Homegrown City Life

Your go-to guide for everything from cultivation to winemaking with one of humanity's oldest plant friends. Spanning history and geography, “The Elderberry Book” takes you on an adventure, deepening your appreciation of a plant that has played a crucial role across the world for thousands of years. Through this fun, inspirational, and educational resource, discover: • Elderberry's amazing history • Cultivating and foraging, from the balcony to the backyard • Various traditional food and medicine preparations • Simple wine-making techniques • Traditional crafts and tools. This is the definitive guide to the many uses of elderberry. No matter where you are, one of humankind's oldest plant friends can provide you with anything from syrup, to wine, to dyes, to so much more! Once a staple in homes across the world, and found along every highland, highway, and hedgerow, the forgotten elderberry is making a comeback. Its popularity as medicine is surging, its choice as an edible landscaping plant is growing, and its use for winemaking and crafts is being rediscovered.

“DIY Mushroom Cultivation” is full of proven, reliable, low-cost techniques for home-scale cultivation that eliminate the need for a clean-air lab space to grow various mushrooms and their mycelium. Beautiful full-color photos and step-by-step instructions accompany a foundation of mushroom biology and ecology to support a holistic understanding of the practice. Growing techniques are applicable year-round, for any space from house to apartment, and for any climate, budget, or goal. Techniques include: • Setting up a home growing space • Inexpensive, simple DIY equipment • Culture creation from mushroom tissue or spores • Growing and using liquid cultures and grain spawn • Growing mushrooms on waste streams Indoor fruiting • Outdoor mushroom gardens and logs • Harvesting, processing, tinctures, and cooking. Whether you hunt mushrooms or dream about growing and working with them but feel constrained by a small living space, “DIY Mushroom Cultivation” is the ideal guide for getting started in the fascinating and delicious world of fungiculture.

A totally new category of plants - as easy to grow as tomatoes, perfect for gardeners Cannabis prohibition is ending around the world, and there's a new bud in town - auto-flowering cannabis. As easy to grow as tomatoes, auto-flowering cannabis is the perfect new plant for the home gardener who has limited time and space. Unlike commercially grown cannabis, auto-flowering cannabis plants are small, container-grown, day-neutral, require no special lights or equipment, and grow incredibly fast – from seed to harvest in as little as seven weeks. Written by gardening authority Jeff Lowenfels, DIY Auto-flowering Cannabis is a full-color, illustrated guide for everyone wanting to grow their own. It covers: - The history and benefits of auto-flowering cannabis - Its origins, chemistry, and growing habits - Step-by-step growing methods, including tips, tricks, supplies, and seed sourcing - How to harvest, process, and breed your new plants If you are a home gardener or already grow cannabis, you too can learn how to grow this new plant with ease, all while reaping its many benefits, such as harvesting it for medical use, recreational use, or simply as a decorative, sweet-smelling flower to enjoy. If you like to grow tomatoes, you will love growing auto-flowering cannabis.

Real life is busy enough without having social media-worthy sourdough on your to do list. But, if your goal is to make simple, nourishing, and delicious whole grain sourdough for your whole family, then DIY Sourdough is your one-stop beginner's guide. Coverage includes: • Simple sourdough recipes for breads, snacks, and more • The secrets to consistent results • Tips and tricks for homemade sourdough, including flour buying, home milling, and sourdough starter • Homemade bread scheduling options, including split-day sourdough recipes for making sourdough an easy part of your weekly routine. DIY Sourdough is your personal guide to getting started with sourdough. It gives you a helping hand to succeed and offers a simple time-saving approach to make nourishing and delicious sourdough that fits into a hectic lifestyle.

Start your journey as an artisan herbalist and take back control of your health and well-being the natural way with this accessible guide. From urban apartments to wild countryside, The Artisan Herbalist is an easy-to-use guide that teaches you how to identify, grow, harvest, forage, and craft herbal allies into an assortment of useful health and wellness products. Through storytelling and step-by-step instruction, The Artisan Herbalist covers: • The uses and benefits of thirty-eight easy-to-find yet powerful herbs • Harvesting from the wild, foraging in the city, and using store-bought herbs • Growing herbs in small areas, balconies, and pots • Principles, tips, techniques, and formulas to create teas and tinctures • Infusing oils for the creation of salves, lotions, and balms • Beneficial herb-based recipes • Marketing and selling your products through a home-based business Whether you live in the city, suburbs, or countryside, take back control of your health and begin your journey toward independent self-care as a budding artisan herbalist. Praise for The Artisan Herbalist Winner, 2022 International Book Award, Health: Alternative Medicine "A thoroughly delightful, practical, and well-organized introduction to the uses of plants as medicine and food." -Rosemary Gladstar herbalist and author, Rosemary Gladstar's Medicinal Herbs "A masterpiece! Not only is this book beautiful, but it is highly useful. . . . This is the book every beginner herbalist should have on hand to start on their herbal path." -Kristine Brown RH (AHG), author, Herbal Roots zine, Herbalism at Home, The Homesteader's Guide to Growing Herbs, and Nature Anatomy Activities for Kids

The complete how-to guide for growing herbs indoors for health, vitality, and culinary zest Growing herbs indoors leads the list of the healthiest and most useful indoor activities we can do. Herbs can clean the air of toxins, provide oxygen and humidity, and help vanquish our psychoses. And they're tasty! Learn how to grow herbs for health, for taste, and for life with Your Indoor Herb Garden, a comprehensive guide to growing herbs indoors. Featuring all the tips and guidance you'll need to grow and harvest organic culinary and medicinal herbs right in your own home. Coverage includes: • Techniques for successfully growing herbs indoors • Equipment, soil types, and feeding • Why indoor herb gardens are an important part of life, from cooking to healing • Herbal medicine • Herbal history and lore • An annotated glossary of herbs, including their common uses, growing requirements, cautions, and more. This is the ideal practical guide for gardeners and cooks with an interest in healthy living and fresh flavors looking to create their own indoor herb garden anywhere.