Rogers, Marc.
Summary: Saving seeds is a time-honored tradition that many gardeners are rediscovering. Anyone can become a successful seed saver - the only limitations are your time, space, and interest. And the benefits of growing and storing your own seeds are many. Detailed seed information for each vegetable and flower gives you everything you need to know about how to raise, harvest, and store seeds for a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Storey Communications 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.0421 ROGUlager, Jim
Summary: "Many people garden because they enjoy the independence of producing their own food. Yet for many, the how and why of producing seeds remains mysterious and even intimidating. This book explores how seed saving is not only easier than we think, but why it is essential for vibrant, independent, and bountiful gardens."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Society Publishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635 ULAHeistinger, Andrea.
Summary: This authoritative guide brings together the experience of experts in the field who have found, through careful trialing, how to reliably maximize seed quality and yield for more than 100 crop plants. Clear information on such critical issues as pollination, isolation distances, cultivation, harvest, storage, and pests and diseases is provided. The Manual of Seed Saving is an essential...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635 HEIRay, Janisse
Summary: Discusses the loss of fruit and vegetable varieties and the genetically modified industrial monocultures being used today, shares the author's personal experiences growing, saving, and swapping seeds, and deconstructs the politics and genetics of seeds.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea Green Pub. 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 631.521 RAYSilber, Terry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635 SILAshworth, Suzanne.
Summary: "Seed to Seed is a complete seed-saving guide that describes specific techniques for saving the seeds of 160 different vegetables. This book contains detailed information about each vegetable, including its botanical classification, flower structure and means of pollination, required population size, isolation distance, techniques for caging or hand-pollination, and also the proper methods for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seed Savers Exchange 2002
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 635 ASHCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.0421 ASHCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Garden AshworthDeppe, Carol.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea Green Pub. 2000
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 635.0423 DEPBerens, Abra
Summary: "A Practical Guide to Cooking Grains, Beans, Seeds, and Legumes, with 140+ Recipes and 160+ Variations"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.631 BERCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.631 BERSummary: "One of the world's most precious resources is at risk. This timely and emotionally moving film illuminates what is at stake and what can be done to protect the source of nearly all of our food: seeds. Seeds provide the basis for everything from fabric, to food to fuels. Seeds are as essential to life as the air we breathe or water we drink, but given far less attention."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: True Mind 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC OPEBradley, Fern Marshall.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.04 BRACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.049 BRABone, Emily.
Summary: This book explains how almost everything we eat grows from just a small seed - from how a seed sprouts and how fruits grow from flowers by pollination, to how different plants produce vegetables, fruits, leaves, roots and grains. Age: 6+
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Publisher / Publication Date: EDC Publishing 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 581.4 BONHarrison, Lorraine
Contents: Growing the past, saving the future -- Keeping the tradition alive -- What is a heritage variety? -- Why grow heritage plants? -- Heritage plants & the law -- Mr. Etty's esteemed seed directory. The vegetable directory -- The fruit directory -- The herb directory -- The flower directory -- Glossary -- Seed suppliers & useful organizations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ball Publishing 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635 HARPilarchik, Gary
Summary: "Filled with easy-to-employ ideas and lessons for improving your food self-sufficiency no matter how much land you have, The Modern Homestead Garden focuses on planting, growing, harvesting, and preserving food"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cool Springs Press 2021
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Summary: "This book offers recipes that reflect a paleo diet, which research has indicated, can effectively manage as well as lower the risk for diabetes. The diet is comprised of fresh, unprocessed grass-feed meat, whole fruit, vegetables, seeds and nuts. The recipes are nutrient-dense, low-carb, fibre-rich and high in vegetables and minerals."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Robert Rose Inc. 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Deardorff, David C.
Summary: This innovative, easy-to-use book enables you to recognize what's plaguing your plant and then implement an appropriate cure--without resorting to toxic chemicals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press 2009