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Weeds — Control Without Poisons demonstrates the necessity in agriculture today for a more holistic, eco-centered perspective. The author explains what 50 years of deadly chemicals have already done to our soil and our bodies, demonstrating that this process does not work in any long-term commonsense agricultural system and offering alternatives to chemicals. Charles Walters explores the workings of soil ecosystems and provides specifics on a host of weeds — why they grow, what soil conditions spur them on or stop them, what they say about your soil, and how to control them without the ...

Climate activist Shirley Watts has dedicated her entire life to protecting the planet for future generations. But constantly fighting for Mother Earth has taken its toll over time, leaving her in a precarious relationship with her adult daughter, Lela. When Shirley’s latest climate stunt lands her in serious legal jeopardy, Lela reluctantly lets Shirley stay with her and her boyfriend while awaiting her upcoming trial.

Beginning innocently enough in his 20s, Neal Pollack discovers that pot makes everything - food, music, sex - better. Getting married, having a kid, and enjoying professional success didn't tamp down Pollack's addiction. As cannabis grew stronger and more widely available, Pollack's dependence was shadowed by the expansion and acceptance of the marijuana Big Business. Sober after joining a 12-step program, Neal outed himself publicly as a marijuana addict in a 2018 New York Times op-ed piece.

Eccentric Annabeth Gentry pretty much keeps to herself. Besides her recent inheritance - and the attention her bloodhound gets for digging up the body of a murdered thief - her life is in fact, rather dull. So why does she think that someone is trying to kill her? That's what Mrs. Jeffries and her staff has to find out. What they discover is a dead body next door, and three attempts on Annabeth's life. It sounds like there's a jealous dog in their midst. Mrs. Jeffries will have to sniff out some clues before the plot thickens....

One incredible weekend in Maine, and Beckett Porter is officially a distracted man. He’s not unfamiliar with hot and heavy flings. He knows how it goes. But Evie wove some sort of magic over him during their tumble in the sheets. He can’t stop thinking about her laugh, her hand pressed flat against his chest, her smiling mouth. So when she suddenly appears on his farm as part of a social media contest, he is confused. He had no idea that the sweet and sexy woman he met at a bar is actually a global phenomenon: social media influencer Evelyn St. James. 

Get started growing cannabis in your home or garden and enjoy the many benefits it offers! Unlock the secrets to cultivating your own cannabis garden with "The Ultimate Guide to Growing Weed at Home." This comprehensive guide provides everything you need to know to successfully grow cannabis, whether you’re a beginner or an experienced gardener. Inside this book, you will discover: Strain Selection: Discover the best strains for your specific needs, from high-yielding to disease-resistant varieties, and understand the differences between feminized, regular, and autoflowering seeds. ...

A Mississippi woman pushes through the ruin of the Roman Colosseum, searching for plants. She has escaped her life, apprenticed herself to catalog all the species growing in this place. Crawling along the stones, she wonders how she has landed here, a reluctant botanist amid a snarl of tourists in comfortable sandals. She hunts for a scientific agenda and a direction of her own.

Lives of Weeds explores the tangled history of weeds and their relationship to humans. Through eight interwoven stories, John Cardina offers a fresh perspective on how these tenacious plants came about, why they are both inevitable and essential, and how their ecological success is ensured by determined efforts to eradicate them. Linking botany, history, ecology, and evolutionary biology to the social dimensions of humanity's ancient struggle with feral flora, Cardina shows how weeds have shaped - and are shaped by - the way we live in the natural world.

Discover and harness the magic of cannabis and get wicked high, in this first-of-its-kind guide to weed in witchcraft. Cannabis and magic are woven together throughout history, and there has never been a better time to embrace your inner weed witch. In this comprehensive guide and spellbook...

Weeds Like Us is the stunning memoir from Janiva Magness, six years in the writing and a lifetime in the making. This Grammy-nominated artist possesses an earthy, raw honesty, and beauty born from her life experience. She has been awarded the blues' highest honors. Now comes her miraculous and deeply moving story about a life worth living, in audio, in her own voice. New music recordings made just for this audiobook are included, as well as unique remixes of her songs "Pearl" and "Strong as Steel".

Considered by critics to be Barth's most distinguished novel, The Sot-Weed Factor has acquired the status of a modern classic. Set in the late 1600s, it recounts the chaotic odyssey of the hapless, ungainly Ebeneezer Cooke. Cooke is sent to the New World to oversee his father's tobacco business and to record the struggles of the Maryland colony in an epic poem. On his mission, he is captured by pirates and Indians; loses his father's estate to roguish impostors; falls in love with a former prostitute; and meets a gallery of treacherous characters who continually switch identities.

Beware! The sordid lives of plants behaving badly. A tree that sheds poison daggers; a glistening red seed that stops the heart; a shrub that causes paralysis; a vine that strangles; and a leaf that triggered a war. Amy Stewart, best-selling author of Flower Confidential, takes on over two hundred of Mother Nature's most appalling creations in an A to Z of plants that kill, maim, intoxicate, and otherwise offend.

Claire Ann Rozette, newly hired English teacher in the small Montana town of Combustion, is hopeful for her future. She soon discovers that she enjoys high school teaching, and her newfound community has welcomed her with open arms. On top of this happiness, a sudden love interest appears, which seems to further ensure her joy. However, without warning, tragedy arrives, and Claire’s life veers out of control, her youthful dreams shattered. Claire struggles to reclaim her ruined life, but at every small victory, a dark force is at work behind the scenes to sabotage her.

Anthony Bourdain's long time director and producer takes readers behind the scenes to reveal the insanity of filming television in some of the most volatile places in the world, and what it was like to work with a legend. "The most complete picture yet of Bourdain's complex and conflicted...

Join us for an enlightening discussion with Susun Weed, the esteemed author of New Menopausal Years: The Wise Woman Way, hailed as one of the best books on navigating menopause. Explore herbal solutions for a myriad of challenges that accompany this transformative phase, including osteoporosis, hot flashes, mood swings, fatigue, flooding, fibroids, low libido, incontinence, anxiety, and depression.

🌱 Easiest, Fastest, Cheapest, BEST, (ONLY!) way to Grow Food - Without Soil, Plowing, Weeding, "Watering", Pumps, or Power—Absolutely ANYWHERE! LIKE MAGIC!! Want fresh greens, herbs, & veggies in just days—even if it's your first time growing anything!? This beginner-friendly guide shows you how to use the simplified, multi-hacked Kratky STATIC Method—a no-tech, no-electricity, no-soil (no SOIL diseases, weeding, fertilizing or pests!!) system that works in pool noodles & recycled jars, jugs, bins, containers, buckets & food-grade mylar bags. FULL of BONUSES, CHARTS, TIPS, STORIES ...

This booklet is packed with knowledge that will help you grow superior examples of this profitable crop. You will learn: how bacteria helps your crop grow better; how to drought-proof your soil; whether herbicides and pesticides are really necessary; and what place hydrogen peroxide has on your farm. This slender volume can lead soybean producers to fat profits!

Esme Weatherhead was twelve years old when her father, an amateur scientist and the author of a bestselling book on Mesoamerican shamanism, walked into the forest on their rural Vermont property and never came back. Twenty years later, she quit her job in San Francisco, got divorced, and moved back home with the goal of writing a book about her father's life and sudden vanishing.

Sunday Times Bestseller ‘A paradigm-smashing chronicle of joyous entanglement’ Charles Foster Waterstones Non-Fiction Book of the Month (September) Are trees social beings? How do trees live? Do they feel pain or have awareness of their surroundings? In The Hidden Life of Trees Peter...

When Blanco County rancher Phil Colby encounters a beautiful trespasser bathing in his creek, he has plenty of questions, but she isn’t offering any answers. Before long, Colby realizes she’s on the run. But from what? Over time, he earns her trust, and she begins to share her story.