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Hydroponic Gardening The Very Easy Way: A proven indoor and outdoor system for year-round gardening (by Larry Cipolla)
This is the first book for the homeowner who wants to add hydroponics to their gardening efforts. This book is a comprehensive, step-by-step guide on how to grow fresh vegetables and herbs year-round-without pesticides or herbicides. No gardening experience needed. This book will demonstrate how you can use hydroponics whether you live in an apartment, condo, senior-high rise, or assisted-living or health-care facility. Hydroponic Gardening The Easy Way includes everything you need to know about passive, deep-water hydroponic gardening, including step-by-step DIY projects, case studies, and a comprehensive reference to help you take control of what you eat and have fun doing it.
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Creating Sustainable Victory Gardens: How to integrate hydroponics and soil for year-round-gardening the very easy way (by Larry Cipolla)
Have you ever worried about food safety and supply? Worry no more. Creating Sustainable Victory Gardens is a comprehensive guidebook from Larry Cipolla. He tells you exactly what to do and how to do it with proven gardening techniques—both soil-based and hydroponic—that use no pesticides or herbicides and keep your worries about E.coli, salmonella, Listeria and other nasties away from your dinner table. The step-by-step DIY projects and illustrative graphics are easy to follow, designed for gardeners and non-gardeners of all ages—basically for anyone who wants to enjoy homegrown veggies and herbs the easy way. Safe. Sustainable. And tasty. No green thumb required.
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Building Performance-Based 360-Degree Assessments: From Design to Delivery (by Lawrence John Cipolla).
This is the first book to focus on developing and delivering more effective 360-degree feedback assessment tools through Web-based software. The structured step-by-step format guides you through the essential process for creating dynamic assessments for any target population. Building 360 will help you assess the behaviors and practices that just be measured and optimized in this age of global competition.
Getting Your ADL Groove in Gear with PAPS: Preparing for Surgery: Living Your Life after Surgery (by Larry Cipolla)
Getting Your ADL Groove in Gear is for gardeners, golfers, tennis players, runners, walkers, cyclists, swimmers, active sports people and any who would like greater flexibility and mobility after surgery. The six easy-to-read modules includes hundreds of photos, charts, and illustrations. Larry Cipolla shows you how to prepare for and recover from your surgery with safe and proven protocols targeted to specific body parts—neck-shoulders, elbows-hands, upper and lower back, hips-knees and feet-ankles-so you can get your lifestyle back in gear with less pain, less (or no) medication, safely and effectively.
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Author's Bio: Passion and Projects
Larry Cipolla is a life-long gardener, life-long learner, published author, speaker, and master gardener. He teaches a wide range of topics related to vegetables and herbs and specializes in hydroponics for the home-owner. His vegetable, herb, pollinator, and Japanese gardens have been on more than twenty-five fund-raising tours and featured on national and local television programs, local and national newspapers, and periodicals.
Larry has developed his own organic heirloom Italian paste tomato varieties, ‘Cipolla’s Pride’, and ‘Cipolla’s Rose’. Born and raised in Connecticut, Larry now lives in Minnesota.
Larry willingly shares his experience and expertise about gardening tips and techniques. His goal is to encourage you to integrate hydroponics with soil-based gardening, whether you are a first-time or seasoned gardener. The intent is to help you garden the year-round, whether you live in a detached home, condo, apartment, or senior high-rise. His passion is to encourage you to become more independent and more self-reliant, in order to take more control over what you eat.
He accomplishes this by …
- Collaborating with garden club members, community garden organizers, seniors, corporate and faith-based organizations to establish their own soil- and/or hydroponic-gardens.
- Collaborating with teachers and students to set up hydroponic systems for their school lunch-program and to support their community service programs by providing food to the local community, restaurants, and farmer’s markets.
- Collaborating with other master gardeners to grow and donate produce to food shelves and under-served residents in and around the metro area.
- Collaborating with science teachers to link book-learning with experiential gardening practices.
- Establishing an on-going succession and feedback process for planning, implementing, training, and evaluating year-round gardening projects with middle and high school students-teachers.
- Conducting experiential hands-on workshops to help young people and people young at heart to get started with hydroponics with easy to set up and maintain systems with minimal effort and at minimal cost.
- Conducting train-the-trainer workshops to teachers, educators, and master gardeners who want the knowledge and confidence to teach others.
- Providing on-site gardening suggestions at community, senior-living, and K-12 gardens.
- Facilitating learn-by-doing sessions to help people build raised and elevated beds and rain gardens for their own use or use by others.
- Mentoring master gardener interns by providing support, guidance, experience, and expertise.
- Helping Veterans plan and build sustainable in-ground and raised beds, then maintain, grow, and harvest fresh veggies and herbs to help them feed their families and become self-reliant.