Things aren't looking good for Sprig, who is packed into a fast-moving truck with dozens of other pigs. He doesn't know where they're going but his nose knows there's something better out there. So with one dramatic leap, or really more of a tumble, Sprig sets out on a pig-centered adventure that leads him to his new best friend, a girl named Rory. Inspired by true events, this light-hearted tale introduces kids to an intelligent and inquisitive pig who finds his way to an animal sanctuary. The book includes a bonus section called "More About Pigs," where curious readers will learn that pigs are smart enough to play video games, enjoy sleeping in cozy pig piles, run really fast, and other amazing facts. Sy Montgomery, author of The Good Good Pig, said of the book: "May Sprig help people to see what wonderful individuals pigs truly are." Sprig the Rescue Pig is the first children's book in our series on farm animals, perfect for ages 4 to 7.

Sprig the Rescue Pig

Children's Books

Crawford, Leslie

Animals

Stone Pier Press

"May Sprig help people to see what wonderful individuals pigs truly are."--Sy Montgomery, author of The Good Good Pig A self-described "charming" pig escapes a terrible fate, and finds friendship with a little girl. This light-hearted and beautifully illustrated bedtime story has been widely praised for inspiring compassion for animals. Now available in paperback. Things aren't looking good for Sprig, who is packed into a fast-moving truck with dozens of other pigs. He doesn't know where they're going but his nose knows there's something better out there. So with one dramatic leap, or really more of a tumble, Sprig sets out on a pig-centered adventure that leads him to his new best friend, a girl named Rory. Inspired by true events, this light-hearted tale introduces kids to an intelligent and inquisitive pig who finds his way to a good life. The book includes a bonus section called More About Pigs, where curious readers can learn that pigs are smart enough to play video games, enjoy sleeping in cozy pig piles, run really fast, and other amazing facts. Ages: 4 to 7 Recognition: <ul> <li>Sprig is displayed in the California governor's mansion in Sacramento, CA, and part of the State Library's permanent collection.</li> <li>Teach Heart, which designs Humane Education curriculums for teachers, has named Sprig to its recommended book list.</li> <li>Named to seven "best books for kids" lists</li> </ul> &nbsp;

Winner of a prestigious Northern Lights Book Award, Gwen the Rescue Hen is the heart-warming story about a sharp-witted chicken that inspires compassion for animals. Gwen has spent her whole life in a big egg-laying hen house, so she knows very little about what chickens can do (besides lay eggs, of course). A fateful tornado turns her world upside-down and sideways, landing her in a strange new place that's nothing like the hen house. Using her wits and chicken superpowers, Gwen dodges danger at every turn until she finds safety and friendship with a boy named Mateo. Together they discover how extraordinary an ordinary chicken really is. The book includes a bonus section called More About Chickens, where curious readers can learn that chickens have extraordinary eyesight, a complex language of 24 sounds, and are descended from dinosaurs, among other fun facts about chickens. Ages: 4 to 7 Recognition <ul> <li>2020 Winner of the Northern Lights Book Award Honoring "Children's Literature of Exceptional Merit"</li> <li>Gwen is displayed in the California governor's mansion in Sacramento, CA, and part of the State Library's permanent collection.</li> <li>Teach Heart, which designs Humane Education curriculums for teachers, has named Gwen to its recommended book list.</li> <li>Named to seven "best books for kids" lists</li> <li>Part of a Texas school district's curriculum on where our food comes from</li> </ul>

Gwen the Rescue Hen

Growing Good Food is a beginner's guide to growing your own herbs, fruits, and vegetables using organic and sustainable practices. It's for home gardeners who want to raise food on their own patch of soil--all while cultivating a microbe-rich, carbon-sucking, regenerative foodscape. Acadia Tucker, a regenerative farmer, gardener, and climate activist, invites us to think of gardening as civic action. By building organically-rich soil, even in a backyard, we can capture greenhouse gases in the very place we're growing nutritious food. To help us get started, Tucker drafts plans for gardeners who have a little ground or a lot of it. She offers advice on how to prep and clear land, cultivate healthy soil, plant food from seeds or starts, fend off pests and disease, and grow 21 popular perennials and annuals, including fruit trees, herbs, strawberries, peppers, tomatoes, cabbage, carrots, garlic, beans, peas, and potatoes. Tucker also describes the climate changes taking place in our own backyards, and the various steps we can take to boost a garden's resilience. Growing Good Food includes calls to action and insights from leaders in the regenerative growing movement, including David Montgomery, Anne Biklé, Gabe Brown, Wendell Berry and Mary Berry, and Tim LaSalle. By the end of this book, you'll know how to grow some really good food, and build a healthier world, too.

Growing Good Food: A Citizen’s Guide to Backyard Farming

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Tucker, Acadia

Gardening & Landscape Design

Acadia Tucker’s long love affair with perennial foods has produced this easy-to-understand guide to growing and harvesting them. A regenerative farmer who is deeply concerned about global warming, Tucker believes there may be no better time to plant these hardy crops. Perennials can weather climate extremes, promote healthy soil, mitigate drought conditions, and thrive without chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Many can be harvested year round. They taste good, pack lots of nutrients, and require little tending. In short, the world is a better place with more perennials in it and this book intends to get us there. Tucker inspires action by first laying the groundwork for tending an organic, regenerative garden. She highlights the 10 steps she recommends gardeners take to help perennial foods thrive. But most of the book is dedicated to profiles of popular perennial herbs, fruit, and vegetables, with explicit instructions on how to plant, grow, and harvest them. Tucker also offers suggestions on how to store and preserve perennials. Growing Perennial Foods is illustrated with dozens of pen &amp; ink drawings and ends with a short chapter on frequently asked questions. And since this is a field guide, each profile gives readers enough space to write in any additional notes. While designed for gardening novices, this book is also for experienced gardeners who want to grow more resilient crops, and could use a little guidance. Growing Perennial Foods is part of our Growing Food book series and a companion guide to Growing Good Food: A Citizen’s Guide to Backyard Carbon Farming, which is also written by Acadia Tucker and set to publish in the summer of 2019.

Growing Perennial Foods: A Field Guide to Raising Resilient Herbs, Fruits, and Vegetables

As the planet experiences ecological destruction on an unprecedented scale, many of us are asking the question, what can I do? In this book, landscape designer Owen Wormser builds a case for growing more meadows, and then tells us how. Allowing a lawn to be reclaimed by native grasses and flowers creates healthy habitats for birds and insects. Meadows introduce ecological diversity with very little effort, and can take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. And they can soothe the soul, producing the kind of natural beauty that returns year after year. By contrast, lawns are an environmental nightmare. As with any monocrop, a lawn requires massive amounts of inputs that burden the environment, ranging from unfiltered fossil fuels to the side effects produced by herbicides to the pollution caused by fertilizer runoff. The author provides a simple and practical guide to cultivating your own organic and sustainable meadow, no matter where you live. He’ll draw from what he has learned growing up off the grid in Maine and working professionally to help people cultivate regenerative landscapes. The book includes before and after photos of different types of meadows, and resources that can make meadow building easy and accessible.

Lawns into Meadows: Growing a Regenerative Landscape

Wormser, Owen

Regenerative farmer Acadia Tucker proves it's possible to grow food without land. In this, her third easy-to-use gardening guide, Tucker describes how to cultivate bountiful container food gardens in pots, planters, and raised beds. Climate activist and farmer Acadia Tucker fell in love with container gardening after glimpsing its potential to produce food--lots of food.&nbsp; By applying select growing practices, and managing for square inches rather than square feet, she has come up with instructions for growing a small-scale farm on your patio, your stoop, or in your dining room. If what you want is a garden big enough to line a windowsill, she's got you covered there. Her book, loaded with helpful illustrations, includes: <ul> <li>Profiles of 21 container-friendly crops</li> <li>Recipes for cultivating potted farms</li> <li>Tips on finding the right container</li> <li>Information on designing for small spaces--and making food gardens beautiful</li> <li>Guidance on how to raise crops in pots all year long</li> </ul> Tucker also describes how to maximize the environmental impact of growing food in pots. She offers tips on attracting pollinators, shows how to build microbe-rich living soil, and explains ways to ditch harmful pesticides and fertilizers. Her goal is to make it easier for anyone with access to a patch of sun to grow food, no backyard required.

Tiny Victory Gardens: Growing Food Without a Yard (Citizen Gardening)

What's for Dinner?: Plant-Rich Feasts for Any Occasion

87+ plant-based dinner ideas for easy weeknight cooking. This is a cookbook for people who appreciate healthy and delicious food, and want to keep it simple. 
This one-of-a-kind cookbook was dreamed up by Betsy Freeman who noticed how few of her friends like to cook. A passionate home chef who cooks to relax, she started asking why. Most told her they just don’t have the time. 
Betsy, who works full time herself, decided to put together a cookbook dedicated to making cooking easier; in short, recipes and tips from one busy home cook to another. 
Her collection of vegan and vegetarian recipes are low-fuss, low-mess, and high in protein. She lists substitutions for harder-to-find ingredients so it’s easier to make do with what you have, and suggests ways to minimize food waste. She also shares tips on how to freestyle-cook, and assemble meals without using a recipe at all. 
To inspire home cooking, Betsy illustrates her book with colorful drawings that offer guidance and highlight what’s special about a recipe. 
The One & Done Cookbook includes: 48 one-pot vegetarian and vegan dinner recipes 13 basic recipes that can be served three different ways (as pastas, soups, grain bowls, stews, and more) 11 versatile sauces 6 great salad dressings 15 time-saving cooking hacks 
Betsy shares her prepping and cooking tips in a voice that is wry, understanding, and smart. With this book, she gets a chance to demonstrate that cooking is as relatable as she is.

The One & Done Cookbook: 87+ plant-based dinners for easy weeknight cooking

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Freeman, Betsy

Cooking Methods

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Sprig the Rescue Pig

Sprig the Rescue Pig

Gwen the Rescue Hen

Growing Good Food: A Citizen’s Guide to Backyard Farming

Growing Perennial Foods: A Field Guide to Raising Resilient Herbs, Fruits, and Vegetables

Lawns into Meadows: Growing a Regenerative Landscape

Tiny Victory Gardens: Growing Food Without a Yard (Citizen Gardening)

What's for Dinner?: Plant-Rich Feasts for Any Occasion

Gwen the Rescue Hen

The One & Done Cookbook: 87+ plant-based dinners for easy weeknight cooking