Author: Danna Skone
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781387136360
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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21st Century Homestead collects contemporary articles on homesteading into a physical format, immune to internet or power outages.

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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 111

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Author: Douglas Waterford
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1312936517
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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21st Century Homestead: Urban Agriculture contains everything you need to stay up to date on urban agriculture

Author: Patricia Topor
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781517782092
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 138

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Discover a collection of curated articles on horticultural techniques for your 21st century homestead

Author: Marlon Henkel
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1312939532
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 411

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21st Century Homestead: Sustainable Agriculture I contains the first part of everything you need to stay up to date on sustainable agriculture.

Author: Karan Davis Cutler
Publisher: Brooklyn Botanic Garden
ISBN: 9781889538501
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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With a no-nonsense and witty attitude, this gardener's guide to everything useful, from classic bamboo rakes to high-carbon steel shovels, will steer you in the right direction-and save you time, money and space. Find out which tools are absolute must-haves, depending on your climate, size and strength, and gardening goals. Plus: Experts pick six can't-live-without tools!

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ISBN: 9780988337923
Category : Brain
Languages : en
Pages : 249

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Author: Bill Laws
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022613993X
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 225

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A green thumb is not the only tool one needs to garden well—at least that’s what the makers of gardening catalogs and the designers of the dizzying aisle displays in lawn- and-garden stores would have us believe. Need to plant a bulb, aerate some soil, or keep out a hungry critter? Well, there’s a specific tool for almost everything. But this isn’t just a product of today’s consumer era, since the very earliest gardens, people have been developing tools to make planting and harvesting more efficient and to make flora more beautiful and trees more fruitful. In A History of the Garden in Fifty Tools, Bill Laws offers entertaining and colorful anecdotes of implements that have shaped our gardening experience since the beginning. As Laws reveals, gardening tools have coevolved with human society, and the story of these fifty individual tools presents an innovative history of humans and the garden over time. Laws takes us back to the Neolithic age, when the microlith, the first “all-in-one” tool was invented. Consisting of a small sharp stone blade that was set into a handle made of wood, bone, or antler, it was a small spade that could be used to dig, clip, and cut plant material. We find out that wheelbarrows originated in China in the second century BC, and their basic form has not changed much since. He also describes how early images of a pruning knife appear in Roman art, in the form of a scythe that could cut through herbs, vegetables, fruits, and nuts and was believed to be able to tell the gardener when and what to harvest. Organized into five thematic chapters relating to different types of gardens: the flower garden, the kitchen garden, the orchard, the lawn, and ornamental gardens, the book includes a mix of horticulture and history, in addition to stories featuring well-known characters—we learn about Henry David Thoreau’s favorite hoe, for example. A History of the Garden in Fifty Tools will be a beautiful gift for any home gardener and a reassuring reminder that gardeners have always struggled with the same quandaries.

Author: Brant Reuber
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1312937335
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 253

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21st Century Homestead: Beekeeping contains everything you need to stay up to date on beekeeping.

Author: Diarmuid Gavin
Publisher: Conran
ISBN: 9781840915297
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Following on from their hugely successful first book, Outdoors, Diarmuid Gavin and Terence Conran collaborate once again to create PLANTING, a stunning and imaginative resource of planting schemes that work for almost any garden space. Using case studies to look at real examples of inspiring planting schemes around the world in detail, PLANTING explores nature's vast palette of plants, where they come from, what grows naturally in which conditions, but most importantly, how they are used in gardens all around the world in contemporary times. From how to look at a garden through a designer's eyes, to planning for color, texture and mood, as well as how to attract wildlife, PLANTING covers everything a gardener needs to know in the twenty-first century, whether they are planning an exotic paradise or an edible kitchen garden.