Home & Garden Free Audio & Video

Watch this brief talk from Google as Japanese cleaning consultant Marie Kondo takes you through her KonMari Method and the ideas she conveys in her bestselling book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing.

The Family Kitchen Gardener contains plain and accurate descriptions (ca 1847) of all the different species and varieties of specifically American culinary vegetables, fruit, and herbs in alphabetical order.

Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore's Dilemma and The Botany of Desire, talks about how he came to the idea of viewing the world from other species points of view.

Eidth Wharthon and architect Odgen Codman discuss Victorian interior decoration and design. They denounce much of the Victorian practices and offer more practical and classical ways of decorating the interior of a house.

Contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine and the author of The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World, Michael Pollan delivers this Avenali Lecture on the stories of four familiar plant species: the apple, the tulip, the potato, and cannabis.

Theologian Vigen Guroian experiences Easter as "a call to our senses.

This book is a good reference on vegetable gardening.

In this spirited discussion hosted by Talks at Google, popular blogger and author Gretchen Rubin discusses the small, manageable experiments we can conduct to make our lives generally happier.

The art and science of composting is presented in a humorous and readable manner from the basic elements to the in-depth science.

Gardening expert Steve Solomon has written extensively on gardening techniques for the home gardener.