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Product Description Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee collects nectar and pollen to make honey and, in the process, spreads the flowers’ genes far and wide. In The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan ingeniously demonstrates how people and domesticated plants have formed a similarly reciprocal relationship. He masterfully links four fundamental human desires—sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and control—with the plants that satisfy them: the apple, the tulip, marijuana, and the potato. In telling the stories of four familiar species, Pollan illustrates how the plants have evolved to satisfy humankind’s most basic yearnings. And just as we’ve benefited from these plants, we have also done well by them. So who is really domesticating whom?Amazon.com Review Working in his garden one day, Michael Pollan hit pay dirt in the form of an idea: do plants, he wondered, use humans as much as we use them? Wh… More >>
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Product Description Choosing locally grown organic food is a sustainable living trend that’s taken hold throughout North America. Celebrated farming expert Eliot Coleman helped start this movement with The New Organic Grower published 20 years ago. He continues to lead the way, pushing the limits of the harvest season while working his world-renowned organic farm in Harborside, Maine.Now, with his long-awaited new book, The Winter Harvest Handbook, anyone can have access to his hard-won experience. Gardeners and farmers can use the innovative, highly successful methods Coleman describes in this comprehensive handbook to raise crops throughout the coldest of winters.Building on the techniques that hundreds of thousands of farmers and gardeners adopted from The New Organic Grower and Four-Season Harvest, this new book focuses on growing produce of unparalleled freshness and quality in customized unheated or, in some cases, minimally heated, movable plastic greenhouses.Coleman… More >>
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Product Description Author Barbara Kingsolver and her family abandoned the industrial-food pipeline to live a rural life—vowing that, for one year, theyd only buy food raised in their own neighborhood, grow it themselves, or learn to live without it. Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle is an enthralling narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat. … More >>
Product Description Hand plow features 2 position handle; choke up on front of the handle for added strength and grab the back of the handle for added reach. Made of high quality stainless steel for durability. Serrated edges for opening bags and cutting roots. Weight: 11 oz… More >>
An ideal tool for digging, planting, weeding, and transplanting
Large, soft molded grips provide added comfort and control
Serrated knife edge to cut through roots and other tough material
Coated metal head resists rust
Limited lifetime warranty
Amazon.com Product Description The Fiskars big grip garden knife features a comfortable grip and an oversized tool head to provide added comfort and control. The garden knife is an ideal choice for digging, planting, weeding, and transplanting. It sports a serrated edge on one side to cut through tough roots and a straight blade on the other side ideal for digging. The pre-sharpened edges are designed to cut through the ground easier. The middle of the blade has a trough-like indention for transplanting soil or seeds, and has a notched tip at the end to remove weeds. The metal blade is also coated with a rust-resistant material, and the handle features a large hang hole for easy storage. The tool comes with a limited lifetime warranty…. More >>
Container gardening is a great way to grow plants, vegetables and herbs without needing a lot of space. Herbs do especially well and can be grown right outside your kitchen door. In this video, you’ll learn how to use an old farmer’s market basket to make a great container garden. Fill it with your favorite herbs and your cooking will be full of flavor all summer long.
www.howdini.com Organic gardening: How to grow an organic vegetable garden What does it mean to grow vegetables organically? Scott Meyer, editor of Organic Gardening magazine shows how to plant and nurture an organic vegetable garden. Keywords: organic gardening organic garden organic vegetable gardening organic gardening tips
Free organic gardening workshop
The Oxford area chapter of Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association will be sponsoring their fourth annual free gardening workshop from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m.
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Product Description Put your backyard to work! Enjoy fresher, organic, better-tasting food all the time. The solution is as close as your own backyard. Grow the vegetables and fruits your family loves; keep bees; raise chickens, goats, or even a cow. The Backyard Homestead shows you how it’s done. And when the harvest is in, you’ll learn how to cook, preserve, cure, brew, or pickle the fruits of your labor.
From a quarter of an acre, you can harvest 1,400 eggs, 50 pounds of wheat, 60 pounds of fruit, 2,000 pounds of vegetables, 280 pounds of pork, 75 pounds of nuts…. More >>
Case is 13-by 20-by 3-1/2 inches; lifetime warranty
Amazon.com Product Description The Rumford Gardener tool set with molded case is perfect for any gardener. This convenient kit contains essential tools that will help you maintain a beautiful garden any time of year. Whether you’re planting or pruning and watering, this kit keeps everything all together–in a molded plastic carrying case that’s tough enough to brave the elements. This set includes grass shears and a pruner with rubber grips, a wood-handled trowel, a transplanter, weeder and cultivator, plant ties, a 3/4-inch foam kneeling pad, spray nozzle, three hose fittings, a hose splitter, and two quick-disconnect hose fittings. What’s in the Box Molded case, grass shears and a pruner with rubber grips, a wood-handled trowel, a transplanter, weeder and cultivator, plant ties, a 3/4-inch foam kneeling pad, spray nozzle, 3 hose fittings, a hose splitter, and 2 quick-disconnect hose fittings … More >>
