Books

This comprehensive guide takes you step-by-step through the whole process of how to start and operate a successful organic plant growing business using containers. Chapters thoroughly cover such topics as: start-up, greenhouse options, certification/licenses/fees, botany basics, growing container plants, making compost, disease and pest management, demonstration gardens, marketing and merchandising, dealing with employees, and safety. Appendices include example activity logs and forms, instructions for making a soil-texture analysis, and even tips for creating a simple employee handbook. An extensive list...

“Tell me, Miss Hale... Can you work for the man who knows what you taste like?” That's the first thing my new client says to me. In my defense, I had no idea my one-night mistake was Sebastian King. Hot. Older. Billionaire heir. Owner of a very expensive corner office and a very DIRTY mouth. And, apparently, my new boss. FML. Now I have twenty-one days to save his family's billion-dollar empire. If I fail, my PR firm goes down...

What if you could be great with money from a young age?But even if you could, what does it take?Do you have to be born with it? Or scrimp and save every penny, eating beans and rice throughout college? Or forego every large purchase and cut up all the credit cards you’ve ever owned?According to U.S. News data, students who borrow money for college will graduate owing $29,719 in student loan debt. So does this mean you shouldn’t borrow any...

“. . . watch with me as a grand and beautiful picture unfolds, of the interconnectedness of all things.” No endeavor engages so deeply, so personally with nature as farming, whether on a thousand acres or in the gardener’s window box. When farmers delve into nature’s mysteries they follow in the footsteps of the myriad curious natural scientists who came before. Join Athena (Teena) Tainio on a journey that illuminates the diverse wonders of the building blocks of life and...

Since the middle of the last century, American farm policy has taken the nation into the dead end of industrial farm production. Farming, at its core a biological process, has been transformed into an industrial process, thus demolishing the economic and cultural values upon which the nation was founded. Along the way, small farms have been ridiculed and dismissed as inconsequential but now the seeds of a rural renaissance are being planted, not by these industrial behemoths, but by family-scale...

I'm sleeping with my dad's best friend. He's the boss I was supposed to hate. Too bad my body didn't get the memo. Callum Sterling agrees to my father's request. He has no idea the favor is me — all bad attitude and bite. He's a throwback — decent, disciplined, with a code of honor from the past, and with a body hotter than hell. But I'm the woman who burns things down. My presence unravels him. He knows wanting...

Holistic practitioners have been using contact reflex diagnosis, muscle testing, and dowsing to improve human health for centuries. For lifelong alternative medicine practitioner Carrie Eastman, applying these methods to her goat herd was just common sense. All living things are made up of electrical energy. Learn how to harness this energy to work with your goats in a way that is convenient, inexpensive, and safe for your herd.The Energetic Goat provides step-by-step instruction on the basic techniques, including common variations,...

True Stories of Teens Who Trusted GodUnbreakable with God is a gripping collection of true stories about teen boys and girls who faced hard times and discovered they were never alone — God has always been and will always be there. It is a book about faith that holds when feelings fade and about the courage that comes from trusting God. It leaves the reader with real hope and the reminder that God stays close even in the hardest seasons.The...

Ideas such as "crop and soil weatherproofing," the "row support system," and the "tillage commandments," exemplify the practicality of the soil/root maintenance program that serves as the foundation for Schriefer’s highly-successful "systems approach" farming. Schriefer was a pioneer in developing an awareness of the relation of tillage to soil fertility, focusing on three major soil basics — soil aeration, soil water, and soil decay. This book covers such topics as soil chemistry, plant and soil dynamics, above- and below-ground plant...

''Milk is the greatest of all diet cures,'' writes Macfadden in the first line of his book. He continues with, ''It will undoubtedly give you more life while you live and it may add many years to your life.'' Originally published in 1923, this book touts the health benefits of milk and outlines the milk diet, which when properly prepared for and properly used, Macfadden says is capable of bringing about miraculous changes. More advice from physical culturist Bernarr MacFadden....