Living Foods

Permaculture is the gardening and farming roadmap of the future. It teaches you to work with nature so that the Earth will be your ally, not your foe. It’s a must-have for every person concerned about the environment and sustainable living. It contains valuable lessons and strategies critical for the future of life on Earth.

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.

Here is marvelous advice to reduce your food budget, eat organic, and keep your home eco-friendly. Inside, you'll find tips for greening up all areas of your garden. Learn surprising facts about your impact on the environment and change your habits with these do-it-yourself ideas. Start with small changes, like growing basic herbs, and work your way up to raising bees, every kind of vegetable and fruit, as well as tips on composting weeds, clippings, and leftovers so you have nutrient-rich soil.

Step into the world of foraging with Foraging Wild Edibles for Beginners, the ultimate guide to identifying, harvesting, and enjoying wild foods. Whether you're a nature lover, a culinary enthusiast, or a beginner seeking self-reliance, this book provides the foundational skills you need to explore wild edibles safely and sustainably.

A Month of Happiness with Ms. Mollie: Healthy Recipes for 31 Days of Daily Living is putting a spoonful of love in everything you do for thirty-one days. Make an effort daily to do something for yourself, eat something nutritious, and try a few of my mental messages for the soul. Then pray. In my book, relationships relate to cooking. A recipe consists of ingredients. I say, put a spoonful of love in everything you do and bake all relationships with love at high temperatures always.

Discover the best addition to your homesteading plan that can be easily done by anyone. Are you living in a city but crave for a more natural lifestyle? Have you been raised on a farm and look back nostalgically at delicious fresh food you had regularly? Do you want to live more self-sufficiently and self-sustainably? It can be difficult to add a new hobby to your daily routine...considering how stressful and busy life in a city already feels like.

How to safely store fish, wild game, beef, pork, and poultry by canning, smoking, salt curing, freezing, freeze-drying, dehydrating, and brining—for camping, RVing, hiking, long-term storage, and doomsday preppers. Born from this need is our journey to finding ways to store food safely. Food preservation is a large part of human history.

Dive into the rich tapestry of flavors and traditions that have made the Mediterranean diet a global sensation. From sun-drenched olive groves to the azure waters of the Mediterranean Sea, this book takes you on a culinary adventure that transcends mere nutrition—it's a lifestyle that nourishes heart, body and soul.

How Do I Love Thee: Food for Thought Before You Say "I Do" is a mini-premarital guide to be used by couples, counselors, and clergy. It addresses many of the major subjects couples should discuss prior to marriage. Included are interactive lessons and assignments for the couple that are designed to motivate serious thought about love, compatibility, commitment, finances, accountability, responsibility, dealing with the in-laws, the marriage bed, and more.

Have you often pondered on what it would be like to have chickens in your backyard, fantasizing about the endless supply of eggs you would have available for your family whenever in need? Do you know of people who raise backyard chickens and admire their work, yet wonder if it’s something you would be able to do just as well as them? Did you use to live or work on a farm and miss the constant contact with animals, but don’t know how to implement this into your daily routine?

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 cannot 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!

Do you want to learn how to transform your household waste into black gold-dust? Do you feel the need to be more environmentally responsible? This beginners guide will break down vermiculture in an easy-to-understand and apply manner, so that you can get started right after listening. Geoff makes this environmentally responsible hobby so simple that even a 5 year-old could start worm composting!

Fellowship with Christ doesn't have to be complex. It's as simple as sharing a meal with someone you love. Examine the life of Christ, and the time he spends with family and friends (the disciples), and you will see that he uses simple techniques for fellowship.

From sturdy structural advice to creative decorating techniques, discover the secrets to constructing and decorating enchanting gingerbread houses that will leave your family and friends in awe. Whether you're a seasoned baker or a first-time builder, this book is your go-to companion for a delightful journey into the festive art of gingerbread house creation. Unleash your creativity, add a sprinkle of holiday magic, and watch as your gingerbread dreams come to life, after purchasing this jam-packed guide!

If your pantry was empty, your children hungry, your electricity cut off for nonpayment, and you saw no prospect of support, what would you do? For a decade in a rural Tennessee community, you went to a shabby building behind a church and found Laura Willis. Running a program to help the needy, Laura discovered a world of people she never knew: the lonely and unemployed, chronically poor families, and middle-class folks surprised to be struggling in a great recession.

Becoming a Man of God: Adventure, Food, Logic is a 21 day devotional designed to shift the paradigm of the listener. It explains why you are here, how you were designed to operate, and how to become who you were intended to be. This book contains adventure, food, and logic, but most importantly, it contains principals that if applied, will drastically improve your life and draw you closer to God.

Hugelkultur, also sometimes referred to as hugel bed, is a permaculture gardening technique for growing vegetables in heaps made from timber and covered over with topsoil. In this short introduction to a well established but little known growing concept, you will discover what it involves and how it can be used to great advantage particularly in dry arid regions. With a proper understanding and application of this simple technique, vegetables can be grown with minimum irrigation—and less backache!

Growing Vegetables is a one-volume primer on all things veggie! You'll learn about the ways you can make your garden work for you with tons of information on building a business with your products and finding ways to maximize your harvest. There are also chapters devoted to the cultivation and care of dozens of popular vegetables, including recommended varieties, companion plants, and sowing and harvest guides to help you choose the plants that are best for you.

Grow your own food, save money, gain self-sufficiency, and live larger with frugal living! Lead a more sustainable and healthier life with this back-to-basics guide on homesteading. Homesteading is an earth-based lifestyle of self-sufficiency. It's about reconnecting with nature and getting back in touch with your authentic self, all whilst making eco-friendly and economically-wise lifestyle choices. Independent and frugal living is the future to living a truly fulfilling life!

With food prices rising, sustainability becoming an increasing concern, and a greater awareness of health and nutrition spreading throughout the population, foraging is the golden ticket to a better way of life. Despite the rise in newbie foragers, many people are hesitant because they don’t think they have the skills or knowledge to do it safely. But all of that is about to change. When you know where to look, what to look for, and how to confidently identify and harvest safe and nutritious treats, a whole world of possibility opens up