Congratulations, you survived another long winter! Now, it's time to get your garden started.

Let us help you on your way with some of our key gardening books (and new DVDs!). Learn tried and true techniques from our expert gardening authors so you can reap a plentiful harvest this fall.

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Many of our gardening books have been the classic go-to standards for organic and permaculture gardeners for years. Whether you're looking for new techniques to boost flavors and variety, grow vegetables year-round, save heirloom seeds, or grow ...

Growing your own food is hard work, but with a few easy tips you can make it a lot easier.

Carol Deppe grows almost all of the food she eats, but with a cranky back and complaining knees, she has been forced to figure out labor-saving techniques and tricks, and she shares them in her book The Resilient Gardener, along with detailed guides for growing the five crops you need to survive: bean, corn, squash, potatoes, and eggs.

An easy-to-use garden starts with a good plan. In this excerpt, Deppe explains ...

The top 400 wealthiest people in America own more riches than the bottom 180 million. The system is broken. But we don't need to look far to find a better one.

Do you shop at a food co-op? Then you're supporting a democratically-owned corporation that works to serve its members instead of distant shareholders focused merely on quarterly profits.

Do you bank at a credit union instead of a multinational corporate behemoth like Bank of America or Wells Fargo? Then you're contributing your savings toward loans that go to help businesses, home ...

This week started off with some fantastic news: The Art of Fermentation is in the running for a James Beard Foundation book award! Nominated in the Reference and Scholarship category, Sandor Katz's tome on all things fermented automatically joins the ranks of nominees vying for the foundation's prestigious Cookbook of the Year.

We've got our fingers crossed for Katz to capture this prize, which would add to the already impressive list of accomplishments for his latest book, including landing a spot on the New York Times Bestseller list, and helping lead ...

Are you ready to get a start on the gardening season? With a cold frame you can jump in now.

A cold frame, essentially a garden bed surrounded by an angled frame and covered with glass, is a simple way to harness the heating power of the sun to get seedlings going before it's warm enough to plant them outside unprotected. Everything but the most heat-loving vegetables (tomatoes and peppers) can be started this way. Plus, a cold frame has the added advantage of getting your plants into the real soil right away, ...