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  • How To Grow Your Own Vegetables (Short-e Guide)

    Series series Short-e Guides
    The benefits of vegetable gardening include knowing where your vegetables from, being in control of what - if any - chemicals come into contact with them, and unbeatable flavour!  You will never want to eat a supermarket carrot again. There is also something very special about planting seeds in the ground, watching them grow to maturity, and then harvesting them for your own food. This book will ... Read more

    $1.35 USD

  • Tips for Dirt-Cheap Gardening

    Storey Country Wisdom Bulletin A-158

    Series Book 158 - Storey Country Wisdom Bulletin
    Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Let it Rot!

    The Gardener's Guide to Composting (Third Edition) (Storey's Down-To-Earth Guides)

    by Stu Campbell ...
    "The little classic that introduced thousands to composting." – The Boston GlobeTransform leaves, grass, and kitchen scraps into gardener's gold! This easy-to-use guide shows you how to turn household garbage and backyard refuse into nutrient-filled compost that can nourish your soil and promote a thriving garden. You'll soon be saving money, minimizing waste, and enjoying bountiful harvests."The ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Martha Way

    Essential Principles for Mastering Home and Living

    Step inside the world of Martha Stewart and discover her timeless approach to living well. The Martha Way: Essential Principles for Mastering Home and Living is a thoughtfully crafted guide to the foundational principles that shape a well-kept, inspired life. With her signature clarity and elegance, Martha distills decades of experience into elevated yet accessible solutions for the everyday, ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Botany: The Science of Plant Life

    Enriched edition. Exploring the Intricate World of Plant Biology

    In "Botany: The Science of Plant Life," Norman Taylor presents a comprehensive exploration of plant biology, delving into the anatomy, physiology, and ecology of flora. Taylor's engaging narrative style combines clear, accessible language with detailed illustrations and diagrams, making complex scientific concepts approachable for both novice readers and seasoned botanists. The book situates ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Gardening Book

    An Accessible Guide to Growing Houseplants, Flowers, and Vegetables for Your Ideal Garden

    by Monty Don ...
    A fresh approach to gardening by bestselling author and England’s favorite gardener Monty Don.“Think of your garden like a meal. When you select a recipe, you’re choosing it based on inclination, experience and circumstance. Making a garden, big or small, uses exactly the same process.”If you are new to gardening, it can seem daunting—with Latin names, various soil types and seasonal requirements, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Houseplants (mini)

    A Guide to Choosing and Caring for Indoor Plants

    What's the best way to nurture your green thumb when you don't have a yard or space? Houseplants! This is the guide to raising the best, healthiest, and happiest potted plants nature has ever seen.When you want to raise plants but just don’t have the space, then it’s time to turn to houseplants! Offers complete information on the most popular varieties of houseplants along with details on ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Wild DFW

    Explore the Amazing Nature In and Around Dallas–Fort Worth

    by Amy Martin ...
    Series series Wild Series
    Discover all the unexpected nature Dallas-Fort Worth has to offer with this enlightening guidebook!Dallas-Fort Worth is more than just a bustling metroplex, it’s full of amazing wildlife. You just need to know where to find it! Equal parts natural history, field guide, and trip planner, Wild DFW has something for everyone. This handy yet extensive guide looks at the factors that shape local nature ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Rodale's Ultimate Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening

    The Indispensable Green Resource for Every Gardener

    Series series Rodale Organic Gardening
    Rodale's Ultimate Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening has been the go-to resource for gardeners for more than 50 years, and the best tool novices can buy to start applying organic methods to their fruit and vegetable crops, herbs, trees and shrubs, perennials, annuals, and lawns. This thoroughly revised and updated version highlights new organic pest controls, new fertilizer products, improved ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • A Crash Course on How to Test Soil pH Level

    by Ramon Harris ...
    A Crash Course on How to Test Soil pH Level This book covers several topics including: - How to Test Your Garden's pH Level - Reading your pH Level Results - Changing Your Garden Plot's Soil pH Level - Changing Alkaline Soil - How to change the soil pH level to a higher reading and much more! Scroll up... and click on "Buy Now" to deliver almost instantly to your Kobo or other reading device. ... Read more

    $6.97 USD

  • The Self-Sufficient Life and How to Live It

    The Complete Back-to-Basics Guide

    by John Seymour ...
    The Self Sufficient Life and How to Live It is the only book that teaches all the skills needed to live independently in harmony with the land harnessing natural forms of energy, raising crops and keeping livestock, preserving foodstuffs, making beer and wine, basketry, carpentry, weaving, and much more. Our 2003 edition included 150 new full-color illustrations and a special section in which John ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Simply Living Well

    A Guide to Creating a Natural, Low-Waste Home

    by Julia Watkins ...
    Recipes, DIY projects, and inspiration for a beautiful and low-waste life, from the creator of @simply.living.well on InstagramIn this timely and motivational guide, author Julia Watkins shares rituals, recipes, and projects for living simply and sustainably at home. For every area of your household—kitchen, cleaning, wellness, bath, and garden—Julia shows you how to eliminate wasteful packaging, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Postage Stamp Vegetable Garden

    Grow Tons of Organic Vegetables in Tiny Spaces and Containers

    by Karen Newcomb ...
    One of the best books for beginning and experienced vegetable gardeners, this clear, straightforward, easy-to-read gardening bestseller (over 500,000 copies sold) uses organic, biodynamic methods to produce large amounts of vegetables in very small spaces.To accommodate today's lifestyles, a garden needs to fit easily into a very small plot, take as little time as possible to maintain, require a ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Backyard Farming on an Acre (More or Less)

    Eat Healthy, Save Money, and Live Sustainably in the Space You Have

    Series series A Living Free Guide
    For urban and country dwellers alike, a quarter acre is all the space you need to farm all the food you need! Homesteading allows you to feed your family healthy meals harvested right from your own backyard while also reducing your environmental footprint.Live off the land you have. Plant a successful and sustainable farm—on a quarter acre to a full acre and beyond—where you can raise your own ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • How Not to Kill Your Houseplant New Edition

    Survival Tips for the Horticulturally Challenged

    How to keep alive 119 gorgeous indoor plants, then help them bloom and thrive.You've welcomed a plant into the home: Now what? Your first job is to keep it alive, then after that help it bloom and thrive. Learn all the tips and tricks you need to become a proud plant parent-of more than 100 different plants (if you're up for it)!Yellowed leaves, drooping leaves, dried leaves, even though you've ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Uprisings

    A Hands-On Guide to the Community Grain Revolution

    This practical guide explores the food security and community sufficiency benefits of growing local grain—and shows you how easy it is to get started.If we want to reduce our environmental impact, build resiliency in our community, and improve food security, it's up to us to make it happen. Uprisings shows how communities across North America can take action by reviving local grain production ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hortus Miscellaneous

    A Gardener's Hodgepodge of Information and Instruction

    From the kinds of trees standing at Great Dixter to the 20 deadliest flowers to the best small garden animals according to the Indiana Department of Agriculture—gardening is a pursuit with no end of information to sift through. Where does botany start but with the naming and grouping of all flora? List making is in the gardener’s blood, and this volume of random facts, data, and wisdom, will ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Self-Sufficient Life and How to Live It

    Comp Back-to-Basics Guide US AKG 20

    by John Seymour ...
    The bestselling classic guide to off-grid green living, now with a brand new foreword from Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall.John Seymour has inspired thousands to make more responsible, enriching, and eco-friendly choices with his advice on living sustainably. The Self-sufficient Life and How to Live It offers step-by-step instructions on everything from chopping trees to harnessing solar power; from ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Florida Gardener's Handbook, 2nd Edition

    All you need to know to plan, plant, & maintain a Florida garden

    Series series Gardener's Handbook
    In this revised and updated 2nd edition of Florida Gardener's Handbook, gardeners in the Sunshine State are handed all the know-how they'll need to grow a lush, productive garden.The environmentally sound growing info for both edible and ornamental plants found here is your green thumb map to success. With profiles of more than 300 plants proven to thrive in Florida's unique climate, inclu... ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Marijuana Growing Secrets: The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Personal and Medical Marijuana Cultivation Indoors and Outdoors. Discover How to Grow Top Quality Weed and Advanced Cannabis Growing Tips

    by Calvin Newman ...
    The Ultimate Blueprint For Growing Your Own Marijuana (Even If You've Never Grown A Plant Before)Do you have a health condition like chronic pain or a mental health issue where medical cannabis would help?Or are you simply interested in growing weed for recreational purposes but don't know where to start?Either way, this is the only cannabis growing book you'll ever need.This marijuana growing ... Read more

    Free

  • The Trees in My Forest

    $15.99 USD

  • The Encyclopedia of Country Living, 50th Anniversary Edition

    The Original Manual for Living Off the Land & Doing It Yourself (Homesteading & Off-Grid Survival)

    by Carla Emery ...
    OVER 1 MILLION COPIES SOLD: The 50th anniversary edition of the classic manual for sustainable living—with 900+ pages covering basic country skills and wisdom for living off the land!Whether you’re homesteading, prepping, or living off-grid, keep your family healthy, safe, and self-sufficient—no matter what’s going on in the world.From homesteaders to urban farmers, and everyone in between, there ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Science of Gardening

    Discover How Your Garden Really Grows

    The only book to explain the science behind gardening practice in a simple and visually accessible wayExploding myths and providing authoritative take-home advice, this book provides a shortcut to decades of gardening experience by explaining the science behind how a garden grows.Why does my cherry tree blossom but never fruit? What's the most effective slug deterrent? Could I breed my own unique ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Wicked Plants

    The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities

    by Amy Stewart ...
    The author of The Drunken Botanist "offers practical and tantalizing composite views of toxic, irritating, prickly, and all-around ill-mannered plants" ( Booklist ).American Horticultural Society Book Award WinnerChosen One of the Best Gardening Books of the Year by the Washington Post and National Pub... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD