"How To Grow Organic Strawberries" is an instructional guide on growing strawberry plants using organic methods. You'll learn how to inexpensively prepare your soil for success in growing strawberries and how to keep pests away without using chemical pesticides and poisons. You'll also learn best practices for getting the delicious strawberries you want when it's time to harvest them. Also included is a map to show you when you should plant your strawberries based on the area in ...

21 Native Wild Edible PlantsThe few wild plants listed here are likely the only ones that are about as close as domestic plants can be in digestability. Of the 1800 flowering plants in Alberta, about 800 are mentioned as being used as food. I suspect some wild edible plants may require weeks to really acclimatize to them.Written by Mors Kochanski

NATURAL CLEANING MADE EASY Make all your own homemade cleaning products using simple, natural ingredients. DIY green cleaning recipes that take the guesswork out of using essential oils so you can finally utilize their beneficial cleaning properties. With 60+ natural cleaning recipes for every room in your home, you will learn how to: - clean and do laundry without harsh chemicals - keep floors and other surfaces looking great - deodorize and freshen the air with essential oils - disinfect...

The founder of Wild Food Adventures presents the definitive, fully illustrated guide to foraging and preparing wild edible greens.Beyond the confines of our well-tended vegetable gardens, there is a wide variety of fresh foods growing in our yards, neighborhoods, or local woods. All that's needed to take advantage of this wild bounty is a little knowledge and a sense of adventure. In Edible Wild Plants, wild foods expert John Kallas covers easy-to-identify...

Make rich, natural soap using only milk and simple ingredients!This concise, beginner-friendly guide shows you how to craft gentle, creamy soap from scratch using milk and natural ingredients. With clear instructions and helpful tips, you'll gain the confidence to create your own bars at home—safely and successfully.Inside you’ll learn:How to make soap step-by-stepSafe handling and use of lyeRecipes featuring different kind...

Soap making at home has many benefits both for adults and children. Basic soap making can teach you about chemistry processes like saponification and more. On top of that, the more familiar you get with the process, the more you can create soap that is designed especially for your needs. You will be able to create soaps with the scents that you love, that do not irritate sensitive skin and that even comes in the shapes that you prefer. Soap making is a great way to get the soap you want!

Discover timeless crafts and recipes for using this classic garden herb, plus helpful advice for growing your own.Lavender is a favorite plant among gardeners and herbalists, known for its calming scent, lovely color, and variety of uses when harvested.In Growing & Using Lavender, you’ll find:Information about growing 20 different types of lavender, including hardy and tender varietiesAdvice for planting, pruning, maintainin...

Growing herbs is something that is very beneficial to gardeners for several different reasons.  Herbs may be used to flavor food, for potpourri, for tea, for medical purposes or to even control pests in the garden.  Herb gardens can be specialized towards one of these specific areas or a mixture of a few different purposes.  They can also be grown in a garden with other species of plants or in containers indoors. Although growing you...

A summary of the most important aspects of making soap at home, covering all the basics for beginners looking to get started, or to further your knowledge of your favorite hobby.Includes FREE, BONUS CONTENT that can be downloaded from our website as an exclusive gift to make the Soap Making Quick Guide even better value - a beautiful, print friendly PDF copy of the book, so you can print a copy, add your own notes to the prints and personalise your soap guide even further.H...

Spending money is the last thing anyone wants to do right now. We are in the midst of a massive cultural shift away from consumerism and toward a vibrant and very active countermovement that has been thriving on the outskirts for quite some time—do-it-yourselfers who make frugal, homemade living hip are challenging the notion that true wealth has anything to do with money. In Making It, Coyne and Knutzen, who are at the forefront of this movement, provide readers with all the tool...

It's interesting to note that there have been many healthy human populations throughout our history, even long before the advent of antibacterial soap. In fact, the collective fascination with adding chemical ingredients to bar and liquid soaps in order to help fight infections only began in recent decades. Since then, much evidence has emerged to suggest that antibacterial soaps don't clean us any more thoroughly than their "old-fashioned predecessors" do. What's more, they may pose healt...

This non-technical, straightforward guide will help ensure your success with blueberries, from planting to plucking and everything in between. Blueberries are famously unfussy, and with just a few simple tasks each year, you'll be enjoying the abundant fruits of your very minimal labor.The Brazelton family has been growing blueberries for three decades in Oregon's fertile Willamette Valley. Today, their Fall Creek Farm & Nursery is the world's leading producer of blueberry nursery ...