Burlington Public Library

Presents advice for keeping chickens in the garden, discussing such topics as housing, garden design, landscaping, fencing, plant choices, and predator control.

"Brush up on the basics with a jargon-busting introduction to gardening essentials. Discover how to create your perfect garden with invaluable design ideas and clear step-by-step techniques. Follow expert guidance to choose, plant, and care for a huge range of plants for every season and site. Plant, nurture, and harvest your ideal combination of fruit, vegetables, and herbs from your own kitchen garden. Find out how to identify and deal with problem...

A stylishly photographed guide to creating lush, layered, dramatic little gardens no matter the size of your available space--an urban patio, a tiny backyard, or even just a pot by your door. Petite gardens align with the movement to live smaller and create a life with less stuff and more room for living. But a more eco-friendly and efficient space doesn't have to sacrifice style. In Small Garden Style, garden designer Isa Hendry Eaton and lifestyle...

Amy Stewart explores the dizzying array of herbs, flowers, trees, fruits, and fungi that humans have, through ingenuity, inspiration, and sheer desperation, contrived to transform into alcohol over the centuries.

Even urbanites can tap into natural water sources to create lovely gardens that help prevent water pollution. Based on field tests and workshops they presented in Oakland, CA, Woelfle-Erskine, a hydrologist, pairs with ecological designer/LEED professional Uncapher to explain the water cycle, and the rationale and methods for planting rain gardens. The guide includes case studies, project ideas and worksheets, illustrations, and a resource list. Annotation...

Reminiscent in both spirit and design of the beloved Whole Earth Catalog, Country Wisdom & Know-How is an unprecedented collection of information on nearly 200 individual topics of country and self-sustained living.

"A Harper has always lived at Harper House, the centuries-old mansion just outside of Memphis. And for as long as anyone alive remembers, the ghostly Harper Bride has walked the halls, singing lullabies at night... Hayley Phillips came to Memphis hoping for a new start, for herself and her unborn child. She wasn't looking for a handout from her distant cousin Roz, just a job at her thriving In the Garden nursery. What she found was a home surrounded...

"Lilac Nielsen must learn to balance her new courtship with the young reverend and her pursuit of another dream-the publication of her artwork in a New York newspaper. But when a family crisis back in Ohio shakes the Nielsen sisters, can they continue the new life they've begun in Nebraska? And will Lilac be prepared for what God has in store for her future?"-- Lilac Nielsen's dream has come true: Reverend Ethan Pritchard has finally noticed her....

"July, 1944: The lush, rolling hills of Normandy are dotted with a new feature - German snipers. From their vantage points, they pick off hundreds of Allied soldiers every day, bringing the D-Day invasion to its knees. It's clear that someone is tipping off these snipers with the locations of American GIs, but who? And how? General Eisenhower demands his intelligence service to find the best shot in the Allied military to counter this deadly SS operation....