That dreaded holiday seasons is just around the corner. With unemployment still high we hope that many of you have negotiated a family gift truce to limit tedious shopping. Or perhaps you’re making things to give away.
But if you still need to get a little something for that special homesteader on your shopping list, we’ve got a few suggestions from our Homegrown Evolution Amazon Store. Even if you just click through the store and buy something else, your purchases will help support this website with no additional cost to you. Here’s a few suggestions from out list:
Edible Landscaping by Rosalind Creasy
Rosalind Creasy just came out with a completely rewritten version of her classic book Edible Landscaping. The book is full of dazzling photos, helpful design suggestions and a long plant list with detailed growing and harvesting directions. I’ve been carefully reviewing this book as we redesign our yard. Especially helpful has been Creasy’s suggestion to draw a plan, to scale, and create lists of design ideas and problem areas. Going through this process helped me spot a few issues that I otherwise would have missed.
Haws Watering Can
The Haws Practican Plastic Watering Can – 6 Liters is the Cadillac of watering cans. I don’t know how I survived without this thing. For starting seedlings, nothing compares to the gentle rain this sturdy, well made can produces. Yes, it costs a lot more that most watering cans, but it will last a lifetime and pay for itself in healthy seedlings.
REOTEMP Compost Thermometer
The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Beekeeping
If you’d like to get started in beekeeping there’s only one book out there that I can recommend. The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Beekeeping by Dean Stiglitz and Laurie Herboldsheimer. It’s the only beekeeping book that advocates a completely natural, no-treatment method of beekeeping.
Perennial Vegetables by Eric Toensmeier
This is perfect. I have people bugging me for things that I would like for Xmas. Thanks for the list!
Those are all good ideas.
I just wanted to say that the Beekeeping book needs to be corrected – when I read The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Beekeeping they advocated a lot of treatments on the bees – antibiotics, etc.
There are several other books out there that advocate for natural beekeeping, such as Natural Beekeeping by Ross Conrad.
Jennifer:
Perhaps you are confusing the Idiot’s Guide with the Dummies book? (Aren’t they terrible names?) This book, the new Idiot’s, is definitely all-natural, and rare because of it–we wouldn’t recommend it otherwise. It advocates the kind of beekeeping we’ve learned through Backwards Beekeeping.