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The Songs of Trees

by David George Haskell • 2017

Forests are societies. Underground networks let trees communicate, trade, and compete.

4.05

1k+

🌲 Forest Ecology 📝 Natural History Essays 🌳 Tree Communication

The Songs of Trees

Forests are societies. Underground networks let trees communicate, trade, and compete.

by David George Haskell 2017 304 pages

4.05

1k+ ratings

🌲 Forest Ecology 📝 Natural History Essays 🌳 Tree Communication

How Forests Think

by Eduardo Kohn • 2013

Thought lives in forests, jaguars, and signs. Anthropology has never known how to listen.

3.86

1k+

🌴 Amazonian Ethnography 🕸️ Multispecies Ethnography 🧬 Biosemiotics

How Forests Think

Thought lives in forests, jaguars, and signs. Anthropology has never known how to listen.

by Eduardo Kohn 2013 267 pages

3.86

1k+ ratings

🌴 Amazonian Ethnography 🕸️ Multispecies Ethnography 🧬 Biosemiotics

The Light Eaters

by Zoë Schlanger • 2024

How plants communicate, remember, and make decisions without a brain, and why it matters.

4.25

10k+

🌿 Plant Intelligence 🌱 Plant Communication 👁️ Plant Senses

The Light Eaters

How plants communicate, remember, and make decisions without a brain, and why it matters.

by Zoë Schlanger 2024 304 pages

4.25

10k+ ratings

🌿 Plant Intelligence 🌱 Plant Communication 👁️ Plant Senses

The Vegetable Gardener's Guide to Permaculture

by Christopher Shein • 2013

Your garden as a forest: the permaculture design that feeds you while it rebuilds itself.

3.84

493

🌎 Permaculture Design 🌳 Food Forests 🪱 Soil Building

The Vegetable Gardener's Guide to Permaculture

Your garden as a forest: the permaculture design that feeds you while it rebuilds itself.

by Christopher Shein 2013 272 pages

3.84

493 ratings

🌎 Permaculture Design 🌳 Food Forests 🪱 Soil Building

The Lost Book of Herbal Remedies

by Nicole Apelian • 2021

Your backyard is a pharmacy. Identify, harvest, and prepare the plants that treat almost anything.

4.58

500+

🌿 Herbal Medicine 🔍 Plant Identification 🧪 Herbal Preparations

The Lost Book of Herbal Remedies

Your backyard is a pharmacy. Identify, harvest, and prepare the plants that treat almost anything.

by Nicole Apelian 2021 322 pages

4.58

500+ ratings

🌿 Herbal Medicine 🔍 Plant Identification 🧪 Herbal Preparations

Encyclopedia of Herbal Medicine

by Andrew Chevallier • 2000

550 herbs and the chemistry that makes them heal, with recipes for a safe home pharmacy.

4.53

1k+

🌿 Herbal Medicine 🪴 Medicinal Plants 🏡 Home Remedies

Encyclopedia of Herbal Medicine

550 herbs and the chemistry that makes them heal, with recipes for a safe home pharmacy.

by Andrew Chevallier 2000 336 pages

4.53

1k+ ratings

🌿 Herbal Medicine 🪴 Medicinal Plants 🏡 Home Remedies

The Secret Wisdom of Nature

by Peter Wohlleben • 2017

Wolves reshape rivers, salmon fertilize forests, and most human fixes only make ecosystems worse.

4.05

7k+

🌲 Forest Ecology 🔑 Keystone Species 🦌 Rewilding

The Secret Wisdom of Nature

Wolves reshape rivers, salmon fertilize forests, and most human fixes only make ecosystems worse.

by Peter Wohlleben 2017 272 pages

4.05

7k+ ratings

🌲 Forest Ecology 🔑 Keystone Species 🦌 Rewilding

Teaming with Nutrients

by Jeff Lowenfels • 2013

Plants eat through physics, chemistry, and fungi. Feed the biology, not just the soil.

4.30

399

🌿 Organic Gardening 🧪 Soil Science 🔬 Plant Biology

Teaming with Nutrients

Plants eat through physics, chemistry, and fungi. Feed the biology, not just the soil.

by Jeff Lowenfels 2013 250 pages

4.30

399 ratings

🌿 Organic Gardening 🧪 Soil Science 🔬 Plant Biology

Planta Sapiens

by Paco Calvo • 2022

A brainless intelligence: how plants learn, decide, and plan their futures.

3.41

500+

🌱 Plant Cognition ⚖️ Environmental Ethics 💬 Plant Communication

Planta Sapiens

A brainless intelligence: how plants learn, decide, and plan their futures.

by Paco Calvo 2022 304 pages

3.41

500+ ratings

🌱 Plant Cognition ⚖️ Environmental Ethics 💬 Plant Communication

The New Organic Grower

by Eliot Coleman • 1989

How to make a living from five acres by farming with nature, not against it.

4.41

1k+

🍃 Organic Farming 🥬 Market Gardening 🪱 Soil Health

The New Organic Grower

How to make a living from five acres by farming with nature, not against it.

by Eliot Coleman 1989 340 pages

4.41

1k+ ratings

🍃 Organic Farming 🥬 Market Gardening 🪱 Soil Health

Gathering Moss

by Robin Wall Kimmerer • 2003

They drink fog, build forests, bridge worlds. A scientist and Potawatomi woman on what mosses know.

4.38

21k+

🌿 Botanical Writing 🧡 Indigenous Ecology 📝 Essay Collections

Gathering Moss

They drink fog, build forests, bridge worlds. A scientist and Potawatomi woman on what mosses know.

by Robin Wall Kimmerer 2003 168 pages

4.38

21k+ ratings

🌿 Botanical Writing 🧡 Indigenous Ecology 📝 Essay Collections

Cannabis Pharmacy

by Michael Backes • 2013

Your body runs on cannabinoids. A guide to using cannabis for pain, nausea, and neuroprotection.

4.27

493

🌿 Medical Cannabis 🌱 Herbal Medicine 💊 Pain Management

Cannabis Pharmacy

Your body runs on cannabinoids. A guide to using cannabis for pain, nausea, and neuroprotection.

by Michael Backes 2013 320 pages

4.27

493 ratings

🌿 Medical Cannabis 🌱 Herbal Medicine 💊 Pain Management

Urban Gardening

by Will Cook • 2012

Your apartment can feed you. The guide to growing food in containers, from windowsill to rooftop.

3.49

180

🏙️ Urban Gardening 🪴 Container Gardening 📏 Small Space Growing

Urban Gardening

Your apartment can feed you. The guide to growing food in containers, from windowsill to rooftop.

by Will Cook 2012 110 pages

3.49

180 ratings

🏙️ Urban Gardening 🪴 Container Gardening 📏 Small Space Growing

The Cannabis Manifesto

by Steve DeAngelo • 2015

A racist ban turned a wellness plant into a dangerous drug. The evidence for undoing it.

4.10

367

🏛️ Drug Policy Reform 🌿 Cannabis Wellness ⚖️ Racial Justice

The Cannabis Manifesto

A racist ban turned a wellness plant into a dangerous drug. The evidence for undoing it.

by Steve DeAngelo 2015 230 pages

4.10

367 ratings

🏛️ Drug Policy Reform 🌿 Cannabis Wellness ⚖️ Racial Justice

The Practical Permaculture Project

by Sophie McKay • 2022

Feed your family from a backyard that waters itself, builds soil, and heals the land.

4.29

138

🌀 Permaculture 🥕 Organic Gardening 🌱 Soil Health

The Practical Permaculture Project

Feed your family from a backyard that waters itself, builds soil, and heals the land.

by Sophie McKay 2022 159 pages

4.29

138 ratings

🌀 Permaculture 🥕 Organic Gardening 🌱 Soil Health

The Permaculture Garden

by Graham Bell • 1994

A garden that hardly needs you: design it like a forest once, harvest for decades.

3.88

103

🌀 Permaculture 🌳 Forest Gardening 🪱 Soil Health

The Permaculture Garden

A garden that hardly needs you: design it like a forest once, harvest for decades.

by Graham Bell 1994 174 pages

3.88

103 ratings

🌀 Permaculture 🌳 Forest Gardening 🪱 Soil Health

A Garden of Marvels

by Ruth Kassinger • 2014

Sex in flowers, air-eating leaves, allied roots: botany's strangest truths took centuries to accept.

3.85

466

A Garden of Marvels

Sex in flowers, air-eating leaves, allied roots: botany's strangest truths took centuries to accept.

by Ruth Kassinger 2014 416 pages

3.85

466 ratings

Healing Herbal Teas

by Sarah Farr • 2016

What an herb tastes reveals what it heals. A formula for blending personalized medicinal teas.

4.27

366

🌿 Herbal Medicine 🍵 Tea Blending 🍂 Seasonal Living

Healing Herbal Teas

What an herb tastes reveals what it heals. A formula for blending personalized medicinal teas.

by Sarah Farr 2016 272 pages

4.27

366 ratings

🌿 Herbal Medicine 🍵 Tea Blending 🍂 Seasonal Living

Herbal Medicine Natural Remedies

by Anne Kennedy • 2017

150 kitchen-ready recipes that swap pills for plants: the beginner's roadmap to a home apothecary.

4.25

278

🌿 Herbal Medicine 🌱 Medicinal Plants 📖 Herbal Recipes

Herbal Medicine Natural Remedies

150 kitchen-ready recipes that swap pills for plants: the beginner's roadmap to a home apothecary.

by Anne Kennedy 2017 240 pages

4.25

278 ratings

🌿 Herbal Medicine 🌱 Medicinal Plants 📖 Herbal Recipes

Backyard Winter Gardening

by Caleb Warnock • 2013

Grow salads in January without a heated greenhouse. The low-tech method that fed Paris in winter.

3.83

186

🥬 Winter Gardening 🪟 Cold Frame Gardening 🏡 Food Self-Sufficiency

Backyard Winter Gardening

Grow salads in January without a heated greenhouse. The low-tech method that fed Paris in winter.

by Caleb Warnock 2013 176 pages

3.83

186 ratings

🥬 Winter Gardening 🪟 Cold Frame Gardening 🏡 Food Self-Sufficiency

Gardening for a Lifetime

by Sydney Eddison • 2010

Your body is aging; your garden shouldn't retire. The low-impact shifts that keep you growing.

3.76

274

👵 Aging Gardeners 🌱 Low-Maintenance Gardens 🌑 Shade Gardening

Gardening for a Lifetime

Your body is aging; your garden shouldn't retire. The low-impact shifts that keep you growing.

by Sydney Eddison 2010 208 pages

3.76

274 ratings

👵 Aging Gardeners 🌱 Low-Maintenance Gardens 🌑 Shade Gardening

The Backyard Parables

by Margaret Roach • 2013

What dies in the garden teaches what survives in you. Three decades of digging both.

3.65

436

🪴 Garden Memoir 🌿 Nature Writing 🍂 Seasonal Living

The Backyard Parables

What dies in the garden teaches what survives in you. Three decades of digging both.

by Margaret Roach 2013 288 pages

3.65

436 ratings

🪴 Garden Memoir 🌿 Nature Writing 🍂 Seasonal Living

Creating a Forest Garden

by Martin Crawford • 2010

A garden that works like a forest: seven edible layers, self-building soil, zero tillage.

4.44

433

🌳 Forest Gardening 🔄 Permaculture 🌱 Perennial Food Systems

Creating a Forest Garden

A garden that works like a forest: seven edible layers, self-building soil, zero tillage.

by Martin Crawford 2010 384 pages

4.44

433 ratings

🌳 Forest Gardening 🔄 Permaculture 🌱 Perennial Food Systems

Ayahuasca in My Blood

by Peter Gorman • 2010

Spirit darts, testy guardians, and a jungle brew that saved a leg from amputation.

4.28

467

🌿 Plant Medicine 🍄 Entheogenic Healing 🌴 Amazonian Shamanism

Ayahuasca in My Blood

Spirit darts, testy guardians, and a jungle brew that saved a leg from amputation.

by Peter Gorman 2010 248 pages

4.28

467 ratings

🌿 Plant Medicine 🍄 Entheogenic Healing 🌴 Amazonian Shamanism

All New Square Foot Gardening

by Mel Bartholomew • 1981

A grid-based method that uses 80% less space and 90% less water, and yields more food.

4.16

8k+

🏡 Small Space Gardening 🪴 Raised Bed Gardening 🥕 Vegetable Gardening

All New Square Foot Gardening

A grid-based method that uses 80% less space and 90% less water, and yields more food.

by Mel Bartholomew 1981 272 pages

4.16

8k+ ratings

🏡 Small Space Gardening 🪴 Raised Bed Gardening 🥕 Vegetable Gardening

Smart Plants

by Julie Morris • 2019

Eat for a faster, calmer brain: the plant foods and natural nootropics that optimize cognition.

4.10

🧠 Brain Foods 🌿 Natural Nootropics 🦠 Gut-Brain Connection

Smart Plants

Eat for a faster, calmer brain: the plant foods and natural nootropics that optimize cognition.

by Julie Morris 2019 320 pages

4.10

52 ratings

🧠 Brain Foods 🌿 Natural Nootropics 🦠 Gut-Brain Connection

Around the World in 80 Plants

by Jonathan Drori • 2021

How a cactus, a purple dye, and a lethal bean rewrote history: 80 plants, 80 stories.

4.40

1k+

🌿 Ethnobotany 👽 Plant Curiosities 🌍 Global Journey

Around the World in 80 Plants

How a cactus, a purple dye, and a lethal bean rewrote history: 80 plants, 80 stories.

by Jonathan Drori 2021 216 pages

4.40

1k+ ratings

🌿 Ethnobotany 👽 Plant Curiosities 🌍 Global Journey

How to Read a Tree

by Tristan Gooley • 2023

Bark cracks, bent trunks, and stubby roots are not flaws but notes in a tree's autobiography.

4.09

1k+

🧭 Natural Navigation 🌳 Tree Identification 🗺️ Landscape Reading

How to Read a Tree

Bark cracks, bent trunks, and stubby roots are not flaws but notes in a tree's autobiography.

by Tristan Gooley 2023 384 pages

4.09

1k+ ratings

🧭 Natural Navigation 🌳 Tree Identification 🗺️ Landscape Reading

Around the World in 80 Trees

by Jonathan Drori • 2018

A botanical tour of 80 trees that built empires, inspired myths, and launched trade routes.

4.55

2k+

🌿 Plant Adaptations 🌍 Cultural Botany 🌳 Tree Biology

Around the World in 80 Trees

A botanical tour of 80 trees that built empires, inspired myths, and launched trade routes.

by Jonathan Drori 2018 240 pages

4.55

2k+ ratings

🌿 Plant Adaptations 🌍 Cultural Botany 🌳 Tree Biology

The Forest Reminds Us Who We Are

by Seaan Paadraig O'Donoghue • 2021

The forest resets your nervous system in ways modern medicine overlooks. Here is how to return.

4.37

🪴 Herbal Medicine 🌿 Nature Connection ✨ Plant Spirit Medicine

The Forest Reminds Us Who We Are

The forest resets your nervous system in ways modern medicine overlooks. Here is how to return.

by Seaan Paadraig O'Donoghue 2021 224 pages

4.37

19 ratings

🪴 Herbal Medicine 🌿 Nature Connection ✨ Plant Spirit Medicine

Lives of the Trees

by Diana Wells • 2010

Almonds once meant hope, cypresses mourning. A cultural biography of the trees that shaped history.

3.79

287

🌳 Cultural Botany 📖 Tree Lore 🗣️ Plant Folklore

Lives of the Trees

Almonds once meant hope, cypresses mourning. A cultural biography of the trees that shaped history.

by Diana Wells 2010 369 pages

3.79

287 ratings

🌳 Cultural Botany 📖 Tree Lore 🗣️ Plant Folklore

Growing Marijuana Box Set

by Alfonso Garcia • 2021

From first seed to cured harvest: grow marijuana indoors or out, beginner or advanced.

1.00

🪴 Marijuana Cultivation 🏠 Indoor Gardening 💧 Hydroponics

Growing Marijuana Box Set

From first seed to cured harvest: grow marijuana indoors or out, beginner or advanced.

by Alfonso Garcia 2021 108 pages

1.00

1 ratings

🪴 Marijuana Cultivation 🏠 Indoor Gardening 💧 Hydroponics

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