My Backyard Garden - Look Up Mississippi
My Backyard Garden - Look Up Mississippi

Author: Debra Hester

Publisher: MB Enterprises

Published: 2021-01-26

Total Pages: 102

ISBN-13: 9781736146309

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See Mississippi as you've never envisioned it in My Backyard Garden, Look Up Mississippi, a photo memoir. As the second book in the My Backyard Garden series, Look Up Mississippi spotlights the State of Mississippi's natural beauty with 42 breathtaking landscape photos of the Mississippi Delta and surrounding areas. The new 2021 Mississippi "In God We Trust" Magnolia State Flag inspired author Debra Hester to offer her special collection of photos, reflections, and poetic commentary as hope for a new reputation and future for Mississippi. The My Backyard Garden series encourages reflection, resilience, and positive transformation. Look Up Mississippi is a documented reminder to us all that this God-given beauty binds us together. And we must embrace this blessing and look for opportunities to experience peace and unity. Commemorate this historic event! Enjoy these beautiful landscape photos as you reflect on a future filled with hope, peace, and unity. Each photo has an inspirational name that is designed to bring you positive thoughts and memories. Secure your copy and share the beauty of this historic event for generations to come.

My Backyard Jungle
My Backyard Jungle

Author: James Barilla

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2013-04-22

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 0300184018

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DIVThe captivating story of an urban family who welcomes wildlife into their backyard and discovers the ups and downs of sharing habitat/div

Maverick Gardeners
Maverick Gardeners

Author: Felder Rushing

Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi

Published: 2021-03-17

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 1496832728

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“Be forewarned that this book honors people like the woman in my hometown who paints the numbers of her favorite NASCAR drivers on her elephant ears, and a Tokyo gardener with over a hundred bonsai plants.” So says renowned garden journalist Felder Rushing in his new book Maverick Gardeners: Dr. Dirt and Other Determined Independent Gardeners. In this book, Felder delves deeply into the psychology of what motivates and sustains the Keepers of the Garden Flame. For thousands of years, a loosely connected web of unique, nontraditional gardeners has bonded people across race, culture, language, and other social conventions through sharing unique plants and stories. Found in nearly every neighborhood worldwide, these “determined independent gardeners” (DIGrs) are typically nonjoiners who garden simply and exuberantly, eschewing customary horticultural standards in their amateur pursuits of personal bliss. Included in Maverick Gardeners are classic “passalong plant” lists, a dollop of how-to, numerous color photographs, and thought-provoking essays on quintessential tools, sharing with others, getting away with wildflowers in suburbia, and organizing a plant swap. The centerpiece of this unique gardening journey is the no-holds-barred story of a ten-year cross-cultural collaboration between the horticulturist author and a flamboyant rebellious gardener who called himself Dirt. Through swapping plants and garden lore—and rubbing shoulders with fellow DIGrs—they unraveled their shared humanity. From the practical to the inspiring, Maverick Gardeners is the perfect book for those nonconformist souls who see no sense in trying to fit in and follow the footpaths of others.

Vegetables Love Flowers
Vegetables Love Flowers

Author: Lisa Mason Ziegler

Publisher:

Published: 2018-03-27

Total Pages: 179

ISBN-13: 0760357587

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Fight garden pests and increase your yields the natural way with this tried and true technique! Planting vegetables and flowers together is one of the oldest ways to create a healthy, bountiful garden; but there's more to the method than you might think. Vegetables Love Flowers walks you through the ins and outs of companion planting, from how it works to which plants go together and how to grow the best garden for your climate. Alongside gorgeous garden photography, you'll also learn about: Seed-starting, growing, and harvesting How to make garden flower bouquets, with "recipes" for various arrangements How to attract beneficial creatures to pollinate your garden and prey on its pests Pesticide-free pest-control measures Composting heaps and bins With the right information and some careful planning, you can help your plants thrive—and beautify your garden in the process.

Ms. Booth's Garden
Ms. Booth's Garden

Author: Jack Kotz

Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 9781578065080

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A gentle photographic look at an elderly woman in her rural Mississippi landscape

Mississippi Writers
Mississippi Writers

Author: Dorothy Abbott

Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 628

ISBN-13: 9780878052387

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Drama recounting the experience of growing up in the Deep South

Kitchen Garden Revival
Kitchen Garden Revival

Author: Nicole Johnsey Burke

Publisher: Cool Springs Press

Published: 2020-04-14

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 0760366861

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Elevate your backyard veggie patch into a work of sophisticated and stylish art. Kitchen Garden Revival guides you through every aspect of kitchen gardening, from design to harvesting—with expert advice from author Nicole Johnsey Burke, founder of Rooted Garden, one of the leading US culinary landscape companies, and Gardenary, an online kitchen gardening education and resource company. Participating in the grow-your-own movement is important to both reduce your food miles and control what makes it onto your family’s table. If you’ve hesitated to take part because installing and caring for a traditional vegetable garden doesn’t seem to suit your life or your sense of style, Kitchen Garden Revival is here to show you there’s a better, more beautiful way to grow food. Instead of row after row of cabbage and pepper plants plunked into a patch of dirt in the middle of the yard, kitchen gardens are attractive, highly tailored food gardens consisting of easy-to-maintain raised planting beds laid out in an organized geometric pattern. Offering both four seasons of ornamental interest and plenty of fresh, homegrown fruits, vegetables, and herbs, kitchen gardens are the way to grow your own food in a fashionable, modern, and practical way. Kitchen gardens were once popular features of the European and early American landscape, but they fell out of favor when our agrarian roots were displaced by industrialization. With this accessible and inspirational guide, Nicole aims to return the kitchen garden to its rightful place just outside of every backdoor. Learn the art of kitchen gardening as you discover: What characteristics all kitchen gardens have in common How to design and install gorgeous kitchen garden beds using metal, wood, or stone Why raised beds mean reduced maintenance What crops are best for your kitchen garden A planting, tending, and harvesting plan developed by a pro Season-by-season growing guides It's time to join the Kitchen Garden Revival and start growing your own delicious, organic food.

The Garden in Every Sense and Season
The Garden in Every Sense and Season

Author: Tovah Martin

Publisher: Timber Press

Published: 2018-04-03

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 1604698594

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“Reminds us that the best way to get to know a garden is through our senses.” —Gardenista So much of gardening is focused on the long list of chores—the weeding, planting, and pruning. But what about the joy a garden can provide? In The Garden in Every Sense and Season, Tovah Martin explores the sensory delights in her own garden in 100 evocative essays. Martin shares sage garden advice, offers intimate reflections on her own garden, and urges us to inhale, savor, and become more attuned to our gardens. Packed with lush color photographs, The Garden in Every Sense and Season will help you grow a bounty of gratitude in your own home garden.

My Backyard Jungle
My Backyard Jungle

Author: James Barilla

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2013-04-22

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 0300185995

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DIVFor James Barilla and his family, the dream of transforming their Columbia, South Carolina, backyard into a haven for wildlife evoked images of kids catching grasshoppers by day and fireflies at night, of digging up potatoes and picking strawberries. When they signed up with the National Wildlife Federation to certify their yard as a wildlife habitat, it felt like pushing back, in however small a way, against the tide of bad news about vanishing species, changing climate, dying coral reefs. Then the animals started to arrive, and Barilla soon discovered the complexities (and possible mayhem) of merging human with animal habitats. What are the limits of coexistence, he wondered?/divDIV /divDIVTo find out, Barilla set out across continents to explore cities where populations of bears, monkeys, marmosets, and honeybees live alongside human residents. My Backyard Jungle brings these unique stories together, making Barilla’s yard the centerpiece of a meditation on possibilities for coexistence with animals in an increasingly urban world. Not since Gerald Durrell penned My Family and Other Animals have readers encountered a naturalist with such a gift for storytelling and such an open heart toward all things wild./div