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by Steve Giannetti (Author), Brooke Giannetti (Author)The heartwarming story of how the Giannetties live and entertain in the well-designed and lushly planted gardens of their farm in Ojai, California.An intimate look at life on Patina Farm enjoying the interplay of rustic and modern European farmhouse charm--including the sheds, outbuildings and well-designed gardens where the Giannettis entertain and enjoy their miniature goats, sheep and donkeys, the chickens and ducks, and dogs. In additi...

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by Michael J. McGroarty (Author)Growing your own plants from seeds or cuttings is much easier than you think. The plant propagation techniques that you'll learn in this book are simple to do and easy to learn, and they work incredibly well If you already have a green thumb you'll love this book. If you don't have a green thumb, be prepared, you are likely to amaze yourself. Finding a beautiful plant and being able to reproduce that plant as many times as you like is a thrilling experience an...

Attainable Sustainable: The Lost Art of Self-Reliant Living - Hardcover

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by Kris Bordessa (Author)Packed with delicious recipes, natural remedies, gardening tips, crafts, and more, this indispensable lifestyle reference from the popular blogger makes earth-friendly living fun. Whether you live in a city, suburb, or the country, this essential guide for the backyard homesteader will help you achieve a homespun life--from starting your own garden and pickling the food you grow to pressing wildflowers, baking sourdough loaves, quilting, raising chickens, and creating...

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The Climate Change Garden, Updated Edition: Down to Earth Advice for Growing a Resilient Garden - Paperback

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by Sally Morgan (Author), Kim Stoddart (Author)In this global gardener's guide to creating a resilient, climate-wise garden, learn how to adapt your garden to cope with volatile weather extremes and other effects of a rapidly changing climate. It's no longer gardening as usual. Heat waves, droughts, flooding, violent storms...the long-predicted extremes of weather caused by climate change are now on our doorstep, and gardeners around the world are feeling the effects. Certain pests are stayin...

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The Tiny But Mighty Farm: Cultivating High Yields, Community, and Self-Sufficiency from a Home Farm - Start Growing Food Today - Meet the Best Varieti - Paperback

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by Jill Ragan (Author)In The Tiny But Mighty Farm, author Jill Ragan of YouTube's Whispering Willow Farm teaches you how to turn a typical suburban backyard into a productive mini farm. Backyard mini farming is about regular people who live in regular houses turning all or part of their property into a productive, high-yielding mini farm. Unlike gardening, mini farming takes a very deliberate approach, with the main goal being to grow as much food as you can with as little land and as few res...

Odyssey of a DP: Memoirs of a Displaced Person - Paperback

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by Vladimir Drobashevsky (Author)From displaced person to award winning designer: the memoirs of Vladimir Drobashevsky. In 1941, twelve year old Vladimir awakes one morning to the chaos of the Luftwaffe bombing his neighborhood in Belgrade. The Germans are invading his homeland. Vladimir and his family are soon suffering hunger and deprivation from the German occupation as well as daily air raids by the Allies. His parents reluctantly decide it will be best if Vladimir and his mother leave hi...

A Plan Of Mr. Pope's Garden: As It Was Left At His Death: With A Plan And Perspective View Of The Grotto (1745) - Paperback

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by John Serle (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of Pages: 36 Dimensions: 0.09 x 11 x 8.5 IN Pub...

Garden Musings: Essays on gardening and life from the Kansas Flint Hills - Paperback

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by James K. Roush (Author)In the first essay in Garden Musings, this gardening writer states, "The evidence keeps racking up that I, the Hoosier-born offspring of several generations of farmers, chose through ignorance to garden in a delightful area combining the world's worst soil and an exasperating climate, all augmented by various man-made and natural catastrophes such as tornadoes, droughts, prairie fires, hail, drenching rains, ice-storms, late freezes, boiling summers, and seventy mile...

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Workbenches Revised Edition: From Design & Theory to Construction & Use - Hardcover

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by Christopher Schwarz (Author)Two centuries of workbench wisdom in one book With this book, your very first workbench will do everything you need it to do--possibly for the rest of your woodworking career. Encompassing years of historical research and real-world trials, Christopher Schwarz boils down centuries of the history and engineering of workbenches into basic ideas that all woodworkers can use. - Learn how to design your own world-class workbench - Learn the fundamental rules of go...

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by A. G. Hellyer (Author)Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. Number of Pages: 324 Dimensions: 0.73 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: July 12, 2008

The Amateur's Kitchen Garden - Frame-Ground and Forcing Pit: A Handy Guide to the Formation and Management of the Kitchen Garden and the Cultivation o - Hardcover

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by Shirley Hibberd (Author)This text comprises a handy guide to the formation and management of the kitchen garden, and the cultivation of useful vegetables and fruits. This wonderfully comprehensive and concise guide contains much in the way of information that will be of great value to the amateur, as well as constituting a great reference book for the more experienced reader. Much of the information contained herein is timeless and still very much of use today. The chapters of this book in...

Bulbs; A Treatise On Hardy And Tender Bulbs And Tubers - Paperback

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by Edward Sprague Rand (Author)Bulbs; A Treatise On Hardy And Tender Bulbs And Tubers, By Edward Sprague Rand.. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. Number of Pages: 316 Dimensions: 0.71 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: August 25, 2008

250 Beautiful Flowers and How to Grow Them - Paperback

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by J. W. Morton (Author)"250 Beautiful Flowers" is a comprehensive handbook on gardening that offers the reader information and step-by-step instructions on how to successfully cultivate a vast range of flowers suitable for the garden, as well as some helpful tips on gardening in general. Each flower has a simple description as well as instructions and information on propagation, culture, best varieties, and more. This timeless volume is highly recommended for keen garners and collectors of v...

250 Beautiful Flowers and How to Grow Them - Hardcover

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Gardening Difficulties Solved - Expert Answers to Amateur's Questions - Paperback

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by H. H. Thomas (Author)First published in 1910, "Gardening Difficulties Solved" contains a selection of Questions and Answers taken from the columns of "The Gardener" magazine. The questions deal with a wide range of gardening topics and represent some of the most common problems faced by gardeners. Their answers are practical and direct, written by experienced gardeners. This is a handy volume for anyone with an interest in gardening and it would make for a useful addition to any bookshelf....

Rock Gardens and Alpine Plants - Paperback

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by E. H. Jenkins (Author)First published in 1911, this book contains a classic guide to building and maintaining beautiful rockeries in both small and large gardens, as well as planting and propagating of a variety of suitable plants and shrubs. "Rockeries and Alpine Plants" will be of considerable utility to those wishing to create a rock garden or incorporate plants into existing gardens. Contents include: "Construction of Rockeries", "Selection of a Site", "Aspect and Position", "Materials...

Grapes: Peaches: Melons: And How to Grow Them - A Handbook Dealing with Their History, Culture, Management and Propagation - I - Paperback

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by T. W. Sanders (Author)This vintage book is a comprehensive guide to growing grapes, peaches, and melons. Complete with helpful illustrations and information on all related aspects, this volume constitutes a must-read for those with an interest in growing fruit, and would make for a fantastic addition to collections of related literature. Contents include: "History of the Vine", "Vineries--Lean-to--Three-Quarter Span--Span Root--Heating", "Vine Borders--Making--Manures for--Composts for", "...

Gardening For Profit; A Guide To The Successful Cultivation Of The Market And Family Garden. Entirely New And Greatly Enlarged - Paperback

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by Peter Henderson (Author)First published in 1901, this volume contains a detailed guide to gardening, with a focus on making money. It looks at everything form how to prepare the land and what to buy, to planting, propagating, and profiting. This timeless volume contains fantastic tips that will be of considerable utility for those with an interest in selling fruit and vegetables or simple producing for their own consumption. Contents include: The Men Fitted for the Business of Gardening, T...

Fieldbook Of American Trees And Shrubs - Paperback

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by F. Schuyler Mathews (Author)Originally published in 1914, this volume contains an extensive encyclopedia of the trees and shrubs native to America. Complete with photographs, diagrams, and detailed descriptions, this volume will be of considerable utility to those with an interest in botany, and it is not to be missed by collectors of vintage botanical literature. Contents include: "White Pine", "Pond Pine", "Colorado Blue Spruce", "California Big Tree", "Red Cedar", "Butternut", "Swamp Hi...

Meat From Your Garden - A Handy Guide To Table Rabbit Keeping - Paperback

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by Walter Brett (Author)This antique book contains a complete treatise on producing meat from your garden, being a handy guide to table rabbit keeping. Written in clear, concise language and full of invaluable information on the breeding, diet and ailments of rabbits, this text is full of practical, easy-to-digest, information. The chapters include: 'Rabbit-Keeping Means Fewer Meatless Meals', 'Making Your Start', 'The Three Branches', 'Why we say Meat', 'When to Start', 'How Many Breeders to...

The Book of the Mushroom: Growing & Harvesting - Hardcover

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by A. Defries (Author)Originally published in 1936, this book is a detailed introduction to the cultivation of the mushroom. Full of practical information and instructions on growing and harvesting mushrooms, this book is still of great practical use to today's grower or mushroom enthusiast and even features a short collection of classic recipes. Contents include: introduction - The Nature of The Mushroom - Site and Soil - Buildings - Manures - Spawns - Making up Beds - Care of Beds - Disease...

Herbs - How to Grow Them and How to Use Them - Hardcover

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by Helen Webster (Author)Originally published in the 1930s, this book is a detailed guide to the cultivation and use of herbs, for both medicinal and culinary purposes. Full of useful information and instruction, this book is still of great practical use to today's reader. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, mod...

Chain Fruit And Vegetable Management - Book I. - Fruit And Vegetable Management - Paperback

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by H. Lestico (Author)This early work is a fascinating read for any greengrocer or historian, but contains much information that is still useful and practical today. It is a thoroughly recommended title for the market stall holder's bookshelf. Contents Include: Territorial Production, Produce a Speculative Commodity, Points to Watch in Buying, Physical Layout of Market, Equipment Requirements Vary, Care and Handling of Produce, Opening the Market, Advertising the Opening, Opening Day, Fruit a...

The Fern Garden or Fern Culture and Gardening Made Easy - Hardcover

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by Shirley Hibberd (Author)Originally published in the 1920s. One of the earliest titles ever published on fern gardening and culture. The author was a well known gardening expert with many books to her credit. Contents Include: Ferns in General Fern Collecting How to Form an Outdoor Fernery Cultivation of Rock Ferns Cultivation of Marsh Ferns Ferns in Pots The Fern House The Fernery at the Fireside Management of Fern Cases The Art of Multiplying Ferns British Ferns Cultivation of Greenhouse ...

The First Principles Of Horticulture - Paperback

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by R. Faulkner (Author)This early work is a fascinating read for any amateur or professional horticulturalist or historian of the profession, but it contains much information that is still useful and practical today. Contents Include: Foreword; Acknowledgements; Plants and Their Environment; Aspects of Soil Cultivation; The Principles of Plant Nutrition; Soils for Special Purposes; The Plant in Relation to Light, Air, and Temperature; The Life-Story of Garden Plants; Flowers and Fruits; Pruni...

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by J. S. Dakers (Author)This antique volume contains a simple and concise guide to the growing of tomatoes and cucumber, offering its reader all the information someone occupied in this practice would need to know. Complete with simple, clear instructions, helpful tips and a plethora of detailed pictures and diagrams, this timeless text will prove invaluable to the novice grower. It will also be of some use to those with more experience as a reference text. The chapters of this book include: ...

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by G. Copley (Author)This early work is a fascinating read for any gardening enthusiast or historian, but contains much information that is still useful and practical today. It is a thoroughly recommended title for the amateur or professional arborist or horticulturalist's shelf. Its 130 pages contain 50 full page plates. Contents Include: Introduction; A General Survey; The Apple; The Apple-Pruning the Young Trees; The Apple-Maintenance, Thinning, Storing and Mating; The Apple-Insect Pests; ...

Mushroom-Growing and Mushroom Insects and Their Control - Paperback

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by A. M. Bottomley (Author)This vintage book contains a comprehensive guide to cultivating mushrooms, with historical information, step-by-step instructions, handy tips, and much more. Profusely illustrated and full of useful information, "Mushroom-Growing and Mushroom Insects And Their Control" is highly recommended for those with a practical interest in growing mushrooms and would make for a worthy addition to collections of allied literature. Contents include: "Description of Mushrooms", "...

Common Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms of Southeastern Michigan - Paperback

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by Alexander H. Smith (Author) Number of Pages: 98 Dimensions: 0.23 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: November 22, 2010

Mushroom Growing for Beginners - With Chapters on Composting, Spawning, Picking and Pest Control - Paperback

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by Various (Author)This classic text provides a comprehensive and practical guide to growing mushrooms, and is suitable for the home and amateur growers. Illustrated with detailed diagrams, it introduces the reader to a broad range of topics and contains helpful advice that remains of relevant use today. Contents include: Mushrooms; About Mushrooms; First Principles; Buildings; Mushroom Growing on a Small Scale; Mushrooms for the Amateur Gardener; Natural or Hit-and-Miss Methods of Growing Mu...

Collecting Fungi - With Chapters on Identification and Methods of Collection - Paperback

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by Various (Author)A guide to all aspects of collecting fungi. Contents Include: When and Where to Find Mushrooms; How to Collect and Examine Mushrooms; Gathering of Mushrooms; The Selection of Edible Mushrooms; How to Collect, Study, and Prepare Mushrooms for the Herbarium; Fungi for the Herbarium; Field Study of Mushrooms and Other Fungi; Method of Identification; Hints to Collectors; Methods of Collection and Preservation of Fungi; Glossary of Terms. This book contains classic material dat...

Plants - Ferns, Palms and Cycads - Paperback

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by William Watson (Author)This volume contains a comprehensive guide to ferns, palms, and cycads, and includes information on variations, descriptions, popularity, and other information of note. This text will be of considerable utility to gardeners and amateur botanists with an interest in these types of plants, and it would make for a worthy addition to collections of allied literature. The chapters of this book include: 'Ferns', 'Stove and Greenhouse Ferns', 'Hardy Ferns', 'Selaginellas', ...