EIU Booth Library

Small Scale Sustainable Gardening

Posted on March 10th, 2017

 Planting season is coming up! Get a head start on your small-scale herb or kitchen garden with resources from Booth. 

Several Books on gardening, both small and larger scale are listed below. Additionally we have many DVDs related to food, gardening, and sustainable agriculture.

Gardens of Destiny — S605.5 .G38 2010x .DVD
Dan Jason is an organic gardener and the head of the Seed and Plant Sanctuary for Canada. This film explores Dan’s garden and seed world and investigates such issues as genetic engineering, terminator seeds, and the pitfalls of industrial agriculture in North America. The film offers several easy solutions for citizens and governments in the United States and Canada, including supporting organic growers and starting your own organic garden.

New Farms, Big Success — S494.5.S86 N49 2014x .DVD
This documentary presents three, ecologically responsible farms in the USA and Canada. Their unique business plans eliminate the middle man, use sustainable methods and few fossil fuels and show a decent living can be made! With participation of leading environmentalist, educator, Bill McKibben, the film provides critical information to develop an enduring, local food network in a time of climate change and includes the official point of view of The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the UN office specialized in the protection of life on earth, about the links between climate change, biodiversity and farming.

Fresh Food: what is farm to table? — S494.5.S86 F738 2011x .DVD
The basics of sustainable farming and locally grown foods are explored through the eyes of three chefs who have left big city jobs to grow fresh, healthy ingredients for their gourmet dishes. The video follows the chefs as they establish a farm complete with vegetables, fruits, herbs, chickens, cows, and pigs–and without fertilizers, pesticides, or hormones. After a brief history of American farming, viewers see how the chefs created and market their farm, learn the differences and similarities between sustainable and organic farming, and discover how fresh food travels from farm to table.

• A longer list of DVDs.
• 6 Documentaries on organic food, from Kanopy Streaming
• “Organic Food” This link will take you to several hundred reference book entries relevant to organic food from many different titles in the Gale Virtual Reference Library

Books:

Herbs for the Gourmet Gardener: A Practical Resource from the Garden to the Table
SB351.H5 H633 2014

Designing the New Kitchen Garden: An American Potager Handbook
SB324.3 .B38 2006

Handbook of Nuts
SB401.A4 D84 2001

Herbs
SB351.H5 M48 1993

Complete Herb Book
SB351.H5 M354 2008

Bananas and Plantains
SB379.B2 R63 1996

Landscaping with Herbs
SB351.H5 A32 2001x

Uncommon Fruits for Every Garden
SB355 .R45 2004

Vegetable Gardening for Dummies
SB321 .N24 2009x

Culinary Herbs
SB351.H5 S56 1997x

Betty Crocker’s Kitchen Gardens
SB321 .C25

Culinary Herbs for Short-Season Gardens
SB351.H5 S63 2002

Grow Cook Eat: A Food Lover’s Guide to Kitchen Gardening
SB321 .G25 2012

Ancient Herbs
SB351.H5 H34 2007

City People’s Book of Raising Food
SB321 .O4

The Family Kitchen Garden
SB321 .L54 2009

Herb Gardening from the Ground Up
SB351.H5 G545 2012

Tomatoes
SB349 .T678 2005

How to Grow Your Own Vegetables
SB321 .K74

Knott’s Handbook for Vegetable Growers
SB321 .M392 2007

The Kitchen Garden
SB321 .B56 2000

Organic Gardening for Dummies
SB453.5 .W49 2009x

Organic Fruit Growing
SB357.24 .B5613 2003