Book Review: Fabulous Frogs
Karen Linda Glaser’s book, Fabulous Frogs, introduces young readers to the life cycle, behavior, and appearance of frogs in general with a focus on leopard frogs, spring peepers, and bull frogs.…
Book Review: The Ultimate Guide to Urban Farming
Urban farming is not new but to many it is daunting and outside their comfort range. Nicole Faires shares her knowledge of the subject in her book, The Ultimate Guide…
Book Review: Bazaar
Sabrina Ghayour’s cookbook Bazaar offers recipes for vegetable dishes that are so full of flavor that vegetarians as well as meat eaters would be satisfied and not even miss meat.…
Book Review: Martha’s Flowers
Martha Stewart and her Executive Design Director Kevin Sharkey, collaborated on this book, Martha’s Flowers, that celebrates home grown flowers and the arrangements that can be made with them.. The…
Book Review: Peck, Peck, Peck
Lucy Cousins’ Peck, Peck, Peck is a delightful tale of young woodpecker whose daddy teaches him to peck and takes off to peck with all the enthusiasm of any youngster…
Book Review: Seasonal Flower Arranging
Florist Ariella Chezar shares her love of flowers and her knowledge of changing plant material throughout the year in her book Seasonal Flower Arranging. With a strong interest in buying…
Book Review: Forks over Knives: Flavor!
Darshana Thacker’s cookbook, Forks over Knives Flavor!, brings a very international approach to whole-food, plant based cooking. Believing that chronic aliments can be prevented, halted and oftentimes reversed by omitting…
Book Review: The Gardener’s Guide to Common-Sense Pest Control
The Gardener’s Guide to Common-Sense Pest Control explains the concepts and techniques of an environmentally sensitive approach to pest management that uses information on pest life cycles and their interaction…
Book Review: On Fire
On Fire is a collection of 16 long-form essays from Green New Deal advocate, Naomi Klein, setting out her reason why the economy has to be transformed to address the…
Book Review: Handpicked
Ingrid Carozzi, floral designer and owner of Tin Can Studios in Brooklyn, N.Y., shares her sustainable approach to flower arranging and provides instructions for making more than 35 arrangements in…