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Are you looking for a simple and effective method that you can do at home and have a trip whenever you want in a few weeks? Very often people rely on strangers when it comes to hallucinogenic mushrooms, spending a lot of money, and always risking when this is illegal. In fact, since besides being illegal, they are also not monitored, there is a risk that you may ingest a poisonous mushroom or the wrong type, sometimes with very high risks connected to a fatal overdose or a bad reaction. The author wanted to explain the easiest and most effective way to grow your own mushrooms at home.

Traditionally, greenhouses were only for the rich. But this is not the case today. You can make your own greenhouse for next to nothing…and you don’t have to be an architect! Many people assume that growing your own food requires a certain skill, but you certainly don’t have to be a gardener! What you need is reliable knowledge from someone who started with just a handful of seeds and now uses their greenhouse to make an extra income. You need a step-by-step guide to planting, pruning, and harvesting. And most of all, you need a plan!

Make healthier life choices to heal yourself and the environment through self-sufficiency. Holistic Homesteading by Roxanne Ahern provides the tools for living slowly, intentionally, and better through permaculture, edible gardening, and organic farming.

Companion planting is a method that has been used for centuries to help grow food organically. It works by organizing your plants so that they release scents that naturally repel insects, pests, and diseases. It’s a foolproof way to grow delicious, healthy food. Not only is this a fantastic opportunity to source your own food, but it can also bring your family together and teach your kids valuable lessons about agriculture not taught in school. Don’t be the one to miss out. You’ll regret not getting involved in something that is affordable, eco-friendly, and absolutely delicious!

Journalist and self-proclaimed “crappy gardener” Tamar Haspel is on a mission: to show us that raising or gathering our own food is not as hard as it’s often made out to be. When she and her husband move from Manhattan to two acres on Cape Cod, they decide to adopt a more active approach to their diet: raising chickens, growing tomatoes, even foraging for mushrooms and hunting their own meat. They have more ambition than practical know-how, but that’s not about to stop them from trying…even if sometimes their reach exceeds their (often muddy) grasp.

After a chance meeting in the pub, Roger Morgan-Grenville and his friend Duncan decide to take up beekeeping. Their enthusiasm matched only by their ignorance, they are pitched into an arcane world of unexpected challenges. Coping with many setbacks along the way, they manage to create a colony of beehives, finishing two years later with more honey than anyone knows what to do with. By standing back from their normal lives and working with the cycle of the seasons, they emerge with a new-found understanding of nature and a respect for the honeybee and the threats it faces.

Drawing upon years of experience in the garden, Nydia will teach you all you need to know about soil to create abundancy in your garden. You may think that learning about soil is too sciency and technical for you, but the information in this audiobook is broken down into easy-to-understand language, so that you can learn the science without all the jargon.

Are you tired of feeling like you have a brown thumb when it comes to having plants? Have you given up hope of ever having a thriving indoor garden? Fear not, fellow plant lover! You can become a successful plant parent with the right tools and knowledge.

Drawing on years of professional experience and a multitude of successful harvests, Eugene Zellwood has compiled everything you need to know to start, maintain, and reap the rewards of a home vegetable garden. You'll be amazed at the difference the information in this audiobook will make in how you approach gardening and think about the environment in which you're growing. Whatever your experience level, now you're ready to try a new strategy--one that is tried and true.

In Chaos Gardening, you surrender control and let nature take over. You will find it easy, exciting, and fun! No matter what garden style you choose, THE MEADOW GARDEN is your guide to cutting through the mountain of information online. This book strips gardening to its roots to help you create a low-maintenance wildflower wonderland that's as raw, natural, and breathtaking as nature intended.

Be the green witch who protects nature, embraces its power and beauty, and cares for the environment on the path to peace and healing! So much of our time is spent in a concrete jungle with a technological device attached to at least one hand. It’s fast-paced, stressful, and not good for your health. But then, in a rare moment of no responsibilities and a completed to-do list, you take a walk in a park or a forest, and you are instantly a different person.

Based on the popular Back to Eden film, you’ll find everything you need to know to create your own little slice of Eden no matter if you have a lot of land or just a little. It’s easy to start an organic gardening with the methods shown in the film, broken down and explained a little further to help you get started.

Like most comprehensive books we'll start with the basics and go from there. I've tried to make this information make sense even if you've no previous science or agricultural knowledge. Even if you've never so much as had a goldfish you can still master aquaponics.

Under Jeff McManus’ leadership as Director of Landscape Services, the Ole Miss campus has won professional awards. In Growing Weeders into Leaders, he relates the principles behind his team’s success. Creating one of America’s most beautiful college campuses at the University of Mississippi did not happen overnight and, inside these minutes, McManus describes the joys, the defeats, the brilliant problem-solving, and the best laid plans that are proven worthless...until the bigger picture appears.

Permaculture is the answer to so many of our world’s problems...and the best part is that anyone can quickly become a master of this craft. With the right insight, a bit of practical advice, and a detailed step-by-step plan of action, you’ll soon find yourself feeding more than just your family.

Florapedia is an eclectic A-Z compendium of botanical lore. With more than 100 enticing entries - on topics ranging from achlorophyllous plants that use a fungus as an intermediary to obtain nutrients from other plants to zygomorphic flowers that admit only the most select pollinators - this collection is a captivating journey into the realm of botany. Writing in her incomparably engaging style, Carol Gracie discusses remarkable plants from around the globe, botanical art and artists, early botanical explorers, ethnobotanical uses of plants, botanical classification, and more.

There’s nothing like the joy of being self-sufficient—knowing that all you need to survive are a few seeds, water, and your hands in the dirt. You might already be totally convinced of the benefits of gardening but worry that your small urban home won’t be big enough to grow a thriving garden. This book is here to show you that there is no urban home that is too small to grow a garden that will bring you endless joy and satisfaction in your life.

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.

This audiobook will give you all the information need to grow your own mushrooms indoors and outdoors.

Urban lives can be overwhelmingly busy. This audiobook enables you to grasp the essence of vertical gardening, as you go about your daily routine. Let the mellifluous voice of our narrator accompany your urban gardening aspirations.