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Create your own compost and grow better plants.
With breathtaking clarity, Compost Science for Gardeners demystifies composting practices and helps readers determine the best technique for their unique situation. This comprehensive science-based book is your key to building healthier soil and growing better plants.
Using plain language and easy-to-follow instructions, this essential resource distills and blends the latest scientific research...
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Are you a house haunted by complex relationships?
Body Compost & other ghost poems is a collection for dug-up gardens and plants looking for suitable soil to grow. These poems are homes for dust bunnies, spices, fears and heartbeats. They give solace to what we can't make sense of by giving the spotlight to the Quotidien, the sensory and the memory.
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Homesteading [hohm-sted-ing]
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• an act or instance of establishing a homestead.
• the act of loving where you live so much that you actively ignore the fact that your house is trying to kill you on a regular basis. For Kathi Lipp and her husband, Roger, buying a house in one of the most remote parts of Northern California was never part of the plan; many of life's biggest, most rewarding adventures rarely are.
Kathi shares the hard-won wisdom...
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With decades of knowledge and proven, common-sense methods from "The Barefoot Farmer," this practical guide to biodynamic principles and practices will appeal to growers of every scale and experience level.
In “Barefoot Biodynamics”, organic grower Jeff Poppen-"The Barefoot Farmer"-combines tales from his personal history in rural Tennessee with the practical applications of biodynamic principles and the deep aspects of the biodynamic methods...
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xxi, 318 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
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"The Veganic Grower's Handbook seeks to give the new, amateur, and professional gardening enthusiast all the tools and techniques to be successful in vegan-organic methods. Mirroring the gardening year, this manual delineates garden planning to seed-starting in the early season, to garden preparation and transplanting when the weather warms. Composting and maintenance of seedlings in the heat of summer are discussed, harvesting and post-harvest handling...
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40 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm
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Learn vital processes and procedures about gardening through different types of poetry.
"There's a lot more to gardens than meets the eye! In this collection of buoyant poems filled with fun facts, young nature enthusiasts and budding gardeners are called on to help solve a mystery by the compost bin, join a Wild West-style standoff between some good bugs and a few bad ones, interview the sun to find out what happens when it drinks a glass of water,...
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