 Four-season
Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home by Eliot Coleman
Four-Season Harvest
Organic Vegetables From Your Garden All Year Long
Eliot Coleman
If you love the joys of eating home-garden vegetables but always thought
those joys had to stop at the end of summer, this book is for you. Eliot
Coleman introduces the surprising fact that most of the United States
has more winter sunshine than the south of France. He shows how North
American gardeners can successfully use that sun to raise a wide variety
of traditional winter vegetables in backyard cold frames and plastic
covered tunnel greenhouses without supplementary heat. Coleman expands
upon his own experiences with new ideas learned on a winter-vegetable
pilgrimage across the ocean to the acknowledged kingdom of vegetable
cuisine, the southern part of France, which lies on the 44th parallel,
the same latitude as his farm in Maine.
This story of sunshine, weather patterns, old limitations and
expectations, and new realities is delightfully innovative in the best
gardening tradition. Four-Season Harvest will have you feasting on fresh
produce from your garden all through the winter.
"Four-Season Harvest is a magnificent work. It's enticing, inspiring,
sensible, and it opens a whole new world for the home gardener."
—Peter Fossel, Country Journal
List Price: $24.95 + S&H
About the Author:
 Eliot
Coleman is one of America's leading practitioners of organic gardening
and farming. He has pioneered a "plant-positive" approach to
horticulture that surpasses chemical-dependent agriculture in every
way—producing vegetables that are exceptionally nutritious, delicious,
and healthy.
 Seed
to Seed-Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners
by Suzanne Ashworth
Seed to Seed
Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners
Suzanne Ashworth
Seed to Seed is a complete seed-saving guide that describes specific
techniques for saving the seeds of 160 different vegetables. This book
contains detailed information about each vegetable, including its
botanical classification, flower structure and means of pollination,
required population size, isolation distance, techniques for caging or
hand-pollination, and also the proper methods for harvesting, drying,
cleaning, and storing the seeds.
Seed to Seed is widely acknowledged as the best guide available for home
gardeners to learn effective ways to produce and store seeds on a small
scale. The author has grown seed crops of every vegetable featured in
the book, and has thoroughly researched and tested all of the techniques
she recommends for the home garden.
This newly updated and greatly expanded Second Edition includes
additional information about how to start each vegetable from seed,
which has turned the book into a complete growing guide. Local knowledge
about seed starting techniques for each vegetable has been shared by
expert gardeners from seven regions of the United States-Northeast,
Mid-Atlantic, Southeast/Gulf Coast, Midwest, Southwest, Central West
Coast, and Northwest.
Seed to Seed is the wisest guide to seed saving and grassroots genetic
preservation you will ever find. Suzanne Ashworth has distilled the best
information from researchers and the Seed Savers Exchange to guide
vegetable gardeners from all walks of life."
--Gary Paul Nabhan, author of The Desert Smells Like Rain, Gathering the
Desert, Enduring Seeds, The Geography of Childhood, and Songbirds,
Truffles and Wolves
List Price: $24.95 + S&H
 Growing
101 Herbs that Heal
Gardening Techniques, Recipes, and Remedies
by Tammi Ruth Hartung
256 pages, 8 3/8 x 10 trim size, full-color photographs and
illustrations throughout.
Grow Your Own Medicine!
What better way to take your medicine than straight from the garden!
Master Herbalist and gardener Tammi Hartung introduces you to special
cultivating and care techniques required for growing 101 versatile and
useful herbs.
Add diversity and healing power to your garden with medicinal plants.
Learn to grow, harvest, and make inexpensive, potent home remedies for
your whole family. Discover how easy and economical it is to create your
own teas, tinctures, compresses, and more.
* A total organic approach to healthy soil and pest control
* Easy garden designs for any location and environment
* Comprehensive herb-by-herb profiles with color photos of every plant
* Delicious recipes for incorporating healthy herbs into your daily
meals
* Step-by-step instructions for making common herbal preparations
* Easy-reference charts for propagating, harvesting, and using each herb
"This book takes a forward look at growing medicinal herbs that will
positively affect not only the health of the gardener, but the earth as
well."
-Rosemary Gladstar, herbalist and author
LIST PRICE: $24.95 + S&H
For a presentation with Tammi Hartung on “The Power Hour with Joyce &
Dave” please visit www.M2Ktalk.net archives: APRIL 12, 2006 – 2nd Hour
Greenhouse Plans:
Ron Klinefelters
Greenhouse Plans include plans to build a complete green house. To view
sample photos of the green houses just click here.
http://www.thepowerhour.com/news2/greenhouse_photos.htm
NOTE: See Ron
Klinefelters Garden from 2006!
List Price: $9.95 + S&H
 Rosemary Gladstar’s
Family Herbal: A Guide to Living Life with
Energy, Health, and Vitality
7 ½ x 7 ½ Hardback 388 pgs. …Whether you want to cure a cold, soothe
your baby’s colic, moisturize your skin, or simply sleep well at night.
Gladstar has time tested natural therapies and effective herbal remedies
that will work for you.
From the book Jacket, published by Storey Publishing:
Since 1972, Rosemary Gladstar has been sharing her knowledge,
experience, and love of herbs as an educator, activist, and
entrepreneur. She is founder and president of United Plant Savers, co-
founder and director of Sage Mountain Herbal Retreat Center and Native
Plant Preserve, director of the International Herb Symposium,
co-director of the New England Women’s Herbal Conference, founder and
former director of The California School of Herbal Studies, and author
of the best-selling Herbal Healing for Women. Gladstar has also created
her own line of herbal blends for Frontier Herbs.
List Price: $24.95 + S&H
 The Perfect Pumpkin by Gail Damerow
Growing - Cooking - Carving
224 pages, 6 x 9 trim size, two-color.
Gail Damerow offers detailed instructions on how to grow and harvest
more than 95 varieties of pumpkin. The big orange pumpkin has a
multitude of purposes. It can be cooked, eaten, used as a container, fed
to livestock, raised for profit, and cultivated for record-breaking
competitions.
The book includes:
* Growing and Harvesting Techniques
* Step-by-step projects, from carving to making soaps, creams, and
decorations.
* Mouth watering recipes
* Tips on storage, freezing, canning, and drying
List Price: $12.95 + S&H
About the Author
 Author Gail Damerow lives in Tennessee, and operates a small-scale farm
raising chickens and other farm animals. She has raised chickens since
1970 when she bought her first home, which "came with chickens." Gail
has been a creative writing instructor at Tennessee Technological
University in Cookeville since 1988. She is the editor of Rural Heritage
magazine, a monthly columnist for Dairy Goat Journal, and the author of
several Storey titles for adults and children alike which include Your
Chickens, Fences for Pasture & Garden, and The Perfect Pumpkin. She has
been published in many periodicals, including Acres U.S.A., Backyard
Poultry, and Dairy Goat Journal as well.
Gail's book for adults, The Chicken Health Handbook, is considered
"Flawless" by Booklist (April 1994). Likewise, Ron Macher from Small
Farm Today magazine has said of Gail's Guide to Raising Chickens: "If
you want to raise chickens, you can go out and buy Guide to Raising
Chickens and have it all. This is the best single book on chicken
raising I have seen -- it has solid practical advice, good 'how-to'
tips, and covers everything. Buy this book."
Author's website: http://ruralheritage.com
Gail has also been a return guest on “The Power Hour with Joyce & Dave”
where she has been instrumental in exposing a very disturbing side to
the National Animal Identification Program [NAIS]. The Power Hour
Salutes GAIL DAMEROW for her dedication and efforts on this most
critical topic.
To learn more about NAIS please visit
ThePowerHour.com Past NAIS radio
shows are ARCHIVED at www.M2KTalk.net., and the specific dates and times
are posted on ThePowerHour.com under the NAIS Section.
 How
to Store Your Garden Produce by Piers Warren
The Key to Self-Sufficiency
New Revised Edition!
In How to Store Your Garden Produce, author Piers Warren teaches how to
store and preserve your garden produce, enabling you to eat home-grown
goodness all year round. The easy to use reference section enables you
to quickly look up applicable storage and preservation techniques for
the majority of plant produce grown commonly in gardens and allotments.
The techniques include freezing, clamping, hanging, drying, bottling,
pickling, and fermenting.
List Price: $14.95 + S&H
 Preserving
Food Without Freezing or Canning
Traditional Techniques Using Salt, Oil, Sugar, Alcohol, Vinegar, Drying,
Cold Storage, and Lactic Fermentation
The Gardeners & Farmers of Terre Vivant; New Foreword by Deborah
Madison, First Edition Foreword by Eliot Coleman
The Essential Guide to Preserving Nutritious Food
Preserving Food Without Freezing or Canning (originally published as
Keeping Food Fresh) offers more than 250 easy and enjoyable recipes
featuring locally grown and minimally refined ingredients. It is an
essential guide for those who seek healthy food for a healthy world.
List Price: $25.00 + S&H
 The
War on Bugs by Will Allen
Book Description
Will Allen is an organic farming visionary. A true activist,
entrepreneur, and expert, he understands the complexities of farming
first hand and the impact that commercialization has had.
In the early nineteenth century as the American population grew rapidly,
demands on crop output increased. Seeing an opportunity to play upon
fears from market demand, chemical companies declared war on the vile,
profit-sucking, output-wreaking, arch-nemesis of the average American
farmer – bugs. With precision, pesticide manufacturers delivered a
“shock and awe” media campaign, that can only be paralleled to the
current blitzkrieg from today’s pharmaceutical companies. Bugs were the
threat to the American dream – and there was a cure available to every
farmer available in spray, granule, dust, or systemic form that could be
applied to your crops.
Will Allen’s War on Bugs reveals how advertisers, editors, scientists,
large scale farmers, government agencies, and even Dr. Seuss, colluded
to convince farmers to use deadly chemicals, hormones, and genetically
modified organisms (GMOs) in an effort to pad their wallets and control
the American farm enterprise.
Utilizing dozens of original advertisements and promotions to illustrate
the story, Allen details how consumers and activists have struggled
against toxic food. Echoing the warnings of seminal works on the topic
like, The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, 100,000 Guinea Pigs by Arthur Kallet
and F.J. Schlink, and Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, The War on Bugs
shouts that the time to stop poisoning our food, water, air, and
ourselves is now!
List Price: $35.00 + S&H
Reviews
"The War on Bugs is must reading for organic consumers and every
concerned citizen. Will Allen tells us the incredible story, in clear
but rousing language, of how corporations, out-of-control scientists,
and indentured government have carried out a literal 100 Year War
against organic and sustainable agriculture and family farms, and
provides inspiration for the organic food and farming revolution which
is already underway."
--Ronnie Cummins, National Director, Organic Consumers Association
"In 1984, when the gas leak from Union Carbide's pesticide plant in
Bhopal killed thousands, I asked myself why agriculture had become like
war. In the War on Bugs, Will Allen tells us why. Whether you care about
the bugs, or the food you grow or eat, this is a book you must read. It
will help us all move from violent agriculture to a non-violent
agriculture which protects all life and our health."
--Dr. Vandana Shiva, director of the Research Foundation for Science,
Technology and Natural Resource Policy and author of Stolen Harvest
"I have often wondered why independent-minded farmers follow the
recommendations of chemical and GMO seed salesmen. Will Allen takes us
through the history of chemical agriculture in the US, tracing the
collusion among chemical companies, university researchers and the media
to convince farmers that chemicals are 'progressive,' and absolutely
necessary to the success of their farms."
--Elizabeth Henderson, author, Sharing the Harvest
"Will Allen exposes how at every turn the government and the chemical
industry steered us toward synthetic and poisonous solutions to the
challenges of farming, drawing upon a unique combination of scientific
knowledge about their devastating effects on the environment and a rich
understanding of the organic approach--from doing it, as a farmer, in
the fields."
--Mark Schapiro, editorial director of the Center for Investigative
Reporting and author, Exposed
"In classical Indian music the lineage and intellectual approach of
master and disciples is known as a gharana. Rachel Carson's 100th
anniversary provoked an enormous attack on her from the
pesticide-reactionary complex, shamelessly misrepresenting both her work
and its consequences, and quite literally calling her a mass murderer
responsible for the resurgence of malaria. Will Allen is a worthy
student of Carson's gharana, and in telling the history of earlier such
assaults from the pesticide complex, he shows us that her spirit and art
are alive, well--and still badly needed."
--Carl Pope, Executive Director, Sierra Club
"Because of Will Allen, and other organic farmers and advocates like
him, we now can choose to eat foods without industrial chemicals, wear
clothes made from cotton grown without pesticides, and look again at
farms-at least the organic ones-as places of natural harmony, not as
industrial wastelands. In The War on Bugs, Allen documents how chemical
weapons manufacturers, among others, convinced farmers to spray their
toxic wastes on our soil, devastating our land and our health. You won't
believe what they didn't teach you in school. The produce aisle will
never look the same to you again."
--John Passacantando, Executive Director, Greenpeace USA
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