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Desde la cuenta de Instagram Bromatología en casa®, Mariana Al, técnica en alimentos, Daniela Crimer, ingeniera agrónoma, y Erica Pitaro Hoffman, ingeniera en alimentos, concientizan e informan sobre prevenir y erradicar infestaciones y la manera correcta de limpiar nuestro hogar y comprar y manipular alimentos. Porque saber es siempre mejor que no saber y, sobre todo, porque #NoPasaHastaquePasa.

Since The Chicken Whisperer’s Guide to Keeping Chickens was first published in 2011, tens of thousands of people have discovered the joys and benefits of a backyard flock. Now Andy Schneider is back with The Chicken Whisperer’s Guide to Keeping Chickens, Expanded & Revised. Keeping backyard chickens is a fun, simple way to to reconnect with the earth, the community, and your food sources—and you can do it, even with limited space in your backyard. Let the Chicken Whisperer teach you everything he knows and everything you need to know about raising a backyard flock!

Besides enjoying your new hobby, you also receive some of nature’s most beautiful gifts: sweet honey and nutritional beeswax. This beekeeping audiobook for beginners has been designed to educate someone who knows nothing about beekeeping and give them all the beekeeping essentials they need to get them to a level where they can understand what they need and how to get started. You will not regret purchasing this audiobook that will get you started on your beekeeping journey! This beekeeping quick guide will save you hours of research.

Have you ever wondered why honey bees are so vital to the health and vitality of our world? Join retired educator Howard Steel as he whimsically shares his passion for these amazing creatures and his experiences with beekeeping. Discover why these incredible producers are endangered and how we can help protect them with simple, personal lifestyle changes. Find out about the intricate and fascinating role of the honey bee in ecosystem pollination. Be inspired and learn how to start up your own hive right in your backyard!

Growing vegetables in a raised bed grid garden (a.k.a. square foot garden) is a great way to maximize your vegetable growing efforts, and at the same time dramatically reduce your workload. A grid garden is simple to assemble and operate. Growing in one-foot squares means that you can truly maximize your vegetable production in an environment that is great fun to operate and will assure a regular harvest of healthy vegetables. If you are growing vegetables in raised beds, then your production and crop rotation can be maximized by using the simple techniques employed in grid gardening.

Hugelkultur, also sometimes referred to as hugel bed, is a permaculture gardening technique for growing vegetables in heaps made from timber and covered over with topsoil. In this short introduction to a well established but little known growing concept, you will discover what it involves and how it can be used to great advantage particularly in dry arid regions. With a proper understanding and application of this simple technique, vegetables can be grown with minimum irrigation—and less backache!

Flügelnah verfolgen Thomas Radetzki und Matthias Eckoldt die Prozesse im Bienenstaat. Sie schildern die sich wandelnden Rhythmen im Volk, die virtuose Kommunikation der Bienen und ihre fein abgestimmte Kooperation bei allen Handlungen. Als das erfolgreichste Unternehmen der Welt demonstrieren die Bienen, dass ein Gemeinwesen auf Dauer nur bestehen kann, wenn alle Beteiligten dabei gewinnen. Beispielgebend finden sie in ein Gleichgewicht des Nötigen und zeigen eine Alternative zu unserem Wachstumsstreben, dem nicht nur die Bienen zum Opfer zu fallen drohen.

In Farm the City, Michael Ableman, the “Spartacus of Sustainable Food Activism”, offers a guide to setting up and running a successful urban farm, derived from the success of Sole Food Street Farms, one of the largest urban agriculture enterprises in North America. Sole Food Street Farms spans four acres of land in Vancouver, produces 25 tons of food annually, provides meaningful work for dozens of disadvantaged people, and has improved the surrounding community in countless ways.

Are you looking for guidance on how to raise and care for chickens of your own? Are you thinking of starting a little backyard homestead? If you're worried about the rising cost and availability of food, especially with all the supply chain issues, then perhaps you should consider raising chickens. I'll share my experiences with you so that you can learn from my experiences and use this as your guide to help you figure out just how to make your backyard into a chicken paradise. In this book, you'll find out how to make a chicken coop, how to take care of your chickens, and more.

If you have decided to raise chickens or are currently keeping some in your backyard, familiarizing yourself with the benefits can be very rewarding. You might have your own ideas already, but it shouldn't hurt to expand your knowledge on the pros of raising chickens at home.

A list of 100 chicken breeds and a description of each for beginners, going into raising chickens for eggs, raising chickens for meat, backyard hens, roosters, and their origin. Brown layers, colored layers, white layers, meat breeds, and more!

Have you ever thought of raising your own goats and taking one step closer to becoming self-sufficient? Even if you are a beginner with absolutely no prior knowledge about raising goats, this book will give you a complete A-to-Z breakdown to get you started! From topics ranging from choosing a goat breed to teaching you essential techniques to successfully raise healthy goats, you will be enjoying the fruits of your labor in no time: delicious and nutritious fresh goat milk. Hurry, your new adventure awaits!

Wenn man sich für die Haltung von Honigbienen interessiert und mit dem Gedanken spielt, die Imkerei als Hobby oder Beruf zu erlernen, kommen gerade am Anfang viele verschiedene Fragen auf. Diese beziehen sich sowohl auf die Biologie und das Leben der Honigbiene als auch auf die Tätigkeiten eines Imkers. In diesem Ratgeber sind alle wichtigen Informationen enthalten, darunter Antworten auf die Fragen: Was sind die ersten Schritte, wenn man mit dem Imkern beginnen möchte?

Tout ce que vous devez savoir dans un seul livre audio - être préparé au mieux pour commencer avec plaisir et sérénité votre aventure d’apiculteur. Vous êtes fascinés de l’intelligence des abeilles et de leur organisation complexe dans la colonie ? Vous aimeriez vous investir pour sauver les abeilles et protéger l’écosystème ? Vous voulez apprendre à vous occuper de vos abeilles en respectant la nature et produire un miel délicieux ?

From farm-to-table restaurants and farmers markets, to support for fair trade and food sovereignty, movements for food-system change hold the promise for deeper transformations. Yet Americans continue to live the paradox of caring passionately about healthy eating while demanding the convenience of fast food. Rooted Resistance explores this fraught but promising food scene. This book wagers that socially responsible agrarian mythmaking should be a vital part of a food ethic of resistance if we are to rectify the destructive tendencies in our contemporary food system.

The best beekeeping resources guide ever! Get excited! Because, with this book, even if you are a beginner with bees and a beginner in business, you can start your journey today and become successful raising bees and having fun. Just imagine the feeling of creating your own income and making massive money with all your amazing bee products!

Friedrich Mülln gründete 2012 die Organisation "SOKO Tierschutz" und ist das Gesicht der deutschen Tierschutz-Aktivisten. Es gibt kaum einen Skandal, der nicht von ihm aufgedeckt wurde. Jetzt berichtet er erstmals von seinen Undercover-Recherchen mit versteckter Kamera, Whistleblowern und modernster Technik. Er erzählt von seinen nächtlichen Einsätzen bei Mastanlagen und Großschlachtereien.

Sie spielen schon lange mit dem Gedanken, ein Bienenvolk zu halten, um nebenbei Ihren ganz eigenen Beitrag für unser Ökosystem zu leisten? Sie möchten in den Genuss von frischem Honig kommen, wissen aber nicht wie? In diesem Buch erhalten Sie Informationen über die Grundlegenden Bedingungen des Haltens von Bienen, ihrem Lebensraum und wie auch Sie zum Imker werden können.

What if I told you that you can grow tea and coffee from the comfort of your own backyard? Let me tell you the story about how I learned all about tea and coffee (too much, probably) and how I could grow it for myself. I do own a sizeable crop of tea and coffee trees, and I can confidently say that I can entertain my friends with my homebrewed caffeine. In this Grow Your Own Caffeine book, I tell you the story about my foray into horticulture when I thought that I could, never in a million years, possess a green thumb.

Keeping bees can be an exciting hobby full of joy and sweet rewards. Many new beekeepers struggle when their dreams of keeping bees don’t quite match up to the reality of this hobby. The great news is, you can become an amazing beekeeper if you just know the right steps to take in each situation.