- Are served by a water utility they have doubts about.
- Live in a home built before 1986 or an area served by old infrastructure.
- Have young children or other vulnerable individuals in their home.
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This is an important level of baseline water quality testing recommended by SimpleWater. Test your water with this kit and receive a detailed Tap Score Report of the heavy metals and physical properties of your household tap water. This kit includes testing for lead, copper, arsenic, hardness, and much more. This package is designed for customers who: -
The bright red color attracts the most inquisitive hummingbirds. With easy-to-fill wide-mouth jar reservoirs and two-part bases, First Nature Humming bird Feeders are the easiest feeder on the market to fill and clean. The feeding ports will accommodate several hummer's at a time. With First Nature Hummingbird Nectar Concentrate, you can mix the correct proportions right in the feeder jar. Feeders can be hung from hook or limb. -
by Peter Wohlleben
HARDCOVER - Abridged A New York Times bestseller With more than 2 million copies sold worldwide, this beautifully-written book journeys deep into the forest to uncover the fascinating—and surprisingly moving—hidden life of trees. Are trees social beings? In The Hidden Life of Trees forester and author Peter Wohlleben convincingly makes the case that, yes, the forest is a social network. He draws on groundbreaking scientific discoveries to describe how trees are like human families: tree parents live together with their children, communicate with them, support them as they grow, share nutrients with those who are sick or struggling, and even warn each other of impending dangers. Wohlleben also shares his deep love of woods and forests, explaining the amazing processes of life, death, and regeneration he has observed in his woodland. After learning about the complex life of trees, a walk in the woods will never be the same again. -
This package covers a wide range of health risks that water utilities sometimes miss, and some they can't catch. Even if water leaving your local treatment plant is clean, it takes a 3-7 day journey to your home through a network of aging pipes that sometimes introduces new contaminants into your water. This package is designed for customers who:
- Are served by a water utility they have doubts about.
- Live in a home built before 1986 or an area served by old infrastructure.
- Have young children or other vulnerable individuals in their home.
- Want to check for chemicals from plastic pipes.
- Are concerned about over-chlorination and the resulting chemicals.
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Each 16 oz. bottle of concentrate makes a half gallon of clear nectar, a popular choice given the predominant red color of feeders. First Nature's Hummingbird Nectar Concentrate is a premium concentrated formula which contains sucrose, preferred by hummingbirds over monosaccharide glucose or fructose sugars. There are no messy sugars to boil or mix and no sticky cleanup. You can easily mix one part nectar to three parts water right in the feeder jar. -
by Richard Powers
PAPERBACK Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, Shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize, New York Times BestsellerThe Overstory, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of—and paean to—the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, Richard Powers’s twelfth novel unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. There is a world alongside ours—vast, slow, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive, and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe.
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by Leslie Buck
HARDBACK My Apprenticeship in the Gardens of Kyoto HardcoverAt thirty-five, Leslie Buck made an impulsive decision to put her personal life on hold to pursue her passion. Leaving behind a full life of friends, love, and professional security, she became the first American woman to learn pruning from one of the most storied landscaping companies in Kyoto. Cutting Back recounts Buck’s bold journey and the revelations she has along the way. During her apprenticeship in Japan, she learns that the best Kyoto gardens look so natural they appear untouched by human hands, even though her crew spends hours meticulously cleaning every pebble in the streams. She is taught how to bring nature’s essence into a garden scene, how to design with native plants, and how to subtly direct a visitor through a landscape. But she learns the most important lessons from her fellow gardeners: how to balance strength with grace, seriousness with humor, and technique with heart.
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This package covers a broad range of health risks that water utilities sometimes miss, and some they can't catch. Even if water leaving your local treatment plant is clean, it takes a 3-7 day journey to your home through a network of aging pipes that sometimes introduces new contaminants into your water. The Extended City Water Test adds testing for Chlorate, five Haloacetic acids, and radioactive particles to the Advanced City Water Test. This package is designed for customers who:
- Are served by a water utility they have doubts about.
- Live in a home built before 1986 or an area served by old infrastructure.
- Have young children or other vulnerable individuals in their home.
- Want to check for chemicals from plastic pipes.
- Are concerned about over-chlorination and the resulting chemicals.
- Want to include testing for chlorate, haloacetic acids, and radioactive particles in their test.
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The NJP650 is the standard for Hori-Hori knives worldwide and is rated #1 in many gardening publications. It is forged by master blade craftsmen with the highest grade Japanese stainless steel for durability, precision and control that withstands intense use and harsh conditions. Invest in a quality tool that will outlast ordinary lawn, garden and survival equipment. -
by Robin Wall Kimmerer
PAPERBACK A New York Times bestseller A Washington Post Bestseller Named a "Best Essay Collection of the Decade" by Literary HubAs a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on “a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise” (Elizabeth Gilbert).
Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, and as a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings―asters and goldenrod, strawberries and squash, salamanders, algae, and sweetgrass―offer us gifts and lessons, even if we've forgotten how to hear their voices. -
This professional laboratory test, recommended by the US Water Systems Council, is designed to target the most harmful and prevalent contaminants in US groundwater. Safeguard your home from naturally occurring hazards, industrial waste from agriculture, oil & gas, illegal dumping, and other sources. This package is designed for customers who:
- Are served by a private or shared well.
- Have a septic tank near the well or other source of potential bacterial contamination
- Are concerned about runoff from agricultural activity.
- Have young children or other vulnerable individuals in their home.
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Made in Japan with the finest materials, the Nisaku Crevice and Sidewalk Weeder is great for taking care of pesky weeds in sidewalks and crevices. Designed with ultra-durable Japanese stainless steel, the metal comb is strong and long lasting. Efficient design with an attractive and ergonomic wood handle.