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We've gathered what we think are some of the best offerings on gardening without turning to poisons. Most principles presented are applicable to agriculture as well.
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Gardening:

Building Projects for Backyard Farmers & Home Gardeners
Obtain both inspiration and instruction for transforming your grassy yard into a lush farm that can produce all the food you need.

How to Grow Winter Vegetables
Planning harvests for winter and early spring requires a different kind of strategy than the super-abundant summer months — but it is possible to overcome the challenges of the dark winter season and still have plenty to eat, both stored and fresh.

Straw Bale Gardens
A breakthrough method for growing vegetables anywhere, earlier and with no weeding.

The Beginner's Guide to Growing Heirloom Vegetables
The Beginner’s Guide to Growing Heirloom Vegetables contains everything you need to know about growing 100 of the easiest and most flavorful vegetables in your garden.

The Holistic Orchard
All the basic information needed to create and maintain a living orchard with insights into design, choosing varieties, and a step-by-step instructional calendar for growing fruits through the entire orchard year, the biological way.

The Intelligent Gardener
This practical step-by-step guide and the accompanying customizable web-based spreadsheets go beyond organic and are essential tools for any serious gardener who cares about the quality of the produce they grow.

The New Food Garden
Tozer explains how and promotes incorporating food gardens as a part of the whole landscape — a garden one that is efficient, beautiful and produces an abundance of food.

The Organic Seed Grower
This book can serve as a bridge to lead skilled gardeners, who are already saving their own seed, into the idea of growing seed commercially.

The Seed Underground
Janisse Ray brings us the inspiring stories of ordinary gardeners whose aim is to save time-honored open-pollinated varieties that will be lost forever if people don’t grow, save and swap the seeds.

Aquaponic Gardening
Aquaponic Gardening is a do-it-yourself manual for building a plant and fish-raising system tailored to the home environment.

Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties
An essential guide to plant breeding and seed saving for the serious home gardener and the small-scale farmer or commercial grower.

Organic Management for the Professional
Easy to understand, Organic Management for the Professional contains detailed, proven instructions on the key components of organic landscaping — soil building, correct planting techniques, fertilizing, pest control, composting and using mulch.

Building Soils Naturally
In Building Soils Naturally, organic gardeners will find a hands-on plan of how to create productive, living soil by using a practical holistic approach — crafted right in your garden.

Year-Round Vegetable Production DVD
Follow one of the pioneers of the organic farming movement as Eliot Coleman presents a daylong workshop on growing vegetables year-round.

Pfeiffer's Introduction to Biodynamics
A short but comprehensive book by Ehrenfried Pfeiffer, introducing the concepts, principles, and practice of the biodynamic method and an overview of early biodynamic history.

Growing Vegetables with a Smile
This book is a treasure-trove of how to garden intelligently — growing happy and productive vegetables all the while dispensing with the hard work.

Grow Food in Your Polytunnel
The hoophouse has great potential to create a warm, sheltered microclimate to grow tender crops, increase yields, prolong harvesting or even produce vegetables, herbs and fruits year round. Find out how you can use your polytunnel to its full potential.

Microgreens
Want to add interest to your urban garden or expand your operation? This gorgeous, glossy, full-color guide to microgreens will help!

Canning, Pickling and Preserving
With simple step-by-step instructions and stunning photos, this book gives a quick introduction to the basics of canning, pickling, freezing and drying.

Sensitive Permaculture
Sensitive Permaculture focuses on an energetic, loving approach to sustainable land planning and explores the living energies of the land and how to connect with them.

How to Build Your Own Greenhouse
Create your own custom-designed home greenhouse and fulfill your dream of year-round gardening with this detailed book featuring 9 complete plans.

Raised-bed Vegetable Gardening
Framed raised beds and a modular approach to growing vegetables means more production from less space with less work.

Restoring Ecological Health to Your Land
How to make land healthy again, a guide to bringing abused land back to life. Written for landowners with minimal experience in ecology giving a systemic process for developing, implementing, monitoring and refining restoration projects.

The Art of Canning DVD
Instructional and entertaining, these busy homesteading, home schooling and home keeping ladies live on a 90-acre working farm and delight in living off the land. Especially valuable for those beginning canning.

The Art of Gardening DVD
Instructional and entertaining, these busy homesteading, home schooling and home keeping ladies live on a 90-acre working farm and delight in living off the land.

The Resilient Gardener
Subtitled: Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times, this fascinating book looks at five crops that you need to survive and thrive — potatoes, corn, beans, squash and eggs.

The Vegetable Gardener's Bible
Very comprehensive and covering everything from seed to harvest, above and below the ground using wide rows, organic methods, raised beds and deep soil.

Grow Biointensive, A Beginner's Guide DVD
Grow Biointensive shows beginning organic market farmers and backyard gardeners how to grow more food in less space, build truly sustainable soil fertility, and save money by reducing water, energy and fertilizer use.

How To Grow World Record Tomatoes (book)
Organic gardening techniques.

Lessons in Nature
Soil building, planting, growing and pest control.

Made From Scratch
Operating an organic container-plant business.

Organic Backyard Vineyard, The
Solid information about where to begin growing organic grapes, what you need to know to be successful and how to do it.

The Permaculture Handbook
A step-by-step, beautifully illustrated guide to creating resilient, prosperous households and neighborhoods by working with the earth and each other to repair the damage of industrial overreach and enrich the living world that sustains us.

The Secret Life of Compost
How and why's of composting — lawns, gardens, feedlots and farm.

2013 North American Biodynamic Sowing and Planting Calendar
The original biodynamic sowing and planting calendar, showing optimum days for sowing, pruning, and harvesting various plant-crops, as well as for beekeeping.

2013 Stella Natura Biodynamic Planting Calendar
Inspiration & practical advice for gardeners.

2013 Northern Star Calendar
A calendar for biodynamic planting, weather forecasting, astronomy. 8th edition

A Biodynamic Manual
Covers all aspects of making and using biodynamic preparations and composts, managing the health of plants, weed and parasite control, issues dealing with mixed cultivation, animal care, specialized crops and planting instructions.

Backyard Market Gardening
Entrepreneur's guide to selling what you grow.

Carrots Love Tomatoes
Companion planting guide.

Earth Ponds A to Z
A resource guide for building ponds.

Earth Ponds Maker's Guide
Guide to building, maintenance and restoration.

Earth Ponds Sourcebook
Tips, techniques and materials resource guide.

Feast Your Eyes
The unexpected beauty of vegetable gardens.

Forest Gardening
Cultivating an edible backyard landscape.


Building Projects for Backyard Farmers & Home Gardeners

Fresh Food From Small Places
The Square Inch Gardener's Guide to Year-Round Growing, Fermenting, and Sprouting

From Asparagus to Zucchini
More than a cookbook featuring 420 recipes, this book also offers cooking and storage tips for 53 vegetables and herbs to make the most of local and seasonal produce.

Growing & Selling Fresh-Cut Herbs
Turn your hobby into a fulfilling career.

Growing & Using Herbs Successfully
An easy to use guide for growing and using herbs.

Growing Great Garlic
History, growing, marketing over 200 varieties of garlic

Growing Green
If you want to make a real difference producing decent food on your own small but significant portion of the world, this book will tell you most of what you need to know.

Guide to Saving Seeds
Concise and comprehensive, this book shows how to collect, save and cultivate seeds from over 300 vegetables, herbs, flowers, fruits, trees and shrubs.

Homegrown Whole Grains
Homegrown Whole Grains is written for modern-day homesteaders who want to learn how to reap the fresh flavor and nutritional benefits from growing grain crops.

How to Grow More Vegetables
Biointensive gardening methods.

Landscaping With Fruit
Complete, no-nonsense guide to growing temperate-zone fruit.

Liquid Gold
The lore and logic of using urine to grow plants.

Living on the Earth
Wide-range compendium of country living skills.

Organic Gardening The Natural No-Dig Way -Second Edition
Using slightly raised beds and composting for a great bounty of quality produce.

Organic Seed Production and Saving
For farmers and gardeners who want to be more selective and self-sufficient in what they grow, Connolly explains plant selection, pollination, seed storage and the genetics of hybrid varieties.

Organic Vegetable Production: A Complete Guide
A detailed, practical guide to temperate organic vegetable growing with examples from a range of farming systems.

Preventing Deer Damage
Assessing the problem, variety of possible solutions.

Production of Pot Roses
Introduction and History of Pot Rose Production

Rodale's Vegetable Garden Problem Solver
The best and latest advice for beating pests, diseases, and weeds and staying a step ahead of trouble in the garden.

Roses Love Garlic
A guide to companion planting.

Salad Leaves for All Seasons
No more sprayed lettuce and supermarket imports — reap the benefits of healthy, nutritious meals from your own patio or garden.

Saving Seeds: A Gardener’s Guide to Growing and Storing Vegetable and Flower Seeds
Learn how to select, harvest and store seeds from more than 100 vegetables and flowers commonly grown in gardens.

Secrets to Great Soil
Guide to composting, mulching and fertile soil.

Seed to Seed
Seed saving techniques for the vegetable gardener.

Square Foot Gardening
A new way to garden in less space with less work.

Stone Age Farming
Harness the subtle energies to improve plant growth.

Teaming With Microbes
A useful guide to creating rich, nurturing, living soil.

The Backyard Berry Book
Organic and conventional fundamentals to growing berries in your backyard home garden

The Backyard Homestead
Enjoy fresher, organic, better-tasting food all the time. The solution is as close as your own backyard. The Backyard Homestead shows you how it’s done!

The Backyard Orchardist
Ideal for small orchards, home gardeners.

The Complete Compost Gardening Guide
A natural six-way basic compost gardening system is described to achieve a compost-rich garden that requires less digging, hauling, weeding, mulching and even less plants.

The Gardener's A-Z Guide to Growing Organic Food
Vegetables, herbs, fruits and nuts.

The New Organic Grower (book)
Small-scale farmers and gardeners reference.

The Organic Gardeners Handbook
A serious guide to the art and science of organic gardening. This book will cover everything you need to know about organic gardening.

The Organic Lawn Care Manual
A natural, low-maintenance system for a beautiful, safe lawn.

The Organic Method Primer
Covers all aspects of organic gardening without fluff.

The Rodale Book of Composting
Home composting process start to finish.

The Vegetable Growers Handbook
A user's manual for the vegetable garden! Everything you need to know about cultivating all common vegetable crops.

The Whole Organic Food Book
Safe, healthy harvest from your garden to your plate.

The Winter Harvest Handbook
Gardeners and farmers can use the innovative, highly successful methods Coleman describes in this comprehensive handbook to raise crops throughout the coldest of winters.

The Worm Book
Resource on worm growing; composting with worms.

Wheatgrass: Superfood for a New Millennium
An overview of the nutritive and therapeutic benefits of consuming wheatgrass juice.

Harnessing the Earthworm
Let earthworms build and condition your soil.











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