This week’s warm weather aside, December is the time we cozy up indoors to dream about next season’s garden, and to decide what new techniques to try and which plants to grow. Winter is for gardening books, and we have quite a few in stock that we’d like to suggest for you. Whether you have a book club or just a comfortable chair to curl up into, these titles are sure to fire your imagination.
Here are two books to add to your library today:
A must-have for your gardening library is Dan Johnson’s updated edition of M. Walter Pesman’s Meet the Natives. To the millions of people who visit the Rocky Mountain region each and every year, Meet the Natives has long aided in the identification of the plants that grow here. This classic guide is revised and updated, with full color photos, covers over 400 plants, and is easy to use with its color-coded organization. Of course, you can try to identify a plant with a phone app that delivers hit or miss identification, but with this guidebook, you’ll know for sure! It is equally valuable to Colorado gardeners to learn the plants and their natural habitats.
As backyard and community food growers committed to growing abundant food gardens even as the climate changes, we wouldn’t want to be without Four Season Harvest – the ‘bible’ of working with the seasons to grow food all year long. There is hardly a more well-known or respected organic growing expert than Elliot Coleman. If you love the joys of eating home-garden vegetables but always thought those joys had to stop at the end of summer, this book is for you.
For more great books, come on in and browse. Below are some of what’s currently in the store.
For Crafting:
The Papermaker’s Companion – Helen Hiebert
For Young People:
50 Hikes with Kids Colorado
Nature Smarts Workbook Ages 7-9
Rainbow Science – Artemis Roehrig
Nature Anatomy Workbook – Julia Rothman
Growing a Home Pharmacy:
Herbs for Children’s Health – Rosemary Gladstar
Herbs for Stress & Anxiety – Rosemary Gladstar
The Natural First Aid Handbook – Brigitte Mars
Herbal Antibiotics, 2nd edition – Stephen Buhner
Herbal Antivirals, 2nd edition – Stephen Buhner
Growing Food:
Astrological Gardening – Louise Riotte
Basic Seed Saving – Bill McDorman
How to Forage for Wild Foods Without Dying – Ellen Zachos
Growing Under Cover – Niki Jabour
Gaia’s Garden – (Permaculture) – Toby Hemenway
The Vegetable Gardener’s Bible – Ed Smith
Guides to Plants:
Wildflowers of the Rocky Mt. Region
Mini Meadows – Mike Lizotte
Meet the Natives – M. Walter Pesman & Dan Johnson
How to Forage for Wild Foods Without Dying – Ellen Zachos
Edible & Medicinal Plants of the Southern Rockies
Tending the Soil:
Grow Your Soil – Diane Meissler
The Complete Guide to Restoring your Soil – Dale Strickler
Teaming with Nutrients – Jeff Lowenfels
Teaming with Microbes – Jeff Lowenfels
Teaming with Fungi – Jeff Lowenfels
Worms Eat My Garbage – Mary Apelhof
Tending the Soul:
The Wonder of Small Things – James Crews
The Garden: Visionary Growers and Farmers of the Counterculture – Mathew Ingram
How to Love the World – James Crews
Let’s Move the Needle – Shannon Downey
The Serviceberry – Robin Kimmerer
We Are the Ark – Mary Reynolds