Название: Keeping Pigs: A Practical Guide for Smallholders
Автор: Claire Scott, James Adams
Издательство: The Crowood Press
Год: 2023
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 72 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Written by experts in the field, Keeping Pigs – A Practical Guide for Smallholders is the only pig-keeping book aimed both at the small-scale producer and at keepers of pigs as pets that is written from a veterinary and keeper perspective. It offers practical and achievable advice about all aspects of pig husbandry and health, enabling readers to understand how their pigs cannot just survive, but also thrive. This detailed guide is an invaluable source of reference for anyone considering keeping pigs, as well as those who have already embarked on their porcine adventure. With hundreds of photos and diagrams, this book provides everything you need to know.

Название: Easy Edibles: How to Grow and Enjoy Fresh Food
Автор: Judy Barrett
Издательство: Texas A&M University Press
Год: 2015
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 53 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Veteran gardener and author Judy Barrett’s book dispels the idea that growing plants we can eat is harder than growing plants we can’t eat and introduces readers to the idea of placing plants that can produce in an ordinary landscape, a harvest of herbs, vegetables, fruits, and nuts. Whether buying a few tomato plants for a patio container or exploring the idea of a frontyard or kitchen plot, incorporating plants that “bear food” into the landscape has real appeal, even to weekend gardeners. For the more ambitious, Barrett offers a primer on the various kinds of garden beds that are easy to create and maintain. For those without the space to garden themselves, she describes where and how one can buy the bounty produced by others in farmers markets, farm stands, and pick-your-own operations.

Название: The Garden Maker's Book of Wonder: 162 Recipes, Crafts, Tips, Techniques, and Plants to Inspire You in Every Season
Автор: Allison Vallin Kostovick
Издательство: Storey Publishing
Год: 2023
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 64 Мб
Язык: английский / English

The joy and wonder of a garden-inspired lifestyle is captured in this colorfully photographed, through-the-seasons sourcebook filled with recipes, gardening wisdom, craft and wellness projects, and nature-based activities. Each season in the garden brings new joy and fresh inspiration for connecting with the wonders of the natural world. In The Garden Maker's Book of Wonder, popular gardening lifestyle influencer Allison Vallin Kostovick (Finch + Folly) invites fans of cottagecore, gardening, and nature-based living to share her journey as she crafts, cooks, dreams, and creates. Drawing on decades of gardening experience, and illustrated with vibrant photography from her own home and garden, The Garden Maker's Book of Wonder offers sage advice on growing bountiful harvests of favorite vegetables, herbs, and flowers.

Название: Столовые корнеплоды: морковь, свекла, редис, брюква, сельдерей, пастернак
Автор: Хацкевич Ю.Г.
Издательство: Харвест
Год: 2002
Cтраниц: 64
Формат: pdf
Размер: 16 мб
Язык: русский

В книге подробно описаны особенности выращивания корнеплодов (моркови, свеклы, редиса, брюквы, сельдерея, пастернака и др. ), средства защиты от болезней и вредителей, а также сроки и способы уборки, хранения, заготовки. Также рассмотрены биологические особенности, пищевые качества и лекарственные свойства корнеплодов. Для широкого круга читателей.

Название: Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades, 6th Edition
Автор: Steve Solomon
Издательство: Sasquatch Books
Год: 2007
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 369
Размер: 11,2 МБ
Язык: English

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 organic gardening, and the first to codify and refine the best practices of small-plot vegetable gardening in the Pacific Northwest. The approaches to understanding and preparing soils, composting, chemical-free fertilizers, efficient uses of water, and garden planning are universal to any climate or region. Solomon gets specific in his extensive advice on growing specific crops in the gentle maritime Northwest climate.

Название: More Forgotten Skills of Self-Sufficiency
Автор: Caleb Warnock
Издательство: Cedar Fort
Год: 2014
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 21 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Your ancestors knew how to live self-sufficiently-now you can follow in their footsteps! Bestselling author Caleb Warnock is back with a new collection of skills to help your family gain independence and self-reliance. Discover these tricks and more from the author of "The Forgotten Skills of Self-Sufficiency" and "Backyard Winter Gardening". You can be a living example of independence for the rising generation, and avoid grocery store prices while you're at it. Whether you're growing an organic family garden or running a no-nonsense household, "More Forgotten Skills of Self-Sufficiency" is a must-have guide to becoming truly self-reliant for you and your family.

Название: Organic Agriculture for Sustainable Livelihoods
Автор: Niels Halberg, Adrian Muller
Издательство: Routledge
Год: 2013
Формат: PDF
Размер: 46 Мб
Язык: английский / English

This book provides a timely analysis and assessment of the potential of organic agriculture (OA) for rural development and the improvement of livelihoods. It focuses on smallholders in developing countries and in countries of economic transition, but there is also coverage of and comparisons with developed countries. It covers market-oriented approaches and challenges for OA as part of high value chains and as an agro-ecologically based development for improving food security. It demonstrates the often unrecognised roles that organic farming can play in climate change, food security and sovereignty, carbon sequestration, cost internalisations, ecosystems services, human health and the restoration of degraded landscapes.

Название: Golden Gate Gardening, 30th Anniversary Edition
Автор: Pam Peirce
Издательство: Sasquatch Books
Год: 2023
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 40 Мб
Язык: английский / English

This fully revised 30th Anniversary edition of the ultimate food gardening bible for Central and Northern Californians includes updates that address changes in climate, crop availability and sources, and pest management strategies, and includes expanded help for inland, hot summer gardeners. The gardening guide is beloved by both new and experienced gardeners for its friendly, practical advice on how to grow fresh produce all year long. Expert author Pam Peirce shows how to use the unique local conditions of climate, soil, and rainfall to grow both common and unusual vegetables, herbs, edible flowers, cut flowers, and fruit from trees and shrubs including berries, citrus and avocados for your kitchen garden.

Название: The Food Lover's Garden: Growing, Cooking, and Eating Well
Автор: Jenni Blackmore
Издательство: New Society Publishers
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 31 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Grow it, cook it, eat it! From the vegetable patch to the dinner table. Put off by the origin-unknown, not-so-fresh, pesticide-laden offerings at the grocery store? Hungry for delicious high-quality veg and fragrant herbs, and looking to have some control over where your food comes from but never planted a seed in your life? Foodie meets gardener in this deliciously accessible, easy-to-use guide to growing, cooking, and preserving twenty-some popular, easy-to-grow vegetables and herbs. Taking the budding gardener from planting, growing and harvesting, to preparation of delicious, nutritious, and affordable meals, this book is a celebration of food in all its stages.

Название: Ultimate Guide to Hobby Farm Animals: Raising Beef Cattle, Chickens, Ducks, Goats, Pigs, Rabbits, and Sheep
Автор: Sue Weaver
Издательство: Companion House
Год: 2023
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 117 Мб
Язык: английский / English

A single, information-packed volume with everything a hobby farmer or homesteader needs to know about farm animals, this updated and comprehensive manual to selecting, caring for, and breeding livestock brings forth the expertise of five hobby farmers, each of whom has real-life on-the-farm experience with the animals discussed. Whether you're contemplating adding a small herd of sheep or goats to your existing hobby farm or you've always wondered about the benefits of raising angora rabbits or Muscovy ducks, this must-have resource provides the kind of guidance you need to begin a herd or flock and expand your pens and fencing. With exhaustive detail, the authors offer complete coverage of chickens, ducks, goats, sheep, cattle, pigs, and rabbits, including the housing, healthcare, special needs, advantages, and challenges of each. Also provided are strategies for marketing and selling your animals' meat, milk, eggs, fleece, or feathers, plus overviews on the animals' history, their behavioral traits, personal anecdotes, and more.