Zero-Waste Gardening is your essential go-to guide to growing your own food for maximum taste and minimum waste.\nOrganic gardening expert, Ben Raskin, shares over 60 unique planning-for-yield guides for key crops. Work out how to make the most of the green space you have got, what to grow easily in it, and how much you will harvest seasonally for zero waste.\nLearn about the roots of organic gardening, and unearth how to plant waste-free for any size plot, from balcony containers to 5-metre-square yards. Peppered with root-to-stalk cooking techniques, and edibility tips including which crops you can eat straight away, this is a plot-to-plate handbook for everyone with a green-thumb.\nPerfect for new and experienced growers, zero-food waste followers, city gardeners, and the ecologically minded, this is the only gardening book you will ever need!

Zero Waste Gardening: Maximize space and taste with minimal waste

Raskin, Ben

Self-Help

Frances Lincoln

There has never been a better time to plant a tree! From their invaluable role in fighting climate change and cleaning the air of our cities, to the huge mental health benefits being around their leafy presence can bring, trees are at the very centre of both our urban and rural ecosystems. 
Written by Ben Raskin, head of horticulture at the Soil Association, and supported by Friends of the Earth UK, this earthy call-to-action teaches the practical how-tos alongside the most interesting insights to appreciate about the significance of magnificent trees.\nAs movements to rewild the world around us gain pace, tree planting is being recognised as an empowering, practical and surprisingly simple action that each and every one of us can do in our backyard, park, local community, school, town, or city. 
Sections in this book include: Trees and the World – This sectioncelebrates just how vital trees are, from how they help regulate the climate and absorb dangerous methane and nitrous oxide, to how they enrich soil, support wildlife, and keep our city air clean, as well as the threats they face from climate change. Growing Your Own Tree – Tips on growing saplings from seed, cuttings, or grafting, plus guidance on care and maintenance, from weeding and mulching to when to prune and pollard. Tree Identification Guide – A guide to the top40 of our favourite trees, appreciated for their fruit and nuts, their ornamental value, and the role they play in supporting wildlife, including a neat introduction to how to recognise trees by their leaf shape, flowers, seeds, and fruit. Trees and Happiness – Research has revealed that trees are effective at reducing stress levels and improving our mental well-being, and this section digs into exactly how this happens.\nWhether you’re a keen gardener, an avid environmental activist, or simply want to learn more about these beautiful and powerful organisms, this must-read book illustrated by popular screen-printerRosanna Morris sends the powerful message that we can plant a tree & retree the world!

Plant a Tree and Retree the World: Retree the world

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Gardening & Landscape Design

Leaping Hare Press

Set your family on the path to a planet-friendly lifestyle with this fun guide to compost--what it is, how to make it, how to maintain it. Includes games, stickers, and more! Teach your kids that composting is fun with this funky guide that takes you from the nitty-gritty of compost composition and care to Worms and Ladders, a fresh take on a traditional board game. Find out the rules for setting up your very own Worm Lovers' Society, learn all about the garden-to-plate cycle together, and get your family's feet firmly set on the road to a planet-friendly lifestyle. Includes information on both kitchen and garden composting.

Compost: A Family Guide to Making Soil from Scraps (Discover Together Guides)

Roost Books

A delightful guide--packed with games, activities, and extras--that will satisfy the garden-curious and get families excited about growing their own fruits and vegetables. Have you ever wondered how plants work? Or why we eat the fruit of one plant, but the leaves of another? What’s the big deal about growing things—and how do we decide what we need to grow in the space we have? Discover the whole life cycle of food, from sowing and saving to planning and planting, and—most exciting of all—harvesting the food you’ve grown. In Grow, you’ll get all the inspiration and knowledge you need to get out there and start planting. Included inside: · A visual guide to the world of plants—what they need to grow, how to care for them, and more · Grow your own pizza! How to plant for a recipe, with fruits and vegetables in pots or a whole vegetable garden · Pull-out activities, including a runner-bean growth chart, a Fruit Pairs game, Rainbow Taste Wheel (turn the dial to find out which vitamins are found in each fruit and vegetable), and four sheets of stickers

Grow: A Family Guide to Growing Fruits and Vegetables (Discover Together Guides)

How to be a friend to bees, bugs &amp; butterflies--an interactive guide to pollinators and their role in our gardens. This buzzing collection of exciting facts and activities will give you the inside knowledge on the power of pollination. Learn why pollination is so essential to the natural world through engaging projects and zany explanations--create characterful bug masks you can cut out and wear, play a game of Pollinator Pursuit (a fresh take on a traditional board game), and explore the menu at Predator Restaurant (who knew nematode nougat came in slug and vine weevil flavors?). By the end of Bees, Bugs &amp; Butterflies you'll know how pollinators work and which creatures work with which flowers; you'll see how you can help pollinators by planting the right plants and creating safe homes for them; you'll learn about the amazing tricks plants play on insects; and you'll discover how to call nature's very own SOS team in to give our nectar-sipping buddies (and us) a helping hand.

Bees, Bugs, and Butterflies: A Family Guide to Our Garden Heroes and Helpers (Discover Together Guides)

Children's Books

Animals

Community gardens are cropping” up all over, allowing neighbors to work together, grow together, and reap the delicious rewards of their labor together. As more and more people become interested in getting back to nature and growing their own food, the community-gardening movement is exploding in popularity, giving city and suburban dwellers an opportunity to try out their green thumbs. This colorfully illustrated guide to community gardening offers comprehensive planning and planting advice to those looking to start a community garden as well as to those interested in joining an existing garden. Inside The Community Garden Handbook: Profiles of different types of community gardens around the world, such as community-supported agriculture, shared plots and individual plots, orchards, rooftop gardens, movable gardens, and more Getting the whole family involved in the community’s gardening efforts Starting a community garden from scratch, including gathering a team, navigating the legalities, and securing funds Organizing fun community events, such as seed swaps and workshops, to raise awareness of and draw participants to community gardens Selecting a site, Planning the garden’s layout, irrigation system, and division of plots A season-by-season schedule of tasks to maximize growing and harvesting and maintain the garden in the off-season A plant directory featuring detailed descriptions of close to 50 flowers, fruits, vegetables, herbs, and more that will thrive in a community-garden setting

The Community Gardening Handbook: The Guide to Organizing, Planting, and Caring for a Community Garden (CompanionHouse Books) How to Beautify Public Spaces and Support Sustainable Living (Hobby Farms)

CompanionHouse Books

Community Gardening Handbook

Irvine, CA : Lumina Media

The first and only complete guide to sourcing and using woodchip--an abundant, inexpensive, and ecologically sustainable material--for savvy growers and landscapers at any scale, from farm to garden to greenhouse. The Woodchip Handbook is the essential guide to the many uses of woodchip both in regenerative agriculture and horticulture. Author Ben Raskin, Head of Horticulture and Agroforestry at the Soil Association, draws on his extensive practical experience using woodchip, provides the latest research from around the world, and presents inspiring case studies from innovative farmers. The book explores and unlocks the tremendous potential of woodchip to enhance soil health and plant growth: &nbsp; <ul> <li>As a natural mulch for weed suppression, temperature buffering, and water conservation</li> <li>As a growing medium for propagating plants</li> <li>As a decomposing source of warmth for hotbeds in the greenhouse or hoop house</li> <li>As a carbon-rich compost ingredient that supports beneficial fungi and microorganisms</li> <li>As a powerful soil health booster, when applied as small-sized ramial chipped wood</li> <li>As an ideal substrate for growing many kinds of edible or medicinal mushrooms</li> <li>As a sustainable, versatile, and durable material for foot paths and ornamental landscaping</li> </ul> &nbsp; Some of these techniques, like mulching--or the renewable harvest potential from coppicing and pollarding trees--have been around forever. Yet there is always new science to be discovered, such as the role that salicylic acid from willow woodchip can play in preventing tree diseases or promoting livestock health when used as a bedding material. Whether you are a commercial grower or farmer, a permaculture practitioner, or a serious home gardener producing your own fruit and vegetables, The Woodchip Handbook will show you how to get the most out of this readily available and renewable material.

The Woodchip Handbook: A Complete Guide for Farmers, Gardeners and Landscapers

Business & Money

Economics

Chelsea Green Publishing UK

Bees, Bugs and Butterflies: A family guide to our garden heroes and helpers

Science, Nature & How It Works

An invaluable handbook for farmers, growers, and gardeners, Silvohorticulture is the first book to offer a detailed, practical guide on how to effectively integrate trees with vegetable growing, offering information previously known only in the foresting world. Drawing on the decades-long experiences of Ben Raskin and Andy Dibben, both of whom have designed and managed agroforestry systems and have extensive experience in commercial horticultural crop production, this is the definitive book on the interaction between trees and crops, covering the benefits of trees for edible crops and the potential for additional crops from trees, plus crucial new information on how to fit trees into complex crop rotations as well as manipulating access to light. Ben and Andy also reveal the latest research on how tree roots behave and, importantly, how that impacts your crops. Agroforestry can bring immense benefits to farmers and growers--not just optimizing yield, but also improving soil, managing pests and water, increasing biodiversity, and reducing costs. System design must be customised to each grower's requirements, and Silvohorticulture offers step-by-step detail that will allow you to manage your trees and crops successfully.

Silvohorticulture: A grower's guide to integrating trees into crops

Dibben, Andy

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