If you're looking for a fun and delightfully rewarding activity to delve into—literally!—now is the time to take on the pleasant task of cultivating your veggies at home, organically, and healthfully.This book will teach you:The Fundamentals of Why and How: not just a persuasive list of reasons to get you started with your garden but also a fundamental step-by-step instruction on how to get ...

If you're looking for a fun and delightfully rewarding activity to delve into-literally!-now is the time to take on the pleasant task of cultivating your veggies at home, organically, and healthfully.This book will walk you through the whole process, from the fundamentals of why and how to the rewarding activities of harvesting and preserving...Organic Vegetable Gardening takes you on a trip through the seasons, teaching y...

This compact guide provides advice, tips, and step-by-step instructions for hundreds of projects, offering the entire family the tools they need to make the shift toward self-sufficient living. Readers will learn to dip candles, bake bread, make maple syrup, start a vineyard, and much more. With special features for young homesteaders, this is an essential family guide to self-sufficient living.- Bake Pies, Cakes, and Bread- Grow Vegetables yy Raise Chickens- Keep Be...

Discover edible plants right in your own backyard with this enlightening guide to foraging.There’s food growing everywhere! You’ll be amazed by how many of the plants you see each day are actually nutritious edibles.Ideal for first-time foragers, this book features edible weeds, flowers, mushrooms, and ornamental plants typically found in urban and suburban neighborhoods.Full-color photographs make identification easy, while tips on common plant loc...

With dozens of recipes for bacon, corned beef, jerky, pepperoni, and more, this no-nonsense guide is an excellent resource for preserving and storing meat.Preserve your meat properly and enjoy unparalleled flavor when you’re ready to eat it. This simple reference book covers all the major meat preserving techniques and how to best implement them. You’ll learn how to corn beef, pickle tripe, smoke sausage, cure turkey, and much more, all without using harsh chemical...

Over 1,000 Tips for Gardening, Country Cooking, Saving Money, DIY Cleaning Solutions, Home Remedies, and More!This comprehensive collection of practical tips covers all aspects of keeping a country home, from painting a wall to removing wine stains, making perfect pastry to making your own window cleaner. In addition, find advice for cleaning carpets, making jam, wallpapering, knitting, sewing, and more! Woven throughout are poems and proverbs, legends and lore, ma...

Perk up your garden, your cooking, and your health with this "comprehensive look at microgreens"—from arugula to Tokyo Bekana—includes recipes (City Bitty Farm).Dubbed a culinary buzzword by National Public Radio, microgreens—vegetables harvested soon after sprouting—have become one of the hottest food trends. With simple instruction, Microgreens teaches how to plant, grow, and harvest microgreens from one's own garden. The small amount of space needed to g...

Conscious foodies will love this easy-to-follow guide on creating garden-to-table meals—with tips on growing and storing your own harvest, plus delicious recipesFrom sinking a seed into the soil through to sitting down to enjoy a meal made with vegetables and fruits harvested right outside your back door, this gorgeous kitchen gardening book is filled with practical, useful information for both novices and seasoned gardeners alike. Grow Cook Eat will inspi...

Swap the annuals for edibles, creating attractive beds and containers that both beautify the yard and provide a bounty of fresh produceAs a trained chef-turned-professional kitchen garden designer, Marta Teegen knows what a difference freshly harvested vegetables can make to a meal—and how easy it is to ensure seasonal vegetables are always available when you need them. She touts the joys creating front yard–friendly raised beds and container gardens that take up only a small amoun...

From the host of HGTV's Dig In: "If you live in limited quarters, are just starting out, and want to grow most-likely-to-succeed plants, have a read." — The Philadelphia InquirerEdibles continue to be popular choices for gardeners, and beginning gardeners are no exception. Author William Moss takes a beginning gardener through all the steps needed to grow vegetables and fruits in any setting, regardless of the available (or desired) size. This book...

Gardening is on the rise as the desire for fresh, delicious homegrown vegetables grows. Growing your own vegetables is an easy hobby for a variety of lifestyles, as it doesn’t take a large amount of space to yield nutritious carrots or lettuce. All it takes is a bit of passion, care, and knowledge, and the rewards are soon there to enjoy.Both down-to-earth and inspirational, Swedish gardener Karin Eliasson describes the charm of growing your own vegetables. Karin runs a kitchen gar...

This 2nd edition of the classic gardening guide features more than 40 small garden designs for everything from stir-fry vegetables to anti-cancer foods.For decades, Lolo Houbein has cultivated her own organic fruits, vegetables and herbs from small gardens of no more than 3 feet square. Now she shows readers how to reap an abundant harvest from a tiny plot of land. One Magic Square features plot designs geared toward specific themes, like soups, salads, an...