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Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World 22 reviews Paul Stamets
Ten Speed Press, 2005
Great Book!
+ An amazing book + Mycelium Running + More than a field guide to fungi + Fantastic
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life 317 reviews Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver, ...
HarperCollins, 2007
Terrific book!
+ Engaging and Interesting + A guide to change your eating
Barbara Kingsolver has struck a wonderful balance among educating readers about gardening, slow food, food science and telling a great tale of a family's adventure of local eating. The recipes are great, too!
What a revelation to learn that we have all been anesthetized by the large ...
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Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs (Llewellyn's Sourcebook Series) 138 reviews Scott Cunningham
Llewellyn Publications, 2000
Encyclopaedia of Magical Herbs
+ Excellent resource! + Not perfect... but pretty damn close. + Can't say enough good things! + This is a great book
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Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners 28 reviews Suzanne Ashworth, Kent Whealy
Seed Savers Exchange, 2002
Very Great Book
+ Love this book! + Fantastic book for those looking to start saving seed + Great book + Seed to Seed
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The Backyard Orchardist: A Complete Guide to Growing Fruit Trees in the Home Garden 19 reviews Stella Otto
Ottographics, 1995
The Backyard Orchardist: A Complete Guide to Growing Fruit Trees in the Home Garden
+ Good info! + The Backyard Orchardist + great reference on fruit trees
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Preserving Summer's Bounty: A Quick and Easy Guide to Freezing, Canning, and Preserving, and Drying What You ... 10 reviews Rodale Food Center
Rodale Books, 1998
Everything I need with a GREAT layout.
+ Great Resource Book + Preserving Summer's Bounty + Great, informative book
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Backyard Giants: The Passionate, Heartbreaking, and Glorious Quest to Grow the Biggest Pumpkin Ever 10 reviews Susan Warren
Bloomsbury USA, 2007
A Delightful Journey...
+ I want to grow a giant pumpkin! + A truthful insight to the sport + Mr. President meets The Great Pumpkin + All its promised to be...and more
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Mushrooms Demystified: A Comprehensive Guide to the Fleshy Fungi 44 reviews David Arora
Ten Speed Press, 1986
Mushrooms Demystified
+ Fantastic, comprehensive resource + Great resource! + Good book, Arora could make it perfect + Great Field Guide.
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Sunset Western Garden Book 96 reviews
Sunset Books, 2007
Best ever Sunset Western Garden Book issue
+ perfect customer service + Valuable Tool + Western Garden + Western Garden Book by Sunset
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The New Organic Grower: A Master's Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market Gardener (A ... 17 reviews Eliot Coleman
Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 1995
simply down to earth - literally
+ Lots of new ideas! + Amazing Book... A must have for organic gardening + Wooo... + My new constant companion
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The Encyclopedia of Country Living: An Old Fashioned Recipe Book (Encyclopedia of Country Living) 120 reviews Carla Emery
Sasquatch Books, 2003
A must have
+ Great resource for simple living in urban areas or BFE + Carla Emery's Book A Must Have + A pillar of the homesteading community + Love this book!!! Love - love - LOVE IT.
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Flower Confidential: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful in the Business of Flowers 22 reviews Amy Stewart
Algonquin Books, 2007
Flower Power
+ Great service! + You'll Never Look At Flowers the Same Way Again + Who knew flowers were so interesting? + I almost wrote to the author!
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Modern Tropical Garden Design 1 review Made Wijaya, Tim Street-Porter (introduction)
Periplus Editions, 2007
greatest book on tropical modern garden design, I have ever seen
I love it. Absolutely inspiring for everybody who loves tropical gardens. The best book on garden design I have ever seen. There are a lot of striking photos with many new and really modern ideas.
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From Vines to Wines: The Complete Guide to Growing Grapes and Making Your Own Wine 30 reviews Jeff Cox
Storey Publishing, LLC, 1999
Almost perfect
+ Review By Craig Justice, Founder, Blue Merle Vineyard & Winery + Especially good for trellising and pruning + Great for Home Winemakers or Wine Students + Complete resource
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Betty Crocker's Low-Fat, Low-Cholesterol Cooking Today 27 reviews Betty Crocker Editors
Betty Crocker, 2000
Best cookbook I have!
+ great recipes + DON'T MISS! UMMMMM GOOD + Low Fat, Low Cholesterol does taste good + Good Solid Cookbook
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Pots in the Garden: Expert Design and Planting 7 reviews Ray Rogers, Richard W. Hartlage
Timber Press, Incorporated, 2007
Gorgeous book and inspired arrangements
+ Great Book for Planning Color Choices In Garden + A great reference book for selecting the right plants and right pots for your garden + pots in the Garden-a Northern Ireland view + Pure inspiration
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Outside the Not So Big House: Creating the Landscape of Home 16 reviews Julie Moir Messervy, Sarah Susanka
Taunton, 2006
A good gardening ideas book for both design professionals and ordinary gardeners
+ Great Idea Book + You can have a million-dollar view from your home
A house and its garden are different parts of the same overall design. Bestselling author Sarah Susanka and acclaimed landscape designer and award-winning writer Julie Moir Messervy understand this concept. They describe it as "opening up the relationship of indoors and out" and demonstrate it ...
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The Forager's Harvest: A Guide to Identifying, Harvesting, and Preparing Edible Wild Plants 24 reviews Samuel Thayer
Forager's Harvest Press, 2006
It fills the void!
+ Outstanding for the upper midwest + Excellent book!
This book is unique in that it fills a big void in the other wild edible books out there. This void is filled mainly by the chapters entitled "Harvest and Preparation Methods for Wild Plant Foods" and "Storing Wild Foods". Thayer wrote this book with his experience and not what he has compiled from ...
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Projects for the Birder's Garden: Over 100 Easy Things That You can Make to Turn Your Yard and Garden into a ... 11 reviews
Rodale Books, 2004
Hands-on Inspiration
+ Birds AND I enjoyed this one! + Fantastic Resource for the Bird Lovers + Great book for birders + Fun
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California Native Plants for the Garden 13 reviews Carol Bornstein, David Fross, ...
Cachuma Press, 2005
invaluable
+ An excellent guide and resource of native Califonia plants + Best one I've seen! + A really fantastic reference book + Great resource
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