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As development and subsequent habitat destruction accelerate, there are increasing pressures on wildlife populations. But there is an important and simple step toward reversing this alarming trend: Everyone with access to a patch of earth can make a significant contribution toward sustaining biodiversity. Bringing Nature Home has sparked a national conversation about the link between healthy local ecosystems and human well-being, and this audio edition will help broaden the movement. By acting on Douglas Tallamy's practical recommendations, everyone can make a difference.

Mini Farming describes a holistic approach to small-area farming that will show you how to produce 85 percent of an average family's food on just a quarter acre - and earn $10,000 in cash annually while spending less than half the time that an ordinary job would require.

From lavish palace for Elizabethan nobles to dreary jailhouse for 18th-century prisoners of war, from well-manicured country house for a string of landed families to weed-choked ruin, Sissinghurst, in Kent, has become one of the most illustrious estates in England - and its future may prove to be just as intriguing as its past. In the 1930s, English poet Vita Sackville-West and her husband, Harold Nicolson, acquired land that had once been owned by Vita's ancestors.

The Cannabis Grow Bible fully explains the art of growing high quality pot. Author and aficionado Christopher Patino blends a radical understanding of marijuana botany with practical advice on handing the day-to-day demands of maintaining a high yield garden, and offers proven methods that maximize both yield and potency.

"Like a university course in a box--for less than $10! I have learned more from this one book than all the 'Bibles" put together!" -Bud Boulderite NOTE: Marijuana Cultivation Reconsidered INCLUDES Small Spaces, Big Yields! If you buy Marijuana Cultivation Reconsidered, you will be getting the entirety of Small Spaces, Big Yields--SSBY comprises Marijuana Cultivation Reconsidered's middle section. Marijuana Cultivation Reconsidered is a vastly-expanded volume (up from 77 pages to over 300 pages), adding two new sections and an extensive glossary and six appendices filled with useful ...

Are you ready to challenge the norms of traditional gardening, and step into a world where every seed flourishes and every drop of rain is a treasure? David Whitehead's groundbreaking box set is your essential guide to turning your garden into an oasis of organic abundance and ecological harmony.

Immerse yourself in the world of vegetable gardening with our comprehensive guide, "Fruit and Veggies 101: Vegetable Companion Planting". This guide opens a new dimension in home gardening that emphasizes the harmonious growth of vegetables together. In this guide, you will discover the beneficial pairings of the most common garden vegetables and learn how to apply them in your own garden.

Do you want to learn how to become a professional indoor or outdoor grower in the realm of Cannabis cultivation? Are you ready to learn and implement advanced Cannabis techniques to maximize your yields? Do you want to comprehend what it takes to grow big buds growing indoors or outdoors? If your answer is yes to any of the above questions, this audiobook is for you!

Discover Monty's thoughts and garden ideas around nature, seasons, colour, design, pests, flowering shrubs, containers and much more. Hear about the month-by-month jobs he does in his own garden that he hopes are relevant to you. Monty's warm voice brings this most intimate book to life - an enriching listen for any gardener.

Get ready to be amazed by the secrets beneath your feet, learn the fascinating dance of soil microorganisms, and tap into their power to supercharge your garden. Regenerative Gardening Made Easy isn't your typical gardening manual – it's your easy-to-follow map to nurturing alongside nature in the most rewarding way possible.

Want to grow herbs and give your family an enormous health head-start, but you don’t know how to begin? Looking for a cost-effective way to proactively promote health and wellness naturally, without relying on the pharmacy? Then learn to grow your own medicine in five easy steps.

Once, farmers knew how to make a living hedge and fed their flocks on tree-branch hay. Rural people knew how to prune hazel to foster abundance: both of edible nuts, and of straight, strong, flexible rods for bridges, walls, and baskets. No place could prosper without its inhabitants knowing how to cut their trees so they would sprout again. This created the healthiest, most sustainable, and most diverse woodlands that we have ever known. In this journey from the English fens to Spain, Japan, and California, William Bryant Logan rediscovers what was once an everyday ecology.

Filled with expert tips and hundreds of beautiful photographs, celebrated dahlia educator Kristine Albrecht shares her dahlia growing secrets. Drawing on 18 years of growing experience, she has written the most detailed and comprehensive book on dahlia care.

The Writer in the Garden adds up to a glorious compendium of writing that is amusing, original, and idiosyncratic. Excerpts span not only the beauties of the garden but such far-reaching topics as weeds, the tribulations of gardening in a cold climate, the dangers of rare plant collecting, the delights of weeding, the pitfalls of growing roses, and the place of "tacky" in a garden. The book is impeccably read by a group of professional actors.

De ser así, este audiolibro fue narrado pensando exactamente en tus necesidades. Conocer con exactitud las diferentes variedades de marihuana así como también los factores que influyen en su crecimiento para obtener un cultivo optimo y de la máxima calidad posible no es algo que todo el mundo que se aventura en el fascinante sendero del cultivador domestico de marihuana pueda lograr , a excepción de aquellos que escuchen este audiolibro hasta el final.

Have you ever wanted to experiment with growing your own food but didn’t think you had the space, the time, or the knowledge? Justin Rhodes thought the same thing—until after years battling systemic illness and struggling to provide the kind of wholesome food he wanted for his family, he bought a seed packet at the grocery store and was hooked.

In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual plants. The work drew her into an exhilarating investigation of paradise and its long association with gardens. Moving between real and imagined gardens, from Milton’s Paradise Lost to John Clare’s enclosure elegies, from a wartime sanctuary in Italy to a grotesque aristocratic pleasure ground funded by slavery, Laing interrogates the sometimes shocking cost of making paradise on earth.

At 35, Leslie Buck made an impulsive decision to put her personal life on hold to pursue her passion. Leaving behind a full life of friends, love, and professional security, she became the first American woman to learn pruning from one of the most storied landscaping companies in Kyoto. Cutting Back recounts Buck's bold journey and the revelations she has along the way.

Microscopic organisms are as important to plant growth as water and light. Microbe Science for Gardeners highlights the essential role of microbes in plant biosystems and soil health, provides practical how-to gardening advice for enhancing plant microbiomes, and debunks common gardening myths.

In Push the Zone: The Good Guide to Growing Tropical Plants Beyond the Tropics, David the Good shares his successes and failures in expanding plant ranges, and equips you with the knowledge you need to add a growing zone or two to your own backyard. Based on original research done in North Florida, Push the Zone is useful for northern gardeners as well. Discover microclimates in your yard, use the thermal mass of walls to grow impossible plants, and uncover growing secrets that will change your entire view of what can grow where!