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Your edible yard : landscaping with fruits and vegetables / by Stevens, Crystal,author.;
Journey into the good food movement by unleashing the potential of your yard, transforming it into a beautiful and vibrant space that offers a continuous supply of food. Using dozens of beautiful color photographs and watercolor planting charts, infographics, and landscaping designs, Your Edible Yard is the comprehensive how-to guide you need to turn your yard into a bountiful feast. It features: practical gardening methods and maintenance from weeding to wintering, including foodscaping, container gardening, and saving seeds; permaculture principles including soil building techniques, garden preparation, raised beds, and natural/non-toxic DIY pesticide alternatives; how to integrate culinary and medicinal herbs, edible flowers, mushrooms, fruits, vegetables, and wild edibles; gardening resources: where to go for help, buy seeds, and source supplies on a budget; instructions on preserving, fermenting, freezing, drying, and making simple medicines; general tips, such as how to find loopholes in laws preventing edible front yards. Whether you're a beginner or experienced gardener in the city, the suburbs, or the country, this manual is the A-Z guide for how to make use of the space you have, highlighting the colorful and abundant array that edible landscapes promise.
Subjects: Recipes.; Edible landscaping.; Natural landscaping.; Gardens; Plants, Edible.; Vegetable gardening.; Fruit-culture.;
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At home with nature : a guide to sustainable, natural landscaping / by Gidding, John,author.;
"Go from manicured lawn to eco-conscious garden with this step-by-step guide from HGTV star John Gidding. Increased awareness of the environment and an ever-present interest in curb appeal means that homeowners are eager for more sustainable, natural landscaping. And why shouldn't they be? In addition to supporting local flora and fauna, ditching grass for lush, native plants helps lower water bills and results in self-sustaining gardens long-term. In John Gidding's At Home with Nature, American homeowners will find thorough blueprints to reap these benefits and bring their dream garden to life. Complete with specific information for every U.S. bioregion, a glossary of native plants, illustrated yard renderings and photos, and detailed explanations of suburban codes, this book has examples and techniques to build responsible natural spaces. And as an HGTV star with over a decade of design experience, Gidding is the landscaping expert readers need to get the job done. At Home with Nature is the ultimate resource for creating beautiful and beneficial home gardens"--
Subjects: Landscape architecture.; Landscape design.; Landscape gardening.; Ornamental trees.;
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Tiny + wild : build a small-scale meadow anywhere / by Gardner, Graham Laird,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 168-169) and index."Tiny & Wild is the essential guide to creating a small-scale mini meadow that's filled with low-maintenance plants to please both pollinators and people."--
Subjects: Handbooks and manuals.; Meadow ecology.; Meadow gardening.; Meadow plants.; Natural landscaping; Urban ecology (Biology); Wild flower gardening.; Wild flowers;
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Wonders of the world : natural and man-made majesties / by Dumont-Le Cornec, Elizabeth; Topalian, Laureen.; Riethmuller, Kristel.;
Profiles over seventy natural and man-made wonders from around the world.
Subjects: Curiosities and wonders; Historic buildings; Historic sites; Antiquities; Architecture; Natural monuments; Natural history; Landscape; Civilization;
© 2007., Abrams Books for Young Readers,
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Rarely seen : photographs of the extraordinary / by Hitchcock, Susan Tyler editor.; National Geographic Society.;
Subjects: Travel photography.; Documentary photography.; Nature photogaphy.; Landscape photography.; Georgraphy ;
© [2015]., National Geographic,
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Nature all around us / by Engwicht, Kimberly.;
Discover the landscapes of Australia through the vibrant artwork of Aboriginal artist Kimberly Engwicht.2-6 years old.
Subjects: Board books.; Toy and movable books.; Art, Aboriginal Australian; Nature; Landscapes;
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Our planet / by Fothergill, Alastair,author.; Attenborough, David,1926-writer of foreword.; Pearce, Fred,author.; Scholey, Keith,1957-author.;
Subjects: Landscape photography.; Nature; Photography in geography.;
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Life from above [videorecording] / by Anderson, Justin,television producer,television director.; Evans, Patrick,television director.; Johnson, Corey,1961-narrator.; Parsons, Katie(Writer on natural history); Revill, Barny,television producer,television director.; Sarosh, Chloë,television producer.; Thompson, Paul,television producer,television director.; BBC Studios,production company.; Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.),production company,publisher.; Tencent Penguin Pictures,production company.;
Narrated by Corey Johnson.Cameras in space tell stories of life on our planet from a brand new perspective, revealing it's incredible movements, colors, patterns and just how fast it is changing. This is our home, as we've never seen it before.E.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Nonfiction television programs.; Documentary television programs.; Nature television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Landscapes.; Life.; Ecology.; Nature; Space photography.; Biocomplexity.; Biodiversity.;
For private home use only.
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Essential techniques of landscape drawing : master the concepts and methods for observing and rendering nature / by Brooker, Suzanne,author.;
Subjects: Landscape drawing; Pencil drawing;
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Pollinators of native plants : attract, observe and identify pollinators and beneficial insects with native plants / by Holm, Heather,1972-author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-242) and index."This comprehensive, essential book profiles over 65 perennial native plant species of the Midwest, Great Lakes region, Northeast and southern Canada plus the pollinators, beneficial insects and flower visitors the plants attract ... Readers learn to attract and identify pollinators and beneficial insects as well as customize their landscape planting for a particular type of pollinator with native plants. The book includes information on pollination, types of pollinators, pollinator conservation as well as pollinator landscape plans."--Back cover.
Subjects: Beneficial insects; Beneficial insects; Insect pollinators; Insect pollinators; Native plants for cultivation.;
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