Botany for Gardeners
8 best books like Botany for Gardeners (Brian Capon): Botany in a Day: Thomas J. Elpel's Herbal Field Guide to Plant Families, The Herbal Medicine-Maker's Handbook: A Home Manual, Black Elk: The Sacred Ways of a Lakota, Rolling Thunder, Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast: Washington, Oregon, British Columbia and Alaska, Teaming with Microbes: A Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web, Original Whole Earth Catalog, Special 30th Anniversary Issue, All New Square Foot Gardening
| Author | Thomas J. Elpel |
| ISBN | 1892784076 |
A comprehensive reference to more than 100 plant families and over 700 genera of North American plants, Botany in a Day provides simple, easily learned tools to assist in plant identification. Line drawings highlight family characteristics, and plant entries discuss medicinal uses, edibility,...
| Author | James Green |
| ISBN | 0895949903 |
THE HERBAL MEDICINE-MAKER'¬?S HANDBOOK is an entertaining compilation of natural home remedies written by one of the great herbalists, James Green, author of the best-selling THE MALE HERBAL. Writing in a delightfully personal and down-home style, Green emphasizes the point that herbal medicine-making...
| Author | Wallace Black Elk |
| ISBN | 0062500740 |
I wanted to like this book more than 3 stars... it probably deserves more than that. But I fall into the category of people Black Elk refers to as "educated". Which means I've been to school, college, etc and some of the more basic truths have probably been schooled right out of me. I did like the ideas he talks...
| Author | Doug Boyd |
| ISBN | 0440574358 |
Rolling Thunder (birth name John Pope; b. 1916, d.1997) was a Native American medicine man. He was born into the Cherokee nation and later moved to Nevada and lived with the Western Shoshone. He essentially married into the Shoshone tribe when he united with his first wife, Spotted Fawn, who preceded...
| Author | Jim Pojar |
| ISBN | 1551050404 |
This best-selling field guide features 794 species of trees, shrubs, wildflowers, aquatics, grasses, ferns, mosses and lichens found along the coast from Oregon to Alaska. Color photographs and line drawings help you identify and learn about the fascinating plants of the Pacific Northwest coast....
| Author | Jeff Lowenfels |
| ISBN | 0881927775 |
Smart gardeners know that soil is anything but an inert substance. Healthy soil is teeming with life — not just earthworms and insects, but a staggering multitude of bacteria, fungi, and other microorganisms. When we use chemical fertilizers, we injure the microbial life that sustains healthy...
Original Whole Earth Catalog, Special 30th Anniversary Issue
| Author | Peter Warshall |
| ISBN | 1892907054 |
"Function:
The WHOLE EARTH CATALOG functions as an evaluation & access device. With it, the user should know better what is worth getting & where and how to do the getting. An item is listed in the CATALOG if it is deemed:
Useful as a tool,
Relevant to independent education,
High...
All New Square Foot Gardening
| Author | Mel Bartholomew |
| ISBN | 1591862027 |
Do you know what the best feature is in All New Square Foot Gardening? Sure, there are ten new features in this all-new, updated book. Sure, it's even simpler than it was before. Of course, you don't have to worry about fertilizer or poor soil ever again because you'll be growing above the ground. However,...
