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Whether you have experience with compost or are a beginner who has always wanted to learn more and see how you can incorporate composting into your lifestyle, this book provides everything you'll need to know. From understanding what compost is, how it works, and ways to make it, to how to use and store it, this handbook, written in clear and simple terms, carefully explains the sustainable, low-cost way to produce rich soil in your backyard.
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"If you want to grow healthy vegetables at home, but have hesitated because it seems too hard and time consuming, Organic Gardening for Everyone is your perfect hands-on guide-an "if I can do it, you can do it" case study that addresses your concerns and gets you started. Loaded with practical advice and step-by-step guidance, Organic Gardening for Everyone takes a very personal and friendly approach to a subject that can be intimidating. It is a...
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Japanese Style Companion Planting brings the techniques of a master farmer in Japan to home gardeners all over the world, with over 175 easy-to-follow color illustrations and detailed texts. Japanese gardeners typically work with small plots and are experts at making the most efficient use of available garden space. They have long understood that when compatible vegetables and fruits are grown together, the result is increased yields, healthier plants,...
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Seed to Table focuses on how to feed your family with nutritious foods from your own outdoor, home and/or kitchen garden. Whether you live in a city or in the country, this book gives you tools on effective growing techniques, seed starting methods, and garden maintenance. Organic gardening for every individual style! Have fun while you create your own gardening system whether it be for a container garden or a kitchen garden. Try out big and small...
7) Phosphorus
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Discusses phosphorus and its properties and uses.
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"Students see chemistry in action in this thorough but accessible informational text is aligned to science core curriculum, includes crosscutting concepts, and covers carbon bonding, chains, and rings, alcohol and acids, other organic compounds such as esters, aldehydes, ketones, ethers, amines, and halides, and polymers. Fact boxes about key terms, events, people, discoveries, and technologies, along with sidebars that give everyday examples of chemical...
10) Nitrogen
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Provides a brief overview of elements, atoms, and atomic structure; discusses the forms nitrogen can take; and examines its uses.
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With “Common Sense Natural Beekeeping”, learn to keep bees sustainably with limited chemical or human intervention.
Today's bees face unprecedented challenges. Chemical treatments for pests like the ubiquitous and deadly varroa mite have become standard even as resistance to such treatments grows and evidence suggests the chemical treatments themselves are contributing to the widely discussed Colony Collapse Disorder.
“Common Sense Natural Beekeeping”...
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One of the greatest experimental scientists of all time, Michael Faraday (1791–1867) developed the first electric motor, electric generator, and dynamo - essentially creating the science of electrochemistry. This book, the result of six lectures he delivered to young students at London's Royal Institution, concerns another form of energy - candlelight. Faraday titled the lectures "The Chemical History of a Candle," choosing the subject because,...
15) Bean to die for
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"Lana Lewis is brewing up new concoctions at Perkatory, a popular caf� in Devil's Beach, when she decides she wants to try her hand at growing her own coffee. She secures a gardening plot in the community garden, thanks to her father and the garden's owner, Darla. Darla's list of rules is long, but that doesn't stop someone from leaving Jack Daggett's body amongst the gardening plots. Jack, an environmental activist, had been banned from the garden...
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How did Asian farmers work the same fields for 40,000 years without destroying the land's fertility and without applying artificial fertilizer? At the turn of the 20th century, a former official with the U.S. Department of Agriculture travelled to Asia to learn the answer. This landmark book chronicles his travels and observations on waste-free methods of cultivation that conserve natural resources.
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A breeder of international fame, Soma is synonymous with earth-friendly grow techniques and an appreciation for the healing qualities of marijuana. Now in his first-ever book, this sage of the marijuana scene shares his methods and philosophy with a collection of his best works, all-new essays and stunning photography. Soma offers detailed advice for every stage of growing organically: selecting seeds and mother plants, making clones, creating one's...
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An Ecological Gardener's Handbook explains how Nature gets plants to grow – without a human in sight. It shows how gardeners can use these same natural processes to create healthy, vibrant, productive gardens without using toxic chemicals or pesticides. Each chapter focuses on one aspect of creating a vibrant garden eco-system, and provides gardeners with a range of simple, practical steps to follow. Stunning photographs of unusual gardens from...
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Howard Garrett uses his years of experience as an organic gardening expert to give you clear-cut, step-by-step instructions for growing flowers, trees, shrubs, herbs, fruits, vegetables, and grasses the natural way. Discover how easy it is to grow healthy, beautiful plants without the risk to your family, pets, and the environment.
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Against the Grain describes in detail how a small, organic vegetable farm on the Northern Great Plains began as an idea and continues more than 15 years later, rising up with the local foods and farmers market movements. It highlights the struggles and the triumphs, as well as the bottom line. It explains how others, who are thinking about growing vegetables, should consider growing certified organic to help meet continued double-digit demand.
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