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American Hemp Farmer: Adventures and Misadventures in the Cannabis Trade
9469 by Doug Fine, 309 pages, 6x9, softcover. A must-read for anyone considering—or already knee-deep into—the cannabis industry. Fine covers the... read more |
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The Apple Grower: A Guide for the Organic Orchardist
9471 by Michael Phillips, 2nd edition, 320 pages, 8x10, softcover. The book you need to grow apples organically. Research aimed at reducing the use of... read more |
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The Apple Lover’s Cookbook: The Classic Guide to Cooking and Eating Apples
9473 by Amy Traverso, 336 pages, 8¼x10½, hardcover. Come fall, when the weather turns crisp and my cravings shift from vibrant refreshing summer... read more |
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Apples and the Art of Detection: Tracking Down, Identifying and Preserving Rare Apples
9470 by John Bunker, 407 pages, 8½x11, softcover. I’ve been listening to John Bunker talk about apples for as long as I can remember. The old varieties... read more |
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The Apples of New England
9474 by Russell Steven Powell, 214 pages, 7¼x7¼, hardcover. Apples were planted in New England as far back as 1604 when the French explorer Pierre du... read more |
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Big Book of Cider Making
9506 by Christopher Shockey and Kirsten K. Shockey, 336 pages, 8x9, softcover. This fermentation power couple is finally getting boozy. As in their... read more |
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The Book of Pears: The Definitive History and Guide to Over 500 Varieties
9508 by Joan Morgan, 304 pages, 8x10, hardcover. In our pursuit at Fedco Trees to track down, identify, and propagate the oldest surviving pear trees, ... read more |
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Botany in a Day: The Patterns Method of Plant Identification
9510 6th edition, by Thomas J Elpel, 235 pages, 8½x11, softcover. I love this book, from a small press out of Pony, MT. Besides the dictionary and... read more |
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Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties: The Gardener’s and Farmer’s Guide to Plant Breeding and Seed Saving
9515 2nd edition by Carol Deppe, 384 pages, 8½x11, softcover. “Why Save Seeds? Saving seeds is fun. Cleaning the seed, holding the clean seed in your... read more |
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Cass Turnbull’s Guide to Pruning: What, When, Where & How to Prune for a More Beautiful Garden
9522 by Cass Turnbull, 365 pages, 7¼x9, softcover. I’m the kind of tree gardener who feels that one pruning book is not enough. Each one has something... read more |
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Climate: A New Story
9526 by Charles Eisenstein, 320 pages, 6x9, softcover. A gift to a world disoriented by ecological collapse and haunted by the question of what to do,... read more |
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Cold-Hardy Fruits and Nuts: 50 Easy-to-Grow Plants for the Organic Home Garden or Landscape
9528 by Allyson Levy and Scott Serrano, 384 pages, 7x10, softcover. Levy and Serrano began filling their upstate New York land with chosen plants in... read more |
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The Complete Guide to Restoring Your Soil
9529 by Dale Strickler, 352 pages, 8x10, softcover. It’s hard to find books that cover soil science and stewardship in a way that engages laypeople.... read more |
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Compost Teas for the Organic Grower
9530 by Eric Fisher, 256 pages, 7x8, softcover. Finally! A guidebook on compost teas that goes well beyond the bubbler. Drawing on a variety of... read more |
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Crop Planning for Organic Vegetable Growers
9537 by Frédéric Theriault and Daniel Brisebois, 136 pages, 7½x9, softcover. If I’d had this book when I started farming, I would have avoided many... read more |
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The Elderberry Book: Forage, Cultivate, Prepare, Preserve
9549 by John Moody, 114 pages, 7½x9, softcover. The elderberry and humans have been together for a long time. This shrub shows up in ancient texts and... read more |
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Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
9552 by Merlin Sheldrake, 353 pages, 5x8, paperback. Want something to take your mind off a virus? Try a fungus! This winter, as we stay closer to... read more |
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The Essential Guide to Cultivating Mushrooms: Simple and Advanced Techniques for Growing Shiitake, Oyster, Lion’s Mane, and Maitake Mushrooms at Home
9555 by Stephen Russell, 232 pages, 7x9, softcover. Who knew that a roll of toilet paper could grow your supper? If you want to know how, read this... read more |
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Farming for the Long Haul: Resilience and the Lost Art of Agricultural Inventiveness
9560 by Michael Foley, 265 pages, 5½x8½, softcover. “This is a book about farming today with an eye to an uncertain future.” So begins the author as he... read more |
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Fedco Cover Art
9468 Whimsical and beautiful black-and-white art is a hallmark of Fedco’s unique style, our way of counterbalancing the glossy, airbrushed color photos... read more |
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Fermented Vegetables: Creative Recipes For Fermenting 64 Vegetables & Herbs in Krauts, Kimchis, Brined Pickles, Chutneys, Relishes & Pastes
9567 by Kirsten K. Shockey and Christopher Shockey, 376 pages, 8x9, softcover. With more than 140 recipes that excite and intrigue, this book is... read more |
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Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
9574 by Suzanne Simard, 368 pages, 6½x9½, paperback. Simard has an all-too-rare gift not just for looking closely, but for seeing closely and for... read more |
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The Forager Chef’s Book of Flora: Recipes and Techniques for Edible Plants from Garden, Field, and Forest
9578 by Alan Bergo, 288 pages, 7x10, hardcover. This is a cookbook for avid foragers and gardeners looking to infuse their kitchens with creativity.... read more |
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Forest Trees of Maine: Centennial Edition
9582 by the Maine Forest Service, 176 pages, 6x9, spiral-bound softcover. Mainers are familiar with the tall, slim pamphlet, Forest Trees of Maine.... read more |
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The Fruit Forager’s Companion: Ferments, Desserts, Main Dishes, and More from Your Neighborhood and Beyond
9585 by Sara Bir, 400 pages, 7x10, softcover. Written by a poetic comical professional chef who knows her stuff, this book is bold, smart, witty and so... read more |
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Grow More Food: A Vegetable Gardener’s Guide to Getting the Biggest Harvest Possible from a Space of Any Size
9595 by Colin McCrate and Brad Halm, 303 pages, 8½x 103/4, softcover. This book’s subtitle initially raised my hackles as being part of the American... read more |
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Growing Garden Seeds: A Manual for Gardeners and Small Farmers
9609 by Robert Johnston, Jr., 32 pages, 5½x8½, softcover. If you are new to seed saving, this little manual by the founder of Johnny’s covers all the... read more |
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Growing Great Garlic
9612 by Ron L. Engeland, 213 pages, 6x9, softcover. Garlic is the world’s second most important allium crop. Whether garlic is your passion, or just... read more |
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Growing Hybrid Hazelnuts: The New Resilient Crop for a Changing Climate
9610 by Philip Rutter, Susan Wiegrefe, and Brandon Rutter-Daywater, 260 pages, 7x10, softcover. Growing Hybrid Hazelnuts is the first comprehensive ... read more |
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Growing Trees from Seed: A Practical Guide to Growing Native Trees, Vines and Shrubs
9611 by Henry Kock, et al., 288 pages, 8½x11, hardcover. While there are countless volumes on growing annual vegetables and flowers, guides to growing... read more |
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Happy Pigs Taste Better: A Complete Guide to Organic and Humane Pasture-Based Pork Production
9613 by Alice Percy, 272 pages, 7½x9½, softcover. Make no mistake. The correlation in the title is not a romantic one. And it could have been chosen... read more |
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Hardy Apples: Growing Apples in Cold Climates
9840 by Bob Osborne, 288 pages, 8x10, hardcover. Two of our favorite apple authors are the practicable Michael Phillips and the encyclopedic Dan... read more |
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Hardy Roses: The Essential Guide for High Latitudes and Altitudes
9841 3rd edition, by Bob Osborne, 208 pages, 8x10, softcover. More often than not, when I recommend a rose bush to a customer who is looking for a... read more |
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The Healing Garden: Herbs for Health and Wellness
9614 by Deb Soule, 223 pages, 7⅔x9, softcover. Maine herbalist Deb Soule has always been a favorite of Fedco customers. Twenty-nine years ago, we were... read more |
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Herbal Medicine: From the Heart of the Earth
9615 3rd edition, by Dr. Sharol Marie Tilgner, 472 pages, 7x9, softcover. What better time than a pandemic to assemble your home apothecary? In this... read more |
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Herbal Revolution: 65+ Recipes for Teas, Elixers, Tinctures, Syrups, Foods + Body Products That Heal
9616 by Kathi Langelier, 192 pages, 7¾x9, softcover. From award-winning Maine herbalist and farmer Kathi Langelier comes this must-read for anyone... read more |
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The Holistic Orchard: Tree Fruits and Berries the Biological Way
9624 by Michael Phillips, 414 pages, 8x10, softcover. Written by the renowned New Hampshire-based orchardist and author of The Apple Grower, this book... read more |
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Homegrown Pantry: A Gardener’s Guide to Selecting the Best Varieties & Planting the Perfect Amounts for What You Want to Eat Year-Round
9630 by Barbara Pleasant, 328 pages. 8x10, softcover. For your veggies, fruits and culinary herbs, don’t you wish you had a guidebook full of growing... read more |
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Horse-Powered Farming for the 21st Century
9633 by Stephen Leslie, 416 pages, 8x10, hardcover. Now is a time of exciting new developments for live animal power. As the numbers of adherents to... read more |
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How to Move Like a Gardener: Planting and Preparing Medicines from Plants
9636 by Deb Soule, 244 pages, 6¾x9¾, softcover. “As you cultivate the garden, the garden is cultivating you, both inwardly and outwardly. Gardeners are... read more |
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Incredible Wild Edibles: 36 plants that can change your life
9644 by Sam Thayer, 480 pages, 6x9, softcover. Sam Thayer’s foraging books are in a league of their own. No other gives such insightful accounts of... read more |
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Lazy-Ass Gardening: Maximize Your Soil; Minimize Your Toil
9647 by Robert Kourik, 240 pages, 8½x11, softcover. In my twenties, I put in my days of stacking 700 bales of hay into the barn in 95° heat with a... read more |
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The Living Soil Handbook: The No-Till Grower’s Guide to Ecological Market Gardening
9650 by Jesse Frost, 304 pages, 7x10, softcover. There are now many books about no-till vegetable culture, but Frost’s stands out by going deeper into... read more |
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Look at the Sky…and tell the weather
9657 by Eric Sloane, 89 pages, 8½x11, softcover. A self-described weather junkie, I’ve tried to read meteorologies for the layperson and absorbed... read more |
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Moving Heavy Things
9669 by Jan Adkins, 48 pages, 10¼x6¾, softcover. Years ago, I received a copy of this little book as a gift from my dear friend Carol Bryan, who... read more |
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Mycorrhizal Planet: How Symbiotic Fungi Work with Roots to Support Plant Health and Build Soil Fertility
9675 by Michael Phillips, 256 pages, 8x10, hardcover. “Investing in species diversity begins underground,” says the orchard revolutionary. He’s... read more |
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The Nature of Oaks: The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees
9681 by Douglas W. Tallamy, 200 pages, 6x9, hardcover. All life occurs in a web, seen and unseen. This book about oaks makes that web visible in a... read more |
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The New Organic Grower: 30th Anniversary Edition
9687 by Eliot Coleman, 304 pages, 8x10, softcover. As a teenager, I was always listening to Pearl Jam’s Ten, and as a new farmer I was always reading ... read more |
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The No-Till Organic Vegetable Farm: How to Start and Run a Profitable Market Garden That Builds Health in Soil, Crops and Communities
9689 by Daniel Mays, 240 pages, 8x10, softcover. As more gardeners and farmers warm up to the idea of reducing or eliminating tillage, a few farms in... read more |
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The Noma Guide to Fermentation: Including koji, kombuchas, shoyus, misos, vinegars, garums, lacto-ferments and black fruits and vegetables
9690 by René Redzepi and David Zilber, 456 pages, 7½x10, hardcover. Fancy fare meets funky ferment in this handsome illustrated guide for advanced... read more |
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Northeast Foraging: 120 wild and flavorful edibles from beach plums to wineberries
9696 by Leda Meredith, 308 pages, 6½x9, softcover. Seeking affordable culinary adventures? Planning an edible scavenger hunt? Preparing for end times?... read more |
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The Northeast Native Plant Primer: 235 Plants for an Earth-Friendly Garden
9699 by Uli Lorimer, 252 pages, 8x9, softcover. Who better to teach us about gardening with natives than the director of horticulture at Native Plant... read more |
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Perilous Bounty: The Looming Collapse of American Farming and How We Can Prevent It
9714 by Tom Philpott, 246 pages, 9½x6 ½, hardcover. The bounty in our supermarkets is destroying our soil and water while poisoning workers on which... read more |
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Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm: Into the Dreaming of Earth
9720 by Stephen Harrod Buhner, 564 pages, 6x9, softcover. John Muir said “When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest... read more |
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Plant Partners: Science-Based Companion Planting Strategies for the Vegetable Garden
9721 by Jessica Wallister, 224 pages, 8x9, softcover. The book begins with an introduction to evidence-based companion planting and what it can do for... read more |
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Portraits of Earth Justice: Americans Who Tell the Truth
9722 by Robert Shetterly, 128 pages, 8½x11¼, hardcover. In 2002 Robert Shetterly started painting portraits in response to the impending war in Iraq.... read more |
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Preserving with Pomona’s Pectin: The Revolutionary Low-Sugar, High-Flavor Method for Crafting and Canning Jams, Jellies, Conserves
9723 by Allison Carrol Duffy and the Partners at Pomona’s Universal Pectin®, 176 pages, 7½x9¼, softcover. We won’t get in the habit of offering a book... read more |
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Putting Food By
9725 5th edition, by Janet Greene, Ruth Hertzberg and Beatrice Vaughn, 464 pages, 5⅓x8, softcover. The pandemic has inspired scores of new gardeners,... read more |
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Recovering Our Ancestors’ Gardens: Indigenous Recipes and Guide to Diet and Fitness
9728 Revised edition by Devon A. Mihesuah, 350 pages, 5½x8½, softcover. In this revised edition, award-winning author and citizen of Choctaw nation... read more |
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The Regenerative Grower’s Guide to Garden Amendments: Using Locally Sourced Materials to Make Mineral and Biological Extracts and Ferments
9731 by Nigel Palmer, 208 pages, 6x9, softcover. Science nerds, rejoice: this book dives deep into the chemical and biological workings of your garden... read more |
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The Resilient Gardener: Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times
9732 by Carol Deppe, 384 pages, 7½x9½, softcover. First published twelve years ago, the book’s subtitle was prescient. We all now know that climate... read more |
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Root Cellaring
9735 by Mike and Nancy Bubel, 2nd edition, 297 pages, 6x9, softcover. A good root cellar provides a “direct, earthy and deeply satisfying connection... read more |
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Rosemary Gladstar’s Medicinal Herbs: A Beginner’s Guide
9741 by Rosemary Gladstar, 224 pages, 7¼x9, softcover. “One of the greatest benefits of herbal medicine is that it gives us the ability to become more... read more |
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Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change
9744 by Sherri Mitchell, 256 pages, 5½x8½, softcover. Every word counts in this broad yet concise book, and you’ll want to savor it through the winter... read more |
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Sandor Katz’s Fermentation Journeys: Recipes, Techniques & Traditions from around the World
9745 by Sandor Ellix Katz, 352 pages, 7x10, hardcover. A balm for wanderlust at a time when travel seems risky (pandemic) and indulgent (burning fossil... read more |
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The School Garden Curriculum: An Integrated K–8 Guide for Discovering Science, Ecology, and Whole-Systems Thinking
9746 by Kaci Rae Christopher, 320 pages, 8x10, softcover. My family kept a large vegetable garden when I was a child, and some of my earliest memories... read more |
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The Secret Lives of Backyard Bugs: Discover Amazing Butterflies, Moths, Spiders, Dragonflies and Other Insects!
9748 by Judy Burris and Wayne Richards, 144 pages, 8x10, softcover. We picked out this book for our younger readers and were pleasantly surprised to... read more |
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The Seed Garden: The Art and Practice of Seed Saving
9750 edited by Lee Buttala & Shanyn Siegel, written by Micaela Colley & Jared Zystro, 390 pages, 9x11, softcover. To keep seeds alive they must be... read more |
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Seed to Seed
9756 by Suzanne Ashworth, 2nd edition, 240 pages, 8½x11, softcover. Considered the classic reference with detailed instructions on seed saving... read more |
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Sprout Lands: Tending the Endless Gift of Trees
9765 by William Bryant Logan, 384 pages, 6½x9½, hardcover. “Once…no place could prosper without its inhabitants knowing how to cut their trees so they... read more |
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Stella Natura: 2023 Biodynamic Planting Calendar
9771 edited by Sherry Wildfeuer, 40 pages, 9x12, softcover. “Inspiration and practical advice for gardeners and professional growers.” Contains lunar... read more |
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Sustainable Food Gardens: Myths and Solutions
9772 by Robert Kourik, 486 pages, 8½x11, softcover. Don’t fear the thickness of this tome—it’s saving you from reading a 3-foot-tall stack of papers,... read more |
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The Tao of Vegetable Gardening: Cultivating Tomatoes, Greens, Peas, Beans, Squash, Joy and Serenity
9774 by Carol Deppe, 288 pages, 7½x9½, softcover. Armed with her scientific expertise (PhD in genetics from Harvard), her acute sense of observation,... read more |
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To Fell a Tree: A Complete Guide to Successful Tree Felling and Woodcutting Methods
9776 by Jeff Jepson, 166 pages, 6x9, softcover. Timberrr! Crrack! Is there a more satisfying sound than that made by a newly felled tree landing... read more |
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Toxic Legacy: How the Weedkiller Glyphosate Is Destroying Our Health and the Environment
9782 by Stephanie Seneff, 272 pages (including 58 pages of indices and notes), 6x9, hardcover. Glyphosate is a difficult word to say, let alone to... read more |
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Trees of Power: Ten Essential Arboreal Allies
9790 by Akiva Silver, 274 pages, 6x9, softcover. I’m not sure if this book would be with the gardening books or on the self-help shelf in a bookstore.... read more |
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Understanding Roots: Discover How to Make Your Garden Flourish
9795 by Robert Kourik, 225 pages, 8½x11, softcover. Soil yearns for roots. In fact, plant roots define soil and, to a great extent, control the soil... read more |
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What’s Wrong with My Marijuana Plant?: A Cannabis Grower’s Visual Guide to Easy Diagnosis and Organic Remedies
9813 by David Deardorff and Kathryn Wadsworth, 192 pages, 7½x9½, softcover. The only book dedicated to a single species in the widely popular “What’s... read more |
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The Wholistic Healing Guide to Cannabis: Understanding the Endocannabinoid System, Addressing Specific Ailments and Conditions, Making Cannabis-Based Remedies
9816 by Tammi Sweet, 272 pages, 6x9, softcover. This book has something for both the cannabis-naive and the cannabis-savvy. Whether you want to make a... read more |
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Wildcrafted Fermentation: Exploring, Transforming and Preserving the Wild Flavors of Your Local Terroir
9817 by Pascal Bauder, 294 pages, 7x10, paperback. Just when we thought there couldn’t be one more book of any value written on the fermentation of... read more |
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Will Bonsall’s Essential Guide to Radical, Self-Reliant Gardening
9819 by Will Bonsall, 400 pages, 8x10, softcover. As a former apprentice of Will’s, I assumed his book would be a nostalgic journey but not especially... read more |
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The Year-Round Solar Greenhouse: How to Design and Build a Net-Zero Energy Greenhouse
9828 by Lindsey Schiller with Marc Plinke, 307 pages, 7¼x8¾, softcover. Is it worth the coal burned to generate the electricity to grow a tomato in... read more |
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Your Brain on Plants: Improve the Way You Think and Feel with Safe—and Proven—Medicinal Plants and Herbs
9834 by Nicolette Perry and Elaine Perry, 243 pages, 7x9, softcover. Published in the UK as Botanical Brain Balms. We all know that the brain and... read more |