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Author
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Vegetable gardens can be designed for flavor AND fun! Niki Jabbour, author of the best-selling The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener, has collected 73 plans for novel and inspiring food gardens from her favorite superstar gardeners, including Amy Stewart, Amanda Thomsen, Barbara Pleasant, Dave DeWitt, and Jessi Bloom. You'll find a garden that provides salad greens 52 weeks a year, another that supplies your favorite cocktail ingredients, one that you...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 30 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The Sheep Eaters relied heavily on the plants they could gather for medicinal and edible uses, often cooking food in a unique soapstone vessel.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 32 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In Sweet Sorghum we are introduced to the filmmaker's daughter, Rosie, (now in her early twenties) as she reflects on her childhood spent among the Hamar herdsmen, an isolated people of southwestern Ethiopia. The film reveals the intimacy of shared family life and childhood relationships between the Hamar, Rosie and her brother.
5) Dani Houses
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 16 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Dani Sweet Potatoes (19 min) follows the sophisticated process of sweet potato horticulture developed by the Dani. It follows the Dani sweet potato cycle from clearing off the old brush and weeds from a fallow field to planting, harvesting, cooking and eating. Dani Houses (16 min) observes both round and square house construction techniques of the Grand Valley Dani. It shows how the ground is cleared, walls are made from boards, poles lashed together,...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 18 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Dani Sweet Potatoes (19 min) follows the sophisticated process of sweet potato horticulture developed by the Dani. It follows the Dani sweet potato cycle from clearing off the old brush and weeds from a fallow field to planting, harvesting, cooking and eating. Dani Houses (16 min) observes both round and square house construction techniques of the Grand Valley Dani. It shows how the ground is cleared, walls are made from boards, poles lashed together,...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 323 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"That's the story of our food today: Modern science has brought us produce in perpetual abundance-once-rare fruits are seemingly never out of season, and we breed and clone the hardiest, best-tasting varieties of the crops we rely on most. As a result, a smaller proportion of people on earth go hungry today than at any other moment in the last thousand years, and the streamlining of our food supply guarantees that the food we buy, from bananas to...
Author
Publisher
Usborne Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 volume : illustrations (color) ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the same format as Big Book of General Knowledge, this book will mix beautiful, arty illustrations and fascinating Did-You-Knows to inform children about how their food grow in nature."--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Alternative Daily
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
20 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Written by a seasoned Master Gardener and Health Coach, this book is a comprehensive collection of information including tips and techniques to grow the biggest and best garden ever. Susan Patterson has been getting her hands dirty for over thirty years, planting and perfecting vegetable, herb and fruit growing and shares some of her best kept methods for starting and maintaining a garden for healing and wellness."--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
405 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Shows how vegetables from the same family can be interchanged to complement other flavors and includes over one hundred recipes, including grilled asparagus with tarragon butter, potato cakes with red chile molido, and chive and saffron crepes.
Author
Publisher
Rodale
Pub. Date
[2015].
Physical Desc
xiii, 249 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"Growing Beautiful Food is both inspiration and instruction, with detailed growing advice for 50 remarkable crops, a memorable narrative, and evocative imagery. Its a photographic journey through four seasons in the garden, fueling the dream that you can connect to the land by growing your own food. Benson encourages us to start small like he did, celebrate every harvest, and understand that heartbreaking crop losses are simply part of the process....
Author
Publisher
HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
350 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Bread, Wine, Chocolate illuminates not only what it means to recognize the importance of the foods we love, but also what it means to lose them. Award-winning journalist Simran Sethi reveals how the foods we enjoy are endangered by genetic erosiona slow and steady loss of diversity in what we grow and eat. In America today, food often looks and tastes the same, whether at a San Francisco farmers market or at a Midwestern potluck. Shockingly, 95%...
17) Harvest year
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press
Pub. Date
1996
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
A photographic essay about foods that are harvested year-round in the United States.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
136 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"With the growth of genetically modified foods, the use of many seeds is dwindling--of 80,000 edible plants, only about 150 are being cultivated. With a global cast of men and women, scientists and laypeople, and photographic documentation, Nancy Castaldo chronicles where our food comes from, and more importantly, where it is going as she digs deeper into the importance of seeds in our world"--Amazon.com.
Series
Publisher
The Teaching Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 99 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm) + 1 transcript book (iv, 246 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
Growing food is one of the most rewarding things to can do. Whether living on rural acreage or a city lot, anyone can grow a simple garden, regardless of their skill level and busy schedule. These twelve lessons are full of tips and tricks for novice gardeners and green thumbs alike. Learn to grow fresh food right outside or inside the home.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"An assessment of the hot-button debate about GMOs by a journalist who became convinced that genetically modified corn was causing family illnesses traces the evolution of ubiquitous modified products and how they are threatening human health,"--NoveList.
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