PreviewsSheryl Normandeau

  • Save Our Seeds

    Save Our Seeds

    Protecting Plants for the Future

    Sheryl Normandeau

    Part of the Orca Footprint series, this book examines the importance of seeds, the threats they face, and how to preserve and conserve them for the future. Young readers learn about pollination, biodiversity, healthy ecosystems, food security, the climate crisis, and genetic engineering, and are given practical tools for taking action.

  • Staying Alive

    Staying Alive

    The Go-To Guide for Houseplants

    Janet Melrose, Sheryl Normandeau

    This handy Q&A guide provides expert advice to ensure houseplants thrive, including information about choosing, repotting, splitting, and training plants, about the types of soil and water to use, and about how to tackle problems like insects, fungus, and general malaise.

  • The Houseplanter

    The Houseplanter

    Your Go-To Growing Journal

    Janet Melrose, Sheryl Normandeau

    The authors of the popular Guides for the Prairie Gardener series are back with this journal for keeping records of and plans for houseplant acquisitions and maintenance. It also includes tips on plant care and facts about houseplant history, names, and folklore.

  • The Little Prairie Book of Berries

    The Little Prairie Book of Berries

    Recipes for Saskatoons, Sea Buckthorn, Haskap Berries and More

    Sheryl Normandeau, Tree Abraham (Illustrator), Meryl Hulse (Illustrator)

    This cookbook includes 65 recipes featuring berries local to the Prairies for everything from meat, poultry, and fish dishes, vegetable and grain dishes, to desserts, baked goods, beverages, and preserves (including fruit leather).

  • The Prairie Gardener’s Go-To for Grasses

    The Prairie Gardener’s Go-To for Grasses

    Janet Melrose, Sheryl Normandeau

    The 10th book of the popular series concisely covers what grasses to choose for what purposes, how to plant and protect grasses, and broader environmental issues, such as how grasses are important providers of habitat and food for wildlife and serve an integral role in erosion control.

  • The Prairie Gardener’s Go-To for Herbs

    The Prairie Gardener’s Go-To for Herbs

    Janet Melrose, Sheryl Normandeau

    The ninth book of the popular series concisely covers what herbs to choose for what purposes, how to plant and protect herbs, and broader environmental issues, such as herbs’ potential for use in pest management and as medicinal and spiritually beneficial plants.

  • The Prairie Gardener’s Go-To for Pests and Diseases

    The Prairie Gardener’s Go-To for Pests and Diseases

    Janet Melrose, Sheryl Normandeau

    This guide to trouble-shooting problems with weeds, insects, micro-organisms, rodents, birds, deer, and other common Prairie gardeners’ issues uses an integrated pest management approach, showing how to identify the problem and how to deter it, while respecting the broader environment.

  • The Prairie Gardener’s Go-To for Soil

    The Prairie Gardener’s Go-To for Soil

    Janet Melrose, Sheryl Normandeau

    Providing information on the composition of soil, how to choose appropriate soil, how to compost, and how to care for soil, this fifth book in the Guides for Prairie Gardeners series tells gardeners everything they need to know about soil.

  • The Prairie Gardener’s Go-To for Trees and Shrubs

    The Prairie Gardener’s Go-To for Trees and Shrubs

    Janet Melrose, Sheryl Normandeau

    This sixth book in the Guides for Prairie Gardeners series gives advice on how to grow trees and shrubs from the ground up, including information on planting and transplanting, cultivation and maintenance, care and protection from weather, pests, and disease, and choosing the right plant.

  • The Prairie Gardener’s Go-To for Vegetables

    The Prairie Gardener’s Go-To for Vegetables

    Janet Melrose, Sheryl Normandeau

    From planning to planting to harvesting vegetables such as onions, lettuce, carrots, celery, beets, corn, legumes, peppers, potatoes, squash and more, this Q & A–style guide covers common questions about cultivation practices, preventing damage from frost, flood, and drought, and harvest and storage.