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Books/Gardening
We've gathered what we think are some of the best offerings on gardening without turning to poisons. Most principles presented are applicable to agriculture as well.
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Gardening:

Microgreens
Want to add interest to your urban garden or expand your operation? This gorgeous, glossy, full-color guide to microgreens will help!

The Garden-Fresh Vegetable Cookbook
What to do with a basketful of luscious vegetables.

How To Grow World Record Tomatoes (book)
Organic gardening techniques.

Lessons in Nature
Soil building, planting, growing, pest control.

Made From Scratch
Operating an organic container-plant business.

The Secret Life of Compost
How & why's of composting — lawns, gardens, feedlots & farm.

100 Heirloom Tomatoes for the American Garden
Top performers for North America.

2010 North American Biodynamic Sowing and Planting Calendar
The original biodynamic sowing and planting calendar, showing optimum days for sowing, pruning, and harvesting various plant-crops, as well as for beekeeping.

Ann Lovejoy's Organic Garden Design School
A guide to creating your own beautiful, easy-care garden

Backyard Market Gardening
Entrepreneur's guide to selling what you grow.

Carrots Love Tomatoes
Companion planting guide.

Earth Ponds A to Z
A resource guide for building ponds.

Earth Ponds Maker's Guide
Guide to building, maintenance & restoration.

Earth Ponds Sourcebook
Tips, techniques & materials resource guide.

Feast Your Eyes
The unexpected beauty of vegetable gardens.

Forest Gardening
Cultivating an edible backyard landscape.

Fresh Food From Small Places
The Square Inch Gardener's Guide to Year-Round Growing, Fermenting, and Sprouting

From Asparagus to Zucchini
More than a cookbook featuring 420 recipes, this book also offers cooking and storage tips for 53 vegetables and herbs to make the most of local and seasonal produce.

Gaia's Garden
2nd Edition: A guide to home-scale permaculture.

Greenhouses for Homeowners and Gardeners
Select and design the most appropriate size and style of greenhouse.

Growing & Selling Fresh-Cut Herbs
Turn your hobby into a fulfilling career.

Growing & Using Herbs Successfully
An easy to use guide for growing and using herbs.

Growing 101 Herbs That Heal
A guide to growing and using herbs that heal.

Growing Great Garlic
History, growing, marketing.

Growing Green
If you want to make a real difference producing decent food on your own small but significant portion of the world, this book will tell you most of what you need to know.

Harnessing the Earthworm
Let earthworms build and condition your soil.

Homegrown Whole Grains
Homegrown Whole Grains is written for modern-day homesteaders who want to learn how to reap the fresh flavor and nutritional benefits from growing grain crops.

How to Grow Fresh Air
Profiles 50 houseplants that help purify the air.

How to Grow More Vegetables
Biointensive gardening methods.

Landscaping With Fruit
Complete, no-nonsense guide to growing temperate-zone fruit.

Liquid Gold
The lore and logic of using urine to grow plants.

Living on the Earth
Wide-range compendium of country living skills.

Organic Gardening The Natural No-Dig Way
Using slightly raised beds and composting for a great bounty of quality produce.

Organic Gardening, The Essential Guide to Growing Flowers, Fruit and Vegetables
Organic Gardening is your practical, easy-to-follow guide to gardening with, rather than against nature.

Organic Lawn Care Manual, The
A natural, low-maintenance system for a beautiful, safe lawn.

Organic Vegetable Production: A Complete Guide
A detailed, practical guide to temperate organic vegetable growing with examples from a range of farming systems.


Microgreens

Preventing Deer Damage
Assessing the problem, variety of possible solutions.

Production of Pot Roses
Introduction and History of Pot Rose Production

Raising Earthworms for Profit
A multi-million dollar market.

Recycle with Earthworms
The red wiggler connection.

Rodale's Vegetable Garden Problem Solver
The best and latest advice for beating pests, diseases, and weeds and staying a step ahead of trouble in the garden.

Roses Love Garlic
A guide to companion planting.

Salad Leaves for All Seasons
No more sprayed lettuce and supermarket imports- reap the benefits of healthy, nutritious meals from your own patio or garden.

Saving Seeds: A Gardener’s Guide to Growing and Storing Vegetable and Flower Seeds
Learn how to select, harvest and store seeds from more than 100 vegetables and flowers commonly grown in gardens.

Secrets to Great Soil
Guide to composting, mulching, fertile soil.

Seed to Seed
Seed saving techniques for the vegetable gardener.

Square Foot Gardening
A new way to garden in less space with less work.

Straight-Ahead Organic
Step-by-step guide to growing vegetables.

Teaming With Microbes
A useful guide to creating rich, nurturing, living soil.

The Backyard Berry Book
Organic & conventional fundamentals.

The Backyard Homestead
Enjoy fresher, organic, better-tasting food all the time. The solution is as close as your own backyard. The Backyard Homestead shows you how it’s done!

The Backyard Orchardist
Ideal for small orchards, home gardeners.

The Complete Compost Gardening Guide
A natural six-way basic compost gardening system is described to achieve a compost-rich garden that requires less digging, hauling, weeding, mulching and even less plants.

The Flower Gardener's Bible
Creating a more bountiful flower garden.

The Gardener's A-Z Guide to Growing Flowers from Seed to Bloom
Encyclopedia of 600 garden plants.

The Gardener's A-Z Guide to Growing Organic Food
Vegetables, herbs, fruits, and nuts.

The Great Sunflower Book
Guidebook with recipes.

The Herb Gardener A Guide for All Seasons
This book will be the mainstay of all herb gardeners...the herb gardener's 'Bible'...comprehensive, concise, extremely well organized and timeless.

The New Organic Grower (book)
Small-scale farmers & gardeners reference.

The Organic Gardeners Handbook
A serious guide to the art and science of organic gardening. This book will cover everything you need to know about organic gardening.

The Organic Method Primer
Covers all aspects of organic gardening without fluff.

The Rodale Book of Composting
Home composting process start to finish.

The Vegetable Growers Handbook
A user's manual for the vegetable garden! Everything you need to know about cultivating all common vegetable crops.

The Weather-Resilient Garden
A defensive approach to planning & landscaping.

The Whole Organic Food Book
Safe, healthy harvest from your garden to your plate.

The Winter Harvest Handbook
Gardeners and farmers can use the innovative, highly successful methods Coleman describes in this comprehensive handbook to raise crops throughout the coldest of winters.

The Worm Book
Resource on worm growing; composting with worms.

Wheatgrass: Superfood for a New Millennium
An overview of the nutritive and therapeutic benefits of consuming wheatgrass juice.

Worms Eat My Garbage
Set up and maintain a worm composting system.











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