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The Allotment Keeper's Handbook is a no-nonsense guide to managing your own organic vegetable patch. Packed with invaluable advice, from how to choose an allotment and test its soil to knowing your chickweed from your chicory, it offers an enjoyable and inspiring shortcut through the trials, errors and frustrations of starting a kitchen garden.

Written as he talks, this is Monty Don right beside you in the garden, challenging norms and sharing advice. Discover Monty's thoughts and garden ideas around nature, seasons, color, design, pests, flowering shrubs, containers, and much more. Read about the month-by month jobs he does in his own...

Robert Pavlis, a gardener for over four decades, debunks common soil myths, explores the rhizosphere, and provides a personalized soil fertility improvement program in this three-part popular science guidebook. Soil Science for Gardeners is an accessible, science-based guide to understanding soil fertility and, in particular, the rhizosphere - the thin layer of liquid and soil surrounding plant roots, so vital to plant health.

Building Your Permaculture Property offers a revolutionary holistic method to overcome overwhelm in the complex process of resilient land design. It distills the authors' decades of experience as engineers, farmers, educators, and consultants into a five-step process complete with principles, practices, templates, and workflow tools.

Sally Coulthard explores the miraculous world of the earthworm, the modest little creature without whom life as we know it would not be possible. For Charles Darwin - who estimated every acre of land contained 53,000 earthworms - the humble earthworm was the most important creature on the planet. And yet, most people know almost nothing about these little engineers of the earth. We take them for granted but, without the earthworm, the world's soil would be barren and our gardens, fields and farms wouldn't be able to grow the food and support the animals we need to survive.

This is your down-to-earth, complete manual for achieving great gardening results with your own rich, organic soil. How do you recognize healthy soil? How much can your existing soil be improved? What are the best amendments to use for your soil? Let Building Soil answer your questions and be...

Un jardín de flores es una puerta de entrada a la paz, la felicidad y la plenitud... y, sea cual sea tu experiencia, puedes empezar a plantar el tuyo hoy mismo. Cuando conozcas todas las estrategias que necesitas para cultivar un próspero jardín de flores desde la tierra, podrás plantar el jardín de tus sueños y dar la bienvenida a la alegría que te proporciona cada día. Esta completa guía de jardinería floral te ayudará a conseguir el éxito. Escrita tanto para jardineros principiantes como experimentados, está repleta de consejos inspiradores para que tu jardín prospere, vivas donde vivas.

In this beautiful and empowering book, Jennifer Jewell - host of public radio's award-winning program and podcast Cultivating Place - introduces 75 inspiring women. Working in wide-reaching fields that include botany, floral design, landscape architecture, farming, herbalism, and food justice, these influencers are creating change from the ground up.  

The forager, urban farmer, and NatGeo star shares this beautiful, practical field guide and primer to the ethics of caring for the land. With this indispensable, practical resource in the garden, in the field, and in the wild, learn the basics of foraging, as well as the “whys” of foraging...

In the ongoing interaction between humans and the natural world, which is always changing, one endeavor stands as a testament to our ability to shape and be shaped by the very essence of life itself: gardening. Step into this realm, where the mundane is transformed into the extraordinary, the ordinary into the exceptional, and where the humble act of planting a seed becomes an intricate symphony of art and science. Welcome to a journey that transcends the boundaries of soil and season.

Discover the many benefits of worm farming or what is also known as vermicomposting. You can get free fishing bait, use it as source of food for wild birds, fish, and chickens, or create a nutrient-rich potting soil that is a fun hobby while teaching you about the environment. You will see that getting started with worm farming is much easier than you think! Details on space requirements, type of worms to use, what to feed them and much, much, more are revealed in this informative audiobook.