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Start a peaceful revolution by planting an edible ecosystem and sharing the experience with your neighbors. Humans have always thrived in rich, diverse, edible ecosystems. Yet most cities and suburbs are blanketed by lawns, ornamentals, and a lack of biodiversity, let alone anything edible. It is within these sterile landscapes that seeds of an edible ecosystem lie. The Edible Ecosystem Solution is a comprehensive, practical guidebook that looks at underutilized spaces to reveal the many opportunities for landscape transformation.

Edible Landscaping with a Permaculture Twist is a how-to manual for the budding gardener and experienced green thumb alike, full of creative and easy-to-follow designs that guide you to having your yard and eating it, too. Permaculture designer and avid grower Michael Judd takes the listener on a step-by-step process to transform a sea of grass into a flourishing edible landscape that pleases the eye, as well as the taste buds.

Two manuscripts in one audiobook: Indoor Gardening and Vertical Gardening. With the rising popularity of indoor gardening, more and more people are learning to take advantage of the minimal space around them. The key is to maximize your indoor space to create your very own garden within the confines of your home. This audiobook will also teach you how to build your own vertical garden or living wall from scratch, how to plant, grow, and take care of your crops, and how to transform an ugly, bland space into a stunning one.

Farming, growing your own crops, and raising animals have never been as easy as they are today. With modern technology and access to a plethora of knowledge and resources, farming cannot only be easy, but profitable as well - even for someone who has never stepped out of the city. In fact, you can do it from the comfort of your own home!

The ultimate guide to quickly building a successful landscaping business. What can you do to immediately boost your lawn care or landscaping business profits? Running a landscaping business is not like running any other kind of company. You don’t need generic business advice. You need proven tactics and strategies from people who know exactly what kinds of challenges you’re facing. That’s why Paul Jamison’s Best Business Practices for Landscapers is an essential listen for anyone even thinking about starting a lawn care or landscaping company.

From pushing out pests to mapping out a beautiful, bountiful garden - this guide unveils all the secrets, how-tos, and common mistakes every first-time gardener needs to navigate! How long have you been wanting to try your hand at gardening? When you garden, you get the chance to improve your green thumb, enjoy fresh produce, and feel the fulfillment of caring for something. It’s no wonder why millions of people pursue it in their free time!

Starting your own garden in five dummy-proof steps, and master and grow over 30 kinds of popular fruits and veggies for complete self-sufficiency.

This handy guide pieced together by Madison Peirce, a pro gardener in her own right, provides helpful advice, guidance, and step-by-step instructions on how to get started with citrus gardening.

Do you produce lots of organic waste? Are you tired of seeing all that waste go to...waste? Do you need something homemade to enrich your garden soil and make your plants healthier? Welcome to Composting - you’ve just found your ultimate guide to creating organic compost from kitchen scraps and backyard waste.

Succulents are fascinating plants. They have the reputation of being resilient and easy to grow and maintain. But that isn’t always what everyone experiences when they first get one. While it is true that succulents are tough, they can also become delicate and hard to please. This can happen when they are watered the same way as non-drought-tolerant plants.

Imagine walking out of your back door, greeted by a beautiful garden full of flowers, and even more importantly, food! But for most of us, it all just sounds a bit too good to be true. The truth is, traditional gardening can be hard, extremely hard. You need a lot of space, and problems like drought, weeds, and rotting often result in very bad yields.

Florapedia is an eclectic A-Z compendium of botanical lore. With more than 100 enticing entries - on topics ranging from achlorophyllous plants that use a fungus as an intermediary to obtain nutrients from other plants to zygomorphic flowers that admit only the most select pollinators - this collection is a captivating journey into the realm of botany. Writing in her incomparably engaging style, Carol Gracie discusses remarkable plants from around the globe, botanical art and artists, early botanical explorers, ethnobotanical uses of plants, botanical classification, and more.

From sowing seeds to deadheading flowers, growing your own potatoes to welcoming feathered friends into your own garden, discover the joy to be found in every moment of gardening by slowing down, observing nature and planning ahead for the seasons. Happiest when surrounded by plants, Ellen Mary is passionate advocate for the benefits of nature for well-being, spreading the word through The Plant Based Podcast and her regular talks.

Are you looking for a step-by-step method for improving your gardening skills? Then keep reading.... Hydroponics is the method of growing plants without soil by supplying them with a constant nutrient solution. There are many powerful reasons for commercial food growers to use this method, but it is also now being used more frequently by the domestic gardener keen to produce a high yield in a small amount of space. Though it is seen primarily as a way of producing crops for the table, it is also a method that can be used for the production of ornamental plants.

You are about to learn how to build a beautiful, scenic garden that can easily increase your yield up to tenfold using the same space as your current farm occupies without using any medium, simply by leveraging the power of aeroponics!

You are about to uncover the ins and outs of growing high yielding potent marijuana for medical use! With over $52 billion worth of sales recorded in 2018 alone and hundreds of thousands of jobs created, the marijuana industry’s boom cannot be ignored. In this audiobook, you will find insider information about growing marijuana legally for medical and recreational use (depending on where you live), broken down into easy to follow, bite sized chunks to help you to start applying what you learn immediately when you finished listening to it.

Have you desired to cultivate these psilocybin mushrooms but do not know how to begin? There are varieties of these mushrooms, but this guide will teach you how to get a grow kit and even develop your own strands by introducing mycelium substrates into the environment you want to use for growing your mush plants. If you are willing to get a professional lead on the techniques of growing magic mushrooms successfully, then you need Growing Psilocybin Mushrooms: The Magic Mushroom Cultivation Guide for Enthusiastic Growers by Mari C. Alvarez.

In search of a quieter, simpler life, style icon and longtime New Yorker Amanda Brooks moved with her family in 2012 from New York City to her husband's farm in England. Originally intended to be a yearlong creative sabbatical, Brooks's relocation became permanent as she discovered newfound personal and professional freedom, told here through a year's changing seasons. Creatively inspiring, warm and witty, and brimming with delicious recipes and entertaining how-tos, Farm from Home is a chronicle of the joys and challenges of a more focused way of living.

Always wanted to have your own vegetable garden? Whether you want to learn which vegetables work well with others, how to grow healthy and big vegetables, or which techniques you need to master to help give you that fantastic looking vegetables patch, this audiobook will help! No matter what your gardening experience and skill level is at, Vegetable Gardening: How to Grow Vegetables the Easy Way provides the advice and inspiration you need to grow the vegetables of your dreams!

Gardening is a very fun and interactive experience. Once you understand how gardening works, you will see that there really isn't much to it! Gardening is a fun way to get your children out of the house and keep them involved in something other than the television or technological devices. Gardening is a great way to save money by growing your own vegetables and it's also a healthy alternative to purchasing vegetables at the grocery store that are filled with pesticides and unnecessary fertilizers.