Random House New Releases - Gardening - Organic - Between May 18, 2012 and June 17, 2013.

Dead Snails Leave No Trails, Revised by Janet Hogan Taylor

2013-04-02T00:30:00-05:00

Dead Snails Leave No Trails, Revised Natural Pest Control for Home and Garden
Written by Loren Nancarrow and Janet Hogan Taylor

A practical guide to repelling indoor and outdoor pests using organic methods, updated with new information on getting rid of bedbugs and dust mites, plus includes updated online resources.

If you’ve ever had a swarm of fruit flies in your kitchen or a gopher wreaking havoc in your yard, you may have wondered what a conscientious gardener or homeowner can do short of heavy-duty chemical warfare. Dead Snails Leave No Trails is a comprehensive guide to repelling both indoor and outdoor pests using organic methods—it’s the perfect DIY solution to eliminate unwelcome visitors in your home and garden while keeping yourself,your family, and the environment safe from harmful chemicals.With a few easy-to-find items, you’ll learn how to:

• Make your own all-purpose pest repellents with simple ingredients like chile peppers and vinegar
• Use companion planting to attract beneficial insects and animals or repel harmful ones
• Keep four-legged intruders—including squirrels, deer, rabbits, and skunks—away from your prized vegetables and flowers
• Safely eliminate ants, roaches, and rodents from your house or apartment
• Protect your pets from critters like ticks and fleas

This revised edition contains newly updated information on today’s pest epidemics, like bedbugs, as well as new online resources for finding beneficial organisms that act as predators for specific pests. Full of tips, tricks, and straightforward instructions, Dead Snails Leave No Trails is the most user-friendly guide to indoor and outdoor natural pest solutions.

Dead Snails Leave No Trails, Revised by Janet Hogan Taylor

2013-04-02T00:30:00-05:00

Dead Snails Leave No Trails, Revised Natural Pest Control for Home and Garden
Written by Loren Nancarrow and Janet Hogan Taylor

There Is a Garden in the Mind by Paul A. Lee

2013-03-12T00:30:00-05:00

There Is a Garden in the Mind A Memoir of Alan Chadwick and the Organic Movement in California
Written by Paul A. Lee

There Is a Garden in the Mind presents an engaging look at the work and life of pioneering organic gardener Alan Chadwick and his profound influence on the organic farming movement. In this wide-ranging and philosophical memoir, author Paul Lee recounts his first serendipitous meeting with Chadwick in Santa Cruz, California, in 1967, and their subsequent founding of the Chadwick Garden at UC Santa Cruz, the first organic and biointensive garden at a U.S. university.

Today, there are few who would dispute the ecological and health benefits of organically produced food, and the student garden project founded by Chadwick and Lee has evolved into a world-renowned research center that helps third-world farmers obtain high yields using organic gardening. But when Chadwick and Lee first broke ground in the 1960s, the term "organic" belonged to the university's chemists, and the Chadwick Garden spurred a heated battle against the whole system of industrial existence. Lee's memoir contextualizes this struggle by examining the centuries-old history of the conflict between industrial science and organic nature, the roots of the modern environmental movement and the slow food movement, and the origin of the term "organic." His account of Chadwick's work fills in a gap in the history of the sustainable agriculture movement and proposes that Chadwick's groundwork continues to bear fruit in today's burgeoning urban garden, locavore, and self-sufficiency movements.

Table of contents:
Chapter one The English Gardener Arrives
Chapter two The English Gardener Goes to Work
Chapter three The Garden Plot
Chapter four Goethe the Vitalist contra Newton the Physicalist
Chapter five Urea! I Found It!
Chapter six USA and Earth Day
Chapter seven The Method
Chapter eight Chadwick Departs
Chapter nine A Moral Equivalent of War
Chapter ten The Death of Chadwick
Chapter eleven California Cuisine and the Homeless Garden Project
Chapter twelve A Biodynamic Garden on Long Island
Chapter thirteen Chadwick's Legacy

There Is a Garden in the Mind by Paul A. Lee

2013-03-12T00:30:00-05:00

There Is a Garden in the Mind A Memoir of Alan Chadwick and the Organic Movement in California
Written by Paul A. Lee

Culture and Horticulture by Larry Berger

2013-02-19T00:30:00-05:00

Culture and Horticulture The Classic Guide to Biodynamic and Organic Gardening
Written by Wolf D. Storl
Foreword by Larry Berger

Various studies have shown time and again that small organic farms and home gardens are capable of producing more food per acre with less fossil energy than large-scale commercial agricultural installations dependent on machines and toxic chemical fertilizers and pesticides. This classic book by Wolf D. Storl, a respected elder in the practice of permaculture, details how food is grown holistically and beautifully by traditional communities around the world, and shows how to apply their ancient wisdom to our own gardens.

With interest in natural, sustainable, organic and local food at an all-time high, people are looking beyond their farmers markets and CSA cooperatives to hyperlocal ways of growing healthy, delicious produce in urban gardens and their own backyards. Culture and Horticulture details time-tested methods that are as effective today as they were hundreds of years ago. On the practical front, the book works as a manual for creating and maintaining a bountiful harvest. It explains how to build the soil to maintain fertility; how to produce compost; how to plant, sow, and tend the various fruit and vegetable plants; how to rotate crops and practice companion planting; how to set up a favorable microclimate; how to deal with so-called weeds and pests; how to harvest at the right time; and finally how to store vegetables and herbs. Special emphasis is given to the art and science of composting, the compost being the "heart" of any self-sufficient garden and a model for the cycle of life, death, and rebirth.

At the same time the reader is introduced to the wider aspects of horticulture, to its historical, philosophical, and cosmological contexts and social relevance. Gardening is a cultural activity, shaped by peoples' thoughts, wishes, and needs as well as by their cultural traditions. The author, an anthropologist by profession who has investigated the gardening practices of indigenous people throughout the world and worked for many years on biodynamic farms and in his own food garden, will introduce the reader to Rudolf Steiner's vision of the garden as an organic unit, embedded in the context of terrestrial and cosmic forces. Storl explains the importance of cosmic rhythms (solar, lunar, and planetary), the role of biodynamic herbal preparations as "medicines" for the garden organism, and the so-called "etheric" and "astral" forces. The book presents a vision of the garden as seen through the eyes of "Goethean science," a magical place where alchemical transformations of material substances take place.

Culture and Horticulture by Larry Berger

2013-02-19T00:30:00-05:00

Culture and Horticulture The Classic Guide to Biodynamic and Organic Gardening
Written by Wolf D. Storl
Foreword by Larry Berger

Random House New Releases - Gardening - Organic - Between May 18, 2012 and June 17, 2013.

Dead Snails Leave No Trails, Revised by Janet Hogan Taylor

Dead Snails Leave No Trails, Revised Natural Pest Control for Home and GardenWritten by Loren Nancarrow and Janet Hogan Taylor

Dead Snails Leave No Trails, Revised by Janet Hogan Taylor

Dead Snails Leave No Trails, Revised Natural Pest Control for Home and GardenWritten by Loren Nancarrow and Janet Hogan Taylor

There Is a Garden in the Mind by Paul A. Lee

There Is a Garden in the Mind A Memoir of Alan Chadwick and the Organic Movement in CaliforniaWritten by Paul A. Lee

There Is a Garden in the Mind by Paul A. Lee

There Is a Garden in the Mind A Memoir of Alan Chadwick and the Organic Movement in CaliforniaWritten by Paul A. Lee

Culture and Horticulture by Larry Berger

Culture and Horticulture The Classic Guide to Biodynamic and Organic GardeningWritten by Wolf D. Storl Foreword by Larry Berger

Culture and Horticulture by Larry Berger

Culture and Horticulture The Classic Guide to Biodynamic and Organic GardeningWritten by Wolf D. Storl Foreword by Larry Berger

Dead Snails Leave No Trails, Revised Natural Pest Control for Home and Garden
Written by Loren Nancarrow and Janet Hogan Taylor

Dead Snails Leave No Trails, Revised Natural Pest Control for Home and Garden
Written by Loren Nancarrow and Janet Hogan Taylor

There Is a Garden in the Mind A Memoir of Alan Chadwick and the Organic Movement in California
Written by Paul A. Lee

There Is a Garden in the Mind A Memoir of Alan Chadwick and the Organic Movement in California
Written by Paul A. Lee

Culture and Horticulture The Classic Guide to Biodynamic and Organic Gardening
Written by Wolf D. Storl
Foreword by Larry Berger

Culture and Horticulture The Classic Guide to Biodynamic and Organic Gardening
Written by Wolf D. Storl
Foreword by Larry Berger