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The One Straw Revolution

One Straw Revolution
Masanobu Fukuoka

Masanobu Fukuoka's book about growing food has been changing the lives of readers since it was first published in 1978. It is a call to arms, a manifesto, and a radical rethinking of the global systems we rely on to feed us all. At the same time, it is the memoir of a man whose spiritual beliefs underpin and inform every aspect of his innovative farming system.

Equal parts farmer and philosopher, Fukuoka is recognized as one of the founding thinkers of the permaculture movement. But when he was twenty-five, he was just another biologist taking advantage of the unprecedented development of postwar Japan. Then a brush with death shattered his complacency. He quit his job and returned to his family farm. Over the decades that followed, Fukuoka perfected his so-called "do-nothing" technique, a way of farming that dispenses with both modern agribusiness practices and centuries of folk wisdom, replacing them with a system that seeks to work with nature rather than make it over through increasingly elaborate-and often harmful -methods. Fukuoka developed commonsense, sustainable practices that all but eliminated the use of pesticides, fertilizer, tillage, and the wasteful effort associated with them-and his yields matched those of neighboring factory farms. His farm became a gathering place for people from all over the world who wished to adapt his ways to their own local cultures.

Now, more than thirty years after they were first published, Fukuoka's teachings are more relevant and necessary than ever.  

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Food not Lawns


Food Not Lawns: How to Turn Your Yard Into a Garden and Your Neighborhood Into a Community

by Heather C. Flores

Gardening can be a political act. Creativity, fulfillment, connection, revolution—it all begins when we get our hands in the dirt.

Food Not Lawns combines practical wisdom on ecological design and community-building with a fresh, green perspective on an age-old subject. Activist and urban gardener Heather Flores shares her nine-step permaculture design to help farmsteaders and city dwellers alike build fertile soil, promote biodiversity, and increase natural habitat in their own "paradise gardens."

But Food Not Lawns doesn't begin and end in the seed bed. This joyful permaculture lifestyle manual inspires readers to apply the principles of the paradise garden—simplicity, resourcefulness, creativity, mindfulness, and community—to all aspects of life. Plant "guerilla gardens" in barren intersections and medians; organize community meals; start a street theater troupe or host a local art swap; free your kitchen from refrigeration and enjoy truly fresh, nourishing foods from your own plot of land; work with children to create garden play spaces.

Flores cares passionately about the damaged state of our environment and the ills of our throwaway society. In Food Not Lawns, she shows us how to reclaim the earth one garden at a time.

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Planting the Future
Edited by Rosemary Gladstar

This book is a must for all those trying to preserve medicinal herbs and our botanical remedies.

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Growing 101 Herbs that Heal
Gardening Techniques, Recipes, and Remedies

by Tammi Ruth Hartung

Master Herbalist and gardener Tammi Hartung introduces you to special cultivating and care techniques required for growing 101 versatile and useful herbs.

Add diversity and healing power to your garden with medicinal plants. Learn to grow, harvest, and make inexpensive, potent home remedies for your whole family. Discover how easy and economical it is to create your own teas, tinctures, compresses, and more.

  • A total organic approach to healthy soil and pest control
  • Easy garden designs for any location and environment
  • Comprehensive herb-by-herb profiles with color photos of every plant
  • Delicious recipes for incorporating healthy herbs into your daily meals
  • Step-by-step instructions for making common herbal preparations
  • Easy-reference charts for propagating, harvesting, and using each herb

"This book takes a forward look at growing medicinal herbs that will positively affect not only the health of the gardener, but the earth as well."

256 pages, 8 3/8 x 10 trim size, full-color photographs and illustration.

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Growing At-Risk Medicinal Herbs
by Richo Cech

Richo provides the environmental preferences, growth cycles, germination, cultivation and processing requirements for the plants highlighted by the United Plant Savers At-Risk list. This book includes distribution maps, detailed line drawings and specific information on germination methods and germination times for at-risk medicinal herbs. Also includes detailed information on range, hardiness, adaptability, ecology and plant community, life cycle, cultivation from seed, cultivation from cuttings and divisions, general care, yield, harvest, processing and storage, seed characterization, seed collection, processing and storage, conservation status and an overview of related species. The book discusses over 800 medicinal herbs in all. Extensive plant index. The herbs covered in minute detail are: Black Cohosh, Bloodroot, Blue Cohosh, Echinacea, American Ginseng, Goldenseal, Kava Kava, Lady's Slipper Orchid, Lomatium, Osha, Peyote, Slippery Elm, Stillingia, Sundew, Trillium, False Unicorn, True Unicorn, Venus Flytrap, Virginia Snakeroot, and American Wild Yam.

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This book has a crease in back cover, like a dogear, but it is out-of-print and therefore offered as is.

 

The Natural Habitat Garden

by Ken Druse

Now in paperback, this classic book shows American gardeners how they can create beautiful native-plant gardens. Through 500 color photographs of 35 gardens across the country, Ken Druse introduces nature's original communities — grasslands, drylands, wetlands, and woodlands. Listings of plant sources, places to visit, and societies and organizations have been updated for this edition.

 

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The Healing Power of Forests

by Akira Miyakawa & Elgene O. Box

The Healing Power of Forests describes the successful techniques used to recreate depleted forests, whether near factory sites, parking lots, or even the Great Wall of China, on the basis of environmental studies. The book challenges us to plant 'native forests of native trees' to increase the chances for achieving a sustainable way of life before it is too late.

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