Community Garden

After tragedy strikes, a woman moves back to familiar ground to raise her son and to build on a forgotten dream: to build a garden center and nursery. But she soon discovers digging in the garden can reveal more than dirt. Community Gardens is a cozy novella that takes a witty and insightful look into friendships and compassion.

Community gardens. Grab your shovel, spade and other tools....let's band together and make more community gardens. Community gardens can enhance health by providing physical activity. They can also help to alleviate hunger and help various groups in our nation to develop job skills and form tighter neighborhood associations, sharing various vegetables like tomatoes, fresh corn, lots of greens, fruits, items from orchards, etc.

Lola Milholland grew up in the nineties, the child of iconoclastic hippies. Her mom had spent her life revolting against the strictures of her American and Filipino upbringing. Her dad, a child of the eastern Oregon desert, was a jovial documentary filmmaker and historian who loved to collect ephemera. Both threw open the doors of the Holman House, their rambling home in Portland, Oregon, to long-term visitors and unusual guests in need of a place to stay. Years later, after college and after her parents’ separation, Milholland returned home.

Discover the exquisite beauty of peonies and the art of growing them in cold climates with this guide. The Art of Growing Peonies is an essential resource for anyone interested in cultivating these stunning blooms, explicitly tailored to thrive in colder environments. Listen about Charlotte Kilcher’s Peonies and get Peony Tips and Tricks from Rita Jo Schultz, Alaska’s Peony Pioneer.

Concise information for Community Gardens. Start a Community Garden today where you live, work, or play! Have a great Community Garden Day! This audiobook has information how to start a Community Garden. It is just one liners to paragraphs to listen to. Simple listening.

Craftivism, or the space where art and activism meet, is a powerful, ever-evolving social justice movement that continues to grow and diversify as more voices and mediums take part in it. In Let's Move the Needle, Shannon Downey, an outspoken voice in the craftivist movement for over a decade, provides a roadmap and accessible toolkit for burgeoning art activists.

In light of concerns about food and human health, fraying social ties, economic uncertainty, and rampant consumerism, some people are foregoing a hurried, distracted existence and embracing a mindful way of living. Intentional residential communities across the United States are seeking the freedom to craft their own societies and live based on the values of nonviolence, self-sufficiency, equality, and voluntary simplicity.

Welcome to the Community Garden, a magical place full of adventure, discovery, and learning. Listen along with the series of friendly animals, insects, and birds as they explore, navigate, and learn important life lessons during their daily adventures in the garden!

Despite arrests and setbacks, Ava's dream of sustainable agriculture takes root, leaving a bittersweet ending hinting at more work to be done. This educational novel inspires hope and emphasizes the power of human ingenuity in the face of adversity.

This Highlights Listen & Learn! Audio Study, intended for those in grade four, introduces listeners to the importance of caring for your community. Getting Down and Dirty focuses on some of the run-down problem places found in cities, and how communities have joined together to turn these places into beautiful shared spaces. In addition to discussing bettering our communities, this audio study takes a look at some key comprehension skills including identifying an author's purpose, determining cause-and-effect relationships, and building vocabulary.

Are you overwhelmed by the extreme views on sustainability presented by the media? Struggling with feelings of anxiety, frustration, and helplessness as you navigate the pressures of living sustainably? In "Man's Search for Sustainability," David Auge, after decades of research, offers a groundbreaking perspective by comparing two of nature's most fascinating insect communities—honeybees and desert locusts.

Cohost of ABC’s hit show The Chew and fan favorite on Bravo’s Top Chef, Carla Hall celebrates soul food and gives classic dishes her own fresh twists, with 145 delectable recipes updated for the way we eat now. In Carla Hall’s Soul Food, the beloved chef and television celebrity takes us back to her own Nashville roots to offer a fresh, lip-smackin’ look at America’s favorite comfort cuisine and traces soul food’s history from Africa and the Caribbean to the American South. Carla shows us that soul food is more than barbecue and mac and cheese.

Picture a world where daily life and nature create a powerful symbiotic relationship. Imagine how different life would be if villages of people came together to create a collaborative environment that nurtured nature rather than exploiting its resources. Permaculture Ecovillages is an immersion into an ethical, holistic world that's abundant in knowledge and rich with value! This captivating guide explores the unity between God, humankind, and nature threaded into every facet of His creation!

Imagine a lush, self-sustaining garden for years of abundance—unlock the power of permaculture without daily tending, artificial chemicals, or ongoing costs!

Renewable energy is good for your wallet. Those who see that opportunity are already seizing it … all the way to the bank. Green Is Good is a no-nonsense guide to how you, the average American, can easily incorporate clean energy and energy efficiency into your daily life and in the process save money, make money, and help wean your community off fossil fuels.

Gardening at the Margins tells the remarkable story of a diverse group of neighbors working together to grow food and community in the Santa Clara Valley in California. Based on four years of deeply engaged ethnographic field research via a Participatory Action Research project with the people and ecosystems of La Mesa Verde home garden program, Gabriel R. Valle develops a theory of convivial labor to describe how the acts of care among the diverse gardeners are powerful, complex acts of resistance.

Keisha and her family are just sitting down to Saturday-morning breakfast when the phone rings. Uh-oh! There seems to be a skunk at the community garden, and it's dug a hole under the shed. At the same time, Mr. Sanders can't deliver the mail to a certain house: crows keep dive-bombing him when he gets near the mailbox. Time for the Animal Rescue Team to spring into action!

Do you love the fall season and everything that comes with it? Have you ever dreamed of starting your own pumpkin patch and actually making money from it? If so, then you’re in the right place because this book will teach you what you need to know. This business is something that you’ll enjoy doing, but it can be so much more than that. You can make solid profits from running your own pumpkin patch when you market and monetize things correctly. By listening, you’ll set yourself up for success when the time comes around every year!