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Organic Food
Gardening Books
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Teaming with Microbes
(Lowenfels / Lewis)
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 plants and become increasingly dependent on an arsenal of artificial, often toxic, substances. But there is an alternative to this vicious cycle. We can garden in a way that strengthens the soil food web — the complex world of soil-dwelling organisms whose interactions create a nurturing environment for plants. |
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Teaming with Microbes extols the benefits of cultivating the soil food web. First, it clearly explains the activities and organisms that make up the web. Next, it explains how gardeners can cultivate the life of the soil through the use of compost, mulches, and compost tea. The revised edition updates the original text and includes two completely new chapters — on mycorrhizae (beneficial associations fungi form with green-leaved plants) and archaea (single-celled organisms once thought to be allied to bacteria).
With Jeff Lowenfels's help, everyone — from devotees of organic gardening techniques to weekend gardeners who simply want to grow healthy, vigorous plants without resorting to chemicals — can create rich, nurturing, living soil.
Jeff Lowenfels teaches home gardeners about the soil food web with a painless and extremely entertaining method. After just one hour, his audiences know how to return beneficial biology to their soils and why it is necessary to do so.
Wayne Lewis is a lifelong Alaskan gardener. He has worked with Jeff on many projects over the past 25 years, including the now national Plant a Row for the Hungry program (started in Anchorage by Jeff), which encourages gardeners to donate a portion of their harvest to charitable organizations in their community.
Hardcover, 220 pages. Book measures 6 x 9 inches (230 x 150 mm) and contains 88 color photos, plus 18 charts and diagrams. |
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Order #689113
Teaming with Microbes
(Lowenfels / Lewis)
24.95 |
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Rodale's
Ultimate Encyclopedia of
Organic Gardening
We all know that "going organic" is healthier for our bodies and our planet. And now, with Rodale's Ultimate Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening, it's never been easier to be "green"!
Rodale's Ultimate Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening has been the go-to resource for gardeners for more than 50 years. And now, this comprehensive guide has been fully updated with the most complete, practical, and up-to-the-minute organic information. |
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Whether you're an experienced organic gardener or just getting started, Rodale's Ultimate Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening is the best tool you can have to create a healthy, thriving, gorgeous garden - from fruit and vegetable crops to herbs to trees and shrubs, perennials, annuals, lawns, and so much more!
This thoroughly revised and utterly comprehensive edition highlights new organic pest controls, new fertilizer products, improved gardening techniques, the latest organic soil practices, and new trends in garden design.
Compiled by leading American gardening professionals, scientists, and botanists, Rodale's Ultimate Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening is the indispensable volume for anyone striving for gardening success the natural way. Measures 9 inches tall by 7.4 inches wide by 1.9 inches thick, 720 pages, softcover. 2009. |
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Order #ENCORG
Rodale's
Ultimate Encyclopedia
of Organic Gardening
24.95 |
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The Gardener's A-Z Guide
to Growing Organic Food
(Denckla)
Tanya Denckla presents a wealth of gardening information in an accessible format, while showing that creating a healthy soil and working with the earth's natural systems are the foundation of a productive, sustainable, and satisfying garden! |
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| This book concisely features organic cultivation information on 765 varieties of vegetables, herbs, fruits and nuts and provides formulas and techniques that control over 200 pests and diseases organically. Softcover. 485 pages. |
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Order #67370
The Gardener's A-Z Guide
to Growing Organic Food
(Denckla)
22.95 |
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Square Foot Gardening
(Bartholomew)
Over 800,000 copies sold! Say good-bye to the hard work and endless maintenance of gardening in long rows, and say hello to Square Foot Gardening. This easy, fool-proof, and ingenious method of gardening allows you to grow more vegetables than you ever thought possible in less space than a traditional garden takes.
With Square Foot Gardening, you build your garden in a series of 1-foot squares. Each square holds a different vegetable, fruit, or herb planted in quantities that you'll actually use. Gone are the long, labor-intensive rows that need to be thinned, weeded, and maintained over the growing season. |
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Gardening in the square means you won't need to thin because you'll only plant what you can use. You'll water less because there's no wasted space in the bed, and you'll weed in record time because you can reach weeds from all sides of the square bed. By replanting squares as soon as you harvest, you'll guarantee a steady crop of vegetables throughout the growing season. Best of all, there are no elaborate structures, tools, or equipment to buy when you start your square foot garden.
All it takes for this simple system to work is a little bit of planning, just an hour or two of maintenance each week, and a bundle of enthusiasm. Once you start square foot gardening, you'll join millions of other square foot gardeners who are enjoying gardens that are managable, beautiful, and productive all season long.
Author Mel Bartholomew is a retired businessman and engineer and an efficiency expert. He created the square foot gardening system to make gardening more simple and rewarding. He's received worldwide acclaim and recognition for his work with the nonprofit Square Foot Gardening Foundations. 346 pages, softcover. |
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Order #SFG900
Square Foot Gardening
(Bartholomew)
19.95 |
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Fruits and Berries
For The Home Garden
(Hill)
This no-nonsense guide to home fruit growing is now completely revised and updated. Lewis Hill writes with clarity, enthusiasm, and the authority gained from over 45 years of growing fruits, nuts, and berries.
Basic enough for novices and comprehensive enough for more experienced growers, the book features recommendations about new, improved fruit culitvars; effective and environmentally sound advice on how to fertilize plantings and control pests and |
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| diseases; complete information about what fruit to grow and where; recommendations on improving the soil, planting, pruning, thinning, and other year-round maintenance; and suggestions for harvesting, preserving and storage. Softcover. 266 pages. |
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Order #9865291
Fruits & Berries
For The Home Garden
(Hill)
18.95 |
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A White House
Garden Cookbook
(Silverstein)
Healthy ideas from the First Family for Your Family.
How do you get your kids to eat their vegetables? Michelle Obama knew she wasn't the only mother in America facing this challenge. She decided to put the question on the national table and suggest an answer: Get youngsters to the root of the matter. Let them help tend a kitchen garden, watch the lettuce grow and the berries ripen. Let them harvest the peas and help cook them as well. |
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This chronicle of the remarkable White House garden tracks it from dream time to real time, from planting to picking and planning again. We meet its dozens of vegetables, including descendants of seeds planted by Thomas Jefferson. We get to know the honey scraped from the hive of the First Family bees.
It boasts a fitting four score and seven recipes, most of them starring White House garden ingredients. A few recipes center on a food that did not grow in that first garden - for example, apples, because the Obamas enjoyed them baked, and in pies, and shared recipes for them.
Several recipes in this book come from a First Family kitchen, starting with Martha Washington's famous "great cake." Almost all of the recipes - especially those for serious green vegetables - come kid-tested and approved, some from the Obama dinner table and many from young gardener-cooks and their families from across the nation.
Children are willing to taste the weirdest things -- "no-cream creamed spinach," "garlicky greens," ratatouille and even salad, if they've helped coax their ingredients from the soil, picked them fresh from a market or even just joined Mommy or Daddy's Great Cooking Adventure.
Plant a kitchen garden or a few of your favorite herbs in a window box. Take your kids to a farmer's market. Try these recipes. Cook, eat and skip together. Do it for yourselves. Do it for your country.
Clara Silverstein is the author of The Boston Chef's Table, and she coauthored the New England Soup Factory Cookbook. She contributes to The Boston Globe, Runner's World and Prevention, and cooks with her husband and two children. Full color. Softcover. 160 pages. |
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Order #WHGCB
A White House Garden
Cookbook
(Silverstein)
24.95 |
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