Gardening books from Bored Feet Press

The Habitat Garden Book
Wildlife Landscaping for the San Francisco Bay Region

Nancy Bauer

This delightful little guidebook will help you transform your own backyard, patio or community site into a healthy home for a wondrous array of fascinating and beneficial creatures.

Pomegranate Roads
A Soviet Botanist's Exile from Eden

Gregory M. Levin, translated by Margaret Hopstein

A Man who fell in love with pomegranates and risked his life to protect their biodiversity tells his adventurous story in Pomegranate Roads. Ignoring threats, the scientist trekked across Central Asia and the Trans-Caucasus to collect 1,117 varieties of the fruit.

Field Guide to Butterflies of San Francisco Bay and Sacramento Valley Regions

Authur M. Shapiro and Tim Manolis

This guide, written for both beginning and experienced butterfly watchers by one of the nation's best-known professional lepidopterists, provides thorough, up-to-date information on all of the butterfly species of this diverse and accessible region.

Written in lively prose, it discusses the natural history and conservation status for these butterflies and at the same time provides an integrated view of butterfly biology based on studies conducted in northern California and around the world. Compact enough for use in the field, the guide also includes tips on butterfly watching, photography, gardening, and more.

Vineyard Simple
How to Build and Maintain Your Own Small Vineyard

Tom Powers

Finally a book that makes home vineyard planting and wine grape growing accessible to anyone with even a little spare land. Tom Powers has created a how-to book filled with valuable information for the novice viticulturist.