Gardening and Seed-Saving
From rainwater harvesting to understanding the growing of squash and melons, you will find useful guides to gardening and seed-saving.
Bill McDorman, Executive Director of Native Seeds/SEARCH describes useful terms and concepts to seed saving and lists specific seed saving instructions for 18 common vegetables and 29 wildflowers.
Robert Gough and Cheryl Moore-Gough have written a great guide to preserve your favorite tastes and scents. This guide includes 322 vegetables, herbs, trees and shrubs. You can customize your garden plants and promote diversity.
How to care for your land while growing food, beauty and medicine. Practical advice for success in garden design, water conservation, insect and weed control, that will help you harvest year round in the southwest?s challenging conditions. Ringbound Paper. 112pgs.
A permaculture approach to home gardening above 6,500 feet in Arizona, New Mexico, Southern Colorado and Southern Utah. A terrific step-by-step guide to successful vegetable growing in this region. 128pp. Paper.
Photographs by Victor Schrager. Goldman profiles more than one hundred varieties, each showcased in a full-color photographic still life recalling eighteenth-and-nineteenth-century botanical paintings and engravings. She offers expert advice on cultivating and selecting your own melons, as well as the rudiments of seed saving. The book includes recipes, gardening how-tos and sources for seeds. Cloth. 176pp.
This second volume is a how-to-guide for creating water-harvesting "earthworks." "Earthworks" are simple, inexpensive strategies and landforms that passively harvest free rainfall, runoff, air conditioning condensate, and greywater within the soil.
If you have an interest in the preservation of agricultural heritage, have a passion for cucurbita, thrill to the flavor and texture of a freshly harvested squash soup then this is the book you've been waiting for. This is a source book, gardener's handbook and culinary treat illustrated with 150 gorgeous images from renowned photographer Victor Schrager.
Carol Deppe's book is both a conceptual and a hands-on gardening book for all levels of experience. Optimistic as well as realistic, Deppe offers invaluable advice for gardeners and their communities to flourish.
