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En las últimas décadas, la dieta moderna que llevamos ha tenido un impacto negativo en nuestra salud debido a todos los conservantes, sales y azúcares que consumimos. En lugar de ir al supermercado y gastar mucho dinero, usted puede cultivar sus propios productos y así sabrá exactamente qué tipo de fertilizante, variedad de semillas, etc., se está utilizando. Esta guía le llevará desde los primeros pasos en los que se eligen los contenedores y las plantas hasta otras cuestiones más importantes como el mantenimiento y la cosecha.

In this audiobook, the author teaches you everything you need to know to grow marijuana. Marijuana Growing Secrets is the perfect audiobook for you.Here it is what you will learn: Concept of Marijuana, Marijuana growing secrets, how to manage your money, benefits and concept of Cannabis, and much more!

Learn how to grow your own organic vegetables and fish with aquaponic gardening. Discover the different aquaponics systems, how to design your own aquaponics system, how to stock your aquaponics system, the best fish and vegetables for aquaponic farming, how to maintain your aquaponics system, and more in this comprehensive guide.

The ability to forage for wild herbal plants to utilize their medicinal and nutritive properties is a gift. Even if you only master the humble dandelion, you will be rich with the knowledge of a wild plant packed with vitamins, minerals and healing properties. This book can assist anyone who is on their journey to introducing the healthful benefits of wild herbs into their daily lives.

How to build and live a sustainable life on your property and in your garden without having to hire an expensive contractor, even if you have no idea on what permaculture is. Permaculture is about designing sustainable human settlements. It is a philosophy and an approach to land use which weaves together micro-climate, annual and perennial plants, animals, soils, water management, and human needs into intricately connected productive communities. Permaculture is designing a system that uses nature as a tool to provide year-round food and shelter.

Explore the the beginnings of horticulture, which is the cultivation of growing vegetables, fruits and other garden plants. Discover the history of agriculture as the practice of farming advanced from Neolithic times to the age of modern agronomy.

In this guide, Gericke Greenwood condenses his experience with aquaponics and hands you the blueprint for building a thriving, almost hands-free aquaponics system from the scratch with clear, lucid, and easy-to-implement instructions.

It doesn't matter if you have zero green thumbs or live in the middle of a big city. With How to Grow Your Own Food, you will have all the info you need to start gardening at home. How to Grow Your Own Food is the perfect book for anyone new to gardening or who has tried and failed in the past. It takes you from beginner steps through mastering advanced techniques. This book will guide you through your entire journey, from setting up your garden to tending and harvesting.

Discover the secrets of flourishing gardens in the tiniest of spaces with "The Compact Gardener's Toolkit." Transform your cherished but compact area into an oasis of greenery and abundance. Whether it's a balcony, a small yard, or an indoor sanctuary, this invaluable guide is dedicated to the art of making the most out of the limited space you have. Embark on a journey through the challenges and rewards of small-space gardening. Begin by grasping the unique limitations and opportunities that come with compact gardening. Learn to navigate common pitfalls and embrace the surprising benefits ...

Marijuana has been cultivated and used both for recreational and medicinal purposes for centuries. But it was only a few years ago that we started to see the real medicinal value and its power to heal many ailments in the Western world.

Fire the Landscaper is a biting critique of current landscape design and maintenance practices. The audiobook explores the health risks, cultural biases, origins, and the insults to Mother Nature caused by our culturally backed, legally enforced obsession with artificial representations of nature.

After moving to a countryside smallholding, Rebecca Schiller finds her family's new life is far from simple. Overwhelmed by what she has taken on and reeling from the turmoil in the wider world, her mind begins to unravel. And so she turns to her two acres and to the women of this land's past, searching for answers and hope. Here, she stumbles on a wild space of imaginative leaps, where she begins to uncover the hidden layers of her plot's history - and of herself.

To many people, looking after an orchid is a mystery. I was one of those people. I didn't understand why my orchids weren't blooming, and if they did, why the blooms would last just weeks rather than months. I've experienced my share of joys and frustrations growing this gorgeous flower. I've read numerous books, talked to experienced growers, and watched many tutorials on how to grow and care for them. Through these years of learning and experimenting, I've been able to replicate the long blooms and eradicate the premature losses.

Street Farm is the inspirational account of residents in the notorious Low Track in Vancouver, British Columbia, one of the worst urban slums in North America, who joined together to create an urban farm as a means of addressing the chronic problems in their neighborhood. It is a story of recovery, of land and food, of people, and of the power of farming and nourishing others as a way to heal our world and ourselves.

One of the most important things gardeners can do is to build up the soil in their garden. Soil building is a process. As humus is devoured by microorganisms, worms, and plants, more organic material must be added constantly in order to keep the soil biomass well fed and happy for strong soil structure. Learn all the various ways to get organic material into your soil to improve soil health and soil fertility to improve plant health for better gardens, higher yields, and more gorgeous flowers.

You are about to learn how to build a beautiful, scenic garden that can easily increase your yield up to tenfold using the same space as your current farm occupies without using any medium, simply by leveraging the power of aeroponics!

Food insecurity affects millions of people worldwide. Without access to well-stocked stores or nutritious, fresh foods, those living in “food deserts” face more hunger and health issues than communities where a diversity of food is plentiful. With the inspiration and knowledge found in How to Become a Gardener, self-reliance and food autonomy are within reach for anyone willing to get a little dirt under their nails and dig in.

The Basics of Raising Backyard Chickens is a practical guide, from a lifelong chicken raiser. This audiobook shares simple yet practical knowledge which covers all aspects of raising healthy and happy chickens in suburban or even urban backyards.This guide to backyard chickens covers things like: why keep chickens, types of chickens, how to raise day old chicks, building shelters for your chickens, how to feed and water your girls (including simple automated systems), what to do with the eggs, how to sell you chickens, DIY equipment for butchering, how to butcher, and more.

This complete guide to homesteading provides the information you need to get started sustainably growing your own food, raising animals organically, and even power everything off-the-grid. You don’t need 50 acres in the country, and you don’t need to invest lots of money into equipment you don’t need.

The Camino de Santiago has been a journey for pilgrims for more than 1,000 years, testing—to varying degrees—their spirit, faith, and physical endurance. Lyndon Penner’s attention lies elsewhere. A renowned gardener and lover of literature, he revels in the plants, trees, and flowers that tell the history of the people and ecology of northern Spain. Brimming with wry observations—of nature, himself, and other pilgrims on the road—The Way of the Gardener reveals the beauty and the darkness of the human condition while underscoring the deeply fascinating nature of nature itself.