Food Gardening

Even if you're short on time or experience, this guide makes raised bed gardening simple and rewarding. With practical techniques and expert tips, you’ll learn how to maximize your space, grow abundant harvests, and enjoy a more sustainable lifestyle.

Drawing from the experiences of real-life giving circles, philanthropy leader Hali Lee challenges our traditional understanding of giving, showing how everyday people can take back philanthropy from the billionaires and make the world a better place. When you think of philanthropy, what do you...

Everyone is dealing with the same things—inflation, pollution, and the diminishing quality of life. However, not everyone is willing to do something about it. The government seems to be doing nothing as the cost of living increases, and people like you are ready to take things into their own hands. The truth is, you really don’t need the government or any large corporation to provide your daily needs. All you need is nature.

With the current administration pausing funding for agricultural projects and farming support, the issues discussed in this book are more urgent and relevant than ever before. The system of agriculture needs to be reimagined. This book is the best place to begin. There’s no denying it: we...

Stop depending on expensive and unreliable food sources and supply yourself and your family with your own bountiful harvest.

A novel about one family wading through the aftermath of the earthquake that devastated Haiti in 2010, from the acclaimed author who has been compared to Toni Morrison “at the height of her power” (Harper’s Bazaar)—a haunting and astonishing story of restoration and disaster, motherhood...

With 750 million people living in villages, India has the largest rural population in the world. Based on his Indian experience, Dr Kalam recommends a sustainable and inclusive development system called PURA—Providing Urban Amenities in Rural Areas—to uplift the rural masses not by subsidies...

An important, hopeful book that looks at the urgent problem of childhood malnutrition worldwide and the revolutionary progress being made to end it. A healthy Earth requires healthy children. Yet nearly one-fourth of the world’s children are stunted physically and mentally due to a lack of...

"Every year, our planet loses over 150 species of plants and animals, and India is very much in the midst of this mass ‘sixth extinction’. We are losing species in our backyard—where are the once ubiquitous sparrows, or the fireflies that lit up our nights? And in the forests, iconic...

"A moral dilemma gripped Anil K. Gupta when he was invited by the Bangladeshi government to help restructure their agricultural on-farm research sector in 1985. He noticed how the marginalized farmers were being paid poorly for their otherwise unmatched knowledge. The gross injustice of this...

Pilzzucht: Anleitungen, Praxistipps und Rundum-Informationen für die gelungene Zucht der aromatischen Leckerbissen. Sie finden, nichts geht über ein feines Pilzgericht? Vielleicht nutzen Sie bereits die Kraft von Heilpilzen für Ihre Gesundheit? Und am liebsten wären Ihnen Kostbarkeiten aus eigenem Anbau? Dann schnappen Sie sich dieses Hörbuch und steigen Sie in das faszinierende Hobby der Pilzzucht ein!

Make your garden flourish with these 300 easy and inexpensive gardening hacks to help your plants blossom—perfect for any green thumbs, first-time horticulturalists, or reluctant gardeners! Think you don’t have a green thumb? Think again! No matter your gardening woes, Gardening Hacks has...

Native and imported, sacred and ordinary, culinary and floral, favourites of various kings and commoners over the centuries, trees are the most visible signs of nature in cities, fundamentally shaping their identities. Trees are storehouses of the complex origins and histories of city growth...

What do you think of when you think of Nature? Prolific author and National Geographic writer Doug Chadwick’s fresh look at human’s place in the natural world. In his accessible and engaging style, Chadwick approaches the subject from a scientific angle, with the underlying message that...

If you dream of harvesting an abundance of homegrown vegetables without backbreaking labor, then keep reading… Ever feel frustrated by poor soil, relentless weeds, or disappointing harvests? Struggling to grow your own fresh food but don’t know where to start? Wish you could have a thriving, low-maintenance garden—without spending hours digging and weeding? Raised bed gardening is that solution! This method has helped thousands of gardeners—beginners and experts alike—achieve bigger harvests, healthier plants, and less work.

Gardening is really a great hobby by which we can nicely utilize our leisure time in a useful and productive way. Usually, we have some area around our homestead or rooftop, where we can set up a garden with different types of vegetables and fruit plants and manage the garden in an organized way to fulfill the daily livelihood requirements of our family. Low-cost vegetables and fruits garden in our homestead or rooftop area could be an appropriate system to improve the nutritional, economic, and livelihood standards.

Are you really interested in growing your own food? Would you love to have your own vegetable and herb garden, right at your home? If yes, what is it that's stopping you? Is it because you don't have a backyard to have your own garden or is it because you have limited space in your small urban high-rise apartment? Limited space should not restrict you from having your own garden. All you need is a little bit of planning and you can have your own container garden!

If you're looking for a way to become self-sufficient in terms of your food supply, then pay attention...Establishing a mini-farm in your backyard is an immensely beneficial and lucrative initiative. It will help you to become self-sufficient in terms of your food supply and also allow you to live a much more sustainable life. Regardless of how large or small your yard is, you can build a farm on it. You will learn how to get started with backyard farming; in addition to the mini-farm, you can raise bees and create a profitable honey business!

Chris Smith’s first encounter with okra was of the worst kind: slimy fried okra at a greasy-spoon diner. Despite that dismal introduction, Smith developed a fascination with okra, and as he researched the plant and began to experiment with it in his own kitchen, he discovered an amazing range of delicious ways to cook and eat it, along with ingenious and surprising ways to process the plant from tip-to-tail: pods, leaves, flowers, seeds, and stalks. Smith talked okra with chefs, food historians, university researchers, farmers, homesteaders, and gardeners.

Saving Seeds, Preserving Taste will introduce listeners to the cultural traditions associated with seed saving, as well as the remarkable people who have used grafting practices and hand-by-hand trading to keep alive varieties that would otherwise have been lost. As local efforts to preserve heirloom seeds have become part of a growing national food movement.