Green Week : Home & Food

Veg In is crammed with simple, healthy, vegetarian alternatives to your favourite takeaway meals. The 100 recipes in this book were inspired by my favourite international dishes.

Veg In includes an abundance of recipes for delicious dips and drinks, scrumptious side dishes, exotic main course and dreamy desserts. No need for a passport or a drive in the car. Take your taste buds around the world on a gastronomic journey without leaving your front door!

Forget the farmer’s market. Grow your own delicious, organic apples, figs, peaches, plums, strawberries, blackberries, citrus fruits, and more with Grow Your Own Mini Fruit Garden. No green thumb required.

Even beginners become successful fruit "farmers" with the techniques and advice offered by author Christy Wilhelmi, the force behind the popular gardening website, Gardenerd. Selecting the best small-scale fruit trees, bushes, vines, and plants for your climate, siting them properly, and pruning your compact trees for health and productivity are some of the many topics covered in the pages of this bible of small-space fruit growing.

Since it was first published in 1999, How It All Vegan! has become a bible for vegan cooks, both diehard and newly converted; its basic introduction to the tenets of vegan living and eating, combined with Sarah Kramer's and Tanya Barnard's winning charm, made it an essential cookbook for anyone considering eschewing animal products from their diet. It won VegNews' Veggie Award for Best Cookbook twice, has been reprinted fourteen times, and spawned several successful sequels (including The Garden of Vegan, La Dolce Vegan!, and last year's Vegan #65533; Go-Go!). In the ten years since How It All Vegan! was first published, however, veganism has "come out of the closet," and is now considered a legitimate diet and lifestyle not only for those wishing to improve their health, but also for those who care deeply about the welfare of animals. This tenth-anniversary edition includes a new color photo section and new recipes; it also includes a new introduction by co-author Sarah Kramer, who speaks personally and passionately about the impact of veganism on her life over the past decade.

We should thank a pollinator at every meal. These diminutive creatures fertilize a third of the crops we eat. Yet half of the 200,000 species of pollinators are threatened. Birds, bats, insects, and many other pollinators are disappearing, putting our entire food supply in jeopardy. In North America and Europe, bee populations have already plummeted by more than a third and the population of butterflies has declined 31 percent. Protecting Pollinators explores why the statistics have become so dire and how they can be reversed.

Making is good for you. Exploring crafts can be relaxing and therapeutic : the projects in this book are accessible to anyone who is inspired to recycle old clothes and textiles into unique, decorative, useful projects. Our forbears improvised tools to recycle their worn clothes - mostly dark suiting or mill waste if they lived near a mill. Usually they made mats for their cold floors or as draft excluders across doors. Nowadays you can choose from so many more colours and textures - painting with rags! Try one project or more. You will be able to use the techniques to design and make your own one-off items for your home or as hand-made gifts. The techniques here are traditional and simple - you will be surprised at how drab fabrics become transformed.

Recycling is one of the hottest new trends in embroidery, and this is the first book on the subject. Covering the techniques of both hand and machine embroidery, it's packed with ideas for using different types of salvaged material-from fabric, paper, dried flowers, and tree bark, to metal waste, plastic, broken jewellery, and personal souvenirs. Along with the practical instruction, there's inspiring advice on how recycling can be used to give special creative meaning to a piece of embroidery. The exciting possibilities are illustrated throughout with stunning colour photographs of work by some of today's leading embroiderers.

You don't have to be a professional horticulturalist to learn how to grow soil-free in your own home. For anyone who was ever turned off by traditional gardening because of inconvenience or messiness, hydroponic gardening offers an attractive and practical alternative. Your fruits, vegetables, flowers, and other foliage can flourish without their roots being buried unnecessarily in layers of restrictive, water-wasting soil. According to The Green Living Journal, growing plants and crops without soil requires only 1/20 to 1/30 the amount of water needed with conventional gardening, saving you on both the costs of soil and water. With How to Grow Fruits, Vegetables, & Houseplants Without Soil as your step-by-step guide, you can learn how to set up your own hydroponic garden right in your backyard, greenhouse, or windowsill.

Quick and easy solutions for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. New followers of a plant-based diet are often overwhelmed with the ingredients, recipes, and choices of a vegan lifestyle. And, they often miss their favorite dishes from their old way of eating. Donna and Anne have created a cookbook that explains terms and new food items along with taking common comfort foods and quick recipes and making them vegan approved. With more than 100 recipes that include Pineapple Upside-Down Pancakes, Potato Corn Chowder, All-American Meatless Loaf, Mac and Cashew Cheese, and Chocolate Decadence Cheesefake, you are sure to make dining a pleasure.

With organic food sales growing at around 40 percent a year, interest in healthy eating and living is increasing. Even the supermarkets have acknowledged the demand for organic food and most provide a wide range of organic products. Recent food scares about genetically modified organisms (GMOs), pesticides in baby foods and BSE have made us all more concerned about the food and drink we consume. This healthier attitude can be applied across every aspect of our lives from the clothes we wear to the beds we sleep on. The Complete Book of Green Living shows how you can lead a more organic lifestyle by making just a few simple changes to your life.

Row by row - maximize your harvest and feed your soil by developing a customized plan for your garden. Everyone loves to prepare a meal with ingredients fresh from their own garden. But for most of us, no matter how plentiful our harvest, homegrown produce comprises only a fraction of what we eat. And while many gardening guides will tell you everything you ever wanted to know about individual crops, few tackle the more involved task of helping you maximize the percentage of your diet you grow yourself. Grow a Sustainable Diet will help you develop a comprehensive, customized garden plan to produce the maximum number of calories and nutrients from any available space.

Join home improvement author Chris Peterson for a complete guide to deconstructing and repurposing pallets to serve a new purpose. From quick and easy builds like a bird house and a wall clock to more complex projects like a garden cold frame and a kitchen island, there's something for everyone—and every pallet. Some projects, like the raised bed, showcase the pallet. For others, like the side table, you'd be hard-pressed to guess the wood was free. Peterson also dishes out must-have pallet knowledge, including the basic tools for breakdown, finish options, and key information on pallet safety.

Originating from Instructables, a popular project-based community made up of all sorts of characters with wacky hobbies and a desire to pass on their wisdom to others, Meatless Eats is made up of recipes from a cast of cooks who demonstrate their culinary savvy and flavor combinations. Meatless Eats gives full step-by-step instructions for creating delicious vegetarian dishes that even die-hard carnivores will crave. Written by cooks who can't get enough of veggies, each recipe contains pictures for an easy follow-along guide, even for those who spend little to no time in the kitchen. Discover your inner vegetarian with these mouthwatering recipes: Eggplant Parmesan Veggie Mexican Lasagna Portobello Mushrooms with Grilled Feta Burger Scrumptious Caponata Tomato Frittata  Fiery Pumpkin Samosas Vegetarian Mushroom Gravy  And much more! The Instructables community offers a great mixture of tastes and cuisines. Italian, Mexican, American, and more will appease any picky eater as well as provide for those who are willing to try just about anything. Meatless Eats will have you swearing by your healthy lifestyle, even if it's only for a single meal.