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How to kill several birds with one stone while gardening?
This bible offers a guide to how to have an abundant garden that requires less physical and financial investment!

This book unveils a gardening approach called "The Respect Nature Approach," which allows you to live in perfect harmony with your environment. Just as everything in nature is interconnected, the Respect Nature Approach enables zero-waste gardening by intelligently using the resources of our environment to meet our gardening needs.
When properly understood and applied, everyone can garden as they please and have beautiful harvests of healthy fruits and vegetables without having to buy any expensive products, without any cost, with less effort, while managing at the source the organic matter available at home and around their home.
This book reveals at least eight eco-friendly ways, other than traditional composting, to make the most of organic matter. Kitchen scraps, tree leaves, grass clippings, crop residues, old foliage, weeds, aquatic plants, wood chips, ramial chipped wood (RCW), and more are all materials that can be easily used in your garden. While composting isn't suitable for everyone, the other methods of managing these materials revealed in this book will surprise you with their simplicity, their logical approach, and how much they will improve your gardening!

You can read an excerpt by clicking here: Excerpt from Vegetable Garden: doing more with less .

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Author: Serge Fortier
Publisher: PRATICO-PRATIQUES EDITIONS
Dimensions: 20 x 25.5 cm (8 x 10 in)
Page: 192, color
Publication date: February 2023
ISBN: 9782896588435

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Permaculture shows, of course, how to manage an eco-garden, compost and create a mini food forest, but also how to gradually set up a local exchange system or create a business, maximizing useful interactions.

Permaculture, a term coined in Australia in the 1970s, involves creating sustainable habitats for humans by following nature's patterns. It is ecological design applied, initially, to agriculture, but also to housing, domestic life, and local development.

In this lively and lavishly illustrated mini-manual, Graham Burnett lays out the design principles found in natural systems that we should strive to emulate: an abundance of boundaries and transition zones, multiple and successive functions, cycles, and self-sufficiency. The idea is to work with nature, not against it, minimizing the effort required (the author's optimal level of intervention: "doing nothing").

Permaculture shows, of course, how to manage an eco-garden, compost and create a mini food forest, but also how to gradually set up a local exchange system or create a business, maximizing useful interactions.

This new classic of ecological design, reminiscent of the famous Whole Earth Catalog found in every town in the 1970s, has had three editions since its first publication in England 15 years ago. This is its first appearance in French.

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"A simple and engaging introduction, a very useful and important tool."
— Rob Hopkins, founder of the Transition movement

Author: Graham Burnett
Publisher: Écosociété (Montreal, QC)/resilience
Publication date: 2012 (2013 for the French edition)
Pages: 144
ISBN: 978-2-89719-060-6

Get your vegetable garden ready as a family! Create unforgettable memories together with both hands in the dirt! The Family Vegetable Garden Workbook is the perfect introduction to local and sustainable agriculture. It allows you to turn your garden into a joint project that is enriching, rewarding and fun for the children. Involve children in every step of the process from conception to harvest by providing them with a notebook where they can record, draw and/or paste the information needed to plan, create and maintain the garden.

The home garden is a source of pride for all families, and more importantly, an annual tradition for many of us. Even though we do it year after year, it is not uncommon to forget what we have tried and succeeded at in previous summers. Our home garden notebook will be the perfect project to collect all the notes on the garden, track its progress throughout the season, and then remember its good works - and the little mistakes - for the next summer!

The different sections of our gardening notebook are:

Our Vegetable Garden | Go Team! | Big Plans | Super Seedlings | Garden Guardians | OInspired Layout | Get to Work! | Weather Patterns | Harvest Calendar | All About (x14 for your different plants) | Vivid Colors | Family Favorites | Memories Background

The gardening journal will be a beautiful souvenir of all the great moments you will spend with your family working together for a great harvest!

Printed in Quebec (Sorel-Tracy)

Illustrations: Aurélie Grand

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Materials : 35 pages // Heavy kraft cardboard cover and inner sheets on recycled paper.
Dimensions : Height: 11 inches, Width: 8.5 inches

Notebook in English

The right to the city is a cry for help and a demand for renewed cities that meet the needs and aspirations of citizens. Yet, although food is a cornerstone of human life, urban hunger is widespread, and it clearly violates the right to the city, few studies have linked these two rights. This essay addresses this gap by examining the community initiative Notre Quartier Nourricier (Our Nourishing Neighbourhood) in Montreal's Centre-Sud neighbourhood, which creates an inclusive space where citizens reclaim their neighbourhood through food production and consumption, while simultaneously developing a sense of belonging to their living environment and community.

A constant racket.
Burning concrete.
Grey skies.
A horizon narrowed by thousands of buildings.
A neighborhood populated by strangers.

As the growth and sprawl of major urban centers continue in Canada and elsewhere, is it possible to imagine a new way of living together? What if cities also became green and nourishing? This essay explores the role of food – beyond urban agriculture – in the reappropriation of neighborhoods by their residents.

What if, by (re)integrating food into the urban fabric, we reinvent the city?

With this attempt at repair, I hope to inspire a reconnection to others, to the world around us. Our future depends on it.

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Author: Marie-Pierre Beauvais
Edition: XYZ
Dimensions: 12.7 x 20.32 cm (5 x 8 in)
Page: 192
Publication date: November 2, 2022
ISBN: 9782897724108

In this book, the author shows how to apply these principles concretely and successfully in small gardens.

Kurt Forster is one of the pioneers of permaculture, which he has been teaching for years in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. The principle consists of imitating natural processes by recreating a true ecosystem within the garden, which means, among other things: making the best use of existing conditions and creating micro-biotopes, limiting external inputs and recycling everything that is produced, promoting species diversity to avoid diseases and create beneficial associations, layering crops vertically as in forest systems, optimizing the interactions between the different elements, etc.

In this book, the author shows how to apply these principles practically and successfully in small gardens. Using his own garden as an example, he explains in detail how his family has become almost self-sufficient year-round in fruits, berries, salads, and vegetables, while his potato production covers half the year, and his production of grains, fish, mushrooms, and corn significantly enriches their daily lives.

Not forgetting the aesthetic dimension and the well-being provided by a garden where life has reclaimed its rights.

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Illustrated
Author: Kurt Forster
Publisher: Ulmer/Do It Yourself (France)
Publication date: 2014
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9782841387212

Prepare your family vegetable garden! Create unforgettable memories together, hands in the soil! The Family Vegetable Garden Notebook is a perfect introduction to local and sustainable agriculture. It allows you to transform your vegetable garden into a shared, enriching, rewarding, and fun project for children. Involve children at every stage, from ideation to harvest, by giving them a notebook where they can write, draw, and/or paste the information needed to plan, create, and maintain the vegetable garden.

The family vegetable garden is a source of pride for all families, and above all, an annual tradition for many of us. Even if we do it year after year, it's not uncommon to forget what we tried and accomplished in previous summers. Our family garden journal will be the perfect project to collect all our notes about the garden, track its progress throughout the season, and then remember our successes—and the little mistakes—for the following summer!

The different sections of our gardening journal are:

Our vegetable garden | Our team | Our wishes | Our seedlings | Our friends | Our great plan | Let's get to work! | The weather station | The harvest calendar | Story of (x14 for your different plants) | Our colors | Our recipes | Our memories

The gardening journal will surely be a beautiful keepsake of all the wonderful moments you will spend as a family working together for a great harvest!

Printed in Quebec (Sorel-Tracy)

Illustrations: Aurélie Grand

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Materials : 35 pages // Thick kraft cardboard cover and recycled paper inner sheets.
Dimensions : Height: 11 inches, Width: 8.5 inches

Notebook in French

Edible and medicinal plants of the boreal forest and the benefits of chaga brings together the most up-to-date knowledge on 64 plants of the boreal forest as well as on chaga, a parasitic fungus of birch.

Edible and medicinal plants of the boreal forest and the benefits of chaga is the most complete work to date on the subject; it allows you to return to the source and to enjoy autonomously, summer and winter, the virtues of plants and chaga.

In this work, the author pays homage to the indigenous people, our European ancestors and our grandmothers, who used these plants before us, when the nature that surrounded them was both their pantry and their pharmacy.

You will discover;

• Updated knowledge about medicinal plants,
• Recipes using medicinal plants, tested and proven by a herbalist.
• Several original ways to cook edible plants and prepare chaga,
• Suggestions for harvesting, preserving and using plants and chaga.

Case sheet

Author: Roger Larivière
Publisher: Naturat (Quebec, Canada)
Publication date: April 2020
Pages: 258
ISBN: 978-2-9818049-2-1
Language: French

The Zero Waste Goal is a tool to support them in this civilizational shift. This short essay raises awareness of a new ecological civic responsibility.

Warning: a clash of civilizations is on the horizon! Within a few years, our economy will have found ways to completely recycle the waste it currently generates. Glass, paper, cardboard, plastic, electronic devices—a truly post-industrial society will finally be organized so that every manufactured product is recycled or reused. From broken toasters to threadbare clothing, from empty bottles to leftover food.

But to achieve this, consumers will also have to change their lifestyles. The Zero Waste Goal is the tool to support them through this civilizational shift. This short essay raises awareness of a new environmental civic responsibility and encourages us to be more vigilant in our consumption choices and purchases. The "popa" played by Claude Meunier in the popular television series La Petite Vie is resolutely relegated, with his green bag, to the old world.

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Author: Marlène Hutchinson
Publisher: MULTIMONDES
Publication date: April 2017
ISBN: 9782897730277
Language: French

Already considered "the little bible of ecological vegetable cultivation" by several gardeners since its first publication in 2010, it is a reference work that is aimed at both apprentice gardeners and those who want to improve their practices, whether in the suburbs, the countryside or the city.

Growing your own vegetables in an environmentally friendly way is a wonderful way to protect your health and the environment.

Thanks to My Healthy Vegetable Garden, you:

• will understand what the "health" links are that unite all living organisms and why growing your own vegetables in an ecological way helps to protect the environment;
• you will learn why growing and consuming your own vegetables has a positive effect on your physical and mental health and that of your loved ones;
• you will discover tips and tricks to maintain your health potential while gardening;
• You will learn how to plan and carry out your vegetable garden project in all conditions: in your yard, in a community garden, on your balcony...
• You will learn all about the ecological cultivation of around forty vegetables, from sowing to harvest;
• you will be informed about the various health benefits of vegetables;
• You will benefit from a complete chart on vegetable preservation in order to enjoy their value for as long as possible;
• learn how to make a self-watering container to easily grow your tomatoes and other vegetables on your balcony;
• will be informed of natural methods of prevention and control of damage caused to vegetables by pests (insects and others) and diseases.

You can read an excerpt by clicking here: Excerpt from the book "My Healthy Vegetable Garden"

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Author: Lili Michaud
Publisher: MultiMondes Publishing
Dimensions: x cm (x in)
Page: 328, color
Publication date: March 2017
ISBN: 9782897730338
Language: French

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This testimonial guide, accompanied by numerous photos and practical fact sheets, will provide you with all the information to start your micro-farm.

The guide-testimony, with a foreword by Pierre Rabhi and Nicolas Hulot.

Do you dream of returning to the land? This testimonial guide, accompanied by numerous photos and practical fact sheets, will provide you with all the information to launch your micro-farm, think about your project and "open the doors to a commitment that is both personal and collective" (Pierre Rabhi).

• What is a micro-farm?
• Where to get training?
• How to choose your legal status, secure financing, and find land?
• Which cultivation methods should be favoured?
• How to buy or produce your own seedlings
• Why diversify?
• How to communicate and grow?

"What I have tried to convey in this book is a love for the profession, areas requiring vigilance, and the different fields of exploration and research, through our own experience."

For this work, she collaborated with experts such as Kevin Morel, an agricultural engineer in charge of the study on micro-farms in France. Linda Bedouet provides the essential keys to setting up as an agroecological farmer, to help you develop a productive, profitable project that benefits both the environment and people.

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Author: Linda Bedouet
Edition: Rustica
Publication date: 2017-02
Pages: 320
ISBN: 9782815309264
Language: French

The first comprehensive and easy-to-consult guide with caterpillars and distribution maps.

The first comprehensive and easy-to-consult guide with caterpillars and distribution maps.

Are you fascinated by butterflies? Discover all the diurnal species of our region in the first book on the market to offer you not only hundreds of high-quality photos of all butterflies, but also striking illustrations of our caterpillars. In addition to informative texts on the biology and ecology of these captivating insects, the guide features complete identification sheets for each species (description, similar species, flight periods, habitat, host plants, abundance, etc.). Everything to satisfy both the beginner and the seasoned observer.

Editor-in-chief of Nature sauvage magazine, Michel Leboeuf is the author of several books and articles popularizing natural sciences. His journalistic work has been recognized by the Quebec Entomological Society and the Canadian Forest Service. He is also the recipient of the Hubert-Reeves Prize for the best popular science book in French in Canada.

Stéphane Le Tirant, curator and head of collections at the Montreal Insectarium, is also one of the driving forces behind the annual Butterflies Go Free event at the Montreal Botanical Garden. A consultant for the creation of numerous aviaries around the world, as well as for the Insectia series, he has several scientific publications and entomological expeditions to his credit, among other achievements.

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Authors: Stéphane Le Tirant and Michel Leboeuf
Hardcover
Publication date: April 2012
ISBN: 9782894355800

My beautiful vegetable garden , an album for budding gardeners, will guide young and old alike in planting fruits and vegetables in their garden.

In rhyme and poetry, Anne-Marie Fortin offers us a simple agricultural calendar. Sowing, trellising, roots, perennials, harvesting, picking, and composting—she explains it all!

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Author: Anne-Marie Fortin
Illustrator: Julien Castanié
Publisher: Isatis (Of the)
Pages: 24
Publication date: November 2019
Children's books
ISBN: 9782924769805

What would our societies be without oil? Brutally transformed. We would have to quickly relearn how to produce countless things to ensure our survival.

What would our societies be like without oil? Brutally transformed… No more computers, no more food from around the world, no more cars or planes, no more plastic; we would have to quickly relearn how to produce countless things to ensure our survival. But would we be capable of such self-sufficiency?

This catastrophic scenario is far from paranoid. On the contrary, it represents a near future that we will have to face sooner or later. Combined with climate change, peak oil (the end of abundant and cheap oil) demands a drastic change in our lifestyles, an energy transition that would end our collective vulnerability. Since our governments refuse to take the necessary measures, it falls to us, as citizens, to take the initiative and prepare ourselves.

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Author: Rob Hopkins
Edition: Ecosociété
Publication date: 2010
Pages: 216
ISBN: 9782923165660

Since fungi are indispensable allies in this interconnected nature, this guide should bring about changes in agricultural and forestry practices.

This field guide to the birds and plants of the boreal forest is designed for hikers exploring this vast vegetation zone. Compact and water-resistant, it is the ideal companion for those who wish to quickly identify the plants and birds frequently encountered in forest or wetland environments, particularly the species of Abitibi in Quebec.

It presents the following information;

• 136 high-quality photographs
• 64 species of birds and 72 species of plants
• Common, scientific and family names
• Habitats
• Bird size

Fact sheet

Author: Roger Larivière and the Ornithological Leisure Society of
Abitibi (SLOA).
Publisher: L'ABC de l'édition (Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec, Canada)
Publication date: May 2015
Size: 36cm × 8.13cm
ISBN: 978-2-922952-59-9
Language: French and English

Today, it is more urgent than ever to review production methods based on the use of fossil fuels, pesticides and chemical fertilizers.

Today, it is more urgent than ever to rethink production methods based on the use of fossil fuels, pesticides, and chemical fertilizers. "EM," a mixture of microorganisms developed by Japanese researcher Teruo Higa, addresses this issue and proves to be invaluable allies for those who wish to be both active participants and beneficiaries in a natural biological system.

"Higa knew he had just made an extraordinary discovery [...]. What he could not yet guess was how universal the use of these microbial combinations would become," writes Anne Lorch.

This book, in which everyone can glean what interests them, is richly illustrated and clearly structured.

• A broad overview takes us from the current environmental situation to the world of EM, addressing topics such as soil life, water biology, microbiology, etc., and prepares us to better understand the role of these microorganisms.
• A very detailed description of the manufacture of EM products and their use (in fields, orchards and vineyards, meadows and stables, in our homes, gardens and bodies of water, in crafts and industry, for our health and that of animals) is then provided.
• User testimonials, with concrete examples, conclude this work.

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Author: Anne Lorch
Publisher: Le souffle d'or (France)
Publication date: 2011
Pages: 382
ISBN: 9782840584001

When Mia realizes the importance of her work as a bee…

When she discovers the magic of nature's cycles…

She is filled with pride! She is a valuable partner of

The vast world of sustainable agriculture!

Author: Madeleine Lacourse-Désilets
Publisher: La Roupille
Publication date: Spring 2022
Pages: 32 color pages / 14 illustrations
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9782924304-48-8

Crops and farming practices are evolving at an increasingly rapid pace due to the globalization of trade, cutting-edge scientific knowledge, and climate change. Agricultural entomology is no exception. […] Whatever their motivation, everyone will come away from this reading dazzled by the beauty and imagination displayed by Nature.

Some harmful insects have become resistant to the control methods used to combat them, others, recently arrived, are wreaking havoc, and still others are being introduced to control these pests. Meanwhile, species classification is undergoing a revolution driven by phylogenetics, and there is an unprecedented surge in research on integrated pest management to meet new socio-health and environmental requirements. This book therefore focuses on the essentials. It brings together everything needed to identify the main harmful and beneficial insects, with a strong emphasis on illustrations.

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Author: Roger Doucet
Publisher: Berger - Canadian book
Category: Pure Sciences, Agricultural Science.
Publication date: 2017-02-21
Size: 20.5 cm x 23.0 cm
Pages: 452
Binding: Softcover
ISBN: 978-2-921416-87-0
Language: French

The perfect book for balconies and terraces.

The perfect book for balconies and terraces.

Experience micro-gardening! Planting, sowing, and growing vegetables, herbs, or edible flowers in containers has never been easier or more accessible. You can place them anywhere: on your balcony, your terrace, or even your roof!

The Container Garden provides relevant, original, and highly useful information on plant selection, planting, maintenance, pest control, harvesting, and preservation. For each type of edible plant you choose to grow, whether it's arugula, basil, or daylilies, the book specifies, for example, the minimum diameter and depth of the pot to use, as well as the volume of potting soil. It offers a wealth of advice to help you successfully grow your crops and enjoy the unparalleled taste of fresh, healthy food.

This practical guide invites you to unleash your inspiration and creativity. It promises great horticultural and… gastronomic pleasures.

You can read an excerpt by clicking here: Excerpt from the book The Potted Vegetable Garden

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Author: Bertrand Dumond
Publisher: MultiMondes Publishing
Dimensions: x cm (x in)
Page: 271, color
Publication date: March 2019
ISBN: 9782897731281
Language: French

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Unique in its kind, this work by Suzanne Brûlotte and Gilles Lacroix deals with feeders, waterers, nesting boxes, bird baths, shrubs and flowers that can attract several species of birds.

This innovative book, aimed at both beginners and experienced birdkeepers, seeks to guide them in their efforts to ensure the well-being of birds and provide them with a welcoming environment.

In this book, you'll learn how to choose, modify, and maintain the bird feeders best suited to the birds you want to attract to your garden. You'll discover the best tips for deterring predators and learn how to help two competing species coexist. Since landscaping plays a crucial role in attracting birds, you'll find relevant information on several species of trees, shrubs, and flowers that provide shelter or food. Those that our feathered visitors particularly enjoy are recommended.

Faced with the many questions that inevitably arise when you invite birds into your home, this guide will be invaluable. The authors invite you to share their knowledge, experiences, and passion for birds.

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Authors: Gilles Lacroix and Suzanne Brûlotte
ISBN: 9782896541577

Feeding and housing birds sparks the interest and curiosity of many bird enthusiasts. To inform them, this book offers new information on nest boxes and feeders.

Feeding and housing birds sparks the interest and curiosity of many bird enthusiasts. To inform them, this book offers new information on nest boxes and feeders.

This book guides you from building the nest box to the fledging of the chicks. It provides information on monitoring the nest, potential problems, and how to resolve them. You will follow the life of the nest box, from its installation to its removal.

Feeding birds requires attention. This book teaches you how to keep them in your garden, how to allow all species to coexist, and makes the job easier. It presents numerous tips and several innovative designs.

Plants attract birds. You'll discover which ones they prefer and what they gain from them. Information on the advantages and disadvantages of certain plants will help you choose which ones to plant in your garden.

Finally, small anecdotes will teach you about the behavior of certain birds and about the author's observations.

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