Texas Bug Book is your complete guide for identifying and organically controlling all of the most common Texas insects. Drawing on years of practical experience and research, organic gardening experts Howard Garrett and Malcolm Beck give detailed instructions on how to identify, understand the life cycle of, and control or protect Texas insects, mites, snails, slugs, nematodes, and other critters. They also include striking color photos and black-and-white drawings to help you identify each bug. Garrett and Beck highlight the many useful roles that bugs play in nature and...

This book is essential for any biodynamic gardener or farmer who wants to understand the background to core biodynamic techniques.

Based on keynote talks by Manfred Klett at Biodynamic Agricultural Association conferences.

The first garlic book written specifically for organic gardeners and small-scale farmers

Growing Great Garlic is the definitive grower's guide written by a small scale farmer who makes his living growing over 200 strains of garlic. Commercial growers will want to consult this book regularly.

The author tells us:

• which strains to plant
• when to fertilize
• when to plant
• when to prune flower stalks
• how to plant
• when to harvest
  Plus, how to store, market, and process...

Holy Cows and Hog Heaven is written by an honest-to-goodness-dirt-under-the-fingernails, optimistic clean good farmer. His goal is to:

• Empower food buyers to pursue positive alternatives to the industrialized food system
• Bring clean food farmers and their patrons into a teamwork relationship
• Marry the best of western technology with the soul of eastern ethics
• Educate food buyers about productions
• Create a food system that enhances nature's ecology for future generations

Holy Cows and Hog...

If you love the joys of eating home-garden vegetables but always thought those joys had to stop at the end of summer, this book is for you. Eliot Coleman introduces the surprising fact that most of the United States has more winter sunshine than the south of France. He shows how North American gardeners can successfully use that sun to raise a wide variety of traditional winter vegetables in backyard cold frames and plastic covered tunnel greenhouses without supplementary heat. Coleman expands upon his own experiences with new ideas learned on a winter-vegetable pilgrimage across the ocean...