Peter Loewer. From the practical concerns of seed raisers and collectors, to ancient lore, history, and biology of seeds, Asheville resident Peter...

Carol Deppe. Authoritative and easy-to-understand. A fantastic guide to plant breeding & seed saving for home gardeners, small-scale farmers or...

Suzanne Ashworth. Includes complete seed-saving info for 160 vegetables, including botanical classifications, flower structure and pollination,...

Mary Appelhof. A new edition of the definitive guide to vermi-composting, a process using redworms to recycle human food waste into nutrient-rich...

Carol Deppe. An optimistic and realistic book about how gardens can flourish even during challenging times, helping their communities thrive. This...

Piers Warren. This completely revised edition is the modern guide to storing and preserving your garden produce, enabling you to eat home-grown...

Ross Conrad. The best organic and natural approaches to keeping honeybees healthy and productive. Readers will learn about non-toxic methods of...

R.J. Ruppenthal. A practical, comprehensive guide to growing food in small spaces. Provides the knowledge and skills necessary to produce your own...

Toby Hemenway. This extensively revised and expanded second edition demonstrates how fun and easy it is to create a “backyard ecosystem” by...

Ron L. Engelland. The definitive grower's guide written by a small scale farmer who makes his living growing over 200 strains of garlic. Commercial...

Eliot Coleman. This book shares how North American gardeners can successfully use the winter sun to raise a wide variety of traditional winter...

Harvey Ussery. At last, the most comprehensive and definitive guide to date on raising all-natural poultry for the homesteader and small farmer. His...

Rob Hopkins. This is the biggest urban brainwave of the century. A visionary, practical blueprint that took root in a town and is circling the globe....

Thomas J. Elpel. The Patterns Method of Plant Identification is changing the way people learn about plants! Instead of presenting individual plants,...

The Editors of Storey Publishing. These 39 simple-to-make projects — including cold frames, compost bins, planters, raised beds, potting benches,...

John Jeavons. ...and Fruits, Nuts, Berries, Grains, and Other Crops. New Revison coming in March 2012; it might be one of the greatest gardening...

Louise Riotte. Plant parsley and asparagus together, and you’ll have more of each. But keep broccoli and tomato plants far apart if you want them...

Eliot Coleman. Choosing locally grown organic food is a sustainable living trend that’s taken hold throughout North America. Eliot Coleman helped...

by Gardeners & Farmers of Terre Vivante. Traditional Techniques include Using Salt, Oil, Sugar, Alcohol, Vinegar, Drying, Cold Storage, and Lactic...

Eat Your Yard! has information on 35 edible plants that offer the best of both landscape and culinary uses. Edible plants provide spring blossoms,...

With simple instructions, Eric Franks and Jasmine Richardson, show readers how to grow their own little greens of arugula, basil, purple cabbage,...

Raymond Nones. Having a backyard garden just got a lot easier! Framed raised beds and a modular approach to growing vegetables means more production...

Sandor Ellix Katz. Bread. Cheese. Wine. Beer. Coffee. Chocolate. Most people consume fermented foods and drinks every day. For thousands of years,...