which
container to choose, guidance on seasonal displays and creating a
herb garden to container water features, indoor hanging baskets and
planting a strawberry barrel. There is also invaluable information
on looking after plants, raising new plants, fixing brackets and
supports and pests and diseases.
In order to be a successful gardener you have to know how to prune
- whether to improve growth, increase fruiting qualities or to
enable the plant to grow in space-restricted areas or cold
environments. This practical book provides advice on pruning garden
plants, from infancy to maturity.Included is detailed advice on
renovating neglected plants, from shrubs and climbers to fruit
trees and bushes. There is also a fun element, with instructions
for creating topiary in the garden.
For those without the time or stamina to spend hours maintaining a
garden, well-known experts Alan and Gill Bridgewater offer an
easy-care method with minimal digging and weeding. They show how to
make raised beds, build up soil with mushroom compost, cover weeds
with mulch, and protect plants with nets and plastic--all using
organic methods whenever possible. A must for every gardener.
Ponds and water features have been popular in gardens for thousands
of years. This book is aimed at anyone who is thinking of building
a pond, anyone who has bought some of the materials but doesn't
know how to start or anyone who has a pond and needs to know how to
keep it at its best.The book starts with the basics of assessing
the garden, checking the site, planning and preparation, tools and
materials and electrical wiring and safety. With the basics
established the authors introduce the many different types of pond
and how they can be created, maintained and enhanced.From
split-level ponds to wildlife ponds, plant and fish and adding
sculptures, bird houses, stones and bridges, each subject is
presented in a clear way with box features, lists and questions and
answers. The final chapter looks at water features - a rock pool or
stream for a large garden or a small wall mask or trough for a tiny
back garden.
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