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Above the Pavement, the Farm
Dan Wood (Editor), Amale Andraos (Editor)
In the summer of 2008, exactly forty years after French student activists took to the streets with their rallying cry of "Under the pavement, the beach!" a new vision of liberation took shape in the courtyard of MoMA's P.S.1. Designed and built by WORK Architecture Company in 2008 for the museum's Young Architects Program, the installation Public Farm 1 (PF1) consisted of a large cluster of cardboard tubes topped with more than four dozen species of plants and vegetables. Conceived as a medium for educating citizens about sustainable urban farming techniques, the fully functioning, produce-growing design emphasized local intervention over mass production and pointed the way toward a more holistic, integrated approach to urban life. Leaving behind the urban beach, the updated slogan "Above the Pavement, the Farm!" embodies the current generation of young architects preoccupations and hopes for the city of the future.
Pub. Date: June 2010
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Format: Paperback, 192pp
156898935
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Against the Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization
by Richard Manning
In this provocative, wide-ranging book, Richard Manning offers a dramatically revisionist view of recent human evolution, beginning with the vast increase in brain size that set us apart from our primate relatives and brought an accompanying increase in our need for nourishment. For 290,000 years, we managed to meet that need as hunter-gatherers, a state in which Manning believes we were at our most human: at our smartest, strongest, most sensually alive. But our reliance on food made a secure supply deeply attractive, and eventually we embarked upon the agricultural experiment that has been the history of our past 10,000 years.
The evolutionary road is littered with failed experiments, however, and Manning suggests that agriculture as we have practiced it runs against both our grain and nature's. Drawing on the work of anthropologists, biologists, archaeologists, and philosophers, along with his own travels, he argues that not only our ecological ills-overpopulation, erosion, pollution-but our social and emotional malaise are rooted in the devil's bargain we made in our not-so-distant past. And he offers personal, achievable ways we might re-contour the path we have taken to resurrect what is most sustainable and sustaining in our own nature and the planet's.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date: February 2005
ISBN-13: 9780865477131
240pp
086547713
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Agritourism and Nature Tourism in California (2nd Edition)
Agritourism has emerged as a viable financial option for many farms and ranches. Since the publication of the first edition of Agritourism and Nature Tourism, the landscape has changed as counties and local governments incorporate agritourism into their local plans. This new edition builds on the concepts of the first, and adds updated information on regulations, risk management, and new marketing trends.
What’s new in the 2nd edition?
• Coverage of recent changes to the county, state and federal policies that impact agritourism
• An expanded marketing chapter including information on social media marketing
• An extensive listing of California agricultural marketing organizations
• An expanded chapter on risk management
• New agritourism contacts and links
As with the first edition you’ll find easy-to-use worksheets and activities that will walk you through the steps needed to determine if agritourism is for you. You’ll create business and marketing plans that can make your operation a success.
Chapters include:
Consider the Possibilities
Evaluating Your Resources: Is Tourism for You?
Creating Your Business Plan
Understanding and Navigating Regulations
Developing Your Risk Management Plan
Designing Your Marketing Strategy
Resources for Success
From farm stays and bed and breakfasts to U-pick orchards and farm stands, cooking classes to wine and olive oil tastings, the ever popular corn maze to school trips—agritourism is maturing and growing. The possibilities are still as endless as your imagination.
Workshop attendees raved about the first edition as a resource for tourist business planning. One participant from a workshop in Paso Robles said, "Chapter Two on 'Assessing Your Potential' really helped my husband and me refine our vision and get started. It made us aware of ALL the components that must be addressed." Another participant from a workshop in Reedley says, "I used the information in the manual to prepare my expansion and my plan to meet with county staff, before I submit an application."
Publication Number: 3484
Author: HOLLY GEORGE, ELLIE RILLA
Inventory Type: Paperback
Language: English
ISBN-13: 978-1-60107-742-4
Copyright Date: 2011
Length: 151 pp
160107742
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Agronomy and Economy of Black Pepper and Cardamom
by K.P. Prabhakaran Nair
Known as the "King" of spices, black pepper (Piper nigrum L.) and the "Queen" of spices, cardamom (Elettaria cardamomum M.), both perennial crops of the tropics, are the most important and most widely sought after spice crops of the world. They both have many uses, for example, both are used as flavourings and as a medicine.
This book provides a comprehensive review of these two very important spice crops, covering origin, history, geographical distribution, production, economy and their uses.
Discusses the two major spices of great economic value to the developing world
The author is an eminent scientist who has won numerous awards for his work in this area
Pub. Date: July 2011
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Format: Hardcover , 380pp
012391865
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Applied Weed Science
by Merrill A. Ross, Carole A. Lembi
From the Publisher
This introduction to the principles of weed science prepares readers to analyze real-life weed control problems and to develop integrated, practical approaches to solving them. Comprehensive in coverage and unique in presentation, it blends basic information on plant systems, soil systems, control methods, and management systems, and discusses various plants and herbicides by groups to provide an integrated framework from which to extend information to many different situations. For readers interested in weed science.
Booknews
A textbook for an introductory college course, but also potentially useful as a reference for practitioners in agriculture, pest management, and other fields. Assuming readers will arrive with a wide range of experience and learning, provides background on such matters as plant structure and function, soils, and tillage equipment and practices. Emphasizes the application of the major concepts and principles in various situations. No date is noted for the first edition; the second adds a chapter on the impact of changing technology, particularly in biology. A chapter also considers aquatic weeds. The glossary does not indicate pronunciation. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub. Date: August 2008
ISBN-13: 9780135028148
512pp
Edition Description: New Edition
Edition Number: 3
013502814
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Avocado: Botany, Production and Uses
by A. W. Whiley (Editor), B. N. Wolstenholme (Editor), B. Schaffer (Editor)
Contributors from the major avocado growing countries provide 14 chapters summarizing current knowledge of avocado science, technology, and production practices. Topics include history, distribution, and uses; genetics and classical breeding; cultivars and rootstocks; crop management; insect and mite pests; and harvesting, packing, postharvest technology, transport, and processing. The book is edited by Whiley (Queensland Horticultural Institute, Australia), Schaffer (tropical research education, U. of Floriday), and Wolstenholme (horticultural science, U. of Natal, S. Africa), and is distributed by Oxford U. Press. A section of color photographs is included. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Pub. Date: September 2002
Publisher: CABI
Format: Hardcover, 416pp
085199357
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Blueberries
by
Jorge B. Retamales,
James F. Hancock
Blueberry cultivation has increased dramatically as production has shifted into new regions. Blueberries are now widely available as food and also processed to be used in medicine and pharmaceuticals for their antioxidant properties. This practical book covers the major topics of interest to blueberry breeders and researchers including botany, physiology, nutrition, growth regulation, photosynthesis, environment, weeds, pests, diseases and post-harvest management. The main focus is on the most important cultivated species, the highbush blueberry, although information on other blueberries and related species is also provided.
ISBN-13: 9781845938260
Publisher: CABI
Publication date: 4/28/2012
Pages: 336
184593826
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Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food
by Wendell Berry
Only a farmer could delve so deeply into the origins of food, and only a writer of Wendell Berry’s caliber could convey it with such conviction and eloquence. Long before Whole Foods organic produce was available at your local supermarket, Berry was farming with the purity of food in mind. For the last five decades, Berry has embodied mindful eating through his land practices and his writing. In recognition of that influence, Michael Pollan here offers an introduction to this wonderful collection.
Drawn from over thirty years of work, this collection joins bestsellers The Omnivore’s Dilemma, by Pollan, and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, by Barbara Kingsolver, as essential reading for anyone who cares about what they eat. The essays address such concerns as: How does organic measure up against locally grown? What are the differences between small and large farms, and how does that affect what you put on your dinner table? What can you do to support sustainable agriculture?
A progenitor of the Slow Food movement, Wendell Berry reminds us all to take the time to understand the basics of what we ingest. “Eating is an agriculture act,” he writes. Indeed, we are all players in the food economy.
Publisher: Counterpoint
Pub. Date: September 2009
ISBN-13: 9781582435435
256pp
158243543
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