Organic Gardening & Farming
Everyone has heard the term "farm to fork" and the importance of food taking a quicker route from the fields to our homes. More and more people are putting down their eating utensils and picking up gardening tools to grow their own food.
Start with the best for your organic garden! Purchase some heirloom seeds and some organic fertilizer. Pick up a couple organic gardening and farming books to get you up to speed. And to protect your crops you'll want to avoid herbicides and pesticides. Luckily there are plenty of natural pest control methods.
Find a great deal on the available items from the Organic Gardening and Farming categories listed below.
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Gardening with Heirloom Seeds: Tried-And-True Flowers, Fruits, and Vegetables for a New Generation
Heirloom seeds are more than the promise of next summer's crookneck squash or jewel-colored zinnias. They're living antiques handed down from one generation to the next, a rich inheritance of flavor and beauty from long ago and, often, far away. They are sometimes better adapted to pests and harsh conditions than many modern varieties and often simply smell or taste better. "Gardening with Heirloom Seeds" serves as a resource for gardeners, cooks, and plant lovers of all levels of expertise who want to know more about finding, sharing, and propagating the seeds of heirloom flowers, fruits, and vegetables. In these beautifully illustrated pages, Lynn Coulter describes fifty old-fashioned species that have their roots in the past, from the Frenchman's Darling, a flowering herb whose seeds were pocketed by Napoleon Bonaparte when he invaded Egypt in 1798, to Snow White beets, an old Dutch favorite that will not stain the cook's fingers red. Most of the plants included here will grow all across the United States; a few are best suited for warmer climates. The text is sprinkled with practical advice from heirloom gardeners and lists sources for finding the seeds of many old varieties. Because it also provides room for notes, "Gardening with Heirloom Seeds" can be used year after year and can become an heirloom in its own right--a personal journal to pass along to the next generation of gardeners.
