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Growing, Gardening & Farming
 The Organic Farming Manual
Ann Larkin Hansen
This fast growing area of self suffiency can be practiced on different levels. You may glean enough to do it on a small scale but this manual is meant for those wanting to do the gate to plate endeavour as a business. Softcover, 438 pp. $36.95.
 River Cottage Handbook No. 4
Veg Patch
Mark Diacono
A welcome additon in this series from River Cottage, in helping the gardener/cook plant their own crops. How to grow, how to harvest, how to eat are well layed out for each vegetable, along with additonal info for varieties and controling pests. Hardcoer, 272 pp. $25.00.
  Grow Great Grub
Gayla Trail
Writer, photographer, and roof top gardener, Torontonian Gayla Trail has created both an attractive and practical guide for the small space urban gardener. From seed sources to canning the products of grown-upside-down tomato plants, this guide will help you create a garden that is pleasing to the eye, easy on the pocket book and the environment, and which will provide food for the table long after growing season has ended. Colour photos. Softcover, 208 pp. $24.99.
 Homesteading
Abagail R. Gehring
If you are dreaming about packing in the day job and moving to a small holding in the countryside, this could be just the book to get you started. Homesteading deals with everything you need to know about self-sufficiency, from gardening and a backyard farm, to preserving and foraging, using alternative methods of energy and building structures like smokehouses and root cellars. There are also sections on crafts and well being, and plenty of illustrative colour photos. Hardcover, 456 pp. $29.95.
 Growing Stuff: An Alternative Guide to Gardening
Packed with information on how to grow all manner of fruits, vegetables, herbs and flowers in even the smallest of spaces, this is a book well suited to urban dwellers wishing to make the most of a patch of garden, a patio, or even just a windowsill. There is a helpful section on getting started as well as a section devoted to interesting projects, a ladybird house and flowering teacups for instance. Full colour pictures throughout. Softcover, 141 pp. $24.95.
 Uncommon Fruits for Every Garden
Lee Reich
Elaeagunus, maypop, jujube and medlar are just some of the unusual fruits that this book highlights. The bulk of the book tells the story of a large variety of fruits unknown to most people, and then ends off with some information on sourcing and cultivating these rare gems. Softcover, 288 pp. $22.95.
 Fruits and Berries for the Home Garden
Lewis Hill
This book has been completely revised and is ready to take a place on all fruit lovers shelves during the current gardening revival. The book is full of information on starting anywhere from a small fruit garden to an orchard. It begins with general information on soil conditions, choosing your plants and common pests. It then goes into more detail focusing on specific types of fruits and tending to them. Softcover, 266 pp. $25.95.
 The Complete Compost Gardening Guide
Barbara Pleasant
With a growing ecological and local food movement taking hold, this book gives the solution on how to get the best use from your food waste and produce new food in the process. A comprehensive guide to starting and maintaining a compost based garden, this book is indespensible for beginners to the serious gardening locavore. Softcover, 320 pp. $26.95.
Back to Basics
Third Edition
Edited by Abigail Gehring
In this time of back to the land, raising livestock, planting fruit trees, root cellars, (yes we have books on that too!) this book has seen a surge in new found interest. Whilst some chapters may harken back to days of no electricity eg Energy from Wood, Water, Wind and Sun, there are practical chapters on Raising Your Own Vegetables, Fruit and Livestock; Enjoying Your Harvest Year Round. The more whimsical chapters make for wistful reading Patchwork Quilting, Rope and Twine, Broommkaing. A great resource for those wanting to do more with less. Hardcover, 456 pp. $33.95.
 How to Make a Garden
Marjorie Harris
The gardening columnist for the Globe and Mail, Marjorie Harris offers the best of both worlds to the Canadian gardener: the writing skill and depth of knowledge of the British garden writers and the understanding of which plants work best in our climate zones. Using a combination of practical advice and inspiration photos, Harris guides us on the steps that lead from tangled - or empty - plot to the controlled lushness of our dreams. Even the most seasoned gardener will appreciate the indispensable plant list. Colour photos. Hardcover, 175 pp. $29.95.
 The Gardener's Companion
For anyone who has ever put on a pair of gloves, picked up a spade and gone
out into the garden in search of flowers, beauty and inspiration.
159 pp. $19.95.
 Kitchen
Garden A to Z
Mike McGrath
Information on selecting, growing, harvesting and storing and buying
produce, common or unusual, is necessary but it is those luscious
photos that will have us rushing to the garden centre. Colour photos.
Hardcover, 158 pp, $67.50.
 The Cook's Garden
edited by Liz Primeau
This beautifully photographed book features 100+ recipes for cooking
what you grow in your home garden. Divided into seasons to showcase
optimal taste, it also contains
expert growing advice from Canadian Gardening Magazine. For a refreshing
spring treat, please try the Rhubarb & Ginger Cordial on page 34. Softcover,
215 pp. $29.95.
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