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Children's Vegetable Garden program a success growing SAN ANTONIO – The Children's Garden Program, presented by Texas AgriLife Extension Service in Bexar County, Bexar County Master Gardeners organization and San Antonio Botanical Garden, one of the youngest and longest successful gardening education efforts in the country, said the officials. "The program began in 1983 with the goal of teaching children from the city center benefits …
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The Rodale Book of Composting: Easy Methods for Every Gardener $3.70 Martin, Deborah L., and Grace Gershuny, eds. The Rodale Book Of Composting. Emmaus:      Rodale Press, 1992.A well-written reference from Rodale, this book shows anyone how to compost. The book discusses the history of composting, materials, methods and more, including ideas for gardeners who live in apartments. 278 pages with illustrations, an index, and clearly defined chapters and subjects…

City Chicks: Keeping Micro-flocks of Chickens as Garden Helpers, Compost Makers, Bio-reyclers, and Local Food Producers $17.23 There are a lot of books about chickens, but City Chicks is the ONLY book that tells you how to employ them using their skill sets. Urban agriculture is on the rise and City Chicks shows how to enable local food supply by keeping family flocks of chickens as garden helpers, compost creators, bio-recyclers, and local food suppliers. How-to detail throughout all 460 pages on keeping, employing, grow…

Victory Garden $9.99 Organic Gardening e-book Powerful Secrets to Creating an Organic Garden that will Feed Your Family, Improve Your Health, And Relieve Stress.”Victory Gardens” easy to follow step by step guide will show you how to grow a great organic garden your first year. Growing your own produce will give you better food than money can buy, and of course you will save money since you don’t have to buy expensive…

City Chicks $14.99 Chickens have become the mascot of the local food movement. A desire for sustainable, clean, wholesome food and superior soil quality has led more and more suburban and city dwellers to keep laying hens in their backyards and gardens.Learn how you can:• Be close to your food source with a continuous supply of fresh,heart-healthy eggs to feed yourself and others.• Take the best care of your chickens and find out where to buy them.• Learn how to be a chicken whisperer.• Improve your garden soil for super yields, superior flavor, and optimal nutrition.• Recycle food, grass clippings and yard waste, make compost and help reduce trash going to landfills, saving millions of municipal taxpayer dollars.• Help save millions of municipal tax payer dollars by diverting food and yard waste from landfills; instead create compost -with the help of your flock.• Raise baby chicks with items you already have.• Avoid getting roosters and why you don’t want them.• Learn how to be a Poultry Primary Health Care Practitioner.• Make and use effective and inexpensive treatments for your flock as described in the Poultry’s Pharmacy.Learn how others:• Have built urban chicken tractors, hen huts, condos and chicken chateaus to blend in with neighborhood landscape and architecture.• Join in urban eco-agro-tourism with annual coop & garden home tours for fund raising.• Start or join local poultry clubs.• Keep small flocks to help preserve endangered breeds of chickens.• Draft and pass local laws allowing laying hens within their town’s limits.By the co-author of Chicken Tractor, Backyard Market Gardening and Day Range Poultry. City Chicks is a remarkable trend-setting book for poultry lovers and urban agriculturists.The imaginative and entertaining style of writing is combined with hands-on, real-life experience to bring you one

Spinning Composter $199 “Whether they’re rooftop dwellers or nestled under a bedroom balcony, your Roma tomatoes and burrito-bound jalapenos will thrive with healthy compost, creating fewer scraps for the landfill as well. Our urban-savvy Spinning Composter is made of 50% post-consumer recycled plastic and produces up to 85 lbs. of odorless, fertile compost in about a month. Removable base collects water drippings ? a nutritious byproduct. Eight built-in rollers spin to mix in oxygen and speed decomposition. Secure latching door is hinged for filling, detaches for emptying. 31″”H x 26″”L x 21″”W; 7 cu. ft; 14 lbs. Arrives assembled. Canada. All natural, microbial based Compost Activator (4 lbs, sold separately) speeds up decomposition. For initial application apply 1 pound of compost activator per 2 cubic yards of organic matter to pile. Mix compost by spinning composter and follow by watering thoroughly. Re-apply at the rate of ? to ? pound per 2 cubic yards of material 2-3 times per year. USA. Additional shipping charge applies. ”

UrBin Grower $70.04 Grow a complete salad right in your kitchen! The Urbin Grower is a compact raised bed organic growing system perfect for the urban family. It can be used anywhere anytime – a patio balcony fire escape backyard greenhouse or even inside during the cold months. Its innovative design allows for portability yet also encourages a bountiful harvest. By utilizing the Square Foot Gardening Method the UrBin Grower allows you to grow endless vegetables in the same manageable container. Take the guesswork out of watering and water in the way nature intended! The UrBin Grower is a self-watering container in which your plants take the water they need out of the visible reservoir. This way you can see exactly how much or how little water your particular crops desire. This is a healthy sustainable way to water your plants. As the water is drawn upwards through the soil into your root systems it delivers essential nutrients to your plants rather than those nutrients being washed away like when you water from above. Simply place your UrBin Grower container on the watering tray and then place the soil separator in the container. The soil separator ensures that your soil is not saturated and you will never experience root rot. In two corners of your container the soil will dip down into the water reservoir and wick moisture up to your root systems. Eat healthy and more local than ever! With the UrBin Grower s organic soil amendments you never have to worry about getting trace minerals into your diet again. These trace minerals are best transferred into the human body through vegetables grown in soil rich in trace minerals. Simply mix the soil amendments with some good quality garden soil and organic compost and you have a sustainable soil system that will last for up to 5 years. The UrBin Grower’s soil amendments help you to eat healthier year round. The UrBin Grower kit comes with two complete containers a 16-page instruction manual an instructional DVD a set of seed starter trays an

Urban Gardening: A Hong Kong Gardener’s Journal $113.39 New – Living in a crowded city need not mean uprooting one’s connection with the earth. Down-to-earth, Arthur van Langenberg directs you through the basics of urban gardening: rain and shine, soil and water, weed and pest. He shares creative tips on turning garden waste into compost and discovering every conceivable planting space, be it a window sill, a doorbell box or an office desk. He also attempts to answer the intriguing question: How it is possible to connect with Mother Earth in even the