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• BPL Seed Library

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  Borrow some seeds from the library, grow something new, and "return" them when you harvest! Visit the BPL Seed Library at your branch, once a month.

• The Carrot Seed

  Krauss, Ruth

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  Despite everyone's dire predictions, a little boy has faith in the carrot seed he plants.

• The Garden of Small Beginnings

  Waxman, Abbi

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  Grieving widow Lilian Girvan gets signed up for vegetable-gardening class by her boss. After recruiting her kids to join her, Lilian shows up at the Los Angeles Botanical Garden feeling out of her element. But what she'll soon discover is that into…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Seedswap

  the Gardener's Guide to Saving and Swapping Seeds

  Jeffery, Josie

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  A guide to seed saving and creating a seed bank, providing information on why seed banks are important, and which seeds to swap and save.

• No-waste Kitchen Gardening

  Regrow Your Leftover Greens, Pits, Seeds, and More

  Elzer-Peters, Katie

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  Stop tossing your carrot stumps, loose cilantro sprigs, lettuce and cabbage stalks, and apple cores in the trash! Grow and re-propagate produce from food waste.

• The Postage Stamp Vegetable Garden

  Grow Tons of Organic Vegetables in Tiny Spaces and Containers

  Newcomb, Karen

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  Ecologically friendly, intensive biodynamic methods for producing large amounts of vegetables in very small spaces.

• The Backyard Gardener

  Simple, Easy, and Beautiful Gardening With Vegetables, Herbs, and Flowers

  Orzel, Kelly

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  How important is composting? Is seed saving really worth it? Focusing on sustainable, organic growing practices and plants, this comprehensive handbook will help get you started.

• Kitchen Gardening for Beginners

  Akeroyd, Simon

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  Ten steps to preparing a garden plot, providing need-to-know techniques, such as sowing, planting, feeding, mulching, watering, and weeding, as well as easy projects including making a compost bin and planting a fruit tree.

• Dig In!

  12 Easy Gardening Projects Using Kitchen Scraps

  Cornell, Kari A.

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  Grow your own fruits and vegetables from nothing but kitchen scraps!

• Herbs & Edible Flowers

  Gardening for the Kitchen

  Hole, Lois, 1933-

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  Easy-to-use tips, unique recipes and information about the best ways to grow an edible flower and herb garden.

• The Secret Garden

  Burnett, Frances Hodgson, 1849-1924

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  Treat yourself to a luscious listen to the classic tale of a girl who restores a secret garden and reopens her cousin's life.

• Just Eat It

  a Food Waste Story

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  Local documentary filmmakers pledge to quit grocery shopping cold turkey and survive only on foods that would otherwise be thrown away.

• Eat

  the Story of Food

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  The humble beginnings and climactic interludes of cuisine throughout the ages: how food has made us who we are today, and how it shapes our future.

• The Tiny Seed

  Carle, Eric

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  Shows the growth of a small seed that survives the winter cold to become a beautiful spring flower.

• Une si petite graine

  Carle, Eric

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  Shows the growth of a small seed that survives the winter cold to become a beautiful spring flower.

• Plant the Tiny Seed

  Matheson, Christie

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  "Plant a seed to watch it grow. Press on the cloud to make it rain. Jiggle the book to scatter the seeds. Interactive text teaches very young children how flowers sprout and mature. Contains watercolor depictions of a flower in various stages of…Read moreRead more of this annotation