What you might Find on our Bookshelves

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All available thru Peninsula Library System except those marked with *

Gardening:

  • Title
  • Great Garden Companions
  • Rodale’s All-New Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening Rodale Gardening
  • Lasagna Gardening
  • Gardening Month by Month in Northern California
  • Designing the New Kitchen Garden
  • *Let’s Get Growing
  • Step by Step Organic Vegetable Gardening
  • Golden Gate Gardening
  • Ann Lovejoy’s Organic Garden Design School
  • The Vegetable Gardener’s Bible
  • Seed Starter
  • The New Seed-Starters Handbook
  • How to Grow More Vegetables
  • Veggie Gardener’s Answer Book
  • Author
  • Sally Jean Cunningham
  • Rodale Gardening

  • Patricia Lanza
  • Bob Tanem & Don Williamson
  • Jennifer R. Bartley
  • Crow Miller
  • Shepherd Ogden
  • Pam Peirce
  • Ann Lovejoy
  • Edward C. Smith
  • Maureen Heffernnan
  • Nancy Bubel
  • John Jeavons
  • Barbara W. Ellis

Gardening in Containers:

  • Title
  • The Bountiful Container

  • *How to Grow Organic Vegetables in Containers
  • Incredible Vegetables from Self-Watering Containers
  • The Edible Container Garden
  • Author
  • Rose Marie Nichols McGee & Maggie Stuckey
  • Eileen Logan
  • Edward C. Smith
  • Michael Guerra

Healthy Eating & Cookbooks:

  • Title
  • *From the Farm to Your Table: A Consumer's Guide to Fresh Fruits and Vegetables
  • The San Francisco Ferry Plaza Farmer’s Market Cookbook
  • Jamie at Home, Cook Your Way to the Good Life
  • Deceptively Delicious
  • Lunch Lessons
  • The Busy Person’s Guide to Preserving Food
  • *Farm Journal’s Freezing & Canning Cookbook

  • Too Many Tomatoes, Squash, Beans & Other Good Things
  • *Fresh from the Farm & Garden
  • The Organic Cook’s Bible
  • *San Mateo County “As Fresh as it Gets” Cookbook

  • Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
  • Real Food, What to Eat & Why
  • Field Guide to Buying Organic
  • *To Buy or Not to Buy Organic
  • Author
  • James Thompson and
    Adel Kader
  • Christopher Hirsheimer and Peggy Knickerbocker
  • Jamie Oliver
  • Jessica Seinfeld
  • Ann Cooper
  • Janet Chadwick
  • Edited by Neil B. Nichols & Kathryn Larson
  • Lois M. Landau

  • USCS Farm & Garden
  • Jeff Cox
  • San Mateo County Convention & Visitors Bureau
  • Barbara Kingsolver
  • Nina Planck
  • Luddene Perry & Dan Schultz
  • Cindy Burke

Herbs:

  • Title
  • Beautiful Easy Herbs
  • *The Complete Book of Herbs and Herb Growing
  • Author
  • Laurence Sombke
  • Roy Genders

Orchards:

  • Title
  • The Backyard Orchardist
  • *The Home Orchard
  • Author
  • Stella Otto
  • University of California

Miscellaneous Topics:

  • Title
  • A Painter’s Garden
  • *HomeMade, 101 Easy to Make things for your Garden Home or Farm
  • Gardening with a Wild Heart
  • Greenhouse Gardener’s Companion
  • The Truth about Organic Gardening
  • The Truth about Garden Remedies
  • Author
  • Christine Walker
  • Ken Braren & Roger Griffith

  • Judith Larner Lowry
  • Shane Smith
  • Jeff Gillman
  • Jeff Gillman

Reference:

  • Title
  • Annuals for Northern California
  • Birds of Northern California
  • Bugs of Northern California
  • Perennials for Northern California
  • Tree & Shrub Gardening for Northern California
  • California Butterflies
  • California Master Gardener Handbook
  • California Native Plants for the Garden

  • The California Landscape Garden

  • *The Encyclopedia of Country Living
  • Gaia’s Garden
  • The Organic Gardener’s Handbook of Natural Insect & Disease Control
  • Disease Control Seed to Seed
  • Western Garden Book
  • Author
  • Bob Tanem & Don Williamson
  • David Fix & Andy Bezener
  • John Acorn & Ian Sheldon
  • Bob Tanem & Don Williamson
  • Bob Tanem & Don Williamson
  • John S. Garth & J.W. Tilden
  • University of California
  • Carol Bornstein, David Fross & Bart O’Brien
  • Mark Francis & Andreas
    Reimann
  • Carla Emery
  • Toby Hemenway
  • Barbara W. Ellis & Fern Marshall Bradley
  • Suzanne Ashworth
  • Sunset

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