A Chicken in Every Yard
The Urban Farm Store's Guide to Chicken Keeping
Written by Robert Litt and Hannah Litt

Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: March 22, 2011
Price: $19.99

Got a little space and a hankering for fresh eggs?

Robert and Hannah Litt have dispensed advice to hundreds of urban and suburban chicken-keepers from behind their perch at Portland’s Urban Farm Store, and now they’re ready to help you go local and sustainable with your own backyard birds. In this... Read more >

A Victorian Flower Dictionary
The Language of Flowers Companion
Written by Mandy Kirkby
Foreword by Vanessa Diffenbaugh

Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: September 20, 2011
Price: $22.00

“A flower is not a flower alone; a thousand thoughts invest it.”
 
Daffodils signal new beginnings, daisies innocence. Lilacs mean the first emotions of love, periwinkles tender recollection. Early Victorians used flowers as a way to express their feelings—love or grief, jealousy or devotion. Now, modern-day romantics are enjoying a resurgence of...

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The Poetics of Space

Written by Gaston Bachelard

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: April 1, 1994
Price: $16.00

A magical book. . . . A prism through which all worlds from literary creation to housework to aesthetics to carpentry take on enhanced-and enchanted-significances. Every reader of it will never see ordinary spaces in ordinary ways. Instead the reader will see with the soul of the eye, the glint of... Read more >

Grow Cook Eat
A Food Lover's Guide to Vegetable Gardening, Including 50 Recipes, Plus Harvesting and Storage Tips
Written by Willi Galloway
Photographed by Jim Henkens

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: January 17, 2012
Price: $29.95

From sinking a seed into the soil through to sitting down to enjoy a meal made with vegetables and fruits harvested right outside your back door, this gorgeous kitchen gardening book is filled with practical, useful information for both novices and seasoned gardeners alike. Grow Cook Eat will inspire people who... Read more >

Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms

Written by Paul Stamets

Format: Trade Paperback, 614 pages
On Sale: October 25, 2000
Price: $45.00

After years of living in awe of the mysterious fungi known as mushrooms-chefs, health enthusiasts, and home cooks alike can't get enough of these rich, delicate morsels. With updated production techniques for home and commercial cultivation, detailed growth parameters for 31 mushroom species, a trouble-shooting guide, and handy gardening tips, this... Read more >

Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades, 6th Edition
The Complete Guide to Organic Gardening
Written by Steve Solomon

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: September 25, 2007
Price: $21.95

This is the updated 6th edition of Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades, which has evolved from a self-published pamphlet to the master guide to organic vegetable gardening over the past 28 years. Steve Solomon, who was a founder of the Territorial Seed Company, was one of the early proponents of... Read more >

Founding Gardeners
The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation
Written by Andrea Wulf

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: April 3, 2012
Price: $18.95

For the Founding Fathers, gardening, agriculture, and botany were elemental passions: a conjoined interest as deeply ingrained in their characters as the battle for liberty and a belief in the greatness of their new nation.
 
Founding Gardeners is an exploration of that obsession, telling the story of the revolutionary generation from...

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The New Terrarium
Creating Beautiful Displays for Plants and Nature
Written by Tovah Martin and Kindra Clineff

Format: Hardcover
On Sale: February 24, 2009
Price: $25.00

If you live in the city but want to be close to nature . . .
If you call the countryside home but have no time to step outside . . .
If you are confined to an office fifty hours a week . . .
If your home needs the soothing... Read more >

How to Survive a Garden Gnome Attack
Defend Yourself When the Lawn Warriors Strike (And They Will)
Written by Chuck Sambuchino

Format: Hardcover, 112 pages
On Sale: September 7, 2010
Price: $14.99

Move over zombies and adolescent vampires.
 
There’s a new threat in town—and it’s only twelve inches tall. How to Survive a Garden Gnome Attack is the only comprehensive survival guide that will help you prevent, prepare for, and ward off an imminent home invasion by the common garden gnome. Once thought... Read more >

The Encyclopedia of Country Living, 40th Anniversary Edition

Written by Carla Emery

Format: eBook, 928 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2012
Price: $29.95

The essential resource for modern homesteading, growing and preserving foods, and raising chickens, The Encyclopedia of Country Living includes how to cultivate a garden, buy land, bake bread, raise farm animals, make sausage, can peaches, milk a goat, grow herbs, churn butter, build a chicken coop, catch a pig, cook on... Read more >