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  • Protecting Pollinators

    How to Save the Creatures that Feed Our World

    by Jodi Helmer ...
    We should thank a pollinator at every meal. These diminutive creatures fertilize a third of the crops we eat. Yet half of the 200,000 species of pollinators are threatened. Birds, bats, insects, and many other pollinators are disappearing, putting our entire food supply in jeopardy. In North America and Europe, bee populations have already plummeted by more than a third and the population of ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Becoming a Gardener

    What Reading and Digging Taught Me About Living

    by Catie Marron ...
    A beautifully designed, full-color personal account of what it means to become a gardener, filled with specially commissioned color photography, watercolors, and fine art.To make her new house in Connecticut truly feel like home, Catie Marron decided to create a garden. But while she was familiar with landscape design, she had never grown anything. A dedicated reader with a lifelong passion for ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Orchard House

    How a Neglected Garden Taught One Family to Grow

    For fans of Anne Lamott, a profoundly moving memoir of rediscovering, reinventing, and reconnecting, as an estranged mother and daughter come together to revive a long-abandoned garden and ultimately their relationship and themselves.Peeling paint, stained floors, vined-over windows, a neglected and wild garden—Tara Austen Weaver can’t get the Seattle real estate listing out of her head. Any sane ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Amish Garden

    A Year In The Life Of An Amish Garden

    An Amish Garden: A Year in the Life of an Amish Garden takes you to six working Amish gardens, from January through December. Matchless photos show the garden asleep, the Amish women putting together their orders for seeds, the preparation of the soil, parents and children planting, the emerging plants, the lush harvest, the food being preserved. This close-up of a world seldom seen shows how the ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Rose Rustlers

    Series series Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Service Series
    In The Rose Rustlers, Greg Grant and William C. Welch offer a personal, in-depth, and entertaining account of some of the great stories gathered during their years as participants in one of the most important plant-hunting efforts of the twentieth century—the quest to save antique roses that disappeared from the market in a notoriously trend-driven business.By the 1950s, almost exclusively, modern ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Garden Potpourri: Gardening Tips from the Easy-Growing Gardening Series

    Easy-Growing Gardening, #12

    Series Book 12 - Easy-Growing Gardening
    Whether you are new to gardening or simply an experienced gardener who wants to learn more, Garden Potpourri is a good place to start. This book, a compendium of wisdom from the eleven books in the Easy-Growing Gardening series, is a quick read full of gems for the beginner gardener and more advanced students of the soil. From simple tips for starting seeds and preventing damping-off disease, to ... Read more

    Free

  • Second Nature

    A Gardener's Education

    “One of the distinguished gardening books of our time,” from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma (USA Today).Chosen by the American Horticultural Society as one of the 75 greatest books ever written about gardeningAfter Michael Pollan bought an old Connecticut dairy farm, he planted a garden and attempted to follow Thoreau’s example: do not impose your will upon the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Language of Flowers

    A Fully Illustrated Compendium of Meaning, Literature, and Lore for the Modern Romantic

    by Odessa Begay ...
    With gorgeous full-color illustrations, ornate decorative elements, lettering in metallic ink, and engaging text, The Language of Flowers: A Fully Illustrated Compendium of Meaning, Literature, and Lore for the Modern Romantic is a treasure for flower lovers. A sumptuous, contemporary anthology of 50 of the world's most storied and popular flowers, each of its entries offers insight to the meaning ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $10.99 USD

  • Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History

    The Quest to Restore a Working Farm at Vita Sackville-West's Legendary Garden

    by Adam Nicolson ...
    “A charming portrait of an ancient and beautiful house in Kent [and] a poignant and amusing portrait of the English class system.” —Simon WinchesterFrom lavish palace for Elizabethan nobles to dreary jailhouse for eighteenth-century prisoners of war, from well-manicured country house for a string of landed families to weed-choked ruin, Sissinghurst, in Kent, has become one of the most illustrious ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Volume V: Who Are We?

    Our civilization will be the first in the entire history of the planet to unite the opposites: the technocratic world and the achievements of the divine creations. This is not a fantasy, it is the great future. We can sense it already, today.Tens of thousands of Russian citizens have already begun to materialize it. They are doing so without support from governments and states. Millions are ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Opium for the Masses

    Harvesting Nature's Best Pain Medication

    by Jim Hogshire ...
    Jim Hogshire's early '90s cultural phenomenon, written about by Michael Pollan in Harpers, has been out of print for nearly a decade, and now, with all the current obsession with gardening, it's time to bring back this book, spiced up with amazing new material on how to make various opioids and analgesics from homegrown poppies. Includes a great deal of new material on poppies other growable highs ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Well-Gardened Mind

    The Restorative Power of Nature

    One of Garden & Gun’s Favorite Books of 2020A distinguished psychiatrist and avid gardener offers an inspiring and consoling work about the healing effects of gardening and its ability to decrease stress and foster mental well-being in our everyday lives.The garden is often seen as a refuge, a place to forget worldly cares, removed from the “real” life that lies outside. But when we get our hands ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $11.99 USD

  • The Brother Gardeners

    by Andrea Wulf ...
    A fascinating look at the men who made Britain the center of the botanical world—from the author of Magnificent Rebels and New York Times bestseller The Invention of Nature.**“Wulf’s flair for storytelling is combined with scholarship, brio, and a charmingly airy style.... A delightful book—and you don’t need to be a gardener to enjoy it.” —**The New York Times Book ReviewBringing to life the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • My Garden (Book)

    One of our finest writers on one of her greatest loves. Jamaica Kincaid's first garden in Vermont was a plot in the middle of her front lawn. There, to the consternation of more experienced friends, she planted only seeds of the flowers she liked best. In My Garden (Book) she gathers all she loves about gardening and plants, and examines it generously, passionately, and with sharp, idiosyncratic ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Triumph of Seeds

    How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History

    by Thor Hanson ...
    As seen on PBS's American Spring LIVE, the award-winning author of Buzz and Feathers presents a natural and human history of seeds, the marvels of the plant kingdom."The genius of Hanson's fascinating, inspiring, and entertaining book stems from the fact that it is not about how all kinds of things grow from seeds; it is about the seeds themselves." -- Mark Kurlansky, New York Times Book ReviewWe ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • My Garden World

    the Sunday Times bestseller

    by Monty Don ...
    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER & BEST GARDENING BOOKS OF 2020 - Sunday Times**'Every page a joy' NIGEL SLATER'From a very early age I loved the countryside as much as any garden and was fascinated by the life that I saw all around me from trees, wildflowers, birds, insects and mammals. In a sense this book has been over sixty years in gestation. I have kept notebooks and journals ever since I could ... Read more

    $5.99 USD $2.99 USD

  • Pomodoro!

    A History of the Tomato in Italy

    Series series Arts and Traditions of the Table Perspectives on Culinary History
    A chronicle of the beloved base ingredient, from its origins, agricultural riches, and controversy to the passion, pride, and nostalgia it inspires today.Over time, the tomato has embodied a range of values and meanings. From its domestication in Central America, it has traveled back and forth across the Atlantic, powering a story of aspiration and growth, agriculture and industry, class and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Plant Seed, Pull Weed

    Nurturing the Garden of Your Life

    by Geri Larkin ...
    Gardens have often been used as metaphors for spiritual nurturing and growth. Zen rock gardens, monastery rose gardens, even your grandmother's vegetable garden all have been described as places of refuge and reflection. Drawing on her experience working at Seattle's premier gardening center, Zen teacher Geri Larkin shows how the act of gardening can help you uncover your inner creativity, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • My Vegetable Love

    A Journal of a Growing Season

    by Carl H. Klaus ...
    “Home gardeners, cooks and nature lovers will savor this delightful account” of a journey from first spring planting to final fall harvest (Publishers Weekly).My Vegetable Love is a daily record of a growing season in Iowa—but it’s about much more than planting peppers, tending tomatoes, or harvesting eggplants. It’s about all the things that influence this gardener: the weather, the neighborhood, ... Read more

    $16.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A New Garden Ethic

    Cultivating Defiant Compassion for an Uncertain Future

    by Benjamin Vogt ...
    In a time of climate change and mass extinction, how we garden matters more than ever: “An outstanding and deeply passionate book.” —Marc Bekoff, author of The Emotional Lives of AnimalsPlenty of books tell home gardeners and professional landscape designers how to garden sustainably, what plants to use, and what resources to explore. Yet few examine why our urban wildlife gardens matter so much ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • To Eat

    A Country Life

    A memorable book about the path food travels from garden to tableA celebration of life together, a tribute to an utterly unique garden, a wonderfully idiosyncratic guide for cooks and gardeners interested in exploring the possibilities of farm-to-table living—To Eat is all of these things and more.In 1974, Joe Eck and Wayne Winterrowd moved from Boston to southern Vermont, where they became the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • That's The Way It Grows 2011

    Home horticulture advice from Oregon State University Master Gardener Lisa Marie Long. This free eBook is a compilation of the 2011 articles published through the OSU Extension Service. Bonus: Includes the very first That's the Way it Grows from April 1997. ... Read more

    Free

  • Lives of the Trees

    by Diana Wells ...
    Diana Wells, author of 100 Flowers and How They Got Their Names now turns her attention to something bigger—our deep-rooted relationship with trees. As she investigates the names and meanings of trees, telling their legends and lore, she reminds us of just how innately bound we are to these protectors of our planet. Since the human race began, we have depended on them for food, shade, shelter and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD $1.99 USD

  • Nigel

    my family and other dogs

    by Monty Don ...
    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWhen Monty Don's golden retriever Nigel became the surprise star of BBC Gardeners' World, inspiring huge interest, fan mail and his own social media accounts, Monty Don wanted to explore what makes us connect with animals quite so deeply.In many respects Nigel was a very ordinary dog; charming, handsome and obedient, as so many are. He was a much loved family pet. He was ... Read more

    $4.99 USD