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by Carolyn J. Male
Amazon Price: $12.89
Customer Review: This book got me hooked on vegetable gardening at the age of 62. It is simple, strauight forward,and encouraging. Dr. Male's book introduced me to heirloom tomatoes and the explantions of what to expect and how to solve or avoid problems made me feel comfortable to go forward. I bought the book two years ago, and I still go back to review and look up things that I forgot. The book also has great pictures of the tomatoes that she writes about.
by Amy Goldman
Amazon Price: $16.50
Customer Review: I am very happy with this book. Has nice photos and talks about how to grow melons.
by Benjamin A Watson
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Customer Review: As an organic gardener and lover of vintage, especially within my garden beds, I found this book most helpful. It gives just the amount of info needed, not too much to read, but crucial info even for the novice gardener. I like that it lists a few companies where one can purchase heirloom seeds and I found that most are still current despite the 1996 copyright date. The photos of the dry beans are especially lovely. Combine this book with Mel Bartholomew's Square Foot Gardening and Patricia Lanza's Lasagna Gardening and you will be set.
by Sue Stickland, Kent Whealy, David Cavagnaro
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Customer Review: An absolutely beautiful book - the photographs are simply gorgeous. This is the book that got me started with heirloom gardening. The glorious diversity of heirlooms leaps off the pages. Tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, corn, beets, kales, winter squashes, and potatoes are all presented in a rainbow of colors, shapes and sizes on double page spreads.
The author starts with an overview of the origins of different food crops, followed by an explanation of the importance of preserving in the face on increasing pressure for uniformity. She continues with a discussion of gene banks and seed saving organizations and basic seed saving techniques for the home gardener. The book ends ...
by Elizabeth Berg
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Customer Review: Easy reading - A fairy story - sad one but no one can believe it.
The ugly duck - the nurse - looks after her dream boy dying from cancer -and then he more or less dies in her arms in her own home.
Just a summer book.
by Roger Yepsen
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Customer Review: The author of this book has beautifully illustrated and described 25 different species of heirloom vegetables. In addition to providing a brief description of each cultivar, or variety, he also provides information about saving your own seeds. Recipes are an integral part of each chapter, as well. The colloquial tone of the book makes it sound simplistic to the knowledgable reader, but probably makes it more accessible to others.
The unfortunate part, and the reason I give it four instead of five stars, is his rant against hybrid vegetables in the introduction. The author uses a decidely biased, opinionated tone in describing hybrid seed production, as if somehow, vegetable bre...
What's Bred in the Bone (Cornish Trilogy)
by Robertson Davies
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Customer Review: Robertson Davies' Cornish Trilogy hits its second instalment, which was in some ways his highest-profile novel: it was the only of his eleven published novels to be shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and was nominated for the Governor General's Award for Fiction (his only win in that category came for 1972's "The Manticore", also the second book in a trilogy). It's an interesting work, shifting the focus from the goings-on at Spook college to the life of Francis Cornish, the man whose death jumpstarted the plot of "The Rebel Angels".
The book opens by briefly revisiting the characters from the previous novel, and then introduces the singularly odd and entertaining narrative conc...
by Fearing Burr
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Seeds of Change: The Living Treasure : The Passionate Story of the Growing Mo...
by Ken Ausubel
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Customer Review: This book was published in 1994, so I'd really like to see an update, as this book chronicles the motivation for founding Seeds of Change (the seed company) and the company's genesis. The company Seeds of Change has been purchased by M&M/Mars, so although their catalog remains similar, I wonder if they are still holding true to their ideals.
This book has good information on the importance of preserving/reclaiming biodiversity through heirloom and open pollinated crops. We have lost diversity in our diets, and we are paying the price with our health. Chemical monoculture negatively affects the food value of our crops, and Seeds of Change was one of the first commercial enterp...
by A. A. Milne
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Customer Review: the price and quality of the book was excellent as advertised. The shipping rate was a bit high.
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