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Piedmont Environmental Alliance Virtual Earth Day Fair
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Celebrating 50 Years of Earth Day!
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During this time of Sheltering at Home due to the Covid-19 pandemic, we hope that you and your loved ones are safe and well. Perhaps you are gardening, cooking or walking in your neighborhoods more than usual. Perhaps you are spending time on devices and social media. Please know that Forsyth County Public Library staff are doing our best to help you find resources that will make life a bit easier. Please visit our website or Facebook page. We have many digital resources for you, including digital books and audiobooks and databases. Want a Book? An Audiobook, DVD or CD? Yes, we offer Books-to-Go pickup. Visit our webpage, place a hold, wait for a phone call and off you go to a safe socially distanced cart holding your book. And don't worry about returns until at least May 25. Questions? Call us at your local branch or 336-703-3020.
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Gardening & Garden Recipes
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The Backyard Homestead
by Carleen Madigan
Calene Madigan offers great suggestions for organic methods for growing plants and raising animals on a small plot of land, explains how to determine the proper times for planting, and provides tips for using and preserving food.
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The Vibrant Table : Recipes from My Always Vegetarian, Mostly Vegan, and Sometimes Raw Kitchen
by Anya Kassoff
From small sides to savory meals and sweet indulgences, each nourishing recipe tells a story of a balanced and well-fed lifestyle, centered around the family table. Amaranth Pumpkin Porridge, Fingerling Potato Pizza, Squash Blossom Quiche, Roasted Plum Ice Cream, Swirled Acai Cheesecake—you will never run out of inspiration for enjoying whole foods at any meal. The Vibrant Table is a delicious homage to lightness and elegance at home.
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In the Green Kitchen : Techniques to Learn by Heart
by Alice Waters
Sustainable-food advocate and author of The Art of Simple Food, Alice Waters, has created a master craft book that features 30 basic cooking techniques and 50 corresponding recipes, each demonstrated by chefs and friends of the author, including Lidia Bastianich, Thomas Keller and Deborah Madison, in a volume with 75 photos of mouth-watering meals.
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Landscaping with Fruit : a Homeowner's Guide
by Lee Reich
A gardening consultant and author of The Pruning Book shows how to incorporate a wide variety of fruit trees, shrubs, and vines into one's backyard landscape, offering detailed instructions on how to grow temperate-zone fruit, from site analysis and plant selection to soil condition, pest control, and harvesting.
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Pots in the Garden : Expert Design and Planting Techniques
by Ray Rogers
A colorful introduction to outdoor container gardening offers helpful advice and creative suggestions that encompass an exploration of fundamental principles of good garden design, including how to use color, form and mass, texture, line and repetition, spacing and siting, focal points, water features, and a range of containers in a landscape.
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The Green Guide to Herb Gardening : Featuring the 10 Most Popular Herbs
by Deborah C. Harding
Offers information on growing and using basil, calendula, chamomile, chives, garlic, lemon balm, mint, oregano, parsley, and thyme, along with herbal recipes and folklore
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Clean Home, Green Home : the Complete Illustrated Guide to Eco-friendly Homekeeping
by Kimberly Delaney
A visual handbook of eco-friendly housekeeping solutions presents quick, efficient, and safe cleaning options for every room in the home, explaining how to get a clean, germ-free home without the use of unhealthy chemicals, in a guide that includes recipes for homemade cleaning products, facts about product ingredients, and more than four hundred color photograph.
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Easy Green Living : the Ultimate Guide to Simple, Eco-friendly Choices for You and Your Home
by Renée Loux
A definitive guide to an eco-friendly lifestyle shares sensible suggestions for using an array of "green" home, garden, and beauty products and routines, with recommendations on safe, affordable options for renewable energy solutions, allergen-free textiles, cleaning products, and other ways to eliminate toxins, enhance personal health, reduce waste, and promote environmental awareness.
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Green Babies, Sage Moms : the Ultimate Guide to Raising Your Organic Baby
by Lynda Fassa
A practical handbook for new mothers on how to raise a "green" family offers a host of practical, money-saving, and easy-to-follow suggestions on safe ways to prepare a house for a new baby, organic recipes for health conscious breastfeeding mothers, safe storage solutions for breast milk, the best baby gear, and other useful tips.
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Forsyth County Public Library 660 W 5th Street Winston Salem, North Carolina 27101 336-703-3030www.forsythlibrary.org |
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