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What makes a garden good? For Chris McLaughlin, it’s about
growing the healthiest, most scrumptious fruits and veggies
possible, but it’s also about giving back. How can your little
patch of Earth become a sanctuary for threatened wildlife,
sequester carbon, and nurture native plants? McLaughlin gives you
all the tricks and tips you need to grow the sustainable garden of
your dreams. Drawing from established traditions, such as
permaculture and French intensive gardening, and McLaughlin’s
hard-earned experience, The Good Garden is a joyful guide for
newbies and experienced gardeners alike. It will teach you the
fundamentals, including how to choose the right plant varieties for
your microclimate, and proven methods to fight pests without
chemicals. You will also discover the nuances of developing a green
thumb, from picking species to attract specific types of
pollinators to composting techniques based on time available.
Lovely four-colour photography will show you good gardening in
action. Most importantly, The Good Garden will help you foster a
sense of meaning in your garden. Maybe the goal is to reduce food
miles and plastic waste by growing delicious berries. Maybe it’s
to meet neighbours who also care about the planet through a
seed-swap. Maybe it’s a quiet moment patting the bunny whose
manure will replace toxic fertilisers in the soil. A good garden
offers endless possibilities, and The Good Garden offers a wealth
of knowledge and inspiration.
Home-grown botanical dyes are in, and they're part of today's shift
toward natural and organic living. "A new generation discovers
grow-it-yourself dyes," says the New York Times. And you don't have
to have a degree in chemistry to create your own natural dyes. It
just takes a garden plot and a kitchen. A Garden to Dye For shows
how super-simple it is to plant and grow a dyer's garden and create
beautiful dyes. Many of these plants may already be in our cutting,
cottage or food gardens, ready for double duty. These special
plants can fit right in with traditional garden themes. A Garden to
Dye For features 40-plus plants that the gardener-crafter can grow
for an all-natural, customized color palette. A dyer's garden can
be a mosaic of flowers, herbs, roots and fruits that lend us their
pigments to beautify other areas of our lives. The richly
photographed book is divided between the garden and the dye
process, with garden layouts, plant profiles, dye extraction and
uses, step-by-step recipes and original, engaging DIY projects.
This is the book that bridges the topic of plant dyes to mainstream
gardeners, the folks who enjoy growing the plants as much as using
them in craft projects. www.agardentodyefor; and on Facebook: A
Garden to Dye For.
On August 29, 2005, the worst natural disaster in the history of
the United States devastated the city of New Orleans and the Gulf
Coast of Louisiana and Mississippi. Like many others in America and
around the world, Chris McLaughlin watched the tragedy of Katrina
unfold on a television screen from the comfort of her living room
on Cape Cod in Massachusetts. In the devastation afterwards, almost
2,000 people and an estimated 250,000 animals had perished.
Miraculously, many pets did manage to survive. But in the months
that followed the hurricane, thousands of them were fending for
themselves in the ruins of devastated neighborhoods. They roamed
the streets in feral packs or struck out alone. Their plight
triggered a grassroots rescue effort unlike any this country had
ever seen, and while relief organizations such as the Red Cross
were tending to the human survivors, and movie stars and
celebrities were airlifting food and endorsing seven-figure checks,
a much smaller and meagerly funded effort was underway to save the
four-legged victims. With no prior experience in disaster response
and no real grasp of the hell that awaited them, scores of animal
lovers, including McLaughlin, made their way to the Gulf Coast to
help in any way they could. Including photos from four-time
Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Carol Guzy, Mississippi
Barking spans the course of two years as McLaughlin and others
ventured into the wreckage of the Gulf Coast to rescue the animals
left behind. McLaughlin tells the moving stories of the people she
met along the way, both those who lost everything to the hurricane
and those working beside her rescuing and transporting animals away
from the neglected, derelict conditions in which they barely
survived. Within this story of tragedy and cruelty, suffering and
ignorance, Mississippi Barking also bears witness to selfless acts
of bravery and compassion, and the beauty and heroics of those who
risked everything to save the animals that could not save
themselves.
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Hobby Farm Animals (Paperback)
Sue Weaver, Ann Larkin Hansen, Cherie Langlois, Arie B. McFarlen, Chris McLaughlin
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Eggs, meat, milk, wool, fur, feathers, and some priceless bucolic
bliss. No hobby farm is complete without critters...possibly a
small herd peppering the field or a microflock flapping around the
hen house or pond. A single information-packed volume with
everything a hobby farmer needs to know about farm animals, this
new comprehensive manual to selecting, caring for, and breeding
livestock brings forth the expertise of six hobby farmers, each of
whom has real-life on-the-farm experience with the animals she
discusses. Whether you're contemplating adding a small herd of
sheep or goats to your existing hobby farm or you've always
wondered about the benefits of raising angora rabbits or Muscovy
ducks, Livestock for Your Hobby Farm provides the kind of guidance
you need to begin a herd or flock and expand your pens and fencing.
With exhaustive detail, the authors offer complete coverage of
chickens, ducks, goats, sheep, cattle, pigs, and rabbits, including
the housing, health-care, special needs, advantages and challenges
of each. -Extensive sections devoted to the seven major farm
animals, including profiles of the most popular breeds and
varieties -Detailed how-to chapters on the care, handling, feeding,
health, and safety of each animal -Special chapters devoted to the
breeding and raising of young animals -Recommendations for ways of
capitalizing on your livestock's output, from selling eggs, milk,
fiber, and so forth -Tips for troubleshooting potential problems
and warding off diseases, parasites, and predators
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