Butterfly gardening is the practice of attracting beautiful butterflies to your garden by growing common plants and flowers that they use for food and nectar. This fun and wonderfully simple activity will bring color, light, and beauty to your garden and home. With the relaxing and rewarding qualities of this outdoor hobby, it's not hard to see why it's sweeping the nation and growing in popularity. Mathew Tekulsky's The Butterfly Garden is a complete,...

"This is a love story in three parts about how I ended up with much more than I bargained for, and grew beyond the person I thought I'd be." Anna Hess spent her early childhood chasing ornery cows back into the barn, eating all of her family's strawberries before they got ripe so she didn't have to share them, and climbing sap-riddled pine trees. The reality of farm life seemed to be summed up in one word-bliss. So when her back-to-the-lander parents...

Sammy Spinach Grows Big & Strong (Book 5) in the Happy Veggies Healthy Eating Series Every J Stephen's Garden Story Book is a wonderful read that not only provides a story with an uplifting moral but also encourages your children to try and make and most importantly enjoy eating a wonderful children's friendly dish. Little Sammy Spinach is sad as he watches all the other spinach in the spinach patch grow big and strong. Sammy wants to grow big...

The My Itty-Bitty Bio series are biographies for the earliest readers. This book examines the life of activist and community developer Wilma Mankiller, the first woman to lead a major Native American tribe, in a simple, age-appropriate way that helps children develop word recognition and reading skills. The series celebrates diversity, covering women and men from a range of backgrounds and professions including immigrants and individuals with disabilities....

Practically Pagan - An Alternative Guide to Gardening takes the spooky out of alternative and keeps the magic. Elen Sentier brings together, and expands on, recent scientific discoveries, and shows how close they are to the old ways that were labelled as superstition in the 20th century. Sentier's writing is accessible and opens up the down-to-earth practicalism of pagans as people of the land to all, for that's what the word pagan means, 'of the...

This short, yet comprehensive guide into the world of beloved garden herbs is for you if you want to grow, preserve and use your own herbs, you look for natural health support and remedies, you cook with herbs, but know almost nothing about them, you want to discover traditional and potential uses of already known herbs, you want to use herbs daily, you want to deepen your general knowledge of herb use or you want to do it all, but don't know where...

Mark Nelson, PhD, has worked for several decades in closed ecological systems research. As one of eight brave souls enclosed in the pioneering Biosphere 2 experiment for two years in 1991-1993, Nelson learned first-hand how essential the proper use of human waste is to the health of the planet. This realization, combined with his lifelong love affair with constructed wetlands, led to the development of Wastewater Gardens, an ecological way to treat...

This book contains a lovely collection of woodwork projects for the making of garden furniture and accessories. Including such items as 'A Useful Peg Box', a 'Miniature Weathercock' and a 'Garden Table and Seats', this book provides you wit some beautiful furnishings for your garden. With designs of varying difficulties, this book should suit most levels of woodwork skill.

The essential guide to sowing, growing, and preparing herbs for homesteaders Growing herbs means growing your own food, home remedies, beauty products, and more. This homesteader's handbook is packed with expert information on planting, caring for, and using herbs to nourish and nurture yourself, your family, your pets, and even your livestock. Learn about the countless perks of cultivating herbs on your homestead, find tons of info on foraging...

Saviez-vous que 61 % des Français disposent d'un jardin ? De l'épuisement physique aux blessures graves causées par l'utilisation d'appareils d'entretien, en passant par des insolations... Les risques sont multiples. Les tondeuses à gazon, par exemple, provoquent chaque année des traumatismes sérieux : électrocution, plaies au visage et aux mains, problèmes musculaires... Dans ce mini-livre, nous vous livrons les clés d'un jardinage en...