Biodiesel
Growing a new energy economy
by Greg Pahl
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 1-931498-65-2
224 pages
Chelsea Green Publishing
Released: 12-27-2004
"Finally, the book we've been
looking for. Greg Pahl's new biodiesel book offers a
comprehensive review of all things veggie oil powered. From the
history of the diesel engine to the development of the biodiesel
industry, past current and future. This is the ultimate
primer."—Rob Elam, Propel Project
Biodiesel is:
 | more biodegradable than sugar and less toxic
than table salt.
|
| produced from domestic feedstocks, reducing
the need for foreign oil while boosting the local
economy and supporting the agricultural community. |
Biodiesel can:
The Backyard
Orchardist
A
complete guide to growing fruit trees in the home
garden.
By Stella
Otto
Price: $15.95
Pages:
6 x 9, 250 pages
ISBN: 0-9634520-3-7
Publisher: Ottographics
For every gardener desiring to add
apples, pears, cherries, and other tree
fruit to their landscape here are hints
and solid information from a professional
horticulturist and experienced fruit
grower. The Backyard Orchardist
includes help on selecting the best fruit
trees and information about each stage of
growth and development, along with tips
on harvest and storage of the fruit.
Those with limited space will learn about
growing dwarf fruit trees in containers.
Appendices include a fruit-growers
monthly calendar, a trouble-shooting
guide for reviving ailing trees, and a
resource list of nurseries selling fruit
trees.
1994 Benjamin Franklin Award Winner
About the Author
As an orchard and farm market owner,
Stella Otto shares over sixteen
years of hands-on experience with
aspiring backyard fruit growers. A
horticultural instructor and consultant,
she has frequently faced the questions
presented in the Backyard
Orchardist and offers practical,
economical solutions.
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"Growing
Great Garlic,
The Definitive Guide for Organic Gardeners and Small
Farmers"
By Ron Engeland
ISBN 0-9630850-1-8
213 pages. Paperback.
$14.95
This book is our favorite reference because the
author gives directions as to what to plant, when to plant, how to plant, and
when to fertilize, prune flower stalks and harvest. It also includes the
history and evolution of garlic. Written by a farmer, who lives in north
central Washington, this is the best guide to growing organic garlic that we
have found. You will definitely want a copy if you are planning to grow garlic.
Here is what one reader wrote: "Most gardeners don't think of
growing garlic, because it is so plentiful and inexpensive at the local grocery
store. The problem is that there is only one kind of garlic available at most
grocery stores and markets, and that limits variety to be sure! There are over
72 different cultivated varieties of garlic! Each variety has its own distinct
aroma, flavor, and level of spiciness. There are even hot garlics! Elephant
garlic isn't a true garlic, so it doesn't count.
This book is an indispensable introduction to, and guide for
growing garlic, and it even has some places listed where you can get the
different cultivars of garlic.
The book is arranged into 3 parts. The introduction deals with
the natural history of garlic. The second part deals with the different
varieties, and the difference between the hardneck and softneck varieties. It
also deals with the history of cultivated garlic. Examples of different garlic
include Korean Red, which is a hot garlic, Spanish Roja, Polish, German Red,
Inchelium Purple, Silver Skin(the variety usually found in stores), Montana
Giant, etc. Each one has its own characteristics and each one has different
storage time, growing time, and harvest time.
The third part deals with the cultivation techniques and
gardening techniques associated with growing great garlic.
The author has gone to great pains to explain in detail the different methods
used in growing garlic, from a commercial scale to the individual organic farmer
to the individual home gardener. It is extremely helpful to the garlic novice,
that is for sure.
I have used the methods outlined in this book, and in 1999, I
liked this book so much that I ended up finding an organic garlic grower in
Texas, and got 7 varieties of garlic and started them in a raised garden in
October of 1999. In just 8 months I had my first harvest, and it was really cool
to grow such distinct garlic in my own garden. This stuff is also expensive, the
rare garlics, so it is advantageous to grow your own."
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this book
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Garlic: Nature's Original Remedy
By Stephen Fulder, Ph.D. and John
Blackwood
ISBN: 0-89281-725-9
135 pages. Paperback.
$8.95
Publisher's Comments:
The most comprehensive book yet published on this remarkable plant. Garlic has
been renowned for centuries as a healing food. Now current scientific and
clinical research is showing garlic to be an effective preventive against
cardiovascular disease, bacterial and fungal infections, and cancer. Stephen
Fulder and John Blackwood investigate the latest research on garlic in this
updated edition of their bestseller, explaining how it works and how to get the
most benefits from it. They discuss garlic preparations and dosages, and
evaluate the products currently on the market. With a fascinating section
detailing the history and lore of garlic from its earliest known use in ancient
Egypt to its modern revival, Garlic is the complete guide to this remarkable
natural medicine.
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The Hummingbird Book: The Complete Guide to Attracting,
Identifying, and Enjoying Hummingbirds
by Donald and Lillian Stokes
ISBN: 0316817155
89 pages. Paperback 8-1/2 x 11.
12.95
Publisher's Comments:
This beautiful guide will make it easy for you to attract these tiny jewels
to your yard, identify them, and understand their fascinating and varied
behavior.
The Hummingbird Book includes:
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