New Books for the season. The high cost of fuel puts a new emphasis on the ideas of growing our own food and buying locally. We have a great selection of helpful titles. Check out the sample below. Remember we'll order anything you need. 

Sharing the Harvest is the groundbreaking edition that explored Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) as the answer to the globalization of our food supply. By creating a partnership between local farmers and nearby consumers, both benefit. Farmers obtain financing at the beginning of the season and consumers receive the freshest, healthiest produce. This arrangement also works as a viable economic model to keep money, jobs, and farms in their own community. by Elizabeth Henderson and Robyn Van En.

Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture describes a gardening system that combines the best features of wildlife habitat, edible landscapes, and conventional flower and vegetable gardens into a self-renewing landscape that lets nature do most of the work. Rather than mastering your garden with gas-spewing rototillers and chemical fertilizers, let Toby Hemenway show you how to create a backyard ecosystem that balances the needs of humans and nature.

Food not Lawns combines practical wisdom on edible garden design and community-building with a fresh perspective on an age-old subject. Activist and urban gardener Heather Flores shares her nine-step plan to help readers build fertile soil, raise their own food, promote biodivesty, and increase natural habitat in their own 'paradise gardens', whether on a tiny city plot or a half acre of lawn. 

Mark Sturges of Eco Systems in Bandon reminds all gardeners that good growing and tasty veggies begin with healthy soil. Find out more about how to have healthy soil with Teaming with Microbes: A Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web by Jeff Lowenfels & Wayne Lewis or get an overview of the rich diversity underfoot from Life in the Soil: A Guide for Naturalists and Gardeners by James B. Nardi.