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How to Grow Potatoes: Planting and Harvesting Organic Food From Your Patio, Rooftop, Balcony, or Backyard Garden

Amazon Exclusive: Top Pick for 2012Perfect beginners guide to growing potatoes. This short booklet explains how to plant and grow organic potatoes for food in the home garden. Recommended for backyard gardeners and container gardeners with small city-sized yards, patios, balconies, decks, and rooftops. Written by the author of the best-selling Fresh Food From Small Spaces gardening book, a former columnist for Urban Farm magazine.Topics Include:* Why Grow Potatoes? Six Great Reasons* Different Kinds of Potatoes (and Where to Get Them)* Growing in Containers, Raised Beds, and Traditional Rows * Planting and Hilling Potatoes* Soil, Fertilizer, and Watering Needs* How to Harvest Potatoes* Storing Potatoes for Later Use* Bonus: Two Secret Tips for Getting More (and More Delicious) PotatoesPotatoes are one of the simplest food crops to grow at home. In this booklet, you will learn how to plant and grow potatoes in any sized garden. Even if you have no garden at all, and merely a doorstep, patio, rooftop, balcony, or deck, you can grow potatoes in very small spaces. Learn which type of containers potatoes thrive in, producing bigger harvests than you’ll ever get from a bed in the ground. Learn how to select and plant potatoes that mature earlier than others, giving you a quick food harvest even in a short season climate with cold winters. Be More Self-SufficientNo other food crop allows you to do so much with so little as the potato. In fact, this is the most productive food staple you can produce at home. Just imagine how much space it would take to grow enough wheat, rye, oats, barley, rice, or other food staple to feed a family. Yet you can grow enough potatoes on your doorstep to feed a person for days.Grow Your Own Food and Save MoneySave some money this year and grow some delicious homegrown food, starting with potatoes and other organic vegetables. Learn which type of containers to grow spuds in for AMAZING yields. Learn how to plant and grow organic potatoes in garden rows, raised beds, and anything that holds soil or mulch (even garbage cans). Get this terrific guide today and start growing your own spuds!

Organic Foods (Going Organic: Why You Should and How You Can Switch to Organic Foods Book 2)

If you’re not yet convinced of the dangers of food additives, having read about studies and the history of food additives in our first volume, you will likely be convinced of the dangers as you start to see people more and more taking action to protect themselves from the harmful effects them. The following story of the Virginia PTA is such an example.In the state of Virginia the parent-teacher association adopted a resolution in 2004 describing the dangers they had discovered were apparently caused by artificial food additives. In the beginning of the resolution it states the purpose of the Virginia PTA itself is to promote good health for all children and youth. It also states that the number of students in Virginia’s schools identified as having learning disabilities increased almost by 10% in just the one school year, from 1997 to 1998, which was a greater rate of increase than the increase in the actual student population. Something was terribly wrong. Of great concern to the PTA was the fact that this also represented an enormous growth in educational expenses to the state. The PTA also found that the number of students with • asthma, • allergies, and • other chronic respiratory conditions increased by 4.3% per year. This increase represented an increase of over three billion dollars every single year in healthcare costs! The PTA also determined that this represented 14 million lost days of school!Further evidence linked autistic disorders, upper respiratory conditions, hyperactivity, and ADD/ADHD to the consumption of food additives such as artificial dyes, flavor enhancers, and preservatives.The resolution thus adopted recommends that local PTA’s, and every other person concerned with the well-being and education of Virginia students, study the subject of artificial food additives and the negative effects on the health of children and their ability to learn. They also recommend all state and local governments as well as educational groups work to discourage and prevent the sale and consumption of food and beverages that contain artificial food additives not only during school hours but before and after school as well.The resolution goes even further and encourages parents, students, teachers, and government and school officials to support education on the subjects of nutrition and health so that the negative effects of artificial food additives on a child’s behavior, education, and physical health can be avoided or minimized.The PTA further urges the Virginia Board of Education to continue to look into available and new research on the subject, and research on the effects of artificial food additives just as fast as it comes available, in order to protect Virginia’s public school students from the negative effects. This is also to protect the state of Virginia from the potentially devastating financial impact of epidemic-like problems apparently caused by food additives in the diets of students. The Virginia PTA closes the resolution by encouraging and other PTAs around the country to adopt similar resolutions.Amazing, isn’t it?

Organic Pest Control: Organic Pesticides for Organic Gardening and How to Grow Clean and Healthy Food (How to Grow Food, Organic Gardening, Pest Control, … food, Healthy Food, Natural Pest Control)

This Amazon Bestseller will show you how to STOP Eating Toxic Chemical Pesticides Today You’re about to discover how to grow clean and healthy food without the use of harmful chemicals and toxins. If you want the best health possible for your family, ingredients are everything!! Growing your own vegetables is the perfect way to make sure you are eating food that is free of harmful chemicals and toxins. Even if you don’t grow your own food, this book will help you with methods for removing pesticides from store bought foods. Here Is A Preview Of What You’ll Learn… Common Garden Pests Preventative Pest Control MethodsOrganic Pest Control Spray RecipesOrganic Soil Treatments for Pest ControlHow to Remove Pesticides from store bought foodCompanion Crops that repel insectsHow to reduce the need for pest control altogether Much, much more! Download your copy today! tags: Pest Control, Pesticide, Organic Pest Control, Organic Pesticide, Organic Gardening, Clean Food, Healthy Food, How to Grow Food, Grow your own food, Natural Pest Control

Running On A Plant Based Diet: How Eating Unprocessed Organic Food Can Improve Athletic Performance (Healthy Ways to Lose Weight Book 4)

Why a Plant Based Diet is Best for Runners (and Everyone Else for That Matter!) In 1977 Jim Fixx published his book entitled The Complete Book of Running, which sold over a million copies and was instrumental in the launch of the American running boom of the late 1970’s. Fixx himself became a fitness icon, and his name became synonymous with the ideal picture of health. It is for this reason that his death at the age of 52 shocked the running world. On July 20th, 1984, Jim Fixx was found on the side of the road dead after suffering a massive heart attack during his morning run on a rural road in Vermont. Fixx had a family predisposition to heart disease – his father died at the age of 43 from a heart attack. During his autopsy it was determined that Fixx had major blockages in three of his arteries, the worst of which was 95% clogged. Despite knowing that he had a hereditary risk, Fixx felt that his compulsive running regime would keep him immune to health issues. Fixx never addressed the issue of diet, and despite having high cholesterol and a bad family history was a devoted meat eater until his premature death. We are just starting to understand the causal link between eating a meat based diet and illnesses such as cancer and heart disease. Exercise alone is not a wellness guarantee, but running and eating a plant based diet will arguably get you to the highest point of personal health you might ever hope to achieve. Running on a Plant Based Diet: How Eating Unprocessed Organic Food Can Improve Athletic PerformanceThis book is divided into two sections. The first section will outline the argument for why a plant based diet is preferable to a meat based diet for general health. The second section will explore areas of interest for the plant based runner, including: Debunking the Plant Diet Myths Plant Based Sources of Carbohydrates, Proteins & Fats Plant Based Smoothies Suggestions Plant Based Meal Suggestions for Training and RecoveryAnd More! Switch to a Plant Based Diet Today for Better Running and Better Health!

Organic Eating On A Budget: How To Buy Affordable Organic Foods To Achieve A Healthier Diet And Lifestyle (Healthy Living Book 5)

Discover How To Buy Affordable Organic Foods To Achieve A Healthier Diet And Lifestyle Today only, get this Amazon bestseller for just $2.99. Regularly priced at $4.99. Read on your PC, Mac, smart phone, tablet or Kindle device. You’re about to discover proven steps and strategies on how to identify foods that are wholly organic, partially organic, and those that are non-organic. You will learn why it is not sufficient for food products to be labeled natural for them to be healthy. You will, in fact, see a whole list of differences between organic and natural foods.This book also gives you verifiable reasons why foods cannot be genetically modified and yet be labeled organic. This is a book that guides you on how to depend on organic food for your daily meals at a surprisingly low cost! You will also be able to see how you can make big savings while living healthy and keeping serious diseases at bay. Why wait any longer? Now is a great time to get started eating organic on a budget! Here Is A Preview Of What You’ll Learn… What Are Organic Foods?What Is A Healthy Diet?How To Tell Whether Store Food Is Organic Or NotWhy You Need To Eat Organic FoodsHow To Eat Organic And Keep Your Budget LowCan GMO’S Pass For Organic?If The Food Product Is Labeled Natural, Does That Mean It Is Organic?Factors That Will Make You Trust Organic Foods MoreMuch, much more! Take action right away to learn the essentials of eating organic on a budget by downloading this book for a limited time discount of only $2.99! Download your copy today! Tags: organic eating, eating organic on a budget, clean eating, weight loss, healthy living, organic foods, healthy diet

Vertical Gardening for Beginners: How To Grow 40 Pounds of Organic Food in a 4×4 Space Without a Yard (vertical gardening, urban gardening, urban homestead, … survival guides, survivalist series)

Vertical Gardening For Beginners: How To Grow 40lbs of Organic Food in a 4 x 4 space Without a Yard Today only, get this amazingly simplistic and very popular book Vertical Gardening for just $2.99 Regularly priced at $4.99. Read on your PC, Mac, smart phone, tablet or Kindle device. You’re about to discover how to grow pounds of healthy, sustainable organic foods to keep your family safe from the ever growing GMO epidemic and toxic pesticides, even if you don’t have a yard or just limited by space. Vertical gardening just makes sense. Think about it ‚ do you have enough space in your back yard to be able to cultivate pounds and pounds of precious fruits and vegetables? Even if you do, are you able to keep the zombie population who will take advantage of your good sense in a crisis by raiding your garden and stealing the food out of your family’s mouths ? This type of gardening has many advantages over traditional gardening, and once you discover how easy it is to move away from a traditional horizontally planted garden to a vertical one, you”ll be rewarded with a cornucopia of benefits. Saving space is just one reason. Imagine not having to weed, till, or hurt your back from constant bending over? Plus it’s easier to control pests and harvest fruit more easily. It’s also inexpensive. You can use scrap lumber, old gutters, containers or just about anything laying around the house or yard. More importantly, you’ll have peace of mind knowing your family won’t be forced to stand in long FEMA lines waiting for government handouts when crisis strikes. Here Is A Preview Of What You’ll Learn… How to grow enough food to feed a family of 4 with just 4 square feet of indoor or outdoor space How you can build your very own vertical garden from scratch How to build your vertical garden step-by-stepWhich plants will give you optimal efficiency for the spaceEverything you will need to get your garden set up in a few hours Growing hearty plants on a limited water supplyWhy vertical gardens are more efficient, cost effective and easier than traditional gardensWhich plants produce the best yields and which plants to avoidHow to scale your vertical garden to feed big familiesMuch, much more! Download your copy today! Take action today and download this book for a limited time discount of only $2.99! Tags: Vertical garden, urban gardening, urban farming, urban homestead, container gardening, square foot gardening, apartment gardening, emergency preparedness, survival food

The Abundant Mini Garden’s Guide to Vertical Vegetable Gardening: How to Use Trellises to Grow More Food in Less Space

** An Amazon Best Seller in Gardening and Horticulture, Urban Gardening, and Garden Design ** This 140-page book includes 90 images. Discover how you can harvest up to $150 worth of organic vegetables from plants grown on trellises in a tiny 4’ x 4’ garden bed! You can tuck this size bed into the smallest yard – and you only need a few minutes per week to care for it. * Discover the incredible amounts of food that you can harvest from a small vertical garden * Learn when you should NOT use a vertical garden * Produce the highest yields possible by giving your plants these five things * Double or triple your harvest from a small vertical garden bed with this one simple tip * Discover which type of trellises work best with different vegetables * Learn how to design your vertical garden for maximum yield and comfort * Discover how to properly train and prune the large vining plants on your trellises * Get detailed directions for easily creating a large $20 trellis that will last over 15 years A single large winter squash plant can easily grow 20 feet across on the ground. That’s a huge amount of space for just one plant, and you would need to do a lot of work to keep that much area weeded, fertilized, and watered. But you don’t need a lot of space or time in order to grow large vining vegetable plants if you learn how to grow them vertically on trellises. The author, Debra Graff, has 35 years of experience in growing organic food in small garden beds, and has trained new Master Gardeners about vegetable gardening. In this book, she shares many of the secrets that she has learned over the years on how to produce a tremendous amount of food from a small vertical garden.

Organic Foods: The Ultimate Guide to Organic Foods – How to Eat Fabulous Food, Get Healthy and Lose Weight

Who Else Wants to Know How to Eat Fabulous Food, Get Healthy and Lose Weight in 30 Days or Less? Today only, get this Amazon bestseller for just $0.99. Regularly priced at $4.99. Read on your PC, Mac, smart phone, tablet or Kindle device. You’re about to discover a proven strategy on How to Eat Fabulous Food, Get Healthy and Lose Weight. After years of eating supermarket food and other fast foods your body builds up with toxins and chemicals. These toxins can affect you body in many ways. By eating non organic food you can have: • Low energy levels. • A slow metabolism. • Low libido/sex drive • Depression. • Little to no motivation. Organic food can change all of this and give you a completely new out look on life. You will really notice a boost in energy levels! Here Is A Preview Of What You’ll Learn… Lose Weight Sleep Better Improve your Skin toneImprove your Eyesight Have more energy Keep your heart strong Much, much more! Download your copy today! Take action today and download this book for a limited time discount of only $0.99! Download today! Tags: organic, organic gardening, organic chemistry, organic pest control, organic farming, organic food, organic foods, organic coconut oil, organic church, organic beauty

Homemade Dog Food Recipes: How to Make Organic and Natural Dog Food for Your Best Friend

Your Guide To Preparing Health Dog Food RecipesYour dog’s health relies so much on the kind of food that you feed him or her. This is the reason why giving your dog commercially available dog foods is not a good thing. One of the reasons why commercial dog foods are not good for your canine friends is that they contain a lot of preservatives and other ingredients that are unhealthy for dogs. Recently, there are many dog owners who take it as their responsibility to prepare food for their own dogs and if you are one of these many responsible dog owners, then this book is for you.With this book, you will be able to learn about the following:Understand the dos and don’ts when it comes to preparing your own homemade dog recipes. Chapter 1 will discuss about the types of foods that you should and shouldn’t give to your dog. This chapter serves as your preview on the different ingredients that you can use to make organic and natural dog food.Learn about the different types of recipes that you can try to feed your dog. The recipes include cooked, raw and snacks for your dogs that are guaranteed healthy and safe for whatever dog breed that you own. The recipes included in Chapter 2 are easy to make so you can prepare your dog’s food ahead of time.Chapter 3 discusses about the different tips that will help you prepare nutritious dog food. This is to ensure that the types of food that you provide your dog is safe and has high nutritional value.The kinds of food that you feed your dog can greatly affect your dog’s temperament and health.So if you are planning to make homemade food dog recipes, then let this book serve as your guide.

The Organic Cook’s Bible: How to Select and Cook the Best Ingredients on the Market

The most comprehensive, authoritative organic foods guide availableFlavorful, nutritious meals begin with flavorful, nutritious ingredients. They also begin with knowledge. If you want to learn about and enjoy the benefits of organic foods, this book is an essential resource that will make it easier to “go organic” by helping you “know organic.”Covering fruit, vegetables, meat, eggs, milk, spices, and more, The Organic Cook’s Bible expertly addresses the what, where, when, how, and why of choosing and using more than 150 types of organic foods. It includes:* Easy-to-find entries, organized alphabetically within categories* Information on selection, storage, nutrition, uses, and preparation* More than 150 color photos for easy identification* A special section listing 900 top varieties of organic produce* A useful list of organic food suppliers and organizations”This is an amazing book! Jeff brings together the essentials of gardening and cooking with delicious, approachable recipes and a discussion of what it means to eat in an ethical, sustainable, and healthy manner–and manages not to be preachy. It’s a great read for those just beginning to explore good food as well as old pros.”–John Ash, chef, food and wine educator, and author of the award-winning book John Ash Cooking One on One”The Organic Cook’s Bible is a fantastic resource to guide both home and professional cooks through a greater understanding of what to consider when using organics.”–Jesse Z. Cool, owner of jZcool Eatery and Catering Company and other restaurants and author of six cookbooks, including Your Organic Kitchen”The Organic Cook’s Bible is a great book and an important tool to spread the good news of organics and inspire us all in the kitchen.”–Ronnie Cummins, National Director, Organic Consumers Association

Healthy Homemade Baby Food: How to make Natural and Organic Baby Food with Delicious Recipes

Make Easy and Nutritious Homemade Baby Foods TodayDuring the first six months of a baby’s life, it is crucial for parents to give them high quality milk (preferably breast milk). However, once babies turn six months old, it is time to introduce new food items to them as a way to transition from liquid milk to solid food.Most parents buy commercially available baby foods for their babies but the problem is that conventional baby foods contain preservatives that may be dangerous to your baby’s health. This is the reason why it is crucial for parents or even would-be parents to learn the skill of making homemade baby foods today. If you are one of the many parents who want to learn how to make homemade baby foods, then this book is for you.With this book, you will be able to learn the following:Understand the basics before making homemade baby foods. These include the benefits of making baby foods as well as important nutrition information that babies need in order to grow up healthy.Chapter 2 discusses about the processes of making homemade baby foods as well as storage procedures and temperature guidelines in making homemade healthy baby foods.As soon as you finish reading Chapters 1 and 2, then you are ready to make your own homemade baby foods. Chapter 3 gives detailed instructions on how to prepare different types of nutritious baby food recipes that you can easily prepare at home.Preparing your own homemade baby food is a proof of your love to your baby as you don’t want your baby to eat foods that may be unhealthy for them.With this book, you will be able to exercise good parenting by being able to prepare delicious as well as nutritious baby foods right at the comforts of your home.

The Solar Food Dryer: How to Make and Use Your Own Low-Cost, High Performance, Sun-Powered Food Dehydrator

The Solar Food Dryer describes how to use solar energy to dry your food instead of costly electricity. With your own solar-powered food dryer, you can quickly and efficiently dry all your extra garden veggies, fruits, and herbs to preserve their goodness all year long—with free sunshine! Applicable to a wide geography—wherever gardens grow—this well-illustrated book includes:• Complete step-by-step plans for building a high-performance, low-cost solar food dryer from readily available materials • Solar energy design concepts • Food drying tips and recipes • Resources, references, solar charts, and moreEben Fodor is an organic gardener with a background in solar energy and engineering. He works as a community planning consultant in Eugene, Oregon.

Good Food, Great Business: How to Take Your Artisan Food Idea from Concept to Marketplace

For those ready to follow their foodie dreams (or at least start thinking about it), this book provides the tools to decide if creating a specialty food business is right for you. Whether the goal is selling a single product online or developing a range of gourmet foods for grocery chains, this handbook helps hopeful food entrepreneurs become experts in everything from concept and production to sales and marketing. The author uses real-life examples from more than 75 successful individuals and businesses to illustrate the good, the bad, and the ugly of starting a food enterprise, providing links to useful charts and worksheets to simplify the process and keep entrepreneurs organized and focused.

My Organic Life: How a Pioneering Chef Helped Shape the Way We Eat Today

A wonderfully engaging memoir from the woman who founded America’s first certified organic restaurant, My Organic Life is the story of an unheralded culinary pioneer who made it her mission to bring delicious, wholesome foods to the American table. While growing up on a farm in the Austrian Alps and later in Vienna, Nora Pouillon was surrounded by fresh and delicious foods. So when she and her French husband moved to Washington, D.C., in the 1960s, she was horrified to discover a culinary culture dominated by hormone-bloated meat and unseasonal vegetables. The distance between good, healthy produce and what even the top restaurants were serving was vast, and Nora was determined to bridge that gap. First as a cooking teacher, then as a restaurant owner, and eventually as the country’s premier organic restaurateur, she charted a path that forever changed our relationship with what we eat. Since it opened in 1979, her eponymous restaurant has been a hot spot for reporters, celebrities, and politicians—from Jimmy Carter to the Obamas—alike. Along the way, Nora redefined what food could be, forging close relationships with local producers and launching initiatives to take the organic movement mainstream. As much the story of America’s postwar culinary history as it is a memoir, My Organic Life encompasses the birth of the farm-to-table movement, the proliferation of greenmarkets across the country, and the evolution of the chef into social advocate. Spanning the last forty years of our relationship with food, My Organic Life is the deeply personal, powerfully felt story of the organic revolution—by the unlikely heroine at its forefront.

Food Not Lawns: How to Turn Your Yard into a Garden and Your Neighborhood into a Community

Gardening can be a political act. Creativity, fulfillment, connection, revolution—it all begins when we get our hands in the dirt. Food Not Lawns combines practical wisdom on ecological design and community-building with a fresh, green perspective on an age-old subject. Activist and urban gardener Heather Flores shares her nine-step permaculture design to help farmsteaders and city dwellers alike build fertile soil, promote biodiversity, and increase natural habitat in their own “paradise gardens.” But Food Not Lawns doesn’t begin and end in the seed bed. This joyful permaculture lifestyle manual inspires readers to apply the principles of the paradise garden—simplicity, resourcefulness, creativity, mindfulness, and community—to all aspects of life. Plant “guerilla gardens” in barren intersections and medians; organize community meals; start a street theater troupe or host a local art swap; free your kitchen from refrigeration and enjoy truly fresh, nourishing foods from your own plot of land; work with children to create garden play spaces. Flores cares passionately about the damaged state of our environment and the ills of our throwaway society. In Food Not Lawns, she shows us how to reclaim the earth one garden at a time.

Growing Herbs From Home: How To Plant And Grow Organic Healthy Herbs In Your Own Garden (Organic Foods, Healthy Living, Gardens, Growing, Herb Garden, … Herb Garden, Medicinal Herbs, Healing Herb)

Growing Herbs From Home – How To Plant And Grow Organic Healthy Herbs In Your Own Garden I am sure you enjoy the amazing taste of mint or the refreshing scent of rosemary in your lamb dish. You may also enjoy the sweet smell of dill or the amazing benefits of sweet marjoram as a tonic. While you may have heard about all the amazing benefits of herbs, do you know how to grow them? Over 50% of Americans buy their herbs at the grocery store and end up missing out on the amazing benefits of having your own herbs in your garden. Furthermore, do you know that most herbs available at the local grocery store are full of pesticides and insecticides? Even though you are lucky enough to get organic herbs, I am sure you know by now how expensive those can be. Why go through all the trouble of buying herbs at the grocery store while you could have your own herb garden. Are you overwhelmed and don’t know how to start growing organic herbs? This book is especially written for you as it contains important insight about growing herbs. You will learn how to prepare the soil for planting of different herbs as well as how to properly choose potted plants to ensure that you have the best plants to get started on your herb garden. This book also provides important information that you need to know if you decide to plant your herbs indoors. You would also learn how best to take care of the different herbs in order to yield maximum benefits from growing herbs. By the time you have finished reading this book, you will be ready to have a garden full of herbs. Here Is A Preview Of What You Can Expect To Learn: The History Of HerbsThe Benefits Of Growing HerbsHow To Grow Herbs OutdoorsThe Most Suitable Conditions For Growing Herbs OutdoorsHow Best To Grow HerbsMistakes That You Need To Avoid When Purchasing Potted PlantsWhat Not To Do To Affect Your HerbsAnd much, much more! To learn more about Growing Herbs in your own garden, download your copy of this book now! Download your copy today! Tags: growing herbs, plant herbs, plant and grow herbs, plant and grow herbs from home, growing herbs from home, home grown herbs, herb growing at home, at home, from home, home grown herb garden, home-based herb garden, house herb garden, herb garden at the house, herb gardens, herb garden, herb growing, herbal treatment, herbal cooking, herb, herbs, organic herbs, organic gardens, gardening, healthy gardening, healthy herbs, organic healthy herbs, herbal recipes, planting herbs, planting, growing, herbal plants, herbal cooking, outdoor gardens

How to Sprout Raw Food: Grow an Indoor Organic Garden with Wheatgrass, Bean Sprouts, Grain Sprouts, Microgreens, and More

Grow Your Own Raw Food Anywhere!Valuable, short guide to sprouting. Would you like to grow some of your own food this year? Indoors? With no sunlight or soil? At any time of the year and at all times of the year? Sprouts allow you to do all that and more. In fact, you can grow all the vegetables your body needs (plus all the protein as well) in an area that’s no bigger than your microwave oven. I grow sprouts on top of my refrigerator, harvesting baskets of fresh, raw food every week without even going outside. Growing sprouts is simple and it’s cheap. Sprouts can provide you with the power-packed nutrition your body needs at a fraction of the price of store bought food. You can save money while eating right. There’s no dirt, no pests, and no weeding required. Raw Food Salads, Sandwiches, Cereals, and More!This short guide (call it a booklet or pamphlet) will teach you how to grow sprouts and enjoy eating them. If you like salads, I’ll show you how to make delicious bowlfuls with tasty mild or spicy sprouts. If you enjoy eating cereal for breakfast, try some sprouted grains with natural malt sugars that nourish your body and taste far better than boxed cereals.Need to lose a few pounds?Simply eating a few more sprouted beans will keep you feeling fuller and eating fewer carbs. Toss some bean sprouts, lentil sprouts, or pea sprouts into your next rice or pasta dish; they make great burgers as well. You’ll find that your body absorbs the protein better when the beans are sprouted, which usually reduces flatulence as well. All this nutrition, protein, and fiber will have you shedding a few pounds in a hurry.Topics Include:1. Superfood SproutsCheap, Easy to Grow, Provide Year-Round Nutrition2. The Benefits of Raw FoodLose Weight, Nourish Your Body, and Stimulate Energy Levels3. Sprouting Equipment and How to Use ItTrays, Jars, Bags, Automatic Sprouters, and Wheatgrass Juicers4. Salad and Sandwich SproutsAlfalfa, Clover, Radish, and Broccoli5. Bean SproutsMung Beans, Soy Beans, Lentils, Peas, and More6. Grain SproutsWheat, Barley, Rye, Oats, Triticale, Quinoa, and Other Grains7. Seed and Nut SproutsSunflower, Sesame, Pumpkin, Peanut, and Flax8. Seasoning SproutsBasil, Celery, Cress, Dill, Fenugreek, Mustard, Onion Family, and More9. How to Grow MicrogreensGrow a Gourmet Baby Salad, Anytime, Anyplace!10. Wheatgrass Juice From Homegrown SproutsHow to Grow and Juice Your Own Wheatgrass11. Where to Get the Best Sprouting SeedsTrusted Sources for the Freshest Quality12. Where to Find the Best Raw Food Sprout RecipesDelicious ways to enjoy your sprouts, raw or cookedEat More Raw Foods for Better HealthRaw food contains many nutrients that are lost in the cooking process. Our prehistoric ancestors ate most of their food raw until around 12,000 years ago. The human body has not yet adapted to the large quantities of cooked and processed foods we feed ourselves. This is a big reason for the high rates of diabetes, cancer, heart disease, and other chronic ailments: we are poisoning ourselves with so much over-cooked, over-processed foods. People who switch to raw food diets (or simply include some more raw food in their diets) experience many benefits, such as weight loss and great energy levels. This book will help you increase the quantity of raw food in your diet from sprouts, including salad and sandwich sprouts, wheatgrass, microgreens, and sprouted beans, nuts, seeds, and grains (which most people can digest well without any cooking).Learn how to grow some of your fresh food indoors, in a small space, with no direct light, and no soil (except microgreens). Pick this one up. You won’t be disappointed!

100 Days of Real Food: How We Did It, What We Learned, and 100 Easy, Wholesome Recipes Your Family Will Love

#1 New York Times BestsellerThe creator of the 100 Days of Real Food blog draws from her hugely popular website to offer simple, affordable, family-friendly recipes and practical advice for eliminating processed foods from your family’s diet.Inspired by Michael Pollan’s In Defense of Food, Lisa Leake decided her family’s eating habits needed an overhaul. She, her husband, and their two small girls pledged to go 100 days without eating highly processed or refined foods—a challenge she opened to readers on her blog.Now, she shares their story, offering insights and cost-conscious recipes everyone can use to enjoy wholesome natural food—whole grains, fruits and vegetables, seafood, locally raised meats, natural juices, dried fruit, seeds, popcorn, natural honey, and more.Illustrated with 125 photographs and filled with step-by-step instructions, this hands-on cookbook and guide includes: Advice for navigating the grocery store and making smart purchases Tips for reading ingredient labels 100 quick and easy recipes for such favorites as Homemade Chicken Nuggets, Whole Wheat Pasta with Kale Pesto Cream Sauce, and Cinnamon Glazed Popcorn Meal plans and suggestions for kid-pleasing school lunches, parties, and snacks “Real Food” anecdotes from the Leakes’ own experiences A 10-day mini starter-program, and much more.

The Forks Over Knives Plan: How to Transition to the Life-Saving, Whole-Food, Plant-Based Diet

The latest in the bestselling Forks Over Knives franchise—a 28-day guide to transitioning to a delicious whole-foods, plant-based diet.The trailblazing film Forks Over Knives helped spark a medical and nutritional revolution. Backed by scientific research, the film’s doctors and expert researchers made a radical but convincing case that modern diseases can be prevented and often reversed by leaving meat, dairy, and highly refined foods off the plate, and adopting a whole-food, plant-based diet instead…and people listened. Now, for the first time, The Forks Over Knives Plan shows you how to put this life-saving (and delicious) diet into practice in your own life. This easy-to-follow, meal-by-meal makeover is the approach Doctors Alona Pulde and Matthew Lederman (featured in the documentary) use every day in their nutritional health practice—a clear, simple plan that focuses on hearty comfort foods and does not involve portion control or worrying about obtaining single nutrients like protein and calcium. Week 1 you’ll begin with breakfast and learn how to stock your refrigerator to help support this new way of eating. Week 2 you’ll move on to lunch and learn the basics of meal planning to keep yourself on track. Week 3 you’ll reimagine dinner and find out how to combat cravings. Week 4 you’ll master all the tricks and tips you’ll need for the long haul, including how to eat on the go and how to snack healthily. You’ll also get 100 simple, tasty recipes to keep you on the right track, beautiful photographs, and advice throughout the book from people just like you. Find out why physicians, athletes, fitness professionals, and others all over the world are overhauling what they eat—and feeling better than even before. Whether you’re already a convert and just want a dietary reboot, or you’re trying a plant-based diet for the first time, The Forks Over Knives Plan makes it easier than ever to transition to this healthiest way of eating…and to maintain it for life.

Organic Manifesto: How Organic Food Can Heal Our Planet, Feed the World, and Keep Us Safe

Drawing on findings from leading health researchers as well as conversations with both chemical and organic farmers from coast to coast, Maria Rodale’s Organic Manifesto irrefutably outlines the unacceptably high cost of chemical farming on our health and our environment. She traces the genesis of chemical farming and the rise of the immense companies that profit from it, bringing to light the government’s role in allowing such practices to flourish. She further explains that modern organic farming would not only help reverse climate change by reducing harmful carbon emissions and soil depletion, but would also improve the quality of the food we eat, reduce diseases from asthma to cancer, and ensure a better quality of life in farming communities nationwide. For every parent wondering how best to safeguard the health and safety of her children; for every environmentalist in search of a solution to the worsening crisis that afflicts our land, air, and waters; for every shopper who questions whether it is worth it to pay more for organic, Maria Rodale offers straightforward answers and a single, definitive course of action: We must demand organic now.

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