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Discover how to become self-sufficient through foraging—cut back on your expenses while living a healthy lifestyle! Enjoy the freedom of knowing your way in nature and the fun of a foraging journey by yourself or with loved ones.

Discover a world where miniature trees encapsulate the grandeur of nature and the pursuit of artistic excellence. "The Bonsai Artisan" invites you into the meditative and patient art of cultivating coniferous bonsai. This insightful eBook guides you through the tactile and rewarding journey of transforming mere trees into living sculptures that speak volumes of beauty and tranquility. Dive into the timeless tradition that goes beyond mere hobby; it is a philosophical quest, a form of self-expression, and a profound connection with nature. Begin with unraveling the mystique behind bonsai as ...

Remember when fruits and vegetables were bursting with flavor? The increasing demand on farmers to produce the fastest, highest-yielding crop comes with a price: it’s less nutritious and environmentally detrimental. Decades of using fertilizers and pesticides have stripped the soil of many required elements and microbes needed to grow nutritious food, resulting in the decline of many essential vitamins and minerals in our diet.

Enhance your home and yard with beautiful perennial plants and flowers that come back year after year! Whether you want to have beautiful plants that are easy to maintain, grow delicious vegetables and beautiful flowers, or create your own plant paradise inside and outside of your home, this audiobook will guide you through everything you need to know.

Learn how to make your very own cannabis extracts! As of late, cannabis has become a popular method to treat a number of ailments and illnesses. The once-shady view of this healing herb has become broadened from “dangerous drug” to “effective medicinal plant.” It has been known to treat small ailments, such as arthritis and sore muscles, to larger ones, such as glaucoma and insomnia. Cannabis extracts are oils and other products that have been reduced to create often smokeless, but still effective, medicine.

Want to grow your own food, but think you don’t have enough time, energy or space? How To Grow Vegetables Without Losing Your Mind (Formerly titled Weird Gardening): will bust the myths that vegetable gardening requires tons of space, time and labor. This book, written by an experienced urban gardener, shows you step by step how to start a vegetable garden, from building rich beds to preserving your harvest. In it, you will learn: how to build a new, nutrient-rich bed from scratch at zero cost; the most effective non-chemical methods for dealing with pests; the best way to start your ...

Listen as a marine biologist, an ethnobotanist, an ant expert (yes, really), a wildlife cameraman and other experts bring Sue their strange and fascinating objects - and the stories that go with them - to discuss with a 'class' at London Zoo, made up of guests like comedians Sally Phillips and Lucy Porter, as well as London Zoo staff and members of the public.

Greenhouse Gardening 101 is packed with plenty of research and detailed tips, tricks, and advice from professional and experienced gardeners who have more than 25 years of experience. As you listen and gain more knowledge, you will take a step forward toward becoming more self-reliant and a confident greenhouse gardener.

The garden has always been a place of peace and perseverance, of nurture and reward. Using contemporary neuroscience, psychoanalysis and compelling real-life stories, The Well Gardened Mind investigates the remarkable effects of nature on our health and well-being. From the science of the brain’s own ‘gardener cells’ to the beauty of flowers and the grounding effects of working with nature’s rhythms of growth, decay and regeneration, Stuart-Smith provides a new perspective on the power of gardening. Prisoners given the chance to grow plants are less likely to reoffend.

This funny and sharply observed collection of the good bits of life, often things that pass many of us by, is utter joy from beginning to end. Nigel homes in on the scent of a bunch of home-grown sweet peas, the sound of water breathing at night in Japan, the occasional ‘pfuff’ as a tiny avalanche of snow falls from leaves. Moments like these, he hopes, might bring happiness to others too.

Like an artist, you’ll learn how to use planting and hardscaping to make stunning terrarium compositions. Plus, master the fundamentals of successful growing – soil, water, and light – so your plants thrive. With a combination of projects and deep dives into plant groups and care advice, you’ll be well on your way to curating your own terrarium wonderland with Hello Tiny World.

Do you feel overwhelmed by the complex world of companion planting, unsure where to start or what works best? Are you tired of guessing which plants thrive together, only to see your garden struggle year after year? Have you experienced the frustration of pests and diseases damaging your garden despite your best efforts at natural prevention?If you answered “YES!” you are in the right place! Transform your garden into a sustainable, bountiful paradise with "Companion Planting for Beginners." Whether you're an urban gardener with only a balcony or a suburban dweller with a small yard, ...

Lookin’ to get an early start on your garden? To be more self-sufficient? To save money? Are you ready to start seeds indoors? This audiobook will allow you to become 100 percent self-reliant in growing plants from seeds this season and all the years to come and have the most fun doing it! If you are concerned with the cost of starting seeds indoors, rest assured you can successfully start seeds indoors with any sized budget! If it's the amount of space you are concerned with to start seeds indoors, then this audiobook is for you!

Have you never met a plant you couldn't kill? Does maintaining a flourishing flower garden seem intimidating or time-consuming? Have you dug around in the dirt with nothing to show for it except a sunburn and a sore back? This book is for you! Inside you'll find everything you need to know to grow beautiful flowers, including gardening basics to set you up for success; great garden design ideas with ready-made plans for you to follow; easy-care instructions for a wide variety of flowers and flowering shrubs; and helpful how-tos for container and cut flower gardening.

In this award-winning, true-life tale for gardeners, nature-lovers, and dreamers of all ages, Little Farm in the Foothills follows a midlife couple’s pursuit of the “new” Great American Dream—living closer to the land—as Susan and her husband John start growing their own organic food, living more simply, and transforming an old clearcut into a little homestead. For the two fifty-somethings, figuring out how to raise food on their logging slash-covered property seemed like a modest goal…at first. But Susan and John discover an adventure that is more life-changing than they ...

This comprehensive guide takes you step-by-step through the whole process of how to start and operate a successful organic plant growing business using containers. Chapters thoroughly cover such topics as: start-up, greenhouse options, certification/licenses/fees, botany basics, growing container plants, making compost, disease and pest management, demonstration gardens, marketing and merchandising, dealing with employees, and safety. Appendices include example activity logs and forms, instructions for making a soil-texture analysis, and even tips for creating a simple employee handbook. An...

Everything from naturally managing pests to improving production can be accomplished by just planting the right groups of plants. But before you pick up that shovel to start planting new seeds, you’ll need to make sure you’re not grouping plants that are incompatible with one another. Luckily, this book shows you which plants go together and which plants need to be apart.

Throughout this audio book, Caroline shows how much joy she gets from spending time in her garden, whether it be grappling with the best way to grow plants and vegetables, or raising seeds in her potting shed. Though she now has a large following on her Instagram account, @CQGardens, her attitude to gardening is the same as it has always been–expertise helps, but is not essential. Gardening should be fun and enjoyable, filled with the simple pleasures of planning, planting, harvesting, and cooking. It is also a meditative and restorative pastime, and a great way to lift your spirits.

Companion gardening is just planting certain plants together because they will help each other grow and become healthier. It is said that companion gardening is even better than using fertilizers or artificial ways of letting plants grow because the plants can benefit from each other and it's all a natural process.

Not everyone has a sprawling backyard. Some live in apartments with just a balcony for a garden, while others have a small backyard but plenty of patio space. But don't let your situation hold you back from achieving your garden goals! You can garden even if you don’t have a yard at all, thanks to container gardening! Growing plants in containers is incredibly convenient and allows you to have a garden anywhere with access to sunlight.