THE ORGANIC GARDENER’S COMPLETE GUIDE TO VEGETABLES AND FRUITS FROM THE EDITORS OF RODALE PRESS RODALE PRESS 1982 PART II Introduction (Cont.) Composting As you embark on a soil-building program, you’ll find no better source of organic matter than compost. A serious organic gardener would no sooner be caught without a good source of …
THE ORGANIC GARDENER’S COMPLETE GUIDE TO VEGETABLES AND FRUITS FROM THE EDITORS OF RODALE PRESS RODALE PRESS 1982 PART I Introduction Where does the motivation come from to lug countless shovels full of manure, to endure the ache of winter-lazy muscles called upon to till soil in the spring, to patiently pick cabbage loopers from …
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 …
ORGANIC ORCHARDING A GROVE OF TREES TO LIVE IN GENE LOGSDON RODALE PRESS 1981 PART II PART I ESTABLISHING AND MAINTAINING A HOMESTEAD ORCHARD Chapter 1: Life in a Grove of Trees: An Overview Even those who know little about the complex and intrinsically beautiful world of the orchard like the sound of …
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 …
THE EARTHSCAN READER IN SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE EDITED BY JULES PRETTY EARTHSCAN 2005 PART XV PART V: PERSPECTIVES FROM DEVELOPING COUNTRIES Perspective 27: Reducing Food Poverty by Increasing Agricultural Sustainability in Developing Countries by Jules Pretty, James Morison and Rachel Hine Introduction Over the past 40 years, per capita world food production has grown by …
FEEDING THE TEN BILLION PLANTS AND POPULATION GROWTH L.T. EVANS CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS 1998 PART 1V Chapter 5: Towards the First Billion (1500-1825) 5.1 Introduction: from subsistence to commercial farming Although there had been several bursts of population growth, e.g. following the Neolithic Revolution and in early medieval times, sustained rapid growth really began in …
MANIFESTOS ON THE FUTURE OF FOOD AND SEED EDITED BY VANDANA SHIVA SOUTH END PRESS 2007 PART X PART THREE SEEDS FOR THE FUTURE: BREEDING TOMORROW’S SEEDS Seeds embody the past and the future. The evolution of seeds in the future depends on our conserving the widest diversity of seeds and crop varieties to …
THE EARTHSCAN READER IN SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE EDITED BY JULES PRETTY EARTHSCAN 2005 PART I PART I: AGRARIAN AND RURAL PERSPECTIVES Introduction to Part 1: Agrarian and Rural Perspectives by Jules Pretty Part 1 of this Reader in Sustainable Agriculture focuses on seven agrarian and rural perspectives on agricultural sustainability by Albert Howard, Aldo …
Book Review Introduction In Part 4 of Manifestos on the Future of Food and Seed we learn that: “This manifesto is the outcome of a joint effort among participants in the meetings of the International Commission on the Future of Food, held in late 2002 and early 2003 in Tuscany, Italy.” “We urge people and …
