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Root Cellaring: Natural Cold Storage of Fruits & Vegetables 28 reviews
Mike Bubel, Nancy Bubel
Storey Publishing, LLC, 1991
Excellent knowledgebase for raising and keeping veggies!
+ Root Cellaring
+ Very Informative
If you have a cellar and have a garden, this book is a great way to enjoy your harvest longer. It offers suggestions on what types of veggies to grow, and how to keep a crop growing longer.
I don't know about you, but my garden takes a lot of work for the short Oregon growing season. I am ...
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Joy of Cooking: 75th Anniversary Edition - 2006158 reviews
Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker, ...
Scribner, 2006
Cook up some classics!
+ The best cookbook ever
+ The Joy of Cooking
+ The best cookbook ever!
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The Backyard Beekeeper: An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Keeping Bees in Your Yard and Garden19 reviews
Kim Flottum
Quarry Books, 2005
excellent reference
+ Comprehensive in a traditional way
+ Good book for beginners
+ Great Photos
+ Book for the beginner
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Putting Food By (Plume) 19 reviews
Janet Greene, Ruth Hertzberg, ...
Plume, 1992
Missing Pages 155-186
+ The best COMPREHENSIVE food preservation book
+ An old favorite
+ Best all around book for food preservation
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Gardening When It Counts: Growing Food in Hard Times (Mother Earth News Wiser Living Series)34 reviews
Steve Solomon
New Society Publishers, 2006
Things I Never Knew About Gardening!
+ Good book, very detailed
+ Detailed, Valuable Advice
+ Fascinating crankiness
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life314 reviews
Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver, ...
HarperCollins, 2007
A guide to change your eating
+ Great theme, Interesting Topics are sometimes lost in the Preaching
+ Local is better
Barbara Kingsolver uses her very readable style to encourage us all on a journey to understand the effects of the standard American diet on our own health as well as the health of the earth. This book is a fun and heart-touching read that also contains great recipes and short insightful inserts ...
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Fast Food Nation1403 reviews
Eric Schlosser
Harper Perennial, 2005
The true world of Fast Food opens before your eyes!
+ By the Author of Outstanding You
+ highest approval
+ One Fast Food National Under God ! ?
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A Guide to Preserving Food for a 12 Months Harvest: Canning, Freezing, Smoking, and Drying; Making Cheese, ...2 reviews
Mariel Dewey
Ortho Books, 1975
Great inspiration on Gardening and what to do with your Harvest after
+ Decent Brief Guide
This book has been a mere insperation for me. Eversince i bought it, I have been making my own Whole Wheat Bread, and have managed to live more suffiencent with the harvest that i bring in from my own Garden. Granted this is more of a what to do afterwards book rather than a gardening book, but it ...
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals455 reviews
Michael Pollan
Penguin, 2007
Literally Can't Put this Book Down
+ Zeitgeist for Food!
+ The price of modern agriculture: devastating to the environment and our health
+ Brilliant and never dull
+ Changing the way we answer the question: "What's for dinner?"
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Square Foot Gardening: A New Way to Garden in Less Space with Less Work79 reviews
Mel Bartholomew
Rodale Books, 2005
gardening choices
+ Great Gardening Ideas
+ Gardening delight
This book is very helpful to learn a new way of gardening for higer yields in small areas. It has very helpful advice and good graphics to follow. It is easy to read and understand.
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Plenty: One Man, One Woman, and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally 17 reviews
Alisa Smith, J.B. Mackinnon
Harmony, 2007
A truly inspirational read
+ Best Memoir I've Read
+ Two excellent writers tell a personal and informing tale
+ Satisfying to Stomach and Soul
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Landscaping with Fruits and Vegetables2 reviews
Fred Hagy
Overlook Hardcover, 2001
Great Reference
+ Amazing Book!
I ordered this book through Amazon.com because we are interested in using fruits and vegetables in landscaping. Actually, we just plain like to garden and eat. Landscaping is secondary. Fruit tree catalogues are very basic, and frustrating. You see some closeup's of a fruit, and that's it. No sense ...
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life314 reviews
Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver, ...
HarperCollins, 2007
A guide to change your eating
+ Great theme, Interesting Topics are sometimes lost in the Preaching
+ Local is better
Barbara Kingsolver uses her very readable style to encourage us all on a journey to understand the effects of the standard American diet on our own health as well as the health of the earth. This book is a fun and heart-touching read that also contains great recipes and short insightful inserts ...
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Root Cellaring: Natural Cold Storage of Fruits & Vegetables28 reviews
Mike Bubel, Nancy Bubel
Storey Publishing, LLC, 1991
Excellent knowledgebase for raising and keeping veggies!
+ Root Cellaring
+ Very Informative
If you have a cellar and have a garden, this book is a great way to enjoy your harvest longer. It offers suggestions on what types of veggies to grow, and how to keep a crop growing longer.
I don't know about you, but my garden takes a lot of work for the short Oregon growing season. I am ...
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Gardening When It Counts: Growing Food in Hard Times (Mother Earth News Wiser Living Series)34 reviews
Steve Solomon
New Society Publishers, 2006
Things I Never Knew About Gardening!
+ Good book, very detailed
+ Detailed, Valuable Advice
+ Fascinating crankiness
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A Guide to Preserving Food for a 12 Months Harvest: Canning, Freezing, Smoking, and Drying; Making Cheese, ...2 reviews
Mariel Dewey
Ortho Books, 1975
Great inspiration on Gardening and what to do with your Harvest after
+ Decent Brief Guide
This book has been a mere insperation for me. Eversince i bought it, I have been making my own Whole Wheat Bread, and have managed to live more suffiencent with the harvest that i bring in from my own Garden. Granted this is more of a what to do afterwards book rather than a gardening book, but it ...
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals455 reviews
Michael Pollan
Penguin, 2007
Literally Can't Put this Book Down
+ Zeitgeist for Food!
+ The price of modern agriculture: devastating to the environment and our health
+ Brilliant and never dull
+ Changing the way we answer the question: "What's for dinner?"
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Landscaping with Fruits and Vegetables2 reviews
Fred Hagy
Overlook Hardcover, 2001
Great Reference
+ Amazing Book!
I ordered this book through Amazon.com because we are interested in using fruits and vegetables in landscaping. Actually, we just plain like to garden and eat. Landscaping is secondary. Fruit tree catalogues are very basic, and frustrating. You see some closeup's of a fruit, and that's it. No sense ...
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The Backyard Beekeeper: An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Keeping Bees in Your Yard and Garden19 reviews
Kim Flottum
Quarry Books, 2005
excellent reference
+ Comprehensive in a traditional way
+ Good book for beginners
+ Great Photos
+ Book for the beginner
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Square Foot Gardening: A New Way to Garden in Less Space with Less Work79 reviews
Mel Bartholomew
Rodale Books, 2005
gardening choices
+ Great Gardening Ideas
+ Gardening delight
This book is very helpful to learn a new way of gardening for higer yields in small areas. It has very helpful advice and good graphics to follow. It is easy to read and understand.
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