Cooking with live fire goes way beyond the barbecue grill. This book helps you discover the pleasures of a variety of unconventional techniques, from roasting pork on a spit to baking bread in ashes, searing fish on a griddle, smoking turkey, making soup in a cast-iron pot, and baking pizza in a wood-fired oven, cooking bacon on a stick, and more.

Shows how common kitchen staples - pits, nuts, beans, seeds, and tubers - can be coaxed into lush, vibrant houseplants that are as attractive as they are fascinating. This book offers growing instructions for over 50 plants in four broad categories - kitchen vegetables; fruits and nuts; herbs and spices; and more exotic plants from ethnic markets.

Stitchers of every ability level will love the color-combining methods and professional secrets revealed in The Essential Guide to Color Knitting Techniques. Multicolor knitting techniques are explained with step-by-step illustrations and photographs accompanied by instructive text.

Bioactivated charcoal - called biochar - can dramatically improve soil quality, and this first book on gardening with biochar addresses how to make it at home and use it to increase soil's biological activity and water-holding capacity.

Best-selling author Niki Jabbour provides an essential, in-depth guide to creating controlled growing spaces for productive vegetable gardening, using row covers, shade cloth, low tunnels, cold frames, hoop houses, and more.