Green Living
September 2024


New and Recently Released
The Raised Bed Book: The Definitive Step-by-Step Guide to Elevated Growing
by David Hurrion

Featuring clear diagrams, inspired planting plans and step-by-step photography of beds built from scratch, this book will be the ultimate guide on your raised bed journey. In addition, 10 international gardeners, all sharing a love of raised beds, will explain their "take" and provide planting designs that will open your eyes to the variety of shapes, sizes, materials and planting displays that are possible with a raised bed. 
Misunderstood Vegetables: How to Fall in Love with Sunchokes, Rutabaga, Eggplant, and More
by Becky Selengut

Becky Selengut highlights 25 vegetables with recipes, history, step-by-step preparation and storage tips. Organized by season, recipes include Feta and Citrus Salad, Charred Chard with Spicy Chile Oil and Celery Root Gratin. A must-have for the plant-curious, this cookbook will have readers seeking out unusual and underused produce like never before.
Total Garbage: How We Can Fix our Waste and Heal our World
by Edward Humes

A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist explores the pervasive yet hard-to-see wastefulness that permeates our daily lives and shows how individuals and communities are making a real difference for health, prosperity, quality of life and the fight against climate change for a cleaner, greener world.
PlantYou: Scrappy Cooking: 140+ Plant-Based Zero-Waste Recipes That Are Good for You, Your Wallet, and the Planet
by Carleigh Bodrug

 With sections on how to stop wasting food (and money), outfitting your kitchen, as well as "Got This? Make That!" pantry sweeps and Kitchen Raid recipes (where you can cross-reference just about any vegetable, grain or bean going bad in your fridge or pantry and find a recipe to use it in), Scrappy Cooking is a go-to for anyone who wants to eat the diet that's healthiest for you, your wallet, the animals and the planet.
Birds and Birding
Birding to Change the World
by Trish O'Kane

In Birding to Change the World, professor and activist Trish O'Kane details the astonishing science of bird life, from migration and parenting to the territorial defense strategies that influenced her own activism. A warm and compelling weave of science and social engagement, this is the story of an improbable band of bird lovers who saved their park. 
Attracting Birds in the Carolinas: Creating Bird-Friendly Habitats from the Mountains to the Coast
by James F. Parnell

Covering all three regions of the Carolinas - from mountains to Piedmont to the coastal plain - this book will provide an in-depth and accessible primer on the birds that populate the extremely biodiverse two-state region and easy ways to attract those birds to your backyard. 
Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against "the Apocalypse"
by Emily Raboteau

With camera in hand, award-winning author and critic Emily Raboteau goes in search of birds, fluttering in the air or painted on buildings, and city parks where her children may safely play while avoiding pollution, pandemics, and the police. She ventures abroad to learn from Indigenous peoples, and in her own family and community, she discovers the most intimate examples of resilience. Raboteau bears witness to the inner life of Black womanhood, motherhood, the brutalities and possibilities of cities, while celebrating the beauty and fragility of nature.
Handmade Birdhouses and Feeders: 35 Projects to Attract Birds into Your Garden
by Michele McKee-Orsini

Handmade Birdhouses and Feeders will show you how to make birdhouses and feeders for your feathery friends, providing them with food, water and safe places to nest all year round. Packed with 35 gorgeous projects to protect your birds and decorate your yard, Michele McKee-Orsini shows you how to create stylish and functional homes and feeders for all types of birds. 
Forsyth County Public Library
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