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"Niki Jabbour, author of the best-selling The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener, has collected 73 plans for novel and inspiring food gardens from her favorite superstar gardeners, including Amy Stewart, Amanda Thomsen, Barbara Pleasant, Dave Dewitt, and Jessi Bloom. You'll find a garden that provides salad greens 52 weeks a year, another that supplies your favorite cocktail ingredients, one that you plant on a balcony, one that encourages pollinators,...
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"Tracing the story of a variety of foods we love from obscurity to familiarity, this lively and informative work will reveal to readers the hidden history behind many of the things we eat. Treating not just the history, but also the significance of each food in our daily lives, Denker illuminates the little known stories of the orange and the pear, the onion and the cranberry, coffee and cinnamon, and a variety of other fruits, vegetables, spices,...
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"In the nineteenth century American meals were about subsistence, not enjoyment. Agriculture yielded stable, basic crops like soybeans, corn, and barley, and few growers considered variety or flavor. But as a new century approached, appetites broadened, and David Fairchild, a young botanist with an insatiable hunger to explore and experience the world, set out in search of foods that would enrich the American farmer and enchant the American eater....
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"Gardening for the Homebrewer is an introduction to the wide variety of plants you can use for fermentations or infusions. Learn how to tell if your yard is a perfect site for barley or whether it's better suited to a fragrant collection of herbs. Learn how to grow, dry, and store fresh hops. Or go off the beaten path and grow everything you need for your first gruit, cider, perry, or fruit wine. Do you only have a balcony or a windowsill for your...
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"Do something good for your loved ones by learning how to plant a garden that will yield wholesome, organic fruits and vegetables in surprisingly less pace than you would think. Melissa K. Norris, fifth-generation homesteader and host of the popular Pioneering Today podcast, walks you through each step of the process, including how to decide which food crops are best for you area and family ; plan your garden to maximize the space you have e; protect...
8) Roots we eat
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Roots help plants grow by not only holding the plant in the soil, but by feeding the plant with nutrients from the ground. Some of these roots we eat. Yes we actually eat the part of the plant that grows below ground.
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"Award-winning journalist Simran Sethi explores the history and cultural importance of our most beloved tastes, paying homage to the ingredients that give us daily pleasure, while providing a thoughtful wake-up call to the homogenization that is threatening the diversity of our food supply. Food is one of the greatest pleasures of human life. Our response to sweet, salty, bitter, or sour is deeply personal, combining our individual biological characteristics,...
11) Crop farms
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Crop farms are very important! They grow much of the food we buy at the grocery store. Think of all the foods you like that are grown on farms-they may include corn, wheat, potatoes, vegetables, and much more! Readers will visit a variety of farms and see the crops grown there as well as the people and technology that make them successful.
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Discover how to easily regrow vegetable discards and scraps and turn them into harvestable, edible plants—even if you have no gardening experience. Stop tossing your carrot tops, leafless herb sprigs, lettuce and celery stumps, and beet greens in the trash! Cut back on your food waste and cultivate your own homegrown veggies easily with advice from Kitchen Gardening for Beginners, a beginner-friendly edition of No-Waste Kitchen Gardening. Learn...
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LaManda Joy, the founder of Chicago?s Peterson Garden Project and a board member of the American Community Gardening Association, has worked in the community gardening trenches for years and brings her knowledge to the wider world in Start a Community Food Garden. This hardworking guide covers every step of the process: fundraising, community organizing, site sourcing, garden design and planning, finding and managing volunteers, and managing the garden...
14) Homegrown pantry
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Now that you've mastered gardening basics, you want to enjoy your bounty year-round, right? Homegrown Pantry picks up where beginning gardening books leave off, with in-depth profiles of the 55 most popular crops - including beans, beets, squash, tomatoes, and much more - to keep your pantry stocked throughout the year. Each vegetable profile highlights how many plants to grow for a year's worth of eating, and which storage methods work best for specific...
15) Cranberries
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Learn all about cranberries including growing and harvesting them and using them as ingredients for many different snacks and treats.
17) Wild rice
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Learn all about wild rice including growing, harvesting, and cooking with it.
18) Farm crops
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Describes different crops grown on a farm, including grain crops, fruits, vegetables, and nuts, and how farmers care for their crops.
19) Fall harvest
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Simple text and photographs describe how several different crops, including pumpkins, apples, wheat, corn, and potatoes, are harvested by humans and by machine.