"A North American Field Guide" - With season-by-season identification, harvest, and preparation of more than 200 common edible plants to be found in the wild....hundreds of edible species are included. This handy paperback guide includes jelly, jam, and pie recipes, a seasonal key to plants, and a chart listing nutritional contents. Featuring five hundred beautiful color photographs...temptingly arranged.

For over 30 years, this pioneering work has continued to revolutionize food production around the world. While many people tend to look for big solutions to global concerns such as malnutrition, environmental researcher John Jeavons proves that the answers are often found in our backyards-that is, in how we grow our food. Written for the individual gardener, "How To Grow More Vegetqables" is the bible on grow biointensive® mini-farming, a method that produces high yields of food crops in very small spaces while nourishing the soil and reducing the use of chemicals. This newly revised and significantly expanded edition incorporates the latest techniques and methods developed by Jeavons and many others around the world who have adopted this increasingly necessary method of small-scale food production.

A Complete Problem-Solving Guide to Keeping Your Garden and Yard Healthy without Chemicals - End your worries about garden problems with safe, effective solutions from "The Organic Gardener's Handbook of Natural Insect and Disease Control"!
* Easy-to-use problem-solving encyclopedia covers more than 200 vegetables, fruits, herbs, flowers, trees, and shrubs
* Complete directions on how, when, and where to use preventive methods, insect traps and barriers, biocontrols, homemade remedies, botanical insecticides, and more
* More than 350 color photos for quick identification of insect pests, beneficial insects, and plant diseases
Newly revised with the latest, safest organic controls.

A handy tool for pest identification that can be taken right into the garden. Color pictures and descriptions of each pest and their life cycle help make identification easy. Includes sections on biological, cultural, and acute insect control; creating a good garden environment; Integrated Pest Management principles (IPM); insect resistance, cockroach IPMs for the home, and common pests of gardens and homes.

Over 400 entries of the most practical, up-to-date gardening information ever, collected from garden experts and writers nationwide! "Gardens are places to renew yourself in mind and body, to reawaken to the truth and beauty of the natural world, and to feel the life force inside and around you. And the organic way to garden is safer, cheaper, and more satisfying. Organic gardeners have shown that it's possible to have pleasant and productive gardens in every part of this country without using toxic chemicals. They make their home grounds an island of purity."

"How to Grow and Use Sprouts to Maximize Your Health and Vitality" - Written for everyone who is interested in good nutrition at a low cost - and with great taste - this highly practical and fully illustrated book provides readers with all the information necessary to start and maintain an indoor sprout garden. The book discusses a wide variety of sprouts and sprouting methods, explains the sprouts' importance in a healthy diet, and presents a wealth of simple and delicious recipes.

"Sprout Breads, Cookies, Soups, Salads & 250 Other Low Fat, Dairy-Free, Vegetarian Recipes." - Dairy-the pros & cons. Making sprout bread. How to dehydrate foods. Charts on nutrition, sprouting, and food drying. Comparisons of conventional and whole foods. Low fat/low salt diet. How to be a healthy vegetarian. Glossary of health foods. Complete sprouting guide. Low temperature cooking. Recipes...and more.

"The Complete Guide to Sprouting" Let your kitchen be your garden. It's easy! No soil, no green thumb necessary. One week from seed to salad! Say goodbye to pesticides and preservatives. In just one week you can enjoy pounds of delicious young organic vegetables. Your salad bowl will come alive with tender buckwheat lettuce, hearty baby sunflower, crispy sweet pea greens, piquant radicchio, garlicky chives and much more. As baby plants, sprouts are bursting with concentrated nutrition-twice the protein of spinach, four times the protein of lettuce! And, as living plants, they provide the secret cell factors and phyto-chemicals that enrich our health and longevity in ways that can never be captured in a pill.

"A Backyard Guide to Healthy Soil and Higher Yields" - This introduction to biointensive gardening shows that it is not only possible but easy to grow astonishing crops of healthful organic vegetable and fruits, while conserving resources and helping the soil.

"The Complete Guide to Using Grasses to Revitalize your Health"
Cleanse - Nourish - Rejuvenate - Heal. Everything you need to know about this wonder plant and its miracle cures. Including why it works, where to get it and where to go for help. How to grow it, juice it, take it and create a total health restoration program. Includes nutrition, research, healing retreats, detoxification, history, chlorophyll, cancer, real stories by real people. Wheat, barley and kamut grasses.

"How to Grow and Use Wheatgrass to Maximize Your Health and Vitality." From the juice bars of California to the health spas of New York, wheatgrass is fast becoming one of the most widely used supplemental health foods, loaded with natural vitamins, minerals, chlorophyll and enzymes which feed your cells and help rid them of toxins, wheatgrass is perfect for dieters, athletes, people on the go, and anyone who suffers from pain or illness.
Written by Ann Wigmore, the woman who introduced wheatgrass juice to America thirty years ago, this book contains all the practical information you'll ever need to grow and use your own wheatgrass for only pennies a serving.