What's Gotten into Us?
Staying Healthy in a Toxic World
Written by Mckay Jenkins

Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: April 19, 2011
Price: $26.00

What’s Gotten into Us? is a deep, remarkable, and empowering investigation into the threats—biological and environmental—that chemicals now present in our daily lives.
 
Do you know what chemicals are in your shampoo? How about your cosmetics? Do you know what’s in the plastic water bottles you drink from, or the weed killer... Read more >

Cooking with Flowers
Sweet and Savory Recipes with Rose Petals, Lilacs, Lavender, and Other Edible Flowers
Written by Miche Bacher
Photographed by Miana Jun

Format: eBook
On Sale: April 2, 2013
Price: $24.95

Here are more than 100 recipes that will bring beautiful flower-filled dishes to your kitchen table! This easy-to-use cookbook is brimming with scrumptious botanical treats, from sweet violet cupcakes, pansy petal pancakes, daylily cheesecake, and rosemary flower margaritas to savory sunflower chickpea salad, chive blossom vinaigrette, herb flower pesto, and mango... Read more >

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

Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: March 22, 2011
Price: $9.99

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 >

The Brother Gardeners
A Generation of Gentlemen Naturalists and the Birth of an Obsession
Written by Andrea Wulf

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: March 9, 2010
Price: $17.95

Bringing to life the science and adventure of eighteenth-century plant collecting, The Brother Gardeners is the story of how six men created the modern garden and changed the horticultural world in the process. It is a story of a garden revolution that began in America.
 
In 1733, colonial farmer John Bartram shipped... Read more >

The Medicine Wheel Garden
Creating Sacred Space for Healing, Celebration, and Tranquillity
Written by E. Barrie Kavasch

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: June 25, 2002
Price: $20.00

The American Indian medicine wheel was an ancient way of creating sacred space and calling forth the healing energies of nature. Now, drawing on a lifetime of study with native healers, herbalist and ethnobotanist E. Barrie Kavasch offers a step-by-step guide to bringing this beautiful tradition into your own life--from vibrantly... Read more >

Apartment Therapy
The Eight-Step Home Cure
Written by Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: March 28, 2006
Price: $15.00

From not enough space and too many things to not knowing what color to paint the living room walls, many of us struggle with our homes. Now Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan, frequent makeover expert on HGTV’s Mission: Organization and Small Spaces, Big Style, shares the do-it-yourself strategies that have enabled his clients and... Read more >

Boogers, Witches, and Haints: Appalachian Ghost Stories
The Foxfire Americana Library (5)
Written by Foxfire Fund, Inc.

Format: eBook, 131 pages
On Sale: September 6, 2011
Price: $2.99

A collection of spine-tingling Appalachian ghost stories and tall tales passed down from generation to generation.  Whether they tell of faucets that drip blood, monster catfish that lurk at the bottom of quarries, or strange lights on the mountaintop, these stories will make you--like the people who are sharing them--question what... Read more >

Uncommon Crochet
Twenty-Five Projects Made from Natural Yarns and Alternative Fibers
Written by Julie Armstrong Holetz

Format: Trade Paperback, 168 pages
On Sale: April 1, 2008
Price: $19.95

Black leather granny squares are anything but square, and hot pink organic hemp gives crocheted vases a decidedly modern cachet. In Uncommon Crochet, designer Julie Armstrong Holetz applies new ideas and unconventional materials--like wire, raffia, jute, sisal, recycled belts, fabric strips, and felted beads--to twenty-five patterns for bins, baskets, totes, handbags...

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Ed Begley, Jr.'s Guide to Sustainable Living
Learning to Conserve Resources and Manage an Eco-Conscious Life
Written by Ed Begley, Jr.

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: August 25, 2009
Price: $22.50

From the environmental activist Newsweek called the "star of climate change" comes the ultimate guide to living green for those ready to take their eco-efforts up a notch.

Ed Begley, Jr.’s Guide to Sustainable Living lays out a detailed road map culled from Ed’s thirty-nine years of green living. For the first... Read more >

Doomsday Preppers Complete Survival Manual
Expert Tips for Surviving Calamity, Catastrophe, and the End of the World
Written by Michael Sweeney

Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: October 30, 2012
Price: $19.95

This custom companion to the blockbuster National Geographic Channel series Doomsday Preppersis filled with how-to illustrations, "Prepper Profiles" of people in the show, and survival tips from preppers themselves. Handy and comprehensive, the manual offers valuable life-saving information to help prepare for the most devastating calamities. Episodes of this highly original show, which debuted in February 2012... Read more >