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"Marrying the art of butchery with the joy of gorgeous seasonal produce, The Vegetable Butcher is the fresh, inspiring and essential guide that demystifies the world of vegetables, from exotic crosnes and gnarly celeriac to the amazingly versatile everyday potato. It's the book that show exactly how to prepare an artichoke-plus peel a tomato, chiffonade kale, slice kohlrabi into carpaccio, break down a butternut squash, and cut a cauliflower into...
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Centuries ago before chemical fertilizers and engineered inputs, the most productive vegetable gardens shared one common attribute: the vegetables were paired up. Not with other vegetables, but with beds of beautiful flowers. Even then, gardeners knew that vegetables love flowers. Or to be more precise, vegetables love pollinators, and pollinators love flowers. Drawn by colorful, fragrant blossoms, they visit in swarms, performing their good work....
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Barbara Damrosch and Eliot Coleman are America's foremost organic gardeners-and authorities. Barbara is the author of The Garden Primer, and Eliot wrote the bible for organic gardening, The New Organic Grower. Today they are the face of the locavore movement, working through their extraordinary Four Season Farm in Maine. And now they've written the book on how to grow what you eat, and cook what you grow.
The Four Season Farm Gardener's Cookbook...
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¡Explore los beneficios de la germinación en casa y convierta su pasión en una empresa próspera!¿Quiere saber más sobre la germinación?¿Se ha preguntado cómo puede beneficiarse de ella?¿Está interesado en conocer el procedimiento exacto para germinar eficazmente?
Los germinados son una forma estupenda de obtener nutrientes, minerales y vitaminas que puede añadir a su dieta. Los germinados son fáciles de cultivar y puede utilizarlos en...
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A hands-on guide to the ins and outs of raising and using vegetables. Want to grow your own?
Nothing beats the taste of vegetables from a home garden, and with Vegetable Gardening for Beginners it's never been easier. With many varieties of vegetables to choose from, eating delicious, just-picked produce is a snap. Learn every step of creating and maintaining a cornucopia of garden-fresh vegetables: from choosing and planning your plot, preparing...
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Are you looking to learn how to plant delicious vegetables, garden herbs and beautiful flowers in your backyard? Do you want to plant a garden in your backyard, but don't know where to start? Did you also know that gardening can also help improve your health in many different ways? Do you have goals for your backyard garden, but don't know how to achieve them? Have you been searching for a resource to help you understand gardening and how to get started...
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There are loads of different varieties of onions that can be grown in the home garden, or in containers or pots if space is limited. - Everyday kitchen onions- Large Spanish onions- Spring onions- Everlasting onions- Tree onions- Red onions- ShallotsTree Onions, or Japanese onions, grow above ground on plants that look like small onion trees! They do have particular growing requirements. But for everyday onions, this mini-book is an instant reference...
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The Royal Horticultural Society The Half Hour Allotment (first published in 2005) has been a best-selling gardening title for Frances Lincoln and the Royal Horticultural Society for many years. This new edition re-presents the classic in a fresh new illustrated format with hundreds of new photographs and a bright new design.
The book explains the philosophy of spending half an hour each day on the allotment in order to produce something to harvest...
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How To Grow Green Beans is a perfect start to growing fresh organic food for yourself and your family and friends. There are many different types of beans and depending on your climate, you may be able to grow some of the more exotic varieties. How to grow Green Beans will help you grow green beans that can be grown pretty much anywhere.
This guide includes a little about green beans and healthy reasons why you should include them in your diet.
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15) The Self Provisioner: How to Grow Your Own Food and Live a More Sustainable Life in the Digital Age
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The Self Provisioner is not just a gardening book. It is an invitation for you to join a movement of people who want to provide for themselves, living off the land in a realistic and sustainable way. You will become more connected with the food you eat and the world you live in. The Self Provisioner will give you the inspiration to live a fuller, more self-sustaining life.
In the Self Provisioner you will learn:- What is self-provisioning and how...
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How To Grow Carrots takes you step by step through the growing process and is a perfect way to introduce a fresh organic stunning root vegetable to your diet. ONE carrot has enough Vitamin A for an average adult, on a daily basis. Just the ONE! Carrots come in all sorts of colours, shapes and sizes and the fatter shorter varieties can be grown in everyday pots and containers.
This guide includes a little about carrots and healthy reasons why you...
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The virtues of organic food have long been apparent. But what many people don't realize is that they can grow their own--no matter how small their space. Whether you've got a backyard, rooftop, or patio, or are restricted to window boxes or hanging baskets, the joy and satisfaction of organic gardening can be yours. From planning a garden, to deciding what to plant, to the best methods of chemical-free pest and disease control, this definitive guide...
18) Vegetable Forcing: Containing Information on Greenhouse Construction, Management and Frame Culture
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This antiquarian volume comprises a detailed guide to vegetable forcing, with information on greenhouse construction, general management, frame culture, and much more besides. Vegetable forcing is the production of vegetables in greenhouses, hotbeds, coldframes, or other structures. Complete with simple instructions and a wealth of information conducive to successful vegetable forcing, this text will be of considerable value to those with an interest...
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In this stunning collection of memories, Dixie Shoopman recounts moments she has spent in and around gardens, learning not only about growing vegetables and flowers, but also about stories, love, and life. Through snapping of beans to building a cathedral of plants, we can hear the magical rhythms that come with digging in the soil, alone or not.
This beautiful book reminds us of the treasures we store in our memories, and the importance of putting...
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¿Quieres aprender a cultivar un huerto de frutales espectacular? Si quieres saber cuáles son las mejores opciones en cuanto a verduras que puedes cultivar o aprender a mantenerlas en buenas condiciones durante todo el año, este libro es la ayuda que necesitas. Encontrarás todo esto en el libro: Herramientas adecuadas, huertos caseros, huertos en tu comunidad, pasos para comenzar, las mejores verduras que puedes cultivar, mantenerlas en perfectas...