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 …
OUT OF THE EARTH CIVILIZATION AND THE LIFE OF THE SOIL DANIEL HILLEL UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS 1991 PART 2 Chapter 2: Man’s Role on God’s Earth We live on a unique planet bathed in the light and warmth of a nearby star we call the sun. Alone among the planets revolving around that …
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 2 Chapter 1: Desire: Sweetness. Plant: The Apple If you were on the banks of the Ohio River in 1806 – somewhere just to the north of Wheeling, West Virginia, say – you would probably have noticed a …
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 …
STONE MULCHING IN THE GARDEN J. I. RODALE RODALE PRESS 1949 PART IV Chapter 6: The Stone Vegetable Garden In an earlier section of this book I mentioned an observation of Joseph A. Cocannouer, in his valuable Tramping Out the Vintage, about how the Bavarians spread stones over the ground between the rows of …
STONE MULCHING IN THE GARDEN J. I. RODALE RODALE PRESS 1949 PART III Chapter 3: The Reasons A rock mulch does not permit grass or weeds to spring up in its domain, thus competing with your plant or tree for sustenance. It does away with the need of either plowing or discing, leaving the bacteria, …
STONE MULCHING IN THE GARDEN J. I. RODALE RODALE PRESS 1949 PART II Chapter 2: Rocks – Parents of the Soil “And this our life exempt from public haunt finds tongues in trees, books in brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.” Shakespeare, As You Like It In Biblical times stones were employed …
STONE MULCHING IN THE GARDEN J. I. RODALE RODALE PRESS 1949 PART I Chapter 1: Stone Mulches Under Trees My dictionary defines a mulch as a layer of dried leaves, straw, etc., used to protect the roots of trees and plants. Actually, a much more comprehensive group of materials is intended when one thinks …
THE MULCH BOOK A COMPLETE GUIDE FOR GARDENERS STU CAMPBELL STOREY COMMUNICATIONS 1991 Preface, Charlotte, Vermont Fall, 1973 Mulching first began to appeal to me when I realized that it might save me and my family some work. The nicest thing about mulching is that your children may not have to do so much …
