Imagine the typical American farmer. Many people visualize sun-roughened skin, faded overalls, and calloused hands-hands that are usually white. While there's no doubt the growing trend of organic farming and homesteading is...
GARDENING / Essays & Narratives
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Author:Bowens, NatashaSummary: -
Author:Olson, DonaldSummary:A fantastic garden journey that only California can provide In The California Garden Tour, veteran travel writer Donald Olson highlights 50 outstanding public gardens and provides all the information you need to make the most of your...
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Author:Pollan, MichaelSummary:Chosen by the American Horticultural Society as one of the seventy-five greatest books ever written about gardening, Second Nature has become a manifesto for rethinking our relationship with nature. With chapter ranging from a...
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Author:Hogshire, Jim.Summary:"Contrary to general belief, there is no federal law against growing P. somniferum."-Martha Stewart Living "Regarded as 'God's own medicine,' preparations of opium were as common in the Victorian medicine...
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Author:Kennedy, Des.Summary:Writer, environmentalist and gardener Des Kennedy has gathered together his best, most outrageous and most contemplative articles and essays of the past decade into a book full of playful wit and insight. Kennedy recounts one newspaper...
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Author:Rapp, Carolyn FreasSummary:Countless garden books tell us what, when, where and how to plant. Few explore the reasons why gardening becomes central to so many people's lives. In Garden Voices, Carolyn Rapp explores the relationships of women with their...
