Growing Green

Organic gardener, environmentalist, and pop-up chef Alice Mary Alvrez wants to make it as easy as possible to reduce your footprint, grow and eat fabulous organic vegetables, and maintain a planet-positive, animal-friendly lifestyle. Her book Plant-Powered Cooking is simply brimming with brilliant ideas you can use from tips for growing your own food, shopping, and cooking techniques for every mealtime. Learn surprising facts about the impact of meat and animal products on the environment and how even small do-it-yourself ideas lead to real impact.

A cute story with a great and important message. Today I'm a Monster explains that angry feelings come and go; doing bad things doesn't make you bad; a story is a good way to help children first recognize feelings; learn to treat each other better as well as be more tolerating; teaches us all that love and understanding make the difference; and showers the power of a mother's love. It will deeply touch a mother's heart, and the fun, rhyming text is spot-on. Quickly captures children's attention.

Filled with catchall research, American Hemp examines what this new domestic crop can be used for, what makes it a superior product, and what made it illegal in the first place; the book also delves into the many health and medical benefits of the plant. Hobbs weighs in on how hemp can improve existing industries, from farming to energy to 3D printing, plus how it can make a serious impact on climate change by removing toxins from the soil and by decreasing our dependence on plastics and fossil fuels.

Anne is growing up and leaving the Island to spend four years of her life at Redmond College. She meets a wonderful new friend in Philippa Gordon, offspring to an old and exclusive "bluenose" family. Phil's family ties, combined with her beauty and charm, open the gates of all the social cliques and clubs at Redmond. And where Phil went, Anne went. Thus, Anne found her social pathway at Redmond made very easy while other freshettes were doomed to remain on the fringe of things.

Ty Lewis is ecstatic when the school coach recruits him for the football team. Unfortunately, Ty's Uncle Gus has other plans for him - namely, scrubbing toilets for Gus's cleaning service. Ty's only relief from his oppressive uncle comes in the too-rare times he can spend with his big brother, Thane, a college football star who's headed for the NFL. But when Uncle Gus gets involved with the local mob boss, a man called "Lucy", and Lucy finds out how famous Thane is, things begin to spiral out of control.

Two manuscripts in one audiobook: Hobby Farming and Growing Potatoes. Farming, growing your own crops, and raising animals have never been as easy as they are today. With modern technology and access to a plethora of knowledge and resources, farming can not only be easy but profitable as well - even for someone who has never stepped out of the city. In fact, you can do it from the comfort of your own home! You don’t need a lot of money to get started, but you need to start with the right knowledge if you want to succeed.

"Little Skunk loved wandering through the forest and playing with his friends. What he didn’t love was its stinky smell. His mother had told him that this scent could protect skunks in dangerous situations, but he didn’t believe her. Until one day, when his unique trait helped him save his friends from an attack…" Remember! We are all unique. Everyone has strengths and weaknesses. Knowing our strengths benefits us. But most of the time, being dedicated and determined is enough to achieve what we want.

Begin your journey to sustainable living, even if you've never held a tool in your life! Are you ready to embrace off-grid living but feel overwhelmed by where to start? Do you dream of gaining independence from modern utilities or preparing for emergencies with confidence? This audiobook is your gateway to self-reliance and sustainability.

You are about to discover how to develop a highly productive garden that supplies you with fresh herbs, fruits, and vegetables all year round by leveraging the power of greenhouse gardening and hydroponics! Now more than ever, people are increasingly looking for efficient ways of growing fruits and vegetables – ways that are not at the mercy of the environment; ways they can create ideal environmental conditions for growth of plants within the growing area even when the surrounding is hostile or unsuitable for such plants.

Avoid the fatal pitfalls and mistakes green thumbs make with this essential guide to growing microgreens. Insider grower secrets, strategies, and tactics are shared within. Everything from strategic growing conditions for successfully cultivating your grows (that you may not have yet discovered) to inventive & mouthwatering microgreen recipes are treated in this book. Whatever your goals for microgreens are, you’re looking at the answer.

Spunky 11-year-old Wadjda lives in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia with her parents. She desperately wants a bicycle so that she can race her friend Abdullah, even though it is considered improper for girls to ride bikes. Wadjda earns money for her dream bike by selling homemade bracelets and mixtapes of banned music to her classmates. But after she's caught, she's forced to turn over a new leaf (sort of), or risk expulsion from school. Still, Wadjda keeps scheming, and with the bicycle so closely in her sights, she will stop at nothing to get what she wants.

Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert need help on their farm, Green Gables, so they ask an orphanage to send them a strong boy. A mix-up means they are instead sent Anne Shirley, a talkative young girl with a big imagination! Anne longs for a home of her own, but will she find it at Green Gables?

After a lifetime of being homeschooled, Ham Hudson is hoping that a new year in a new school will help make him a whole new Ham. Instead, he’s saddled with an archnemesis to avoid, a confusing and exhausting social sphere to navigate, and a whole host of insecurities to add to his old ones. But then Ham meets Micah. Sympathetic and effortlessly cool, Micah quickly becomes a lifeline in a strange world. Ham wants Micah to think he belongs—to want him around as much as Ham wants to be around him.

Tips, tools, advice, and activities for raising eco-friendly kids while nurturing compassion, resilience, and community engagement.

Discover about hydroponics and organic gardening. Are you looking to use one of the most effective irrigation and growing methods known to modern agriculture? Would you like to use a greenhouse to grow your own fresh, organic produce? If you answered "yes" to any of these, then this is the perfect, educational and informational audiobook for you! The key information in this bundle can help you to decide what lights, ventilation, and other critical elements you will need in order to grow fresh, healthy plants that are delicious, beautiful, and nourishing.

Uprooted from her beloved Great Western Beach, Emma Smith moves with her family from Newquay to the Devonshire village of Crapstone. But the dust has hardly settled when tragedy strikes, and Emma’s father, a DSO-decorated hero of the Great War, is so frustrated by the hardship of life as a lowly bank clerk and by his thwarted artistic ambitions that he suffers a catastrophic breakdown - from which disaster Emma's resourceful mother rallies courageously. Then, in 1939, the war again becomes a reality.

Let's talk about periods, your menstrual cycle - whatever you call yours, and however you feel about it, you know that you're stuck with it for around 40 years! So you want to make the best of those years, right? This book will help you by showing you how conventional feminine sanitary products are not always the best choices for your health and the environment. Did you know that each sanitary pad uses the equivalent of four plastic bags? There are many sustainable alternatives....

Lucy Maud Montgomery's classic tale, with its engaging heroine and evocative description of the Prince Edward Island landscape, never fails to delight youngsters. When Matthew Cuthbert goes to the train station to pick up the orphan he and his sister Marilla plan to adopt, he expects to meet a boy who can help on the family farm. Instead it's Anne - a talkative, dreamy, red-haired, freckle-faced 11-year-old little girl who transforms the Cuthberts' life forever and fills it with love and joy.

When Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert try to adopt a boy to help out with their farm on Prince Edward Island, they are completely unprepared for the 11-year-old girl who is mistakenly sent instead. Anne is feisty, red-haired, and never stops talking. She is also smart and incredibly imaginative, with a huge capacity for love that wins over shy Matthew, crusty Marilla, and their entire community of Avonlea.

Do you want to approach the world of greenhouse gardening, but you don't know how to start and are you confused by the information you find on the internet? Would you like to have all the useful information in a single book to better understand how greenhouse gardening works and to be able to start building your own? Would you like to finally improve your life by growing your own fruits, vegetables, and herbs, thus saving money? There’s a lot more to greenhouse gardening than meets the eye.