Call it "Zen and the Art of Farming" or a "Little Green Book," Masanobu Fukuoka's manifesto about farming, eating, and the limits of human knowledge presents a radical challenge to the global systems we rely on for our food. At the same time, it is a spiritual memoir of a man whose innovative system of cultivating the earth reflects a deep faith ...
Now available again in paperback is the popular compact edition of this classic--one of the most ambitious and successful books on garden flora ever published, with more than 125,000 copies sold! 2,048 full-color photographs.
Having traversed the globe, Koch researched, wrote, and illustrated this engaging guide to the botanical world. She presents a unique blend of material on agriculture, food, ecology, homeopathy, and medicine.
Having traversed the globe, Koch researched, wrote, and illustrated this engaging guide to the botanical world. She presents a unique blend of material on agriculture, food, ecology, homeopathy, and medicine.
A lavishly illustrated overview of the world's wild and cultivated plant population, their impact on our lives, and the urgent need for their conservation.
An anthology of writings by women on plants and growing things, including work by Diane Ackerman, Kathleen Norris, Zora Neale Hurston (on herbs for voodoo), and Isabel Allende.
This text is appropriate for Introduction to Plant Science courses. This comprehensive text is written for anyone with an interest in how plants are grown and utilized for maintaining and adding enjoyment to human life. It also explores how plants have a tremendous economic impact in developed and developing nations. This new edition has been ...
For gardeners who live in climate zones 8, 9, or 10, this book is the first of its kind to guide you step by step in creating a garden that is sure to flourish in your zone. With a long growing season, strong sun, and mild winters in zones 8, 9, or 10, first-time gardeners and old pros alike will welcome this comprehensive guide that shows you how ...
The European Garden Flora is the definitive manual for the accurate identification of cultivated ornamental plants. It is designed to meet the highest scientific standards but the vocabulary is kept as uncomplicated as possible so that it is fully accessible to the informed gardener and landscape architect as well as to the professional botanists. ...
To learn all you need to know about gardening in Texas, you could collect a whole shelf full of specialized books on topics ranging from soil preparation to tree care. But all you really need is Howard Garrett's Plants for Texas. In this one book, you'll find a virtual encyclopedia of over 500 Texas plants--trees, shrubs, flowers, vines, grasses, ...
The flowering plants in a garden, and their variety of colour and form, are the result of hundreds of years of tradition, science, skill ...and intrepid exploration. They may be native plants which have been carefully selected to provide larger blooms or a great colour range, exotic species with origins in distant lands, or cultivars which have ...
"First Farmers: The Origins of Agricultural Societies" offers readers an understanding of the origins and histories of early agricultural populations in all parts of the world. This work: uses data from archaeology, comparative linguistics, and biological anthropology to cover developments over the past 12,000 years; examines the reasons for the ...
Provides students with a complete introduction to the origin, structure, and anatomy of plants, covering topics from soil basics to specific plant identification. The text covers biological interactions, respiration, photosynthesis, and mineral nutrition. It provides students with a broad biological foundation for further coursework.
This authoritative resource is sure to become a new standard for serious gardeners interested in unusual flowers, trees, and shrubs. Superbly illustrated with glorious full-color photographs by acclaimed gardening authority Elvin McDonald, it's an essential compendium for any gardener who has outgrown the ordinary and is ready for a new and truly ...
The origin of agriculture is one of the defining events of human history. Some 10,000 years ago bands of Hunter-gatherers started to abandon their high-mobility lifestyles in favour of growing crops, and the creation of settled, sedentary communities. This settlement in favour of the agricultural lifestyle triggered the evolution of complex ...
This long-awaited English edition of the famous "Mansfeld" gives a full account of all agricultural and horticultural plants, other than ornamentals, grown throughout the world presently or in the past. More than 6040 species are covered, including food crops, forage, oil, fibre, spice, medicinal, industrial and so-called auxiliary plants (shade ...
Dr. John Creech, acclaimed plant hunter and former director of the National Arboretum, brings Alice Coats's classic 1964 work into the nineties for every American gardener, with 112 brand-new, full-color paintings and completely updated plant histories.
A delightful compendium of writing on plants. The passion for gardening and the passion for words come together in this inspired anthology, a collection of essays on topics as diverse as beans and roses, by writers who garden and by gardeners who write. Among the contributors are Christopher Lloyd, on poppies; Marina Warner, who remembers the ...
The Jade Garden is an authoritative guide to 130 of the most fascinating yet little-known ornamental trees, shrubs and perennials from Asia. Based on detailed research and observation at one of the largest and oldest collections of Asian plants in North America - the David C. Lam Asian Garden at the University of British Columbia Botanical Garden ...
All civilisations, ancient and modern, are founded on agriculture. In this fascinating account of one of the most fundamental aspects of humankind's march from prehistory to the present day, the author considers the evidence for the origins and evolution of agriculture in various parts of the world; a balanced view is presented based on the ...
Legal control and ownership of plants and traditional knowledge of the uses of plants (TKUP) is often a vexed issue. The phenomenon of appropriation of plants and TKUP, otherwise known as biopiracy, thrives in a cultural milieu where non-Western forms of knowledge are systemically marginalized and devalued as "folk knowledge" or characterized as ...
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