Square Foot Gardening: A New Way to Garden in Less Space with Less Work78 reviews
Mel Bartholomew

Rodale Books, 2005

gardening choices

+ Gardening delight
+ Best Garden Book for Beginers

This book is very helpful to learn a new way of gardening for higer yields in small areas. It has very helpful advice and good graphics to follow. It is easy to read and understand.
  
  











  



  
The Backyard Beekeeper: An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Keeping Bees in Your Yard and Garden19 reviews
Kim Flottum

Quarry Books, 2005

excellent reference

+ Comprehensive in a traditional way
+ Good book for beginners
+ Great Photos
+ Book for the beginner
  
  











  



  
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals443 reviews
Michael Pollan

Penguin, 2007

Calling all Corn People - READ THIS BOOK!

+ How an omnivore became a carnivore !
+ Omnivore's Dilemma
+ WHERE DOES FOOD COME FROM?
+ Elevated to College Text
  
  











  



  
Putting Food By (Plume)16 reviews
Janet Greene, Ruth Hertzberg, ...

Plume, 1992

All You'll Ever Need

+ Best all around book for food preservation
+ Very complete book
+ The bible of Canning and Freezing
  
  











  



  
Root Cellaring: Natural Cold Storage of Fruits & Vegetables26 reviews
Mike Bubel, Nancy Bubel

Storey Publishing, LLC, 1991

I'm inspired

+ Root Cellaring
+ Very Informative
+ Excellent Book
  
  











  



  
Plenty: One Man, One Woman, and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally17 reviews
Alisa Smith, J.B. Mackinnon

Harmony, 2007

A truly inspirational read

+ Best Memoir I've Read
+ Two excellent writers tell a personal and informing tale
+ Satisfying to Stomach and Soul
  
  











  



  
Fast Food Nation1402 reviews
Eric Schlosser

Harper Perennial, 2005

A hard truth

+ The hard truth.
+ And you thought McDonalds was bad for you!
+ A shocking look at how fast food has impacted our culture and nation
  
  











  



  
Landscaping with Fruits and Vegetables2 reviews
Fred Hagy

Overlook Hardcover, 2001

Great Reference

+ Amazing Book!

I ordered this book through Amazon.com because we are interested in using fruits and vegetables in landscaping. Actually, we just plain like to garden and eat. Landscaping is secondary. Fruit tree catalogues are very basic, and frustrating. You see some closeup's of a fruit, and that's it. No sense ...
  
  











  



  
Gardening When It Counts: Growing Food in Hard Times (Mother Earth News Wiser Living Series)31 reviews
Steve Solomon

New Society Publishers, 2006

Beginner's organic gardening book

+ Fascinating crankiness
+ The only gardening book you need
+ Good Info.
  
  











  



  
A Guide to Preserving Food for a 12 Months Harvest: Canning, Freezing, Smoking, and Drying; Making Cheese, ...2 reviews
Mariel Dewey

Ortho Books, 1975

Great inspiration on Gardening and what to do with your Harvest after

+ Decent Brief Guide

This book has been a mere insperation for me. Eversince i bought it, I have been making my own Whole Wheat Bread, and have managed to live more suffiencent with the harvest that i bring in from my own Garden. Granted this is more of a what to do afterwards book rather than a gardening book, but it ...
  
  











  



  
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life294 reviews
Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver, ...

HarperCollins, 2007

Classic Kingsolver

+ A little slow at times, but very informative
+ Pleasantly surprised!
+ Let's Garden!
  
  











  



  
Joy of Cooking: 75th Anniversary Edition - 2006153 reviews
Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker, ...

Scribner, 2006

Joy of Cooking - 2nd book

+ The very best cookbook, more or less
+ essential to every kitchen
+ always a classic
+ I Wanted this book for 25yrs and It was worth the wait.
  
  











  



  
Putting Food By (Plume)16 reviews
Janet Greene, Ruth Hertzberg, ...

Plume, 1992

All You'll Ever Need

+ Best all around book for food preservation
+ Very complete book
+ The bible of Canning and Freezing
  
  











  



  
The Backyard Beekeeper: An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Keeping Bees in Your Yard and Garden19 reviews
Kim Flottum

Quarry Books, 2005

excellent reference

+ Comprehensive in a traditional way
+ Good book for beginners
+ Great Photos
+ Book for the beginner
  
  











  



  
Root Cellaring: Natural Cold Storage of Fruits & Vegetables26 reviews
Mike Bubel, Nancy Bubel

Storey Publishing, LLC, 1991

I'm inspired

+ Root Cellaring
+ Very Informative
+ Excellent Book
  
  











  



  
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life294 reviews
Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver, ...

HarperCollins, 2007

Classic Kingsolver

+ A little slow at times, but very informative
+ Pleasantly surprised!
+ Let's Garden!
  
  











  



  
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals443 reviews
Michael Pollan

Penguin, 2007

Calling all Corn People - READ THIS BOOK!

+ How an omnivore became a carnivore !
+ Omnivore's Dilemma
+ WHERE DOES FOOD COME FROM?
+ Elevated to College Text
  
  











  



  
Square Foot Gardening: A New Way to Garden in Less Space with Less Work78 reviews
Mel Bartholomew

Rodale Books, 2005

gardening choices

+ Gardening delight
+ Best Garden Book for Beginers

This book is very helpful to learn a new way of gardening for higer yields in small areas. It has very helpful advice and good graphics to follow. It is easy to read and understand.
  
  











  



  
A Guide to Preserving Food for a 12 Months Harvest: Canning, Freezing, Smoking, and Drying; Making Cheese, ...2 reviews
Mariel Dewey

Ortho Books, 1975

Great inspiration on Gardening and what to do with your Harvest after

+ Decent Brief Guide

This book has been a mere insperation for me. Eversince i bought it, I have been making my own Whole Wheat Bread, and have managed to live more suffiencent with the harvest that i bring in from my own Garden. Granted this is more of a what to do afterwards book rather than a gardening book, but it ...
  
  











  



  
Landscaping with Fruits and Vegetables2 reviews
Fred Hagy

Overlook Hardcover, 2001

Great Reference

+ Amazing Book!

I ordered this book through Amazon.com because we are interested in using fruits and vegetables in landscaping. Actually, we just plain like to garden and eat. Landscaping is secondary. Fruit tree catalogues are very basic, and frustrating. You see some closeup's of a fruit, and that's it. No sense ...