Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Minnesota

This captivating memoir is a "startling testimony to the glories and sorrows of raising and harvesting plants and animals" (Anthony Doerr, best-selling author of All the Light We Cannot See), as an itinerant farmhand chronicles the wonders hidden within the ever-blooming seasons of life, death, and rebirth.

Pig Years catapults American nature writing into the 21st century, and has been hailed by Lydia Davis and Aimee Nezhukumatathil as "engrossing" and "a marvel." As a farmer in Upstate New York and Vermont, Ellyn Gaydos lives on the knife edge between loss and gain. Her debut memoir draws us into this precarious world, conjuring with stark simplicity the lifeblood of the farm: its livestock and stark full moons, the sharp cold days lives near to the land. Joy and tragedy are frequent bedfellows. Fields go barren and animals meet their end too soon, but then their bodies become food in a time-old human ritual. Seasonal hands are ground down by the hard work, but new relationships are formed, love blossoms and Gaydos yearns to become a mother. As winter's dark descends, Pig Ears draws us into a violent and gorgeous world where pigs are star-bright symbols of hope and beauty surfaces in the furrows, the sow, even in the slaughter.
 
In hardy, lyrical prose that recalls the agrarian writing of Annie Dillard and Wendell Berry, Gaydos asks us to bear witness to the work that sustains us all and to reconsider what we know of survival and what saves us. Pig Years is a rapturous reckoning of love, labor, and loss within a landscape given to flux.

Pig Years

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

New Jersey

Planning, Planting, Building

Helps determine the yard type and its needs by examining privacy and security, sun and shade, patios and decks, and service areas, and provides detailed instructions on landscaping it

Step-by-Step Landscaping

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Create a Low-Maintenance Landscape to Enjoy Year-Round

Presents projects for gardeners who lack for spare time, including window boxes, trellises, patio gardens, and potted plant arrangements, plus tips on fertilizing, weeding, and planting

Rodale's Weekend Gardener

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Laurie Ostby Kehler

New York

Finding God in Your Garden

It has been said that to love another person is to see the face of God. To see the hand of God, cultivate a garden.

Gardening Mercies (New)

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Connecticut

Gardening Yearbook 1978

Bulbs

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Decorating with Plants

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Pests and Diseases

Kentucky

Gardening

Jerry F. Baker

1,776 Super Solutions to Grow, Repair, and Maintain the Best Lawn in the Land!

Learn how to grow perfectly green and gorgeous grass without toxic chemicals and expensive lawn care treatments using methods in this compendium of thousands of lawn care tips, tricks, and tonics. Say goodbye to weeds, disease, and bare spots with these simple yet effective homemade remedies for improving the lawn, such as using beer, baby shampoo, and ammonia to energize soil, green-up turf, and wipe out weeds. Practical problem solvers include techniques that will keep grass alive during a drought, a treatment that is deadly to bugs but harmless to everything else, and a four season routine for growing the greenest grass year round while special features—“Blue Plate Special” tonics, “From the Mailbag,” and “Jerry Baker’s Secrets”—provide additional information and answers.

Jerry Baker's All-American Lawns

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Barbara Kingsolver

Camille Kingsolver

Steven L. Hopp

Pennsylvania

A Year of Food Life

Bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver returns with her first nonfiction narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat. "As the U.S. population made an unprecedented mad dash for the Sun Belt, one carload of us paddled against the tide, heading for the Promised Land where water falls from the sky and green stuff grows all around. We were about to begin the adventure of realigning our lives with our food chain. "Naturally, our first stop was to buy junk food and fossil fuel. . . ." Hang on for the ride: With characteristic poetry and pluck, Barbara Kingsolver and her family sweep readers along on their journey away from the industrial-food pipeline to a rural life in which they vow to buy only food raised in their own neighborhood, grow it themselves, or learn to live without it. Their good-humored search yields surprising discoveries about turkey sex life and overly zealous zucchini plants, en route to a food culture that's better for the neighborhood and also better on the table. Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle makes a passionate case for putting the kitchen back at the center of family life and diversified farms at the center of the American diet. "This is the story of a year in which we made every attempt to feed ourselves animals and vegetables whose provenance we really knew . . . and of how our family was changed by our first year of deliberately eating food produced from the same place where we worked, went to school, loved our neighbors, drank the water, and breathed the air."

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

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Better Homes and Gardens Editors

Louisiana

Heather Rodino

Texas

A Beginner's Guide to Making and Keeping Plant Friends

Cultivating houseplants is more popular than ever, and this fun, gifty guide introduces you to one of today's hottest retro activities! Heather Rodino offers a colorfully illustrated overview of caring for your indoor garden, profiling 50 of the most popular houseplants, from succulents to tropical foliage. Her accessible advice, tips, and lists will give novices the confidence they need to begin nurturing their own collection.

How to Houseplant

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Angela Wilkes

Retired school library book. Previous owner’s information is blackened on the inside of the front & back cover. Interior pages are in excellent condition.

Missouri

Cover subtitle: A life-size guide to caring for our environment.

My First Green Book

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Des Kennedy

Humorous Reflections on The

An accomplished gardener and award-winning writer, Kennedy leads readers on a bold, original and humorous romp down the paths of North America's contemporary gardens.

Crazy about Gardening

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Arthur T. Vanderbilt

The Joys of Planning and Tending a Garden

Guides readers through the gardening year, offering advice on working with small spaces and poetically describing the sensory cycles of each season.

Gardening in Eden

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Georgia Raimondi

This garden sourcebook guides you on how to bring the beauty and bounty of your garden indoors through each month of the year. Beginning with the glories of Spring this book takes you through a full year of gardening, one month at a time.

The Passionate Gardener

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Hanging Gardens 

Stories, Recipes and Crafts from the Abundant Earth

This text is a treasure-trove of tips, how-tos and trade secrets, organized by the seasons, that presents a profusion of ways to celebrate the bounty of the earth all year round.

Simple Pleasures of the Garden

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2024
Magazine
125+ garden basics you can master
Grow it, love it!
Tricks for planting the best flowers, borders, containers and more!
How to: Grow your own veggies, berries and herbs.
   Plant a stunning border.
   Attract birds and butterflies.
   Find the best rose for you.
Printed in USA

   

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

California

2024

Gardening Made Easy

Planters, Sculptures, Birdbaths and more!!

Nevada

Making Pots, Planters, Birdbaths, Sculpture and More

Sherri Hunter, author of the best-selling Creating with Concrete, proves once again that concrete isn't just for sidewalks anymore; it's perfect for the garden too. A selection of 30 beautiful designs suggests the range of this increasingly popular material, and the illustrated instructions make the craft's fundamentals easy to learn. Because the simplest projects come first, beginners can work their way through the book progressively, building on their skills. Novices will have fun making the carved trough, sandcast bowl, and elegant relief panel. More sophisticated projects, including a decorative walkway and polished table, come next, and they'll bring charm to any outdoor space. More adventurous artists can unleash their creativity on a "Garden Guardian" sculpture or water feature. A Selection of the Crafters Choice and Homestyle Book Clubs.


Creative Concrete Ornaments for the Garden   #sku flr

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Oregon

North Carolina

Creating Form, Vista, and Mystery in the Garden

Surveys a score of American and English gardens representing a variety of layouts and designs to give ideas or creating pleasant, unique vistas and views in any sized garden

Private Landscapes

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Garden Problems Solved
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