gardening for life
some musings on my one day at home
Slice of Organic Life
- ISBN13: 9780756662110
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Featuring over 80 self-contained projects, from growing your own organic food, cooking home-grown produce, keeping selected livestock, and leading a more sustainable lifestyle, Slice of Organic Life is the perfect start for someone looking to go “green.”… More >>
Life After Trauma: A Workbook for Healing
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Trauma can turn a person’s world upside down–afterward, nothing may look safe or familiar. This supportive workbook helps trauma survivors find and use crucial skills for coping, self-understanding, and self-care. Even when the worst has happened, this book shows how it is possible to feel good again. Filled with comforting activities, relaxation techniques, self-evaluation questionnaires, and exercises, the workbook explains how and why trauma can throw you for a loop and what survivors can do now to cope. Chapters guide readers step-by-step toward reclaiming a basic sense of safety, self-worth, and control over their lives, as well as the capacity to trust and be close to others. Readers learn how to protect themselves from overwhelming memories and to heal from trauma-related reactions that may be disturbing their day-to-day lives. Written by experts in treating trauma and based on extensive research, the workbook can be used on its own o… More >>
The Seasons on Henry’s Farm: A Year of Food and Life on a Sustainable Farm
- ISBN13: 9781572841031
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Henry’s Farm is in central Illinois, some of the richest farming land in the world. There, Henry Brockman and his family — five generations of farmers, including sister Terra — farm in a way that produces healthy, nutritious food without despoiling the land. Terra Brockman tells their story in the form of a yearlong diary/memoir — with recipes — that takes readers through each season of life on the farm. Studded with vignettes, photographs, family stories, and illustrations of the farm’s vivid plant life, the book is a one-of-a-kind treasure that will appeal to readers of Michael Pollan, E. B. White, Gretel Ehrlich, and Sandra Steingraber. The book opens a window into what sustainable farming really entails and why it is vital and relevant to everyone who eats. Though rooted in the rolling oak-hickory hills and fertile fields and flood plains of the Mackinaw River Valley, the book ranges widely, incorporating literary, scientific, and culinary refl… More >>
The Seasons on Henry’s Farm: A Year of Food and Life on a Sustainable Farm
Seeds: Time Capsules of Life
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“Who would have thought that a book about seeds could be a stunning work of art? … Anyone who believes that life and art are inseparable will want to purchase this book immediately.” – Choice The publication of the first edition of Seeds broke new ground by melding art and science in a beautiful yet authoritative examination of the design and function of seeds. This new edition contains 60 spectacular new photographs published here for the first time. In addition, the book contains a fully updated chapter about the Millennium Seed Bank Project and its recent acquisitions. Microphotographs and detailed cutaway images reveal the intricate architecture of pods, pouches, keys and nuts of various sizes, from minute to relatively enormous. Concise text explains their formation and maturation and describes the clever dispersal methods that set off each plant’s reproduction cycle. Literary references and early botanical illustrations comple… More >>
A Handmade Life
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“I want to live in a society where people are intoxicated with the joy of making things.” —Wm. Coperthwaite William Coperthwaite is a teacher, builder, designer, and writer, who for many years has explored the possibilities of true simplicity on a homestead on the north coast of Maine. In the spirit of Henry David Thoreau, Emily Dickinson, and Helen and Scott Nearing, Coperthwaite has fashioned a livelihood of integrity and completeness—buying almost nothing, providing for his own needs, and serving as a guide and companion to hundreds of apprentices drawn to his unique way of being. A Handmade Life carries Coperthwaite’s ongoing experiments with self-sufficient living out into the world to challenge and inspire. He describes his handmade shelter, clothing, tools and furnishings, as well as the food he gathers and grows himself. His writing is both philosophical and practical, exploring themes of beauty, work, education, and design while givin… More >>
Our Life in Gardens
- ISBN13: 9780374532130
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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This is the third book we have written together, though separately we have written others . . . But to say ‘written separately’ makes no sense, for when two lives have been bent for so many years on one central enterprise—in this case, gardening—there really is no such thing as separately.” With these words, the renowned garden designers Joe Eck and Wayne Winterrowd begin their entertaining, fascinating, and unexpectedly moving book about the life and garden they share. The book contains much sound information about the cultivation of plants and their value in the landscape, and invaluable advice about Eck and Winterrowd’s area of expertise: garden design. There are chapters about the various parts of their garden, and sections about particular plants—roses and lilacs, snowdrops and cyclamen—and vegetables. The authors also discuss the development of their garden over time, and the dark issue that weighs more and more on their minds: its ev… More >>
Behaving as if the God in All Life Mattered
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Machaelle Small Wright is a spiritual pioneer with the profound ability to “see” and “hear” the invisible forces of nature. Her personal story is one of triumph, from a childhood of torment and isolation to discovery of her ability to communicate with the world of nature spirits and devas. At “Perelandra,” her 45-acre private nature research center in Virginia, Machaelle devotes her life to understanding and demonstrating a new approach to ecological balance: * The foundation and development of co-creative gardening * The ecological effects of humans * The roles of the animal, mineral and plant kingdoms * Humankind’s unrealized custodianship of Planet Earth A book beyond theory, Behaving as if the God in ALl Life Mattered will excite the minds and capture the hearts of all who dare to dream of a dynamic world of harmony and compassionate living…. More >>
Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands : Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain into Your Life And Landscape
- ISBN13: 9780977246403
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands: Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain into Your Life and Landscape is the first volume of three-volume guide on how to conceptualize, design, and implement sustainable water-harvesting systems for your home, landscape, and community. This book enables you to assess your on-site resources, gives you a diverse array of strategies to maximize their potential, and empowers you with guiding principles to create an integrated, multi-functional water-harvesting plan specific to your site and needs. Volume 1 helps bring your site to life, reduce your cost of living, endow you with skills of self-reliance, and create living air conditioners of vegetation growing beauty, food, and wildlife habitat. Stories of people who are successfully welcoming rain into their life and landscape will invite you to do the same!… More >>
Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands : Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain into Your Life And Landscape
DW: Fit for life
DW: Fit for life
LEWISBURG — People tend to exercise because they know it can get them where they want to be, or it will make their lives easier while going through the daily grind.
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