This gardening book teaches you how to understand nature in order to grow amazing plants. Who said having a brown thumb was bad? It's just misunderstood. It's time to put both thumbs to work. Nature will show you how. Join me in this journey that many people and scientists are still discovering today. We're returning to the foundational principles that make the world operate in harmony. We barely know anything about the microscopic and symbiotic world beneath our toes. We're beginning to pioneer and spearhead major efforts in unlocking the full potential of this secret underworld. We're discovering how plants communicate with microbes and how they tap into major underground networks for the exchange of nutrients. Living soil is a new frontier. We've only just begun. We're discovering how every mineral has a purpose and how minerals team with other minerals. We've hardly scratched the surface in understanding the full potential of the light spectrum, not just from the sun, but through the latest technological advancements in controlling LED levels, colors, and outputs. You'll learn many thing like: 1. What living soil is, 2. The many microbes and macrobes coexisting, 3. Why carbon matter is the basic catalyst for all soil and plant life, 4. How plants eat, breathe, and grow, 5. Advancements in photosynthesis, 6. Why several minerals play a huge role in growing, and 7. My recipes, methodology, and advice using compost, compost tea, and soil mixes. You'll wonder why you've spent so much money on way too many unnecessary ingredients and soil mixes. You'll learn to use the little things nature does with only the material in your backyard, just like the forest. You'll discover how simple everything is once you know how it works. You'll come to understand that having a brown thumb doesn't mean lack of skill. It means experience. So, get ready to combine the theory of not only working hard, but smart. Get ready to put both thumbs to work to not only grow something healthy but to grow something amazing. If you can get the soil right, you will get the plant right. So, if you're just beginning in the world of gardening or you're already a green thumb, join me in discovering your brown thumb and unlock the secrets to "Secure Your Food Independence and Future Today!" Over 150 pictures to help you visualize & over 200 pages of current Need-to-Know Info.

Eleven-year-old Gertie, lover of plants and animals, finds a working wishbone in the park and turns her family's home into a magical House of Nature.

"In this profoundly moving memoir, Owita teaches Wall how to find grace amid heartbreak and to accept that beauty exists because it is fleeting—as in her garden, as in life." —People, 4 stars "A perfect spring awakening." —Good Housekeeping A true story of a unique friendship between two people who had nothing—and ultimately everything—in common. Carol Wall, a white woman living in a lily-white neighborhood in Middle America, was at a crossroads in her life. Her children were grown; she had successfully overcome illness; her beloved parents were getting older. One day she notices a dark-skinned African man tending her neighbor’s yard. His name is Giles Owita. He bags groceries at the supermarket. He comes from Kenya. And he’s very good at gardening. Before long Giles is transforming not only Carol’s yard, but her life. Though they are seemingly quite different, a caring bond grows between them. But they both hold long-buried secrets that, when revealed, will cement their friendship forever.

The Worm Farming Revolution Book teaches you everything you need to know about raising worms in order to grow amazing plants, recycle kitchen scraps, or grow your own fishing worms. It's a Return to the Founding Principles of Successful Gardening and an almost lost art our forefathers past down to us. Just because our technology changes and our knowledge increases doesn't mean that we have to invent something that's completely opposite of what the Creator showed us. A new way of feeding millions of people doesn't have to oppose nature, but should work with nature. I show you how to harness and multiply the power of a tiny organism that corporations and many people have become disconnected with. We have gone down a dark agricultural road with too few exits to get us back in the right direction. The technology of today combined with the proven methods of the past is where science should have lead us. But where "scientists" have failed, there has been a revolt. Not in a new way, but the reviving of a forgotten way. If you've never heard of the term "Worm Farming" then it may seem like a silly, eccentric hobby created to study the natural habits of worms. Well that may be true to some degree, but the truth, meaning, and reason behind this quirky little phrase may be one of the greatest yet simplest technological awakenings to hit the agricultural industry since the invention of, what I call, the world's most "successful failures..".synthetic fertilizers. No matter what gardening method you use, the fact is, you WILL need worm castings (worm poop) in order to give plants the proper food they were created to feed on. Worm castings are as natural to plants as breast milk to a new born baby. This is one of the reasons why worms are found moving in and out of the root systems of plants. They deposit the rich, microbial fertilizer that plants depend on for optimal health. This book teaches you how to grow your plants by, FIRST, growing your soil. You'll learn everything you

Hayley McKee is passionate about creating sweets that taste of nature, where the ingredients are familiar, the coloring is genuine, and the flavors are unmasked. In Sticky Fingers, Green Thumb she celebrates the use of vegetables, edible flowers and herbs in her incredible baked desserts. Sticky Fingers, Green Thumb includes recipes such as spiced parsnip and willow blossom cake; sweet pea and green tea cake; passionfruit cupcakes with raspberry basil frosting; peanut butter, rock salt and rosemary cookies; hibiscus brownies and lemon myrtle & fennel seed honey cake. Broken into five chapters: Real Baking Know-how; Vegetables in Baked Desserts; Herbs in Baked Desserts and Edible Flowers, each section includes a handy flavor wheel and gardening tips and tricks. This is baking as it should be – soulful, earthy and seasonal in Hayley's signature, delicious style.

This brown thumb guide to house plants is for everyone who can't grow them, or say they can't, or would like to grow them but don't hve the kind of house or office where plants will flourish. It is based on the personal experience of the author who was, she says, all of the people described in the preceding sentence. It takes the guesswork out of problems of light, water, humidity, feeding and pruning. It suggests the easiest and least expensive plants to buy and experiment with until you find just what will grow for you. The ones that won't you can throw out with a clear conscience and no sense of tragedy. The popular plants generally chosen as gifts are often neither easy nor inexpensive. Full directions are given for their care and with a little bit of luck they too may flourish. 75 species and their requirements are described. Among them there must be at least one for even the brownest thumb.

The classic Beginner Book is now available with delightful audio narration. A madcap band of dancing, prancing monkeys explain hands, fingers, and thumbs to beginning readers. Bright and Early Books are perfect for beginning beginner readers! Launched by Dr. Seuss in 1968 with The Foot Book, Bright and Early Books use fewer and easier words than Beginner Books. Readers just starting to recognize words and sound out letters will love these short books with colorful illustrations. This ebook includes Read & Listen audio narration.