New for 2009-heirloom - untreated - sustainable - vegetable seeds

2009 Garden Calendar
Ecology Action staff, 2009
Our staff has put together this wall calendar with beautiful illustrations from our research garden and "things to do" for each month, according to the Grow Biointensive method. Planting dates are set by the seasons here in Willits, California, but can be adapted to your own area by adjusting for first and last frost dates.

$15.00

LRE-6735

Renewall Garden Kit

"How to Grow More Vegetables" book and 15 packets of selected vegetable, grain and flower seeds for growing food, making compost to feed the soil, and attracting beneficial insects.

$50.00

BCO-1180

Cover Crops and Compost Crops en Your Garden Video

Cindy Conner, English, 2008, 66 minute DVD
This video caused some good "aha" moments with our staff. Very hands-on and practical, and highly recommended by John Jeavons. The video moves through the whole growing year with Cindy, and she makes quite clear the whole process of preparing the beds as well as the developmental stages the beds go through, including crop rotation and the mulching process.

$35.00

BCO-1163

The Complete Compost Gardening Guide

Barbara Pleasant and Deborah Martin, 2008, 320 pp
Full of innovative techniques, including every possible way to build a compost pile, this is a book that both beginners and experienced gardeners will learn from. Includes a chapter on using worms in composting.

$19.95

BCO-1168

Managing Cover Crops Profitably

Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program, 2007, 244 pp.
This book sits on the reference shelf in our office and helps us answer questions from gardeners about compost/cover crops. Originally written for farmers, it discusses the uses, advantages and disadvantages of each crop, including planting times for different parts of the country.

$19.00

BFO-1768

How to Store Your Garden Produce

Piers Warren, rev 2008, 143 pp.
Detailed information on the many ways to store over 60 fruits and vegetables, including recipes; for example, instructions on how to freeze or dry peas, plus a recipe for pea pod wine! The author's orientation is toward storing food only until the next season's crop comes in, thereby insuring that the highest quality of food is being eaten.

$14.95

BFO-1773

Wild Fermentation

Sandor Ellix Katz, 2003, 187 pp.
The flavor, nutrition and craft of live-culture foods. This book takes the reader on a whirlwind trip through the wide world of fermentation with its compelling and complex flavors, providing basic and delicious recipes that are easy to make at home, including sauerkraut, kimchi, sour pickles, miso, tempeh, dosas, yogurt, kefir, basic cheese, bread, beer and wine. With nearly 100 recipes this is still the most comprehensive and wide-ranging fermentation book available.

$25.00

BSE-1846

Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands

Brad Lancaster, 2008, 419 pp
The continuation of the good work begun in volume 1, above. Earthworks are simple, inexpensive strategies and landforms that passively harvest free rainfall, water runoff, air conditioning condensate, and greywater within the soil. Integrated vegetation then pumps the water back out in the form of beauty, food, shelter, wildlife habitat, timber, and passive heating and cooling, while controlling erosion, increasing soil fertility, reducing downstream flooding, dropping utility costs, and improving water and air quality. What's not to like? Methods that really work!

$32.95

BSE-1849

Food Security and Sustainability

Harvest McCampbell, 2008, 144 pp
Not just focused on food, this is a primer on survival from someone who has retained a lot of important lessons from her grandmother based in the 1800s, from the point of view of one who lives with nature comfortably. It is a question book, asking you questions about how you would live under more primitive conditions, with the sense that asking the question is most of the answer. Thoughtful discussions of basic tools and supplies to think about other than food, and how to prepare for fire and flood.

$12.00

BGE-1227

Salad Leaves for All Seasons

Charles Dowding, 2006, 404 pp
Far more than lettuce is covered in this gem of a book from a British gardener. The main message of this book is that tasty fresh greens can be enjoyed year-round with careful planting and harvesting..often by cutting from the same plant over and over with the appropriate timing. Growing in small spaces, under cover, and with an eye to the calendar are all techniques that are carefully explained. The author introduces us to the whole range of greens that can be grown for salads and also for stir-fries and so on. Includes beautiful and inspiring photographs.

$22.00

BTR-1685

Mycelium Running

Paul Stamets, 2005, 352 pp
Did you know that trees and other green plants could not grow and reach maturity without symbiotic associations with mushrooms and/or mycelium? Mycelium is an often overlooked key ingredient in any form of permaculture. Fungi in the soil filter water, break down toxic wastes, help to control insect pests and improve the growth of forest and garden plants. Paul Stamets has pioneered the art of mycorestoration, using fungi to improve soil health, and his very practical discoveries, detailed in this book, are like a gold mine for all gardeners.

$35.00

BEA-0033

Booklet 33: Grow Your Own Grains

Carol Cox, 2008, 28 pp
At last! Basic grain raising and harvesting on a small scale, appropriate for a home garden. How to grow and use barley, oats, cereal rye, triticale, wheat, amaranth, corn, millet, quinoa, rice, sorghum and teff. Carol Cox is the Garden Manager at our Ecology Action Research Mini-Farm in Willits, and has been growing all kinds of grains for many years. A working paper. Note: Printing has been delayed until February; orders received before then will be backordered until publication.

$7.50

BEA-0655

Coleccion Educativa Metodo de Agricultura Biointensiva

ADYS, 2004, 20 min DVD
Este video comparte experiencias, didacticas de ADY, usando cinco modulos: Principios del Metodo Biointensivo, Preparacion de Camas, Elaboracion de Composta, Siembra Cercana, Semillas de Polinizacion Abierta. ADYS elaboro el vido para usar en sus capacitaciones, aprovechando visitas de Bisek Hsiao apprentice de Ecology Action en 2004 y Dominque Guillet, Director de Kokope. $15 of each DVD goes to ADYS to support their work.

$20.00

VBE-2245

Bountiful Bean, Green, Bush

$1.75

VBE-2183

Good Mother Stallard Bean, Dry, Pole

$2.50

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