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Start Your Farm: The Authoritative Guide to Becoming a Sustainable 21st Century Farmer
FORREST PRITCHARD · The Experiment
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
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A totally modern, all-purpose handbook for today's agricultural dreamers - covering the challenges and triumphs of launching any successful farm - from two leading lights in sustainable farming Combining nearly five decades of experience from two of America's pioneering sustainable farmers,... |
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Nourished Planet: Sustainability in the Global Food System
Barilla Center for Food and Nutrition
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Mangos from India, pasta from Italy, coffee from Colombia: Every day, we are nourished by a global food system that relies on our planet remaining verdant and productive. But current practices are undermining both human and environmental health, resulting in the paradoxes of obesi |
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How to Be a Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals
SY MONTGOMERY · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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National Book Award finalist Sy Montgomery reflects on the personalities and quirks of 13 animals - her friends - who have profoundly affected her in this stunning, poetic, and life-affirming memoir featuring illustrations by Rebecca Green.Understanding someone who belongs to another species... |
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National Geographic Backyard Guide to Insects and Spiders of North America
Arthur V Evans · National Geographic
Pages: 240
Format: Print book
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An accessible visual guide to the top 150 insects and spiders, this guide combines readable text, representative photographs, and explanatory illustrations to highlight key features of body shape, life cycle, and behavior. Organized by scientific taxonomy, the book offers navigational devices... |
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The Rodale Book of Composting: Easy Methods for Every Gardener
GRACE GERSHUNY · Rodale Books
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
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An essential guide to composting for all gardeners and environmentally conscious peopleThis revised edition of The Rodale Book of Composting includes all the latest in new techniques, technology, and equipment. Gardeners know composting is the best way to feed the soil and turn food scraps... |
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Snowball Oranges: One Mallorcan Winter
Peter Kerr · Summersdale
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
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When the Kerr family leave Scotland to grow oranges in a secluded valley on the island of Mallorca, they are surprised to be greeted by the same freezing weather they have left behind. Then they realize that their new orange farm is a bit of a lemon. . . . Laughter, finds Peter Kerr, is the best... |
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Identifying Trees of the East: An All-Season Guide to Eastern North America
Michael D Williams · Stackpole Books
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback
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All-season field guide for identifying common trees of eastern NAThis popular, field-tested guide for identifying trees in any season, not just when they are in full leaf, features 600 color photos and 200 line drawings showing bark, branching patterns, fruits, flowers, nuts, and overall... |
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Reading the Rocks: How Victorian Geologists Discovered the Secret of Life
Brenda Maddox · Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Pages: 254
Format: Paperback
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A rich and exuberant group biography of the first geologists, the people who were first to excavate from the layers of the world its buried history. These first geologists were made up primarily, and inevitably, of gentlemen with the necessary wealth to support their interests, yet boosting... |
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Niagara Falls for Everybody: What to See and Enjoy-A Complete Guide
BARBARA LYNCH-JOHNT · Amherst Media
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback
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Niagara Falls is a top tourist destination for visitors worldwide. Dubbed the Honeymoon Capital of the World, The Mighty Niagara welcomes 12 million visitors per year. There's much to learn and see when you plan your visit to Niagara Falls, New York and Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada,... |
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