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Saving Seeds, Preserving Taste: Heirloom Seed Savers in Appalachia
Bill Best · Ohio University Press; 1 edition
Format: Book
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The Brown Goose, the White Case Knife, Oras Speckled Bean, Radiator Charlies Mortgage Lifter?—?these are just a few of the heirloom fruits and vegetables youll encounter in Bill Bests remarkable history of seed saving and the people who preserve both unique flavors and the Appalachian... |
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Epic Tomatoes: How to Select and Grow the Best Varieties of All Time
Craig LeHoullier · Storey Publishing, LLC
Format: Print book
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Savor your best tomato harvest ever! Craig LeHoullier, tomato adviser for Seed Savers Exchange, offers everything a tomato enthusiast needs to know about growing more than 200 varieties of tomatoes--from sowing seeds and planting to cultivating and collecting seeds at the end of the season.... |
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Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners, 2nd Edition
Suzanne Ashworth · Seed Savers Exchange; 2 edition
Format: Paperback
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Seed to Seed is a complete seed-saving guide that describes specific techniques for saving the seeds of 160 different vegetables. This book contains detailed information about each vegetable, including its botanical classification, flower structure and means of pollination, required population... |
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The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food
Janisse Ray · Chelsea Green Publishing; First Edition edition
Format: Print book
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There is no despair in a seed. There's only life, waiting for the right conditions-sun and water, warmth and soil-to be set free. Everyday, millions upon millions of seeds lift their two green wings. At no time in our history have Americans been more obsessed with food. Options- including... |
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The Complete Guide to Saving Seeds: 322 Vegetables, Herbs, Fruits, Flowers, Trees, and Shrubs
Robert E. Gough · Storey Publishing, LLC
Format: Paperback
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Learn how to collect, save, and cultivate the seeds from more than 300 vegetables, herbs, fruits, flowers, trees, and shrubs. It’s easy, and it’s fun! Authors Robert Gough and Cheryl Moore-Gough thoroughly explain every step in the seed-saving process. Descriptions of seed... |
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The Forgotten Skills of Self-Sufficiency Used by the Mormon Pioneers
Caleb Warnock · Cedar Fort, Inc.; 7.9.2011 edition
Format: Book
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Many people dream of becoming self-reliant during these times of fluctuating prices and uncertain job security. Using truly simple techniques, you can cultivate the pioneer's independence to provide safety against lost wages, harsh weather, economic recession, and commercial contamination... |
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Collards: A Southern Tradition from Seed to Table
Edward H Davis · The University of Alabama Press, 2015.
Pages: 240
Format: eBook
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Food is essential to southern culture, and collard greens play a central role in the South's culinary traditions. A feast to the famished, a reward to the strong, and a comfort to the weary, collards have long been held dear in the food-loving southern heart. In Collards: A Southern... |
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Heirloom Vegetables
Chris McLaughlin · Alpha; Original edition
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
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A garden of delight-and healthy, economical eating. In The Complete Idiot's Guide(r) to Heirloom Vegetables, readers will learn the rewards of growing heirlooms; find hundreds of descriptions and histories of a variety of available vegetables and find out how to make pollination work.... |
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The Plant Propagator's Bible
Miranda Smith · Rodale Books
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
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With her reader-friendly, easy-to-follow directions, a veteran horticulture teacher demonstrates all the ways to cultivate new plants -- whether from seed or cuttings or with techniques such as layering, grafting, and buddingCreating new plants from existing ones is one of the most rewarding... |
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Plant Breeding for the Home Gardener: How to Create Unique Vegetables and Flowers
Joseph Tychonievich · Timber Press
Format: Print book
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Itxs the holy grail of gardening a plant that perfectly matches your tastes and the conditions in your garden The hitch Youxre not likely to find it at your local garden center Youxre going to have to create it yourselfBut donxt worryxit isnxt hard After all gardeners have been doing it for centuries... |
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Sowing Seeds in the Desert: Natural Farming, Global Restoration, and Ultimate Food Security
Masanobu Fukuoka · Chelsea Green Publishing; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The earth is in great peril, due to the corporatization of agriculture, the rising climate crisis, and the ever-increasing levels of global poverty, starvation, and desertification on a massive scale. This present condition of global trauma is not natural, but a result of humanitys destructive... |
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Seed Libraries: And Other Means of Keeping Seeds in the Hands of the People
Cindy Conner · New Society Publishers
Pages: 177
Format: Print book
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Historically, seed companies were generally small, often family-run businesses. Because they were regionally based, they could focus on varieties well-suited to the local environment. A Pacific Northwest company, for example, would specialize in different cultivars than a company based... |
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Mini Farming: Self-Sufficiency on 1/4 Acre
Brett L. Markham · Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Paperback
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Start a mini farm on a quarter acre or less, provide 85 percent of the food for a family of four and earn an income. Mini Farming describes a holistic approach to small-area farming that will show you how to produce 85 percent of an average family’s food on just a quarter acre—and... |
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