Community Garden

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.

Two feuding neighbors unite to resurrect a neglected city garden in this uplifting and quietly joyful novel by Sara Nisha Adams, author of the beloved The Reading List. In a small pocket of London, between the houses of No.77 and No.79 Eastbourne Road, lies a neglected community garden. It was a...

Are you searching for a guide that unlocks the secrets of sustainable urban living? Look no further! "The Urban Homesteading Guide" is your comprehensive handbook to transform your city life into a flourishing oasis of sustainable practices, from gardening to preserving your harvest and building a resilient community. Can this guide really help me start my own urban homestead, even if I'm a complete beginner? Absolutely! Whether you're a novice or an experienced gardener, this book provides step-by-step instructions, creative ideas, and real-life examples to guide you through every aspect ...

Looking to cultivate more than just plants? Look no further than "Cultivating Community," the guidebook for anyone wishing to start, sustain, or improve a community garden. With 20 comprehensive chapters covering everything from garden design to community outreach, this eBook provides the ultimate resource for creating a garden that grows more than just greens. Chapter 1 lays the foundation for your community garden, helping you understand the basics of gardening and organizing a group. This leads naturally into Chapter 2, which focuses on how to cultivate a strong team to bring your garden...

A garden coordinator dead in the rosemary. A detective calling it an accident. And a chef who knows plants don't lie. Six weeks without a murder. Fiona Firth thought she might finally get her quiet summer back. Then she finds Clara Pemberton face-down in the rosemary beds at 7:58 on a Tuesday morning, and nothing about it looks like a fall. The stems are broken in the wrong direction. Clara's trowel is missing from her belt. And Clara's notebook suggests she was closing in on someone who'd been stealing from the garden for months. With her restaurant team at her side and her orange tabby ...

A charming garden tour. A poisonous surprise. And one seaside B&B blooming with secrets. When Blakely Monroe inherits the Oceanspray Bed & Breakfast, she expects overbooked rooms, nosy knitters, and maybe a crooked scarf or two—not a body among the roses. Slightly OCD and still learning to loosen her grip on life and her knitting needles, Blakely is determined to prove she belongs in Maplewood Bay, even when chaos takes root. With her dog Scout and farmer-neighbor Bobby watching her back, Blakely digs into a mystery that refuses to stay buried. The victim, Mrs. Bailey, was disliked, ...

A literary descendent of Ursula K. Le Guin, Ruthanna Emrys crafts a novel of extraterrestrial diplomacy and urgent climate repair bursting with quiet, tenuous hope and an underlying warmth. A Half-Built Garden depicts a world worth building towards, a humanity worth saving from itself, and an...

Maggie Montgomery only wanted to make new friends—but finding a body wasn’t part of the plan. When Maggie arrives at Veronica's greenhouse to pick up her Shady Pines Garden Club membership card, she instead discovers the club’s formidable leader lying dead among the flowers. And as the town’s newest resident, all suspicion falls on Maggie. Determined to clear her name, Maggie teams up with her loyal beagle, Sherlock, and her new friend, Tessa, to dig up the truth. Uncovering the real killer won't be easy in a town where secrets are buried deep, and appearances can be deceiving. With...

A missing folder. A borrowed name. A murder in the place Nora Ashby came home to save. The restored glasshouse at Bellwether Bay should be full of seedlings, neighbors, and second chances. As its new seed-library coordinator, Nora is determined to make the reopening a success, even if the donor records are a muddle and the volunteers have opinions about absolutely everything. Then the visiting grant assessor is found dead in the potting room, and the green folder he carried has vanished. With a meticulous retired librarian at her side, Nora starts asking questions. A cherished family bean, ...

Community garden steward Frank Mueller is responsible for more than turning over the compost pile. His biggest challenge is the garden know-it-all and busy body, Berta Johnson. Berta can devour the garden's serenity faster than a hornworm can strip the leaves off a tomato plant. When Berta turns up dead and buried in the compost pile, everyone is shocked, but quietly relieved. Who would want to kill Berta? Turns out just about everyone. With no evidence, and an abundance of suspects, solving this murder will be like trying to keep the rabbits out of the lettuce.

Discover the transformative power of plants with "Horticultural Therapy," an enlightening eBook that explores the profound connection between humans and nature. This comprehensive guide delves into the roots of plant-based healing and reveals the science behind how interacting with plants can enhance your emotional well-being, physical health, and mental clarity. Unearth the secrets of how plants positively impact your emotions and physical health in Chapter 2. Whether you're looking to reduce stress, boost your immune system, or find mental clarity in a busy world, this book will guide you...

From the USA Today bestselling author of Midnight at the Blackbird Cafe comes Heather Webber's next charming novel, In the Middle of Hickory Lane! Emme Wynn has wanted nothing more her whole life than to feel like part of a family. Having grown up on the run with her con artist mother, she’s...

Permaculture is more popular than ever, but it can still be a daunting concept. If you are new to permaculture and interested in learning more, Practical Permaculture offers authoritative, in-depth, and hands-on advice for a more holistic approach to sustainable living. Jessi Bloom and Dave Boehnlein, two dynamic leaders in the permaculture community, explain the basics of permaculture, share their design process, and explore various permaculture systems including soil, water, waste, energy, shelter, food and plants, and animals and wildlife. 

Farm business literature is full of memoirs offering entertaining stories with some basic cattle or produce advice but no real substance for the reader. Big Ideas, Small Farm is not another feel good farm memoir devoid of authentic advice, hope, or insights. This book is different; it is about results. Big Ideas, Small Farm is about growing small farm profitability. This book is part self-help and part marketing strategies because marketing tips and theories are effective when the people implementing them believe in them. Small farm marketing is a mindset as much as it is a practice. This ...

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...

THE GREATEST TRIAL NEVER HELD What if God were called to answer for what happened in the Garden of Eden? In The Devil’s Advocate, C. Arthur Ellis, Jr., Ph.D., transforms one of humanity’s oldest stories into a provocative courtroom drama in which the justice of Eden itself is put on trial. God is the Defendant. Lucifer is the Prosecutor. Michael is Counsel for the Defense. St. Thomas Aquinas presides as Judge. The charge is as ancient as it is unsettling: Was the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden just? Lucifer argues that Adam and Eve were punished for an act committed ...

If you thought community gardening was nothing but pulling weeds and planting seeds think again. In this fresh and delightful debut, Christy Wilhelmi shows that there’s more to gardening than merely keeping pests at bay … Each time Lizzie steps through the gates of the Vista Mar Community...

Deadly pages, tangled yarn, and one very nosy innkeeper. When slightly OCD B&B owner Blakely Monroe agrees to help host a knitting-themed book event at Maplewood Bay’s cozy bookstore, she expects dropped stitches—not a hated local critic collapsing in the aisle, knitting in hand and poison in her veins. With electronic locks sealing everyone inside and her detective-nosed dog Scout glued to the crime scene, Blakely is suddenly juggling panicked guests, her meddling-but-charming Grandma Rose, and the steady presence of dog-whispering farmer Bobby Zion. Tension crackles through the ...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER “[A] five-star read . . . If you love a family saga, sprinkled with historical fiction elements, and strong female protagonists, you need to read this book.”—theSkimm Discover a little town in southern Italy that might be just like every town—with women and men...

In this thrilling crime novel, homicide detective Gus Ramone is on the case for the potential murder of a local teen in a community garden—but the investigation slowly unearths dark memories of similar decades old cold cases. Gus Ramone is "good police," a former Internal Affairs investigator...