Spring/Summer Activities | Ilsley Public Library

1) The new heirloom garden: designs, recipes and heirloom plants for cooks who love to garden

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"Heirlooms are more than just delicious ingredients or beautiful flowers--their seeds offer us a connection with the earth, and each one tells a story. Author and garden lecturer Ellen Ecker Ogden was inspired to preserve the diversity of plants that are slipping away after learning that we have lost over 85% of the plant world in the last century to extinction. In The New Heirloom Garden, Ogden inspires us with a history of seed saving in this country,...

2) The complete guide to no-dig gardening: grow beautiful vegetables, herbs, and flowers - the easy way!

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Nardozzi, Charlie

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A lush, productive vegetable, herb, and flower garden doesn’t have to require endless hours of time and unlimited energy. No-dig gardening methods let you keep the rototiller in the shed and focus on what you like best—planting and harvesting! With the step-by-step instructions in The Complete Guide to No-Dig Gardening, you’ll discover how to build healthy, easy-to-plant garden soil by adding layers of organic matter using one of several...

3) The woodchuck's guide to gardening

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Krupp, Ron

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"Here is an entertaining, common sense organic gardening book from a master of both gardening and storytelling. The Woodchuck's Guide to Gardening reconnects us to the four gardening cycles of the year ― from spade to seed to grain to bread―through anecdotes and history, poetry and wit, politics, stories, and lots of down-to-earth organic gardening tips. This is a gardening book for beginners, as well as for more experienced organic and biodynamic...

4) Growing vegetables in straw bales: easy planting, less weeding, early harvests

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LeHoullier, Craig

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Storey Basics

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Straw bale gardening is an inexpensive, low-maintenance way to grow a bounty of food in a small space. All you need is a bale of straw, some fertilizer, and your favorite vegetable seeds! Craig LeHoullier's step-by-step instructions show you how to do everything from sourcing the straw and setting up your bale to planting, dealing with weeds and pests, and harvesting. All that's required is a bale of straw, some fertilizer, and some vegetable seeds...

5) At home with herbs

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Newdick, Jane

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6) celestial seasonings herbs for health and happines

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7) Unprocessed: revitalize your health with whole foods

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Chef AJ

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8) The healing garden: cultivating & handcrafting herbal remedies

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Blankespoor, Juliet

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"This is the ultimate reference for anyone looking to bring the beauty and therapeutic properties of plants into their garden, kitchen, and home apothecary. Both informative and accessible, it covers how to plan your garden...essential information on seed propagation, soil quality, and holistic gardening practices...30 detailed profiles of must-know plants...and 70 recipes for teas, tinctures, oils, salves, syrups, and more"--

9) The backyard bird sanctuary: a beginner's guide to creating a wild bird habitat at home

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Baczkiewicz, Alan

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"Ever wonder how to attract beautiful birds right to your backyard? Now you can create a bird-watching paradise with this accessible guidebook that teaches you everything you need to know about welcoming your new feathered friends and how to care for them while they're visiting. Backyard Bird Sanctuary helps you attract fifty of the most common and sought-after birds in the United States. With beautiful, full-color illustrations of both the male and...

10) What it's like to be a bird: from flying to nesting, eating to singing -- what birds are doing, and why

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Sibley, David

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"Can birds smell?" "Is this the same cardinal that was at my feeder last year?" "Do robins 'hear' worms?" In "What It's Like to Be a Bird," David Sibley answers the most frequently asked questions about the birds we see most often. This special, large-format volume is geared as much to nonbirders as it is to the out-and-out obsessed, covering more than two hundred species and including more than 330 new illustrations by the author. While its focus...

11) 100 backyard activities that are the dirtiest, coolest, creepy-crawliest ever!: become an expert on bugs, beetles, worms, frogs, snakes, birds, plants and more

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Kessler, Colleen

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Provides instructions for simple science experiments and nature activities that can be performed in the backyard.

12) Foraging

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Vorderbruggen, Mark

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Idiot's guides

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13) Foraging cookbook: 75 recipes to make the most of your foraged finds

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Stephenson, Karen

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"You don't have to go too far to find fresh flavors: an astounding array of delicious, nutritious, free ingredients is probably right outside your door. All you have to do is go find them--and cook them with care. The Foraging Cookbook makes it easy to go wild with wild foods, including berries, seeds, mushrooms, and more. From Baked Veggie Burgers to Wild Pizza, this comprehensive foraging cookbook delivers everything you need to transform fresh,...

14) foragers guide to wild foods edible plants lichens

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15) Peterson field guide to medicinal plants and herbs of eastern and central North America

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Foster, Steven

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Peterson field guide

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A reference to the medicinal plants and herbs of eastern and central North America includes specific remedies for asthma, headaches, colds, stomachaches, depression, and many other common ailments.