Green Garden

Imagine a world where you don't have to pay a fortune on energy bills, waste energy and water, and destroy the planet piece by piece only to make your living more comfortable. A world where you have access to the tools and techniques essential to facilitate your daily routine while living in harmony with the planet. This audiobook is your guide to this world.

Both Stoicism and Minimalism go hand in hand, decluttering your mind as well as decluttering your life, leaving space and energy for the things that matter and are important to you. Having strategies for both is essential to making the most out of these timeless teachings. Life moves at a very fast pace these days, and the Stoic teachings will enable you to not "sweat the small stuff".

From the citrus groves of Sicily to a taco in Mexico City, In Search of the Perfect Peach takes you on a journey in the pursuit of flavor, with Franco revealing at every step how this incredibly simple desire can lead to radical change. Throughout, he offers us a deeply optimistic vision of how we as consumers can follow flavor to fix the food system and bring joy to our every meal.

Are you concerned about the rising costs of feeding your family, where your food comes from, or what’s in the cleaning products you use every day? Melissa K. Norris, host of the popular Pioneering Today podcast, wants to help you embrace a simpler, more natural lifestyle. In The Made-from-Scratch Life, Melissa shares easy-to-follow instructions and plenty of inspiration. Filled with helpful charts, checklists, and recipes, this guide gives you the know-how you need to incorporate time-tested homesteading practices into your everyday life.

Imagine yourself coming home from a long day's work expecting to see your room clean and your bed inviting. However, to your dismay, upon opening your room's door, you saw your son playing with his toys scattered all over the floor and your daughter playing with her dolls on your bed. What do you think would you do? More often than not, there is this tendency to get angry at them for causing a mess.

This beginners’ audiobook is here to guide your steps and ensure your journey into gardening is both enjoyable and profitable, even if you are a complete beginner!

When Summer Rayne Oakes moved to Brooklyn from the Pennsylvania countryside, she knew that bringing nature indoors was her only chance to stay sane. She found them by the side of the road, in long-forgotten window boxes, at farmers' markets, and in local garden shops. She found ways to shelve, hang, tuck, anchor, secure, and suspend them. She even installed 150-foot expandable hose that connects to pipes under her kitchen sink, so she only has to spend about a half-hour a day tending to her plants - an activity that she describes as a "moving meditation". T

Building your own chicken coop could be the first step to a satisfying hobby farming that could lead to healthier living and save you some dollars at the grocery store. There are many possible ways to plan, configure, and build a chicken coop, and that is the primary burden of this audiobook: to teach you all you need to know as a beginner in this exciting endeavor.

The international scientific consensus is that we have less than a decade to drastically slash our collective carbon emissions to keep global heating to 1.5 degrees and avert catastrophe. This means that many of us have to cut our individual carbon footprints by over 80 percent to 2.5 tons per person per year by 2030. But where to start? Grounded in meticulous research and yet accessible to all, Living the 1.5 Degree Lifestyle is a journey toward a life of quality over quantity and sufficiency over efficiency as we race to save our only home from catastrophic heating.

Long before the advent of conventional farming methods - which have focused on constant growth, human intervention, and genetic homogeneity - the apple had already grown to become the ubiquitous all-American symbol it is today. Known for their hardiness, ability to adapt to new environments, natural diversity, and plentiful bounty, wildly grown apples were once known as “America’s fruit” throughout the trading world.

There is a better way to live. Humans should have free time, good food, affordable shelter, time in nature, space to think, and living systems that help people thrive while healing the land. Welcome to Acorn Land Labs. We fuse permaculture, off-grid systems, local lifestyles, and simple living into a fresh way to live well. Join us as we reinvent the world around us into something healthy and good.

This book will teach you everything that you need to know about how to start a small dairy farm or just keep one dairy cow. It's completely up to you, and you'll learn how to not only care for your cows but to pick the best breed for what you want. This book will take you through everything from figuring out how much land to get, picking your breed, how to store your milk, common health problems, birthing calves, and more!

On the perimeter of Israel's Jezreel Valley, with the Carmel mountains rising up in the west, Meir Shalev has a beloved garden, "neither neatly organized nor well kept", as he cheerfully explains. Often covered in mud and scrapes, Shalev cultivates both nomadic plants and "house dwellers", using his own quirky techniques. He extolls the virtues of the lemon tree, rescues a precious variety of purple snapdragon from the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv highway, and does battle with a saboteur mole rat. He even gives us his superior private recipe for curing olives.

Discover the freedom of off-grid living—sustainably power your home and life, even if you've never stepped off the grid before! Are you drawn to the idea of cutting ties with traditional utilities, yet feel overwhelmed by where to start? Do you want to live a life more aligned with nature and sustainability, but doubt your skills or budget?Are you worried about the complexities and unpredictabilities of living off-grid, longing for an easy, practical guide?

In this book, you will explore: the homesteading mindset, the best environment for planting based on your geological area, hardiness zones, perfect beginner DIY projects, best starter animals, best ways to make money, how I love to keep things fresh, companion planting, real-life examples and stories, how to arrange your homestead A-Z, key areas to focus on, what to think about when purchasing a property, and so much more.

The Modern Homesteader's Kitchen is the ultimate guide to achieving self-sufficient living through sustainable cooking. Whether you're a homesteader, zero-waste advocate, or simply looking to break free from store-bought goods, this book teaches you how to transform your kitchen into a hub of sustainability and wholesome living. Discover the art of traditional food preservation, DIY pantry essentials, and waste-free cooking, while embracing timeless methods like canning, fermenting, sourdough baking, and more. This is your roadmap to creating meals that honor the earth and nourish the soul.

Do you feel like you are living in a world of chaos? Does it feel like you have too much stuff and too little order? Or maybe you struggle with getting rid of things you no longer need and that simply take up space, physically as well as mentally? Do you wish you could live a life of calm and minimalism? Don't be fooled into thinking that living a minimalist life means living on a budget, buying cheap, or not having possessions. Living as a minimalist means embracing a life free from clutter, chaos, and disorganization.

This complete guide to homesteading provides the information you need to get started sustainably growing your own food, raising animals organically, and even power everything off-the-grid. You don’t need 50 acres in the country, and you don’t need to invest lots of money into equipment you don’t need.

No source is left untapped in this all-encompassing guide to supplying lifesaving water after a disaster. You can survive up to three weeks without food but only three days without water! When catastrophe strikes, having enough water can spell the difference between life and death. The Prepper's Water Survival Guide offers a step-by-step plan with straightforward information you can easily follow.

Farming, growing your own crops, and raising animals have never been as easy as they are today. With modern technology and access to a plethora of knowledge and resources, farming cannot only be easy, but profitable as well - even for someone who has never stepped out of the city. In fact, you can do it from the comfort of your own home!