BOOKS 

We specialize in heirloom vegetable, flower, and herb seeds. Look here for vegetables bred in a day when taste was the primary selecting criteria. This is the place to go if you want to grow the best tomatoes you ever tasted!
Wild Fermentation BOOK	Wild Fermentation BOOK Check Latest Price [Sandor Katz] This book is a fave. Nearly 100 home recipes for vegetable ferments (sauerkraut, kimchi, pickles); bean ferments (miso, dosas); dairy ferments (yogurt); cheesemaking (and vegan alternatives); sourdough and other grain fermentations from Cherokee, African, Japanese, and Russian traditio ...
Building & Using Cold Frames BOOK	Building & Using Cold Frames BOOK Check Latest Price [Charles Siegchrist] This handy booklet gives easy-to-follow instructions for the use and construction of cold frames. Softcover, 32 pp. ...
Gardening When It Counts -- Growing Food in Hard Times BOOK	Gardening When It Counts -- Growing Food in Hard Times BOOK Check Latest Price [Steve Solomon] Here's the scoop on traditional techniques that produce the most food in hard times, without a lot of mulch, compost, and water. Current popular intensive vegetable garden styles require a lot of water, fertility, and organic matter. This book shows you how to reduce your garden "i ...
Organic Seed Production and Saving (The Wisdom Of Plant Heritage) BOOK	Organic Seed Production and Saving (The Wisdom Of Plant Heritage) BOOK Check Latest Price [Bryan Connoly with contributing editor CR Lawn] A how-to guide for the small producer. This tenth book in NOFA's Organic Principles & Treatises covers techniques for growing and harvesting seeds, combining this with an explanation of the importance of crop plant genetic diversity. Written for the ...
Growing Great Garlic BOOK	Growing Great Garlic BOOK Check Latest Price [Ron Engeland] This is the definitive sourcebook for growing garlic organically. Written for gardeners and small farmers, it covers everything from site preparation through planting, fertilizing, harvesting, storing, and marketing. Also includes chapters on the history and evolution of garlic b ...
Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties BOOK	Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties BOOK Check Latest Price [Carol Deppe] 2nd edition. Great info for both farmers and gardeners on how to breed your own locally adapted varieties, with inspiring tales of such interesting vegetables as popping chickpeas, hairy mustards, purple peas, rainbow corn, storage watermelons, and many more. Softcover, 384 pp. ...
Seed To Seed: Saving Our Vegetable Heritage BOOK	Seed To Seed: Saving Our Vegetable Heritage BOOK Check Latest Price [Suzanne Ashworth] This is the first thorough and comprehensive book on seed saving intended for both new and experienced seed savers. It covers all major and minor vegetable crops, many herbs, and unusual or rare vegetable crops. Discusses pollination dynamics, methods of maintaining variety pur ...
The New Seed Starter's Handbook BOOK	The New Seed Starter's Handbook BOOK Check Latest Price [Nancy Bubel] Comprehensive, updated guide to seed and seedling care, indoors and out. Topics include light and temperature requirements, transplanting, diagnosis and correction of problems, requirements of vegetable crops, pollination, selection, seed saving, and seed storage. Contains numerous ...
Weeds And What They Tell BOOK	Weeds And What They Tell BOOK Check Latest Price [E. Pfeiffer] The presence of common garden weeds provides valuable clues about your soil, your garden environment, and the kinds of conditions that favor weed growth. This book tells you how to read the weeds. Softcover, 96 pp. ...
Echinacea: Nature's Immune Enhancer BOOK	Echinacea: Nature's Immune Enhancer BOOK Check Latest Price Author Steven Foster is the most knowledgeable person in the U.S. on echinacea. This is the best standard reference on this herb. Covers all the species of Echinacea, their characteristics, cultivation, and uses. Softcover, 160 pp. ...
	Growing & Propagating Wild Flowers BOOK Check Latest Price [Harry Phillips] Grow your own wildflowers from seed collected in the wild! Specific instructions for propagation, preservation, and culture of over 100 genera of wildflowers, carnivorous plants, and ferns. Includes directions for collecting, storing, and germinating seed, and raising plants fr ...
Stella Natura: Kimberton Hills Biodynamic Agricultural Calendar BOOK	Stella Natura: Kimberton Hills Biodynamic Agricultural Calendar BOOK Check Latest Price A yearly guidebook to using the cosmic rhythms in working the land to help determine the best times for planting, pruning, and harvesting. Based on ages of farming experience and observation, this guide connects astronomical events to the biological rhythms of plants. Included are 12 articles, one ...
Identifying Diseases Of Vegetables BOOK	Identifying Diseases Of Vegetables BOOK Check Latest Price [MacNab, Sherf, and Springer] Superbly illustrated, descriptive manual covering the common diseases of most vegetables. Indispensable and very readable. The excellent photographs and concise descriptions make this the best reference for disease identification. Large format softcover, 62 pp. ...
	Sweet Sorghum: Production and Processing BOOK Check Latest Price [George Kuepper] A simple guide to small-scale, ecological production of pure sorghum syrup. Chapters on harvesting, milling, juicing, cooking, packaging, labeling, pricing, and more. Includes sources of supplies and equipment. Spiral bound paperback, 96 pp. ...
Wild Roots BOOK	Wild Roots BOOK Check Latest Price [Doug Elliot] An illustrated forager's guide to the edible and medicinal roots, tubers, corms, and rhizomes of North America. Over 55 plants are covered as edibles, teas, medicines, toothpaste, shampoo, and dyes. This is an in-depth book with a focus on the often-unseen underground portion of edible ...
How To Make Romantic Bentwood Trellises BOOK	How To Make Romantic Bentwood Trellises BOOK Check Latest Price [Jim Long] Step-by-step directions for making full-sized garden trellises, miniatures for the deck planter, gates, arbors, and decorative fences as well. Information is included for finding and choosing trellis wood, descriptions of the best kind of wood to use, along with recommended tools and so ...
	The Herbal Medicine-Maker's Handbook BOOK Check Latest Price [James Green] An indispensable guide for anyone who wants to make their own herbal medicines. The author is a practicing herbalist and medicine-maker who teaches at the California School of Herbal Studies. This is one of the texts used in his course. It covers the science and art of herbal medici ...
	Medicinal Herbs In The Garden, Field & Marketplace BOOK Check Latest Price [Lee Sturdivant and Tim Blakley] In the first half of this book Lee Sturdivant gives a thorough overview of the market for medicinal herbs. She outlines and elucidates the many business possibilities for growers large and small. Lee tells you how and where to sell your medicinal herbs, what compani ...
Native American Gardening Stories, Projects, And Recipes For Families BOOK	Native American Gardening Stories, Projects, And Recipes For Families BOOK Check Latest Price [Michael J. Caduto and Joseph Bruchac] Combines the magical world of Native American stories with the nurturing experience of gardening. Learn how to grow traditional "Three Sisters" gardens of corn, beans, and squash. Explore the relationships between people and the gardens of the Earth, seed prese ...
100 Heirloom Tomatoes For The American Garden BOOK	100 Heirloom Tomatoes For The American Garden BOOK Check Latest Price [Carolyn J. Male] Carolyn Male's name is synonymous with American heirloom tomatoes. Tomatoes have always been the most popular plant in the vegetable garden, and today the class act among tomatoes is the heirloom varieties. This thorough how-to and stunningly photographed field guide covers every ...
Growing and Marketing Ginseng, Goldenseal and Other Woodland Medicinals BOOK	Growing and Marketing Ginseng, Goldenseal and Other Woodland Medicinals BOOK Check Latest Price [W. Scott Persons and Jeanine M. Davis] Expanded from Persons' book American Ginseng: Green Gold. In this book are recommended methods of growing and marketing ginseng, goldenseal, ramps, black cohosh, bethroot, bloodroot, blue cohosh, false unicorn, galax, mayapple, pinkroot, spikenard, wild ging ...
	Cover Crops and Compost Crops in Your Garden DVD BOOK Check Latest Price Central Virginia grower Cindy Conner takes us through a year in her garden. Using hand tools she grows cover crops amongst her vegetable crops to keep down weeds and nourish the soil, then cuts down the cover crops to use for mulch and compost. Features many of our veggie faves (Bloody Butcher corn, ...
	Garlic and Perennial onion growing guide Check Latest Price Our useful 4-page guide is included free with all fall onion and garlic shipments. However, if you wish to get this guide separate from a fall onion and garlic shipment, order it using this item number! ...