OUT OF THE EARTH CIVILIZATION AND THE LIFE OF THE SOIL DANIEL HILLEL UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS 1991 PART 3 PART II: THE NATURE OF SOIL AND WATER Chapter 3: The fertile Substrate Chapter 4: The Vital Fluid Chapter 5: The Dynamic Cycle Chapter 6: The Primary Producers Chapter 7: The Tenuous Balance …
THE BOTANY OF DESIRE A PLANT’S-EYE VIEW OF THE WORLD MICHAEL POLLAN BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING 2001/2003 PART 3 Chapter 1: Desire: Sweetness. Plant: The Apple (Cont) William Ellery Jones is a fifty-one-year-old fund-raising consultant and amateur historian with a dream: to establish a Johnny Appleseed heritage Center and Outdoor Theater on a hillside outside Mansfield. …
THE BOTANY OF DESIRE A PLANT’S-EYE VIEW OF THE WORLD MICHAEL POLLAN BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING 2001/2003 PART 1 Back cover A farmer cultivates genetically modified potatoes so that a customer at McDonald’s can enjoy a long golden french fry. A gardener plants tulip bulbs in the autumn and in the spring has a riotous patch of …
FOOD FIRST BEYOND THE MYTH OF SCARCITY FRANCES MOORE LAPPE & JOSEPH COLLINS HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY BOSTON 1977 PART 13 Chapter 48 What Can We Do? Question: If you say that it is all up to the underdeveloped countries themselves, then what role is left for us? The basic message of Diet for a Small …
FOOD FIRST BEYOND THE MYTH OF SCARCITY FRANCES MOORE LAPPE & JOSEPH COLLINS HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY BOSTON 1977 PART 12 PART X: FOOD FIRST Chapter 44: What Does Food Self-Reliance Mean? Question: throughout this book you have mentioned food self-reliance. What does food self-reliance mean and how can it be achieved? Our Response: Achieving …
ORGANIC ORCHARDING A GROVE OF TREES TO LIVE IN GENE LOGSDON RODALE PRESS 1981 PART III Chapter 2: What to Plant Where A time-honored way to start an orchard is to buy a bunch of trees to which nursery catalogues ascribe almost supernatural powers of fertility, plant them helter-skelter around the house, and then spend …
FOOD FIRST BEYOND THE MYTH OF SCARCITY FRANCES MOORE LAPPE & JOSEPH COLLINS HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY BOSTON 1977 PART XI Chapter 12: Isn’t Colonialism Dead? Question: It may be true that colonialism impaired people’s ability to feed themselves. But most of the underdeveloped countries have been independent for ten to twenty years, or even longer. …
FOOD FIRST BEYOND THE MYTH OF SCARCITY FRANCES MOORE LAPPE & JOSEPH COLLINS HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY BOSTON 1977 PART X Chapter 11. Why Can’t People Feed Themselves? (Cont.) Plantations A second approach was direct takeover of the land either by the colonizing government or by private foreign interests. Previously self-provisioning farmers were forced to cultivate …
ORGANIC ORCHARDING A GROVE OF TREES TO LIVE IN GENE LOGSDON RODALE PRESS 1981 PART I Back cover You can harvest your own apples, peaches, pears, cherries, and many other fruits and nuts from trees that grow naturally around you own home by using this book. Gene Logsdon has brought his extensive experience together …
FOOD FIRST BEYOND THE MYTH OF SCARCITY FRANCES MOORE LAPPE & JOSEPH COLLINS HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY BOSTON 1977 PART IX Chapter 8: Does Ignorance Breed Babies? Chapter 9: Sophisticated Fatalism? Chapter 10: Controlling Births or Controlling the Population? PART III: COLONIAL INHERITANCE Chapter 11. Why Can’t People Feed Themselves? Question: You have said that …
