Author: Rudy F. FavrettiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Early New England Gardens 1620-1840: Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, Massachusetts
Author: Rudy F. FavrettiEarly New England Gardens, 1620-1840
Author: Rudy J. FavrettiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Landscapes and Gardens for Historic Buildings
Author: Rudy J. FavrettiPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442260785
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
It’s been more than forty years since the second edition of this landmark guide to the preservation and restoration of gardens and landscapes at historic sites was published. Since the last edition came out, author Rudy Favretti, the nation’s foremost authority in this area, has worked on many significant sites including both Monticello and Mount Vernon. New to this edition are: Personal case studies from the authors’ extensive experience in landscape restoration-preservation An in-depth look complete with color images of the archaeological excavations at Bacon’s Castle and Monticello in Virginia Seventy-three illustrations including eight color photos An enlarged and comprehensive bibliography Fully updated and added chapters based on new and emerging information in the field Further, Landscape and Gardens for Historic Buildings covers a wide array of topics including researching and planning, maintaining restored landscapes, identifying authentic flora, and selecting the right historical period, or a series of periods to show the evolution of the historic landscape.
Colonial Gardens
Author: Rudy J. FavrettiPublisher: Barre Pub
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
New England
Author: David D. HallPublisher: Hanover, NH : University Press of New England
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Biodiversity and Native America
Author: Paul E. MinnisPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806133454
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Exploring the relationship between Native Americans and the natural world, Biodiversity and Native America questions the widespread view that indigenous peoples had minimal ecological impact in North America. Introducing a variety of perspectives - ethnopharmacological, ethnographic, archaeological, and biological - this volume shows that Native Americans were active managers of natural ecological systems. The book covers groups from the sophisticated agriculturalists of the Mississippi River drainage region to the low-density hunter-gatherers of arid western North America. This book allows readers to develop accurate restoration, management, and conservation models through a thorough knowledge of native peoples’ ecological history and dynamics. It also illustrates how indigenous peoples affected environmental patterns and processes, improving crop diversity and agricultural patterns.
Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn
Author: Thomas C. HubkaPublisher: Brandeis University Press
ISBN: 1684581354
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
A classic work on farm buildings made by nineteenth-century New Englanders refreshed with a new introduction. Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn portrays the four essential components of the stately and beautiful connected farm buildings made by nineteenth-century New Englanders that stand today as a living expression of a rural culture, offering insights into the people who made them and their agricultural way of life. A visual delight as well as an engaging tribute to our nineteenth-century forebears, this book, first published nearly forty years ago, has become one of the standard works on regional farmsteads in America. This new edition features a new preface by the author.
Kitchen Literacy
Author: Ann VileisisPublisher: Island Press
ISBN: 1597263737
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
Ask children where food comes from, and they’ll probably answer: “the supermarket.” Ask most adults, and their replies may not be much different. Where our foods are raised and what happens to them between farm and supermarket shelf have become mysteries. How did we become so disconnected from the sources of our breads, beef, cheeses, cereal, apples, and countless other foods that nourish us every day? Ann Vileisis’s answer is a sensory-rich journey through the history of making dinner. Kitchen Literacy takes us from an eighteenth-century garden to today’s sleek supermarket aisles, and eventually to farmer’s markets that are now enjoying a resurgence. Vileisis chronicles profound changes in how American cooks have considered their foods over two centuries and delivers a powerful statement: what we don’t know could hurt us. As the distance between farm and table grew, we went from knowing particular places and specific stories behind our foods’ origins to instead relying on advertisers’ claims. The woman who raised, plucked, and cooked her own chicken knew its entire life history while today most of us have no idea whether hormones were fed to our poultry. Industrialized eating is undeniably convenient, but it has also created health and environmental problems, including food-borne pathogens, toxic pesticides, and pollution from factory farms. Though the hidden costs of modern meals can be high, Vileisis shows that greater understanding can lead consumers to healthier and more sustainable choices. Revealing how knowledge of our food has been lost and how it might now be regained, Kitchen Literacy promises to make us think differently about what we eat.
The Heirloom Garden
Author: Jo Ann GardnerPublisher: Conran Octopus
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Love and Loss
Author: Robin Jaffee FrankPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300087246
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
"Most often, portrait miniatures were painted in watercolor on thin disks of ivory. They were sometimes worn as jewelry, sometimes framed to be viewed privately. Many were painted by specialists, although renowned easel artists - including Benjamin West, John Singleton Copley, and Charles Willson Peale - also created them to commemorate births, engagements, marriages, deaths, and other joinings or separations. The book traces the development of this exquisite art form, revealing the close ties between the history of the miniature and the history of American private life."--BOOK JACKET.