Author: Missouri Valley Seed CoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Flowers
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Catalog of Seeds for Farm and Garden
Author: Missouri Valley Seed CoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Flowers
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Second Nature
Author: Michael PollanPublisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 0802198619
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
“One of the distinguished gardening books of our time,” from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma (USA Today). Chosen by the American Horticultural Society as one of the 75 greatest books ever written about gardening After Michael Pollan bought an old Connecticut dairy farm, he planted a garden and attempted to follow Thoreau’s example: do not impose your will upon the wilderness, the woodchucks, or the weeds. That ethic did not, of course, work. But neither did pesticides or firebombing the woodchuck burrow. So Michael Pollan began to think about the troubled borders between nature and contemporary life. The result is a funny, profound, and beautifully written book in the finest tradition of American nature writing. It inspires thoughts on the war of the roses; sex and class conflict in the garden; virtuous composting; the American lawn; seed catalogs, and the politics of planting a tree. A blend of meditation, autobiography, and social history, Second Nature, from the renowned author of The Botany of Desire, In Defense of Food, and other bestsellers, is “as delicious a meditation on one man’s relationship with the Earth as any you are likely to come upon” (The New York Times Book Review). “Usually when Americans have wanted to explore their relationship to nature they’ve gone to the wilderness, or the woods. Michael Pollan went to the garden instead . . . and he’s returned with a quirky and pleasing book.” —Annie Dillard “A joy to read.” —Los Angeles Times
Catalogue of Seeds for Farm and Garden
Author: Missouri Valley Seed CoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Flowers
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Catalogue of Seeds for Farm and Garden
Author: Missouri Valley Seed CoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Flowers
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Catalogue of Seeds for Farm and Garden
Author: Missouri Seed CompanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural implements
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Sustainable Market Farming
Author: Pam DawlingPublisher: New Society Publishers
ISBN: 1550925121
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 459
Book Description
Growing for 100 - the complete year-round guide for the small-scale market grower. Across North America, an agricultural renaissance is unfolding. A growing number of market gardeners are emerging to feed our appetite for organic, regional produce. But most of the available resources on food production are aimed at the backyard or hobby gardener who wants to supplement their family's diet with a few homegrown fruits and vegetables. Targeted at serious growers in every climate zone, Sustainable Market Farming is a comprehensive manual for small-scale farmers raising organic crops sustainably on a few acres. Informed by the author's extensive experience growing a wide variety of fresh, organic vegetables and fruit to feed the approximately one hundred members of Twin Oaks Community in central Virginia, this practical guide provides: Detailed profiles of a full range of crops, addressing sowing, cultivation, rotation, succession, common pests and diseases, and harvest and storage Information about new, efficient techniques, season extension, and disease resistant varieties Farm-specific business skills to help ensure a successful, profitable enterprise Whether you are a beginning market grower or an established enterprise seeking to improve your skills, Sustainable Market Farming is an invaluable resource and a timely book for the maturing local agriculture movement.
Catalogue of Seeds for Farm and Garden
Author: Trumbull Seed CoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commercial catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
T.W. Wood & Sons Descriptive Catalog of Farm and Garden Seeds for Fall Planting
Author: T.W. Wood & SonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Flowers
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Farm and Garden Seeds
Author: J. R. Ratekin and Son's Eighteenth Annual Seed Catalog, 1902
Author: J. R. Ratekin and SonPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780332001524
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Excerpt from J. R. Ratekin and Son's Eighteenth Annual Seed Catalog, 1902: Farm, Field and Garden Seeds In making up our catalog we have tried to make it as comprehensive as possible, at the same time avoiding exaggerated descriptions or overdrawn ii lustrations as given by many other seed houses. From our first beginning in the seed business in 1884, it has steadily grown each year and is today as large if not the largest seed business, in our lines, to be found in the United States, our business extending to every state and territory in the union, last year. There must be some good reason for this, and it lies in the fact that our seed corn and all farm and garden seeds are strictly pure and true to name, are unsurpassed, not seed that has been carried over from year to year, that our prices are right and that me please and satisfy our customers. Our loss BY fire. On the night of February 2oth, 1901, we had the misfortune to lose our seed house by fire, it burning to the ground, de stroying every seed in our house as well as burning up over one-half million pieces of our printed matter, machinery, etc. Our new seed house. Owing to our greatly increased business, requiring still larger storage and shipping facilities to promptly execute all orders as well as more room for our large force of labor we employ to hand pick all our seeds, we have just completed our new seed house which is as large if not the largest of its kind in the world, it having floor space in all of over square feet, with average depth of 15 feet. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.