Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World22 reviews
Paul Stamets

Ten Speed Press, 2005

Great Book!

+ An amazing book
+ Mycelium Running
+ More than a field guide to fungi
+ Fantastic
  
  











  



  
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life317 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 ...
  
  











  



  
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
  
  











  



  
Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners28 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
  
  











  



  
The Backyard Orchardist: A Complete Guide to Growing Fruit Trees in the Home Garden19 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
  
  











  



  
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
  
  











  



  
Backyard Giants: The Passionate, Heartbreaking, and Glorious Quest to Grow the Biggest Pumpkin Ever10 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
  
  











  



  
Mushrooms Demystified: A Comprehensive Guide to the Fleshy Fungi44 reviews
David Arora

Ten Speed Press, 1986

Mushrooms Demystified

+ Fantastic, comprehensive resource
+ Great resource!
+ Good book, Arora could make it perfect
+ Great Field Guide.
  
  











  



  
Sunset Western Garden Book96 reviews

Sunset Books, 2007

Best ever Sunset Western Garden Book issue

+ perfect customer service
+ Valuable Tool
+ Western Garden
+ Western Garden Book by Sunset
  
  











  



  
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
  
  











  



  
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.
  
  











  



  
Flower Confidential: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful in the Business of Flowers22 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!
  
  











  



  
Modern Tropical Garden Design1 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.
  
  











  



  
From Vines to Wines: The Complete Guide to Growing Grapes and Making Your Own Wine30 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
  
  











  



  
Betty Crocker's Low-Fat, Low-Cholesterol Cooking Today27 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
  
  











  



  
Pots in the Garden: Expert Design and Planting7 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
  
  











  



  
Outside the Not So Big House: Creating the Landscape of Home16 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 ...
  
  











  



  
The Forager's Harvest: A Guide to Identifying, Harvesting, and Preparing Edible Wild Plants24 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 ...
  
  











  



  
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
  
  











  



  
California Native Plants for the Garden13 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