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Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Ready, Set, Grow!

The 'Featured Books' now on display in the library now include books on kitchen gardens, container gradens, herbs, edible flowers, and wildcrafting. Spring can't start soon enough!

Here's a list:

X-ray : see through the world around you / Nick Veasey
The first book on display isn't about gardens or edible flowers, though it does feature some striking radiographic images of plant life, among other subjects, such as a bus with passengers and the side of an apartment building.

Little Herb Gardens / Georgeanne Brennan

The Edible Flower Garden / Rosalind Creasy
Recipes in this book include "Tulip and Endive Appetizer", "Stir Fried Beef with Anise Hyssop", and "Rose Petal Sorbet".

The Moosewood Restaurant Kitchen Garden / David Hirsch

McGee & Stuckey's The Bountiful Container / Rose Mary Nichols McGee and Maggie Stuckey
How to grow your own food plants in a small amount of space.

All New Square Foot Gardening / Mel Bartholomew
Another popular approach to gardeining in small spaces, with limited effort.

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle : a year in the life of food / Barbara Kingsolver
A family spends a year eating what they can either grow themselves or obtain from local farmers.

The Forager's Harvest : a guide to identifying, harvesting and preparing wild plants / Samuel Thayer
Did you know that cattail pollen can be combined with wheat flour to make muffins? It's a shame Lake Crabtree is contaminated with PCBs.

Bee Books
What would a garden be without bees? Let's hope we don't find out.

Bees in America : how the honey bee shaped a nation / Tammy Horn

A Spring Without Bees : how colony collapse disorder has endangered our food supply / Michael Schacker

Robbing the Bees : a biography of honey - the sweet liquid gold that seduced the world / Holley Bishop



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