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Author : Masanobu Fukuoka
Release : 2012
Genre : Gardening
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 188/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Sowing Seeds in the Desert by : Masanobu Fukuoka
Download or read book Sowing Seeds in the Desert written by Masanobu Fukuoka. This book was released on 2012. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that the Earth's deteriorating condition is man-made and outlines a way for the process to be reversed by rehabilitating the deserts using natural farming.
Author : Masanobu Fukuoka
Release : 1997
Genre : Agriculture
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 002/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Natural Way of Farming by : Masanobu Fukuoka
Download or read book The Natural Way of Farming written by Masanobu Fukuoka. This book was released on 1997. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ...A natural way of farming that renounces all human knowledge and intervention. - preface.
Author : Larry Korn
Release : 2015
Genre : No-tillage
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 303/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis One-Straw Revolutionary by : Larry Korn
Download or read book One-Straw Revolutionary written by Larry Korn. This book was released on 2015. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One-Straw Revolutionary is the first book to offer an intimate look at the philosophy and work of one of natural farming's most influential practitioners - Japanese farmer and philosopher Masanobu Fukuoka. This offers readers a rare insight into natural farming and what Mr. Fukuoka was like as a person. It explains how simple farming naturally actually is and why it offers our only real hope for reestablishing a wholesome relationship with the earth.
Author : Yitzchak Gutterman
Release : 2012-12-06
Genre : Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 980/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Seed Germination in Desert Plants by : Yitzchak Gutterman
Download or read book Seed Germination in Desert Plants written by Yitzchak Gutterman. This book was released on 2012-12-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During germination, the most resistant stage of the life cycle - the seed - changes to the most sensitive stage, namely the seedling. Therefore, in desert plant species seed dispersal and subsequent germination in the optimum time an place place are particularly critical parameters. Discussed here are the ways and means by which desert plants have adapted through the course of evolution to their extreme environment. Two such strategies which have evolved are a) plants with relatively large and protected seeds which germinate when the chance of seedling survival is high and the risk relatively low or b) those with an opportunistic strategy: minute seeds which germinate after low rainfall under high risk for seedling survival if additional rain does not follow. Most species adopt a combination of the two mechanisms. Species have adapted both genotypically and phenotypically, both aspects of which are also discussed in this thorough text. The reader is provided with a good understanding of the complex influences on each seed traced through from initial development to germination stage regarding germination preparation and subsequent survival.
Author : Janisse Ray
Release : 2012-07-06
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 076/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Seed Underground by : Janisse Ray
Download or read book The Seed Underground written by Janisse Ray. This book was released on 2012-07-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no despair in a seed. There's only life, waiting for the right conditions-sun and water, warmth and soil-to be set free. Everyday, millions upon millions of seeds lift their two green wings. At no time in our history have Americans been more obsessed with food. Options including those for local, sustainable, and organic food-seem limitless. And yet, our food supply is profoundly at risk. Farmers and gardeners a century ago had five times the possibilities of what to plant than farmers and gardeners do today; we are losing untold numbers of plant varieties to genetically modified industrial monocultures. In her latest work of literary nonfiction, award-winning author and activist Janisse Ray argues that if we are to secure the future of food, we first must understand where it all begins: the seed. The Seed Underground is a journey to the frontier of seed-saving. It is driven by stories, both the author's own and those from people who are waging a lush and quiet revolution in thousands of gardens across America to preserve our traditional cornucopia of food by simply growing old varieties and eating them. The Seed Underground pays tribute to time-honored and threatened varieties, deconstructs the politics and genetics of seeds, and reveals the astonishing characters who grow, study, and save them.
