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Butterflies Through Binoculars
The East (Butterflies Through Binoculars Series)
by
Jeffrey Glassberg
This magnificent field guide is the latest addition to the exciting
series that is revolutionizing the way we look at butterflies.
Greatly expanding on Butterflies Through Binoculars: The Boston-New
York-Washington Region--identified by Defenders of Wildlife Magazine
as "the first to focus on netless butterflying" and called " a clear
winner" by the Audubon Naturalist--Glassberg here shows us how to
find, identify, and enjoy all of the butterflies native to the
eastern half of the United States and southeastern Canada. This
guide:
*Combines the immediacy and vividness of actual photographs of
living butterflies with the traditional field guide format
*Emphasizes conservation over collection
*Includes 630 color photographs, arranged on 72 color plates, of
butterflies in the wild
*Provides adjacent color maps that show where each species occurs in
a given locality and for how much of the year
*Supplies entirely new field marks for butterfly identification
*Demonstrates how to identify subjects by way of the key
characteristics butterflies are likely to display in their natural
settings
*Shows how species can be recognized both from above and below
*Explains how to differentiate between males and females.
For butterfly enthusiasts, for bird watchers who want to add a new
dimension to their hobby, for anyone who is simply interested in
exploring the wilds of their own back yard, this new field guide
offers hours of delightful help and instruction.
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Butterfly Gardens
Luring
Nature's Loveliest Pollinators to Your Yard
by
Alcinda C. Lewis
Detailed, practical information on dozens of butterflies—all
spectacularly illustrated in color—plus an encyclopedia of the best
plants for attracting these beautiful pollinators to your garden.
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Composting
An Easy Household
Guide
by
Nicky Scott
Did you know that up to two-thirds of most household trash can be
composted? That composting reduces the need for more landfills?
Composting is fun and easy! And you can make compost even if you
live in an apartment and don't have access to a garden. This book
provides all the information you need for successful composting--a
satisfying way to live lightly on Earth.
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Defiant
Gardens
Making Gardens in
Wartime
by
Kenneth Helphand
From Booklist
*Starred Review* Gardens that ignored the rules of nature and
gardeners who challenged the laws of man are vitally united in
Helphand's seminal and revelatory study of life during some of the
most lethal conflicts of the twentieth century. From the torturous
475-mile trench line that formed the western front in World War I to
the alien landscapes of the Japanese American internment camps in
the U.S. during World War II, the sites of unfathomable human
brutality also gave rise to acts of uplifting horticultural
resistance. Whether they were subsistence vegetable beds improbably
tilled beneath barbed wire fences in Nazi-created ghettos or
symbolic topiaries artistically carved from brittle desert
sagebrush, each audacious example bears solemn testimony to the
assertive efforts of determined soldiers, POWs, Holocaust victims,
and others to vanquish war's horrors through the spiritually
ennobling act of gardening. Helphand's extensively researched
history of gardens in wartime illuminates the grotesque
juxtaposition of willful devastation and the astonishing tenacity
required to create life in the face of death.
Carol Haggas
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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The Earth Knows
My Name
Food, Culture, and
Sustainability in the Gardens of Ethnic America
by
Patricia Klindienst
From Booklist
Klindienst celebrates gardens created by immigrants who resisted the
intense pressure to assimilate into mainstream American society, in
a lyrical account of her three-year journey to collect the stories
of ethnic Americans for whom gardening is tantamount to cultural
endurance. Survivors of the Pol Pot regime fled the killing fields
of Cambodia for the healing fields of New England, while the Yankee
inheritor of land wrested generations ago from Native Americans
during the infamous Pequot Massacre of 1637 atones for that atrocity
through the simple act of sharing seeds of corn with the tribe's
descendants. Klindienst profiles 15 valiant and thoughtful gardeners
intent on preserving their native birthright and on restoring and
protecting their adopted land, individuals and families evincing a
stewardship that not only resists cultural absorption but also
sustains an ecological imperative. Carol Haggas
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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Edible
Estates:
Attack
On The Front Lawn
by Fritz Haeg, Diana Balmori, and Will Allen
Since the first edition of Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn
was published in 2008, interest in edible gardening has exploded
across the United States and abroad. Even First Lady Michelle Obama
is doing it! This greatly expanded second edition of the book
documents the eight Edible Estates regional prototype gardens that
author Fritz Haeg has planted in California, Kansas, Texas,
Maryland, New Jersey, New York and England, and includes personal
accounts from the homeowner-gardeners about the pleasures and
challenges of publicly growing food where they live. Ten "Reports
from Coast to Coast" tell the stories of others who have planted
their own edible front yards in towns and cities across the country.
In addition to essays by renowned
landscape architect and scholar Diana Balmori,
edible-landscaping pioneer Rosalind Creasy, bestselling author and
sustainable-food advocate Michael Pollan and artist and writer
Lesley Stern, this edition features updated text by Haeg (including
his observations on the Obama White House vegetable garden); a
contribution from Mannahatta author Eric W. Sanderson; and Growing
Power founder, MacArthur Fellow and urban farmer Will Allen's
never-before-published Declaration of the Good Food Revolution. This
is not a comprehensive how-to book, nor a showcase of impossibly
perfect gardens. The stories presented here are intended to reveal
something about how we are living today and to inspire readers to
plant their own versions of an Edible Estate. If we see that our
neighbor's typical grassy lawn instead can be a beautiful food
garden, perhaps we will begin to look at the city around us with new
eyes. Our private land can be a public model for the world in which
we would like to live.
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The Edible
Front Yard
The Mow-Less, Grow-More Plan For A Beautiful Bountiful Garden
by Ivette Soler
People everywhere are turning patches of soil into
bountiful vegetable gardens, and each spring a new crop
of beginners pick up trowels and plant seeds for the
first time. They're
planting tomatoes in raised beds, runner beans in
small plots, and strawberries in containers. But there
is one place that has, until now, been woefully
neglected — the front yard.
And there's good reason. The typical veggie garden, with
its raised beds and plots, is not the most attractive
type of garden, and favorite edible plants like tomatoes
and cucumbers have a tendency to look a scraggily, even
in their prime. But The Edible Front Yard isn't about
the typical veggie garden, and author Ivette Soler is
passionate about putting edibles up front and creating
edible gardens with curb appeal.
Soler offers step-by-step instructions for converting
all or part of a lawn into an edible paradise; specific
guidelines for selecting and planting the most
attractive edible plants; and design advice and plans
for the best placement and for combining edibles with
ornamentals in pleasing ways. Inspiring and accessible,
The Edible Front Yard is a one-stop resource for a
front-and-center
edible garden that is both beautiful and bountiful
all year-round.
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Fields That Dream
A Journey to the
Roots of Our Food
by Jenny Kurzweil (Author)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, November 21, 2005
Engaging and informative look at the small farmers who grow and sell
their foodstuffs at this city's beloved Farmers Market.
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Florida Butterfly Caterpillars and Their Host Plants
by
Marc C. Minno, Jerry F. Butler, and Donald W. Hall
This book will become the classic guide to southern butterfly
caterpillars and their host plants.
With hundreds of color photographs and concise information in a
format that can easily be carried into the field, it offers an
unprecedented tool for all butterfly gardeners, teachers,
naturalists, students, and scientists in the southern United States.
No other book offers such a comprehensive discussion of Florida
butterfly caterpillars and their host plants. It covers caterpillar
anatomy, biology, ecology, habitat, behavior, and defense, as well
as how to find, identify, and raise caterpillars. The book contains
sharply detailed photos of 167 species of caterpillars, 185 plants,
18 life cycles, and 19 habitats. It includes 169 maps. Photos of the
egg, larva, pupa, and adult of representatives of 18 butterfly
families and subfamilies provide life cycle comparisons that have
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Florida Butterfly
Gardening
A Complete Guide to Attracting, Identifying and Enjoying Butterflies
By
Marc and Maria Minno
"The first comprehensive guide to butterfly gardening in Florida and
adjacent states . . . useful to anybody interested in butterfly
gardening in Florida, but it is especially useful, even
indispensable, for those who plan their garden to be an educational
as well as aesthetic experience."—Mark Deyrup, entomologist,
Archbold Biological Station
· presents 400+ color photos taken by the authors, showing every
butterfly in adult, larva, and pupa stages
· presents practical information on garden plants, installation, and
maintenance
· illustrations of both host and nectar plants
· includes inquiry-based science activities and a Florida butterfly
checklist
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Florida
Home Grown 2:
The Edible Landscape
by Tom MacCubbin (Author)
Tom
MacCubbin is Florida's leading garden expert. In Florida Home Grown
2 he shows you how to: Design an edible landscape on paper, start
transplants, keep diseases and insects at bay, harvest for maximum
flavor and yield. Almost 50 detailed profiles of vegetables and
fruits. A bountiful supply of charts, tables and illustrations. All
you need to know to be a Florida gardener.
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Forager
A
Subjective Guide To Miami's Edible Plants
by
Tiffany Noé & George Echevarria
Created by three native plant enthusiasts, Forager provides
a full-color window into South Florida’s foraging culture, featuring
forty-two different plant species that can be found in
publicly-accessible spaces around Miami. Descriptive plates detail
the parts of each plant as well as primary growing season, popular
locations, alternate names, and taste profiles. Histories of each
plant buttress warnings about poisons and tips for picking, and
full-color photos provide a glimpse into Miami foraging lifestyle.
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Forest & Garden
Traces of Wildness in a
Modernizing Land, 1897-1949
by Melanie Louise Simo
"In wildness is the preservation of the world," wrote Henry David
Thoreau. But how the wild and the managed or artificially arranged
environments coexist has been a matter of intense debate among
foresters and landscape professionals at least since the era of
Frederick Law Olmsted Sr.
In
Forest and Garden, Melanie L. Simo ranges through a period of
landscape history that has been underexamined, between Olmsted and
mid-twentieth-century modernism, when the contours of the debate
were formed and the landscape professions came of age. Simo's book
spans half a century, from the year that Charles Sprague Sargent's
influential Garden and Forest magazine ceased publication in 1897 to
the appearance in 1949 of two unusual books about land and
landscape--Aldo Leopold's Sand County Almanac and Jens Jensen's The
Clearing--that marked the beginning of a new ecological awareness.
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Full Planet,
Empty Plates
The New Geopolitics of
Food Scarcity
by Lester R. Brown
With food scarcity driven by falling water tables, eroding soils,
and rising temperatures, control of arable land and water resources
is moving to center stage in the global struggle for food security.
“In this era of tightening world food supplies, the ability to grow
food is fast becoming a new form of geopolitical leverage. Food is
the new oil,” Lester R. Brown writes.
What will the geopolitics of food look like in a new era dominated
by scarcity and food nationalism? Brown outlines the political
implications of land acquisitions by grain-importing countries in
Africa and elsewhere as well as the world’s shrinking buffers
against poor harvests. With wisdom accumulated over decades of
tracking agricultural issues, Brown exposes the increasingly
volatile food situation the world is facing.
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Grow Great Grub
by
Gayla Trail
Your patio, balcony, rooftop, front stoop, windowsill, or planter
box is a potential fresh food garden waiting to happen. In this
book, Gayla Trail, the founder of the leading online gardening
community You Grow Girl, shows you how to grow your own delicious,
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Hummingbird Gardens
by
Barbara Nielsen (Author), Nancy Newfield (Author), Roger Tory
Peterson (Foreword)
From Booklist
An undeniable element of magic surrounds the unexpected discovery of
a hummingbird paying a visit to one's own backyard. With that goal
in mind, Newfield and Nielsen offer a compilation of material full
of sensible advice for gardeners in all parts of the country who
share the desire to attract hummingbirds to the home garden
environment. Although the guide can be counted on to provide
specific recommendations for the best varieties of flowers to plant
in order to attract the lovely creatures, the appealing text
integrates gardening ideas and designs with an informative
introduction to the general habits (migrating and nesting patterns,
etc.) of hummingbirds. A final section provides a detailed
identification guide to various species and to plants (as designated
by regional appropriateness). Alice Joyce --This text refers to
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In Defense of
Food
An Eater's Manifesto
by
Michael Pollan (Author)
From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. In his hugely influential treatise The Omnivore's
Dilemma, Pollan traced a direct line between the
industrialization of our food supply and the degradation of the
environment. His new book takes up where the previous work left off.
Examining the question of what to eat from the perspective of
health, this powerfully argued, thoroughly researched and elegant
manifesto cuts straight to the chase with a maxim that is
deceptively simple: Eat food, not too much, mostly plants. But as
Pollan explains, food in a country that is driven by a thirty-two
billion-dollar marketing machine is both a loaded term and, in its
purest sense, a holy grail. The first section of his three-part
essay refutes the authority of the diet bullies, pointing up the
confluence of interests among manufacturers of processed foods,
marketers and nutritional scientists—a cabal whose nutritional
advice has given rise to a notably unhealthy preoccupation with
nutrition and diet and the idea of eating healthily. The second
portion vivisects the Western diet, questioning, among other sacred
cows, the idea that dietary fat leads to chronic illness. A writer
of great subtlety, Pollan doesn't preach to the choir; in fact,
rarely does he preach at all, preferring to lets the facts speak for
themselves. (Jan.)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier
Inc. All rights reserved.
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Landscaping for Florida's Wildlife
Re-creating Native Ecosystems
in Your Yard
by
JOSEPH M. SCHAEFER (Author), GEORGE TANNER (Author)
As
the natural landscape becomes more humanized, the habitat for many
wildlife species has been lost or degraded. In a clear, step-by-step
format, this book tells how to create a wildlife-friendly landscape
that takes into account both people and nature. The authors'
theme--"put back what you don't need"--allows the gardener to reduce
maintenance costs while providing a habitat that offers wildlife the
essentials of food, cover, water, and space.
*The book addresses such fundamental questions as which ecosystem is
appropriate to a particular piece of property and how to determine
which species use the property.
*It discusses how to consider soils, drainage patterns, utility
lines, adjacent land uses, and existing native vegetation.
*It describes how to prepare a base map; add plant and non-plant
elements such as birdhouses, burrows, and tree frog houses; and
calculate the cost of materials.
*It tells how to install, maintain, and evaluate the new yard.
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Let
it Rot
The Gardener's Guide to Composting
by
Stu Campbell (Author)
From Library Journal
A readable, quietly humorous introduction to composting, this covers
reasons to compost; differing approaches; how decomposition works;
various methods, ingredients, and containers; how to speed
decomposition; and how to use the end result. Campbell is an
experienced gardener, and the book goes into great detail, but the
text remains clear and interesting. The simple black-and-white
illustrations vary between decorative sketches and straightforward
diagrams; they could have been more frequent and more informative.
The bibliography lists 14 other books on composting; a list of
sources of composting supplies is also given. An interesting
treatment of a basic subject for general readers, this is
recommended for all gardening collections needing material on
compost heaps. -Sharon Levin, Univ. of
Vermont Medical Lib., Burlington
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The Rodale Book of
Composting
Easy Methods for Every Gardener
by
Grace Gershuny (Editor), Deborah L. Martin (Editor)
From Library Journal
This is an update of Jerry Minnich and others' The Rodale Guide to
Composting ( LJ 5/1/79), which itself updated J.L. Rodale's Complete
Book of Composting (Rodale Pr., 1960. o.p.). The broad spectrum of
information given will be useful from backyard urban gardening on up
to industrial, municipal, and farm recycling. The first quarter of
the book gives you all you ever wanted to know on the science of
composting--and more--along with some history. A discussion of
materials, methods, structures, equipment, and uses is followed by a
brief look at large-scale composting. The writing is an uneven mix
of scientific detail and the anecdotal. Chemical reactions are
described in exquisite detail, and yet most quotes, while
attributed, are neither dated nor their source given. Stu Campbell
and Kathleen Bond Borie's Let It Rot: The Gardener's Guide to
Composting ( LJ 1/91) is more readable and inviting for the
individual gardener. While useful for its in-depth, detailed
coverage, Rodale's almost-textbook is recommended only for
comprehensive gardening collections.
- Sharon Levin, Univ. of Vermont Lib., Burlington
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text
refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Second Nature
A Gardener's Education
by
Michael Pollan (Author)
From Library Journal
Pollan, executive editor of Harper's and self-proclaimed amateur
gardener, has written a book that is by turns charming and annoying,
insightful and shallow, droll and banal. His collection of a dozen
essays arranged by season is based on his experiences over a
seven-year period in his Connecticut garden, along with vignettes
from garden history. Unfortunately, Pollan's text is characterized
by dubious and unsupported generalities, self-conscious humor, and
extended, labored metaphors, and his lack of gardening authority
dooms the book to superficiality. Experienced gardeners and devotees
of garden literature will find little here that is original. Only
for comprehensive gardening collections.
- Richard Shotwell, Hancock Shaker Village, Pittsfield, Mass.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
--This
text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Seedfolks
by
Paul Fleischman
Sometimes, even in the middle of ugliness and neglect, a little bit
of beauty will bloom. Award-winning writer Paul Fleischman dazzles
us with this truth in Seedfolks--a slim novel that bursts with hope.
Wasting not a single word, Fleischman unfolds a story of a blighted
neighborhood transformed when a young girl plants a few lima beans
in an abandoned lot. Slowly, one by one, neighbors are touched and
stirred to action as they see tendrils poke through the dirt.
Hispanics, Haitians, Koreans, young, and old begin to turn the
littered lot into a garden for the whole community. A gift for
hearts of all ages, this gentle, timeless story will delight anyone
in need of a sprig of inspiration.
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Seeds
To Seed
Seed
Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners
by
Suzanne Ashworth
Seed to Seed is a complete seed-saving guide that describes specific
techniques for saving the seeds of 160 different vegetables. This
book contains detailed information about each vegetable, including
its botanical classification, flower structure and means of
pollination, required population size, isolation distance,
techniques for caging or hand-pollination, and also the proper
methods for harvesting, drying, cleaning, and storing the seeds.
Seed to Seed is widely acknowledged as the best guide available for
home gardeners to learn effective ways to produce and store seeds on
a small scale. The author has grown seed crops of every vegetable
featured in the book, and has thoroughly researched and tested all
of the techniques she recommends for the home garden. This newly
updated and greatly expanded Second Edition includes additional
information about how to start each vegetable from seed, which has
turned the book into a complete growing guide. Local knowledge about
seed starting techniques for each vegetable has been shared by
expert gardeners from seven regions of the United States-Northeast,
Mid-Atlantic, Southeast/Gulf Coast, Midwest, Southwest, Central West
Coast, and Northwest.
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What
the World Eats
By
Faith D'Aluisio (author), Peter Menzel
(Photographer)
Amazon's Review
Every day, millions of families around the world
gather--at the table or on the floor, in a house or
outdoors--to eat together. Ever wondered what a
typical meal is like on the other side of the world?
Or next door? Cultural geographers Peter Menzel and
Faith D'Aluisio visited twenty-five families in
twenty-one countries to create this fascinating look
at what people around the world eat in a week. Meet
a family that spends long hours hunting for seal and
fish together; a family that raises and eats guinea
pigs; a family that drinks six gallons of Coca-Cola
a week.
In addition to profiles of each family, What the
World Eats includes photo galleries and illustrated
charts about fast food, safe water, life expectancy,
literacy rates, and more!
Each family's profile features:
* Full-color photographs, including each family
posing with the food consumed in a week.
* Information about each family's food, including
cost and quantity.
* A world map showing where each family lives.
* Facts about that country, including population,
currency, average income, and more.
This enthralling glimpse into cultural similarities
and differences is at once a striking photographic
essay and an essential study in nutrition and the
global marketplace.
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You Can
Grow Tropical Fruit Trees
by Robert Mohlenbrock (Authors)
No
citrus here, but lots of other fruits: mango, papaya, kumquat,
avocado... In Florida there's a cornucopia of ornamental, edible
delights! Botanist Robert Mohlenbrock shows you how to grow them in
your own backyard. Contains illustrations and instructions on how to
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