39 Essential Projects for the Home Gardener

The Vegetable Gardener’s Book of Building Projects This unique book contains all the essential projects needed to get the most from your backyard garden.   Many of these projects are ideal for beginners, and most can be completed in a matter of hours or a single weekend.  Each  plan features a shopping list of materials needed [...]

Gardening as a Quality of Life Style

This Thursday, April 29 at 6:30 pm, join us in Meeting Room 2 on Main Library’s High Street level for a lively discussion of the challenges and opportunities of the urban gardening movement.  Larry Parker, Executive director of The Akron Cooperative will tell us about the efforts to develop and manage the Community Gardens in [...]

Wicked Plants

The Weed That Killed Lincoln’s Mother & Other Botanical Atrocities We generally think of plants as lovely and benign, but according to author Amy Stewart the plant world harbors a frightening array of invasive, insidious, toxic and even lethal members. In this small breezy read Stewart combines history and anecdote along with factual scientific warnings [...]

Gift idea for that special gardener

   It’s not too early to start thinking about holiday gifts; before you know it the holiday season will be here!  Do you have a friend or family member that loves to garden?  Check out American Horticultural Society’s New Encyclopedia of Gardening Techniques.  Just published in October, this practical guide includes step-by-step color illustrations to [...]