Natures Garden

The popular and highly respected horse trainer Mark Rashid brings together Western and Eastern philosophies to demonstrate a seamless new incarnation of horse training. After years of helping "difficult" horses, Mark Rashid understands how to build the foundation of a horse's training and resolve any problems encountered along the way.

Bloomsbury presents… Rambunctious Garden by Emma Marris read by Lisa Rost-Welling “Remarkable . . . Emma Marris explores a paradox that is increasingly vexing the science of ecology, namely that the only way to have a pristine wilderness is to manage it intensively.” —The Wall Street...

Robert Pavlis, a gardener for over four decades, debunks common soil myths, explores the rhizosphere, and provides a personalized soil fertility improvement program in this three-part popular science guidebook. Soil Science for Gardeners is an accessible, science-based guide to understanding soil fertility and, in particular, the rhizosphere - the thin layer of liquid and soil surrounding plant roots, so vital to plant health.

'From a very early age I loved the countryside as much as any garden and was fascinated by the life that I saw all around me from trees, wildflowers, birds, insects and mammals. In a sense this book has been over sixty years in gestation. I have kept notebooks and journals ever since I could...

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR MEMOIR/AUTOBIOGRAPHY FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction Finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award Long-listed for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography One of...

A warm stone path. Bare feet. Rosemary on your fingertips. There is nowhere to be but here. It is the last days of August in the hills of southern Tuscany. The sun is low and golden, the air perfectly still, and behind a stone farmhouse, a small herb garden is waiting — basil heavy with leaf, tomatoes warm on the vine, sage soft as felt beneath your hand. You pick what you need, slowly, without hurry. You carry it inside. You slice tomatoes onto a wooden board, pour olive oil from a dark glass bottle, tear bread with your hands, and eat alone at a table by the window while the sky turns ...

A year in the garden can teach patience, gratitude, faithfulness, and hope. Faith in the Garden: 52 Devotions on Growth, Patience, Seasons, and God’s Creation is a weekly Christian devotional for gardeners who want to connect the familiar work of tending plants with thoughtful, Scripture-based reflection. Each of the 52 devotions begins with a Bible passage and an ordinary garden experience: preparing soil, sowing seed, waiting for the first green shoot, watering, pulling weeds, pruning, supporting weak stems, watching fruit ripen, gathering a harvest, saving seed, facing frost, and ...

The definitive--and by far the most popular--guide to the therapeutic Japanese practice of shinrin-yoku, or the art and science of how trees can promote health and happiness Notice how a tree sways in the wind. Run your hands over its bark. Take in its citrusy scent. As a society we suffer from...

In Love, Nature, Magic, organic advocate and former CEO of a global health and wellness company Maria Rodale combines her love of nature and gardening with her experience in shamanic journeying, embarking on an epic adventure to learn from plants, animals, and insects—including some of the most misunderstood beings in nature. Maria asks them their purpose and listens as they show and declare what they want us humans to know.

There’s a strong biblical connection between people and trees. They both come from dirt. They’re both told to bear fruit. In fact, arboreal language is so often applied to humans that it’s easy to miss, whether we're talking about family trees, passing along our seed, cutting someone off...

This book really is for the absolute beginner. We'll cover all the basics in a motivating, easy-to-digest way, and allow nature to do the heavy lifting. We'll discover your green thumb that's been there all along. We'll take good care of our fellow human and our planet. And we'll have a lot of fun doing it! Friend, you really can live the dream, and make it your reality. It all starts with one step.

“A work of real passion.”—The New York Times "A seamless melding of poetry and science.”—Wall Street Journal An exquisite exploration of the power of flowers, placing them at the center of the story of how evolution created the world we know today We live on a floral planet, yet...

This short, gentle guide was created to support the full 8+ hour calming audio experience featuring peaceful water, soft birds, and soothing outdoor ambience for dogs. Whether your dog needs help during alone time, bedtime, noisy days, travel recovery, or everyday rest, this guide shows you how to use calming sound as part of a simple, comforting routine.

A distinguished psychiatrist and avid gardener presents “a truly uplifting book on the power of gardening—and how it can change people’s lives” (Stylist, UK). The garden is often seen as a refuge, a place to forget worldly cares, removed from the “real” life that lies outside. When...

A groundbreaking look at the Founding Fathers and their obsession with gardening, agriculture, and botany by the author of Magnificent Rebels and New York Times bestseller The Invention of Nature. “Illuminating and engrossing.” —The New York Times Book Review For the Founding Fathers...

Like a piece of wisdom passed down through generations which no one questioned or even thought about too hard, it was just something everyone knew, a rule to be followed. Don’t go to Almanby. Heather, Rachel and Antonia are going to Almanby. Heather needs to find her boyfriend who, like so...

My Grandparents’ Garden A Poetry Collection by William R. Cavins Some gardens are planned. Others are lived. In My Grandparents’ Garden, William R. Cavins returns to the place that shaped him: a modest backyard where tomatoes leaned heavy on their stakes, marigolds blazed between vegetable rows, and lilacs perfumed the far corner each spring. It was not a garden of fashion or symmetry, but of patience, steadiness, and quiet love. Through vivid, sensory poetry, Cavins captures the textures of soil pressed by careful hands, the rustle of corn in summer wind, the weight of potatoes lifted ...

The islands of Britain and Ireland hold a rich heritage of plant folklore and wisdom, from the magical yew tree to the bad-tempered dandelion. Here are traditional tales about the trees and plants that shape our landscapes and our lives through the seasons. They explore the complex relationship...

From a New York Times bestselling author, a wildlife ecology expert and environmental advocate provides readers with the next step in their ecological journey. In How Can I Help?, Tallamy tackles the questions commonly asked at his popular lectures and shares compelling and actionable answers...

A “heartfelt and thoroughly enriching” (Aimee Nezhukumatathil, New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders) work that expands on how we talk about the natural world and the environment as National Book Critics Circle finalist Camille T. Dungy diversifies her garden to reflect her...