Jill Winger, creator of the award-winning blog The Prairie Homestead, introduces her debut The Prairie Homestead Cookbook, including 100+ delicious, wholesome recipes made with fresh ingredients to bring the flavors and spirit of homestead cooking to any kitchen table. With a foreword by bestselling author Joel Salatin The Pioneer Woman Cooks meets 100 Days of Real Food, on the Wyoming prairie. While Jill produces much of her own food on her Wyoming ranch, you don’t have to grow all—or even any—of your own food to cook and eat like a homesteader. Jill teaches people how to make delicious traditional American comfort food recipes with whole ingredients and shows that you don’t have to use obscure items to enjoy this lifestyle. And as a busy mother of three, Jill knows how to make recipes easy and delicious for all ages. "Jill takes you on an insightful and delicious journey of becoming a homesteader. This book is packed with so much easy to follow, practical, hands-on information about steps you can take towards integrating homesteading into your life. It is packed full of exciting and mouth-watering recipes and heartwarming stories of her unique adventure into homesteading. These recipes are ones I know I will be using regularly in my kitchen." - Eve Kilcher These 109 recipes include her family’s favorites, with maple-glazed pork chops, butternut Alfredo pasta, and browned butter skillet corn. Jill also shares 17 bonus recipes for homemade sauces, salt rubs, sour cream, and the like—staples that many people are surprised to learn you can make yourself. Beyond these recipes, The Prairie Homestead Cookbook shares the tools and tips Jill has learned from life on the homestead, like how to churn your own butter, feed a family on a budget, and experience all the fulfilling satisfaction of a DIY lifestyle.

Ready to get growing? Not sure where to begin? Pressed for space but have big garden goals? This is the book for you!No matter how big or small your garden plans, no matter how small your indoor space may be, you can grow all the vegetables, herbs, and flowers you need for any outdoor garden, big or small. Can you spare eight square feet of space in your home? That's a matter of just two by four feet of floor space; but in it, you can grow literally hundreds of individual plants. This book will walk you through the entire process from start to finish-from seed germination through potting up, setting up a cheap and easy grow light shelf, and on through maintaining those plants to hardening off and getting them ready to grow outdoors. Whether you are an experienced seed-starter looking for economical space-saving seedling solutions or you are new to growing and gardening, this start-to-finish process will get you up and running, on your way to growing delicious, nutritious homegrown goodness. Even if you've struggled with weak and leggy transplants in the past, this method will solve those problems and help you finally achieve your dream of a garden grown 100% from scratch by you. It works for most every type of plant including vegetables, herbs, perennials, annuals, flowers, and some small fruits and berries. It's a small investment and a level of self-sustainability that will serve you well for many years to come! Anyone with a few feet of usable space, a hardware store, and an outlet can grow all of their outside plants. And with that ability, comes control. Control over growing methods, seed selection, planting time, and more. What is important to you? Organic? GMO/GE-free? Conventional growing? Open pollinated and seed saving? Heirlooms? Yield-maximizing hybrids?Whatever your growing goals, whatever your priorities, the best way to reach them (and the most affordable, too), is to start seeds yourself and grow your garden transplants. All you need is a reliable method and the right tools. It's all inside.When you grow your garden plants yourself, you have that complete control. You can choose the exact seed type and variety, select for traits such as disease resistance, nutritional profile, flavor, and adaptability to your location and soils (among others). You are no longer limited by local availability and the choices the greenhouse made for you. You do not need to settle for the few commercially-focused plants on offer. You can plant on your own timeline, start plants for succession planting, and play with plants that the locals have never offered you before. You CAN grow your own food and plants from seed. Learn: - Why you should grow your own plants from seed- When to start your own seeds, with the help of noted resources and local plant timing- How to germinate seeds intensively in small pots- How to "pot up" your seedlings for continued strong growth and individual transplanting- How to correct early growing issues like legginess and weak stems- How to make a grow light setup that is inexpensive, effective, and requires no special space or tools (for much less than the cost of expensive grow lights)- How to build that setup from everyday hardware store items- How to fit more plants in a small-space footprint by going up and creating a shelf system-still with easily accessed, locally-available items!- How to maintain your plants as they gain size and strength for life outdoors-including how to fertilize indoors seedlings, managing your vegetables and flowers under grow lights, watering, and disease prevention- How to "harden off" your vegetables, herbs, and flower plants to get them ready for the rigors of outdoor living- How to know when it's safe for your plants to live full-time outdoors in your garden or patio container gardenPlus money-saving and cost-sharing tips. It's all inside and it's all here to make you a more independent, inspired, confident grower.

“A Way to Garden prods us toward that ineffable place where we feel we belong; it’s a guide to living both in and out of the garden.” —The New York Times Book Review For Margaret Roach, gardening is more than a hobby, it’s a calling. Her unique approach, which she calls “horticultural how-to and woo-woo,” is a blend of vital information you need to memorize and intuitive steps you must simply feel and surrender to. In A Way to Garden, Roach imparts decades of garden wisdom on seasonal gardening, ornamental plants, vegetable gardening, design, gardening for wildlife, organic practices, and much more. She also challenges gardeners to think beyond their garden borders and to consider the ways gardening can enrich the world. Brimming with beautiful photographs of Roach’s own garden, A Way to Garden is practical, inspiring, and a must-have for every passionate gardener.

Savor your best tomato harvest ever! Craig LeHoullier provides everything a tomato enthusiast needs to know about growing more than 200 varieties of tomatoes, from planting to cultivating and collecting seeds at the end of the season. He also offers a comprehensive guide to various pests and tomato diseases, explaining how best to avoid them. With beautiful photographs and intriguing tomato profiles throughout, Epic Tomatoes celebrates one of the most versatile and delicious crops in your garden.

The world's leading resource on biointensive, sustainable, high-yield organic gardening is thoroughly updated throughout, with new sections on using 12 percent less water and increasing compost power. Long before it was a trend, How to Grow More Vegetables brought backyard ecosystems to life for the home gardener by demonstrating sustainable growing methods for spectacular organic produce on a small but intensive scale. How to Grow More Vegetables has become the go-to reference for food growers at every level, whether home gardeners dedicated to nurturing backyard edibles with minimal water in maximum harmony with nature's cycles, or a small-scale commercial producer interested in optimizing soil fertility and increasing plant productivity. In the ninth edition, author John Jeavons has revised and updated each chapter, including new sections on using less water and increasing compost power.

With more than 45,000 sold since 1989, The New Organic Grower has become a modern classic. In this newly revised and expanded edition, master grower Eliot Coleman continues to present the simplest and most sustainable ways of growing top-quality organic vegetables. Coleman updates practical information on marketing the harvest, on small-scale equipment, and on farming and gardening for the long-term health of the soil. The new book is thoroughly updated, and includes all-new chapters such as: Farm-Generated Fertility—how to meet your soil-fertility needs from the resources of your own land, even if manure is not available. The Moveable Feast—how to construct home-garden and commercial-scale greenhouses that can be easily moved to benefit plants and avoid insect and disease build-up. The Winter Garden—how to plant, harvest, and sell hardy salad crops all winter long from unheated or minimally heated greenhouses. Pests—how to find "plant-positive" rather than "pest-negative" solutions by growing healthy, naturally resistant plants. The Information Resource—how and where to learn what you need to know to grow delicious organic vegetables, no matter where you live. Written for the serious gardener or small market farmer, The New Organic Grower proves that, in terms of both efficiency and profitability, smaller can be better.

If you want to grow healthy vegetables at home, but have hesitated because it seems too hard and time consuming, Organic Gardening for Everyone is your perfect hands-on guide—an “if I can do it, you can do it” case study that addresses your concerns and gets you started. Loaded with practical advice and step-by-step guidance, Organic Gardening for Everyone takes a very personal and friendly approach to a subject that can be intimidating. It is a first-class primer on organic vegetable gardening, and an inspirational story about how anyone can balance the rigors of gardening with the demands of a modern, family-oriented lifestyle. In 2012, a California mom decided to start an organic vegetable garden. But she went about it in an unusual way: she crowdsourced it by launching a YouTube channel under the name "CaliKim" and asking for help. And then she started planting. As questions came up, she turned to her viewers and subscribers and they replied with answers and advice. As she learned, her garden grew successfully—even in the hot, harsh California climate. Her expertise also grew, and now she answers many more questions than she asks and has become a very accomplished home gardener. And CaliKim has a great story to tell: growing healthy organic vegetables for your family is not difficult, even for today’s time-challenged lifestyles. She provides complete step-by-step information on growing the most popular edibles organically, and also gives sound advice on how to take on the challenges of balancing a hectic lifestyle with successful growing—and how to involve the whole family in the process. You'll be rewarded for your effort every time you place a plate of natural, organic vegetables on the family dinner table knowing exactly what they are, what is in them, and where they came from.