Gardening Books

The Creative Vegetable Gardener

The Creative Vegetable Gardener: 60 Ways to Cultivate Joy, Playfulness, and Beauty along with a Bounty of FoodBy Kelly Smith Trimble For decades, gardeners have approached vegetable gardening the same way: planting in square or rectangular...

The Complete Compost Gardening Guide

The Complete Compost Gardening Guide: Banner Batches, Grow Heaps, Comforter Compost, and Other Amazing Techniques for Saving Time and Money, and Producing the Most Flavorful, Nutritious Vegetables EverBy Deborah L. Martin and Barbara...

100 Plants to Feed the Birds

100 Plants to Feed the Birds: Turn Your Home Garden into a Healthy Bird Habitat By Laura Erickson The growing group of bird enthusiasts who enjoy feeding and watching their feathered friends  will learn how they can expand their activity...

The New Organic Grower, 3rd Edition

The New Organic Grower, 3rd Edition: A Master’s Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market Gardener, 30th Anniversary EditionBy Eliot Coleman “Updated for its 30th anniversary edition; [This book] remains as...

The Organic Medicinal Herb Farmer, Revised Edition

The Organic Medicinal Herb Farmer, Revised Edition: How to Produce High-Quality Herbs on a Market ScaleBy Jeff Carpenter with Melanie Carpenter “Seasoned and novice growers alike will find a mother lode of information...

The Organic Grain Grower

The Organic Grain Grower: Small-Scale, Holistic Grain Production for the Home and Market ProducerBy Jack Lazor “The Organic Grain Grower is the best resource we’ve seen for small-scale grain growers everywhere. . . ...

The Vertical Veg Guide to Container Gardening

The Vertical Veg Guide to Container Gardening: How to Grow an Abundance of Herbs, Vegetables and Fruit in Small Spaces (Winner – Garden Media Guild Practical Book of the Year Award 2022)By Mark Ridsdill Smith   From the creator of...

No-Till Intensive Vegetable Culture

No-Till Intensive Vegetable Culture: Pesticide-Free Methods for Restoring Soil and Growing Nutrient-Rich, High-Yielding CropsBy Bryan O'Hara From a veteran organic grower: a unique agricultural methodology that delivers higher yields, higher...

Winter Harvest Handbook

The Winter Harvest Handbook: Year Round Vegetable Production Using Deep-Organic Techniques and Unheated GreenhousesBy Eliot Coleman   With The Winter Harvest Handbook, everyone can have access to organic farming pioneer Elliot...

The Living Soil Handbook

The Living Soil Handbook: The No-Till Grower’s Guide to Ecological Market Gardeningby Jesse Frost Discovering how to meet the soil’s needs is the key task for every market gardener. In this comprehensive guide, Farmer Jesse Frost shares...

Wicked Plants

Wicked Plants by Briony Morrow-Cribbs, Amy Stewart, Jonathon Rosen A tree that sheds poison daggers; a glistening red seed that stops the heart; a shrub that causes paralysis; a vine that strangles; and a leaf that triggered a war...

Vegetable Gardening Wisdom

Vegetable Gardening Wisdom by Kelly Smith Trimble Sometimes the best gardening advice comes in tidbits shared over the backyard fence from a sage neighbor. In Vegetable Gardening Wisdom, Master Gardener Kelly Smith Trimble shares her...

The Vegetable Butcher

The Vegetable Butcher by Cara Mangini Winner, IACP Cookbook Awards for Single Subject and People's Choice. . Applying the skills of butchery to the unique anatomy of vegetables—leafy, lumpy, stalky, gnarly, thin-skinned, or...

The Beginner's Guide to Dehydrating Food

The Beginner's Guide to Dehydrating Food, 2nd Edition by Teresa Marrone   Drying fruit, vegetables, and beans and creating fruit leather, meat jerky, and herb blends at home is easy, safe, and satisfying. Photographic step-by-step...

Recipes from the Root Cellar

Recipes from the Root Cellar by Andrea Chesman With this collection of more than 250 recipes, veteran cookbook author and gardening enthusiast Andrea Chesman deliciously demonstrates how locavores in all parts of North America can eat...