May 21

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Woman’s Garden by Tanya Anderson: Giveaway

Posted by Teddyrose@1 on May 9, 2021
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A Woman’s Garden: Grow Beautiful Plants and Make Useful Things – Plants and Projects for Home, Health, Beauty, Healing, and More by Tanya Anderson

Thanks to Steve Roth of The Quarto Group, I am giving away one print copy of ‘A Woman’s Garden’ by Tanya Anderson.

Description Woman’s Garden by Tanya Anderson

In A Woman’s Garden, the creative force behind LovelyGreens.com, Tanya Anderson, shares inspiring ways to use the power of plants for home and health—with helpful growing advice and step-by-step instructions for creating over 35 inspiring projects, edibles, and art from your garden.

Gardens grow more than just pretty flowers. They grow well-being and a deeper connection with nature. Gardens can also produce plant material for creating homemade skincare, natural dyes, artisan crafts, delicious foods and beverages, and medicines—homegrown ways to create a wholesome lifestyle.

Making things with your hands and heart, and then sharing the fruits of your labors with friends and family, is both satisfying and soul-stirring. Learn how to grow dozens of plants and then transform them into gorgeous items to nurture yourself or gift to others, including:

Using onion skins to dye wool

Alkanet root and lavender soap

Soapwort multipurpose cleaner

Rose petal facial mist

Edible flower frittata

Healing calendula skin salve

Paper mache leaf lanterns

Chamomile tincture

Gardening projects, including a herb spiral, strawberry pallet planter, and more

In A Woman’s Garden, you’ll be introduced to seven categories of useful plants. Plus, meet inspiring women gardeners from around the globe who grow and use edibles, herbs, and flowers to create natural products you can make, too. Find inspiration, healing, health, and happiness right outside your own backdoor with A Woman’s Garden.

Praise Woman’s Garden by Tanya Anderson

“An inspiring, galvanizing, and hugely practical guide to growing and using your garden for health and wellbeing, both inside and out. This will help anybody to understand the healing nature of plants and how the relationship between women and our gardens can benefit both us and the plants we nurture.”- Frances Tophill, presenter for BBC Gardeners’ World and ITV’s Love Your Garden

“What a delightful book this is – full of fresh, exciting ideas and filled with projects for anyone who loves their garden. It does what all good gardening books should do, which is to make you want to rush out to your own plot and start planting.”- Constance Craig Smith, Garden Media Guild co-chair

“This book is a treat for the eyes and felt like balm for the mind. Filled with beautiful, rich photographs and tours through cleverly designed gardens from eight creative female gardeners. It offers a perfect mix of information, inspiration, and ideas to try at home.”- Liz Zorab, author of Grounded, and gardening personality behind Byther Farm

About Tanya Anderson

Tanya Anderson is an organic gardener, soap maker, beekeeper, and beauty producer on the Isle of Man in the UK. Tanya is the creative force behind the website and YouTube channel Lovely Greens. Followers subscribe to her for her creative garden ideas and positive, friendly personality.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/LovelyGreens

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Feb 20

20

Garden Alchemy by Stephanie Rose: Giveaway

Posted by Teddyrose@1 on February 20, 2020
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Garden Alchemy by Stephanie Rose

Thanks to Steve Roth of, The Quarto Group I am giving away one print copy of ‘Garden Alchemy’ by Stephanie Rose.

Description Garden Alchemy by Stephanie Rose

Garden Alchemy features 80 recipes and concoctions for organic fertilizers, plant elixirs, potting mixes, pest deterrents, and more. It’s a hands-on guide for do-it-yourself gardeners who want to turn their garden into gold using natural recipes and herbal concoctions (while saving both time and money!).

Garden Alchemy will also help beautify your garden, using organic methods that regenerate your soil and revitalize your plants. By following the processes that are closest to nature, it brings the gardener in sync with the garden, allowing plants to thrive with less effort and less cost.

Dozens of recipes and projects include:

Homemade seed bombs, disks, and tapes

Granular and liquid natural fertilizer recipes

DIY rooting hormone

Herbal anti-fungal spray

Plant propagation instructions

Soil care recipes to adjust the pH and manage fertility

13 specialty potting mixes

7 clever traps for common garden pests

This fun and beautifully illustrated book is packed with great ideas and inspiration for DIY gardeners who want to embrace their creativity and have more control of the garden’s care.

Praise Garden Alchemy by Stephanie Rose

“Rose’s comprehensive yet compact book will profit beginning and advanced gardeners alike.”- Publishers Weekly

“As someone who’s made a career out of growing in small urban spaces, Stephanie’s Garden Alchemy is a treasure trove of creative, DIY recipes to grow healthier, stronger plants, beautify your garden, and cultivate more biodiversity in your yard.”?- Kevin Espiritu, gardener, author of Field Guide to Urban Gardening

“This book needs to be on every gardener’s shelf! In it Stephanie Rose shares recipes for natural soil amendments and fertilizers that will help transform backyards into thriving oases. Using readily available materials—often those that would end up in the landfill—to improve our gardens allows us to close the loop and eliminate the packaging waste that comes with retail solutions. Her recipes for nontoxic solutions to common garden problems take it a step further by replacing harsh pesticides with eco-friendly, healthier alternatives.”- Kris Bordessa, author of Attainable Sustainable: The Lost Art of Self-Reliant Living (National Geographic)

About Stephanie Rose

Stephanie Rose is an award-winning author, freelance writer, instructor, and international speaker who aims to encourage better living through plants. As a long-time student and teacher of organic gardening, permaculture design, herbalism, and natural skin care formulation, she enjoys inspiring others to learn how to grow and use plants, with a focus on regenerative practices that are green, healthy, and natural.

She is a member of Garden Communicators International, the Permaculture Institute of North America, the International Herb Association, and volunteers to develop children’s gardens as a Vancouver Master Gardener. She shares stories, recipes, and projects on her inspiring website, GardenTherapy.ca.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/garden_therapy

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Jan 20

9

Pollinator Victory Garden by Kim Eierman: Giveaway

Posted by Teddyrose@1 on January 9, 2020
Posted in My Past Giveaways | Tagged With: Bees, Gardening, Non-Fiction, Pollinator Victory Garden by Kim Eierman | 5 Comments

Pollinator Victory Garden by Kim Eierman

Thanks to Steve Roth of Quarry Books/ The Quarto Group, I am giving away one print copy of ‘Pollinator Victory Garden’ by Kim Eierman.

Description Pollinator Victory Garden by Kim Eierman

The passion and urgency that inspired WWI and WWII Victory Gardens is needed today to meet another threat to our food supply and our environment—the steep decline of pollinators. The Pollinator Victory Garden offers practical solutions for winning the war against the demise of these essential animals.

Pollinators are critical to our food supply and responsible for the pollination of the vast majority of all flowering plants on our planet. Pollinators include not just bees, but many different types of animals, including insects and mammals. Beetles, bats, birds, butterflies, moths, flies, and wasps can be pollinators.

But, many pollinators are in trouble, and the reality is that most of our landscapes have little to offer them. Our residential and commercial landscapes are filled with vast green pollinator deserts, better known as lawns. These monotonous green expanses are ecological wastelands for bees and other pollinators.

With The Pollinator Victory Garden, you can give pollinators a fighting chance. Learn how to transition your landscape into a pollinator haven by creating a habitat that includes pollinator nutrition, larval host plants for butterflies and moths, and areas for egg laying, nesting, sheltering, overwintering, resting, and warming. Find a wealth of information to support pollinators while improving the environment around you:

The importance of pollinators and the specific threats to their survival• How to provide food for pollinators using native perennials, trees, and shrubs that bloom in succession• Detailed profiles of the major pollinator types and how to attract and support each one• Tips for creating and growing a Pollinator Victory Garden, including site assessment, planning, and planting goals• Project ideas like pollinator islands, enriched landscape edges, revamped foundation plantings, meadowscapes, and other pollinator-friendly lawn alternatives

The time is right for a new gardening movement. Every yard, community garden, rooftop, porch, patio, commercial, and municipal landscape can help to win the war against pollinator decline with The Pollinator Victory Garden.

Praise Pollinator Victory Garden by Kim Eierman

“The Pollinator Victory Garden is a book for these times. Kim Eierman empowers readers with ideas, direction and the inspiration they need to create beautiful habitats for many different pollinators. Creating healthy, diverse and chemical free habitats are essential steps in solving pollinator decline and The Pollinator Victory Garden guides you towards creating your own lovely garden habitat.”- Peter Nelson, Director of The Pollinators, filmmaker and beekeeper

“With so many pollinator species at risk around the globe, The Pollinator Victory Garden could not be more timely. Please put this thoughtful, easy-to-read book to use in making your own yard a haven for pollinators.”- Phyllis Stiles, Founder, Bee CIty USA

“Read this book as if your life depended on it—and it does: No pollinators = no plants = no people. Kim Eierman turns the table on the dismaying facts about pollinators by offering positive steps each of us can take to make a difference. Her passion shouts: “gimme a V…”—or, more aptly “gimme a Bee.”- Carol Capobianco, Director, The Native Plant Center

About Kim Eierman

Kim Eierman is an environmental horticulturist and landscape designer specializing in ecological landscapes and native plants. She is the Founder of EcoBeneficial, a horticulture consulting and communications company in Westchester County, New York. Kim teaches at the New York Botanical Garden, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, The Native Plant Center, Rutgers Home Gardeners School, and advanced education classes for Master Gardeners. An active speaker nationwide on many ecological landscaping topics, she also provides horticultural consulting and ecological design to commercial, municipal, and retail clients.

In addition to being a Certified Horticulturist through the American Society for Horticultural Science, Kim is an Accredited Organic Landcare Professional, a Steering Committee member of The Native Plant Center, and a member of The Ecological Landscape Alliance and the Association for Garden Communicators (GWA). Kim received the Silver Award of Achievement from the Garden Writers Association in 2014, 2015, and 2017.

Website: https://www.ecobeneficial.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/EcoBeneficial

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