Green Living
May 2025


New and Recently Released
The Food Forward Garden: A Complete Guide to Designing and Growing Edible Landscapes
by Christian Douglas

An award-winning landscape designer offers a high-style approach to garden design, in a book that aims to reinvent and elevate vegetable gardening.
50 Projects for Building Your Backyard Homestead: A Hands-on, Step-by-Step Sustainable-Living Guide
by David Toht

This updated guide offers step-by-step instructions for 50 homestead projects, including 10 new ideas like drought-resistant gardens, insulated coops and accessible paths, designed to help beginners and advanced homesteaders create a thriving, self-sufficient backyard.
Attainable Sustainable Pantry: A Back-to-Basics Guide to Stocking Your Kitchen
by Kris Bordessa

The internet sensation offers a practical guide featuring over 120 recipes to replace processed foods with homemade alternatives, offering healthier, cost-effective options for breakfast staples, baked goods, condiments, snacks, quick pickles and canning classics.
A Life in the Garden: Tales and Tips for Growing Food in Every Season
by Barbara Damrosch

A respected garden expert who has worked for the New York Times and Gardens Illustrated shares her insights and wisdom on growing food, blending practical advice with personal reflections, humor and a deep appreciation for partnering with nature.
It Starts in the Soil
Growing Bulbs in the Natural Garden: Innovative Techniques for Combining Bulbs and Perennials in Every Season
by Jacqueline van der Kloet

Naturalistic garden designer Jacqueline van der Kloet has mastered a nonchalant and magical style, where bulbs emerge playfully, dancing among perennials and grasses. This exquisitely photographed guide offers advice on bulb varieties, planting methods, and handy tools for gardeners working in spaces large and small.
A Year in Bloom: Flowering Bulbs for Every Season
by Lucy Bellamy

Showcases a wide-ranging selection of more than 150 bulbs, each presented with informative text and expert planting advice...Organized into four seasonal chapters, this modern grower's guide embraces familiar flowers such as tulips and daffodils alongside less common blooms, including dog's tooth violets, gladioli, and autumn snowflakes. Gardeners will discover bulbs suited for borders, containers, and grass plantings; bulbs to attract pollinators, for scent, for naturalized plantings; and reliably perennial bulbs that will flower year after year.
Seed to Table: A Seasonal Guide to Organically Growing, Cooking, and Preserving Food at Home
by Luay Ghafari

Have fun while you create your own gardening system, whether it be for a container garden or a kitchen garden. Try out big and small garden ideas to stock up your fridge with delicious fruits, vegetables, and herbs to grow your self-sufficiency. Maximize your minimal or large space with impactful practices that are perfect for anyone on a sustainability and self-sufficiency journey.
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