Download or read book A Way to Garden written by Margaret Roach and published by Timber Press. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A Way to Garden prods us toward that ineffable place where we feel we belong; it’s a guide to living both in and out of the garden.” —The New York Times Book Review For Margaret Roach, gardening is more than a hobby, it’s a calling. Her unique approach, which she calls “horticultural how-to and woo-woo,” is a blend of vital information you need to memorize and intuitive steps you must simply feel and surrender to. In A Way to Garden, Roach imparts decades of garden wisdom on seasonal gardening, ornamental plants, vegetable gardening, design, gardening for wildlife, organic practices, and much more. She also challenges gardeners to think beyond their garden borders and to consider the ways gardening can enrich the world. Brimming with beautiful photographs of Roach’s own garden, A Way to Garden is practical, inspiring, and a must-have for every passionate gardener.
Download or read book Doing Time in the Garden written by James Jiler and published by New Village Press. This book was released on 2006-08-06 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first and only comprehensive guide to in-prison and post-release horticultural training programs.
Download or read book Lessons from Plants written by Beronda L. Montgomery and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of how plant behavior and adaptation offer valuable insights for human thriving. We know that plants are important. They maintain the atmosphere by absorbing carbon dioxide and producing oxygen. They nourish other living organisms and supply psychological benefits to humans as well, improving our moods and beautifying the landscape around us. But plants don’t just passively provide. They also take action. Beronda L. Montgomery explores the vigorous, creative lives of organisms often treated as static and predictable. In fact, plants are masters of adaptation. They “know” what and who they are, and they use this knowledge to make a way in the world. Plants experience a kind of sensation that does not require eyes or ears. They distinguish kin, friend, and foe, and they are able to respond to ecological competition despite lacking the capacity of fight-or-flight. Plants are even capable of transformative behaviors that allow them to maximize their chances of survival in a dynamic and sometimes unfriendly environment. Lessons from Plants enters into the depth of botanic experience and shows how we might improve human society by better appreciating not just what plants give us but also how they achieve their own purposes. What would it mean to learn from these organisms, to become more aware of our environments and to adapt to our own worlds by calling on perception and awareness? Montgomery’s meditative study puts before us a question with the power to reframe the way we live: What would a plant do?
Download or read book Harrowed written by Heather King and published by . This book was released on 2020-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memoirist Heather King rented an apartment in a large Craftsman bungalow in Pasadena, CA. Shortly after moving in, she single-handedly cleared the back lot, then designed and planted her first garden. She learned the horticulture rule of thumb for California native plants: "Year One, they sleep; Year Two, they creep; Year Three, they leap!" She navigates garden pests, noisy neighbors, and the concept of ownership. Four years in, she writes of the struggles and joys of maintaining a garden that is not hers and that could be plowed under at any moment. But as the Scottish site-specific sculptor Andy Goldsworthy says, "All of life is a labor of love that we must leave, whether we want to or not, for the sun to melt, the tide to wash away, the earth to reclaim."
Download or read book The Year of the Cicadas written by Catie Hartsfield and published by . This book was released on 2013-01 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Catie Hartsfield's life changed dramatically on May 23, 2004. The small business owner and mother of four teenagers received the news that her son had fallen 180 feet off a cliff. This book is the true story of this mother's journey and the ripple effects the accident had on her and her family's life"--
Download or read book Growing Season written by Arlene Bernstein and published by Council Oak Books. This book was released on 2004-05 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After losing three children, Arlene Bernstein retreated to the garden to escape her inner torment and grief - and there, in a small patch of land surrounded by the gentle rolling hills of her Napa Valley vineyard she discovered a series of remarkable insights. As she begins to feel grounded in the earth beneath her feet, her inner obstacles and challenges transform into opportunities for celebrating the joys of life. Growing Season is an invitation to live mindfully and reconnect with our deepest sources of creativity and nourishment. Reminiscent of A Gift From the Sea, this book teaches us how to slow down and notice what is right in front of us, and how to emerge from grief transformed and renewed.
Download or read book Lessons Learned from a Poet s Garden written by Jane Baber White and published by . This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes examples of Anne Spencer's poetry.
Download or read book Lessons from My Garden written by Sanchita Pandey and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-14 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lessons from My Garden is the sixth book written by bestselling author, speaker, singer and YouTube personality Sanchita Pandey. The only entities that come near to 'being like the source' are the plants and trees. They standin meditative silence, truly living the essence of connectedness between all living beings. Wherethey stand never becomes a constraint for them as the reach of their belief, imagination andsense of sharing transcends all limitations. Seeds are the best example of the inherent potentialin all of us. Getting buried in darkness does not become an excuse for them. They tap into thesource energy within to rise up and grow into light and abundance.This book can inspire you to revamp your inner universe, thereby renewing your life experience.
Download or read book Garden Design Master Class written by Carl Dellatore and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of Interior Design Master Class brings together essays by 100 landscape architects and garden designers reflecting on universal gardening questions, illustrated with photos of each designer's work. 2020 HONORABLE MENTION FOR THE FOREWORD INDIES AWARD IN NATURE A classic in the making, Garden Design Master Class brings together 100 essays by some of the top garden designers working today, from acknowledged experts such as Nancy Goslee Power on sunlight and Arabella Lennox-Boyd on borders, to acclaimed tastemakers such as Carolyne Roehm on the pleasures of a vegetable garden. Spanning styles and genres, principles and tenets, collectively these essays and their accompanying images represent a comprehensive education for the reader, giving him or her the benefit of expert design advice and philosophy, from practical considerations such as seedlings and pathways to stylistic concerns such as asymmetry and rhythm. Each essay is paired with photographs of the designer's work that illustrate the principles being discussed, adding a powerful visual component to the book. Unique in the quality of its contributors, this book will be a landmark publication in the field, helpful and inspirational for the amateur gardener, as well as students of garden design and garden design professionals.
Download or read book The Glory of the Garden written by Rudyard Kipling and published by . This book was released on 192? with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text of poem first published in A History of England by C.R.L. Fletcher and Rudyard Kipling (London: Henry Frowde and Hodder & Stoughton, 1911).
Download or read book Lessons in School supervised Gardening for the Southeastern States written by United States School Garden Army and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Learning Garden written by Veronica Gaylie and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of building a campus «learning garden» over a series of cohorts of student teachers and environmental education students. The project began with high ideals, no funding, and a strong desire to do something about the environment: the result was a transformation in attitude toward nature, community and toward the learning process itself. Examining the process through three key metaphors - garden as environment, garden as community, garden as transformation - this book provides a bridge between theory and practice for ecology-centered teaching and learning.
Download or read book The School Garden Curriculum written by Kaci Rae Christopher and published by New Society Publishers. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sow the seeds of science and wonder and inspire the next generation of Earth stewards The School Garden Curriculum offers a unique and comprehensive framework, enabling students to grow their knowledge throughout the school year and build on it from kindergarten to eighth grade. From seasonal garden activities to inquiry projects and science-skill building, children will develop organic gardening solutions, a positive land ethic, systems thinking, and instincts for ecological stewardship. The world needs young people to grow into strong, scientifically literate environmental stewards. Learning gardens are great places to build this knowledge, yet until now there has been a lack of a multi-grade curriculum for school-wide teaching aimed at fostering a connection with the Earth. The book offers: A complete K-8 school-wide framework Over 200 engaging, weekly lesson plans – ready to share Place-based activities, immersive learning, and hands-on activities Integration of science, critical thinking, permaculture, and life skills Links to Next Generation Science Standards Further resources and information sources. A model and guide for all educators, The School Garden Curriculum is the complete package for any school wishing to use ecosystem perspectives, science, and permaculture to connect children to positive land ethics, personal responsibility, and wonder, while building vital lifelong skills. AWARDS FINALIST | 2019 Foreword INDIES: Education
Download or read book Object Lessons written by Sarah Anne Carter and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-12 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Object Lessons: How Nineteenth-Century Americans Learned to Make Sense of the Material World examines the ways material things--objects and pictures--were used to reason about issues of morality, race, citizenship, and capitalism, as well as reality and representation, in the nineteenth-century United States. For modern scholars, an "object lesson" is simply a timeworn metaphor used to describe any sort of reasoning from concrete to abstract. But in the 1860s, object lessons were classroom exercises popular across the country. Object lessons helped children to learn about the world through their senses--touching and seeing rather than memorizing and repeating--leading to new modes of classifying and comprehending material evidence drawn from the close study of objects, pictures, and even people. In this book, Sarah Carter argues that object lessons taught Americans how to find and comprehend the information in things--from a type-metal fragment to a whalebone sample. Featuring over fifty images and a full-color insert, this book offers the object lesson as a new tool for contemporary scholars to interpret the meanings of nineteenth-century material, cultural, and intellectual life.
Download or read book Lessons in Gardening for Southwestern Region written by United States. School Garden Army and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book School Supervised Gardening in New Hampshire written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book One Year of Sunday School Lessons for Young Children written by Florence Ursula Palmer and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
