Download or read book Potager bio urbain written by Cristina Rebiere and published by Rebiere. This book was released on with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Des techniques simples pour comprendre les principes bio, les principes et les gestes à adopter pour avoir un potager bio, des fiches de culture simples à appliquer pour des légumes, herbes aromatiques et fruits faciles à cultiver sur tous les balcons ou les terrasses. Conseils pour combattre les nuisibles sans produits chimiques, comment optimiser l'utilisation de l'eau, faire son propre compost, rotation et calendrier des cultures... Vous trouverez tout ce qu'il vous faut dans ce guide compact et facile. Semer, planter, installer en pot ou en jardinière, arroser, aménager l'espace sur le balcon. Seules ou en association avec d'autres plantes, vous y trouverez : tomate, haricot, basilic, radis, concombre, fraise, carotte, salades, courgette, épinard, laitue, oseille, mâche, menthe, agrumes, ciboulette, lavande, coriandre... Dans ce guide nous allons apprendre les bases pour pouvoir aménager un petit jardin bio sur le balcon ou la terrasse. Nous allons aussi présenter quelles plantes sont faciles à cultiver et les soins à leur prodiguer. Enfin, vous y trouverez comment optimiser l'utilisation de l'eau et recycler vos déchets de la cuisine pour en faire du compost. Pourquoi créer votre potager bio sur le balcon ? Vous en avez marre des produits bourrés de pesticides et autres substances chimiques qui empoisonnent notre vie et notre planète? Vous avez envie de manger sainement, de faire pousser des légumes frais et des plantes aromatiques pour agrémenter et parfumer votre cuisine? Avez-vous envie de participer au changement qui est en train de se produire dans nos consciences pour protéger la Terre et la Nature en appliquant les principes de la permaculture? Aimeriez-vous découvrir un loisir créatif, écolo, sain et qui de plus vous procurera du bien-être, mais aussi des légumes sains et des herbes aromatiques fraîches? Vous pensez que vous ne pouvez pas avoir tout cela car vous vivez dans un appartement? Eh bien si, vous pouvez le faire en créant votre potager bio sur votre balcon ou votre terrasse! La vie est aussi faite de plaisirs simples qui peuvent se transformer en pur bonheur facilement ;-) Notre collection de livrets pratiques Nature Passion va vous le prouver! Découvrez des petits guides faciles et pas chers qui vont vous aider à faire entrer la Nature dans votre quotidien! Nos clients profitaient des légumes récoltés dans notre jardin bio dans des salades de tomates, concombres, radis, courgettes, poivrons, oignons, mais aussi en les assaisonnant avec du persil, coriandre, sarriette, thym, ciboulette, etc. Quant aux aubergines, haricots, cerises et autres délices, ils émerveillaient toujours petits et grands car ils ne s'attendaient pas à les trouver dans une forêt. Vous pensez qu'un balcon est trop petit et que vous ne pouvez pas créer un potager bio? Détrompez-vous car c'est possible. En fait, j'en ai fait l'expérience dans mon passé et je suis en train de recommencer. Voir pousser les légumes et en prendre soin sont des plaisirs simples, à la portée de tous. En plus, vous prendrez encore plus de plaisir à cuisiner avec votre propre basilic frais, menthe ou coriandre... Nous souhaitons partager avec vous nos connaissances utiles et nos astuces pour "apprivoiser" simplement cette Nature dont quelques fois la vie moderne nous éloigne... Qu'allez vous trouver dans ce guide Nature Passion? des conseils et astuces pour démarrer votre jardin bio sur le balcon des fiches pratiques de culture pour les plantes quelques principes et les gestes à adopter pour avoir un potager bio comment faire votre propre compost en recyclant les déchets
Download or read book The Rooftop Growing Guide written by Annie Novak and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you'd like to grow your own food but don't think you have the space, look up! In urban and suburban areas across the country, farms and gardens are growing atop the rooftops of residential and commercial buildings. In this accessible guide, author Annie Novak's passion shines as she draws on her experience as a pioneering sky-high farmer to teach best practices for raising vegetables, herbs, flowers, and trees. The book also includes interviews, expert essays, and farm and garden profiles from across the country, so you'll find advice that works no matter where you live. Featuring the brass tacks on green roofs, container gardening, hydroponics, greenhouse growing, crop planning, pest management, harvesting tips, and more, The Rooftop Growing Guide will have you reimagining the possibilities of your own skyline.
Download or read book Works written by Garcilaso de la Vega and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Growing Greener Cities in Africa written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). This book was released on 2012 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Second Global Plan of Action addresses new challenges, such as climate change and food insecurity, as well as novel opportunities, including information, communication and molecular methodologies. It contains 18 priority activities organized in four main groups: In situ conservation and management; Ex situ conservation; Sustainable use; and Building sustainable institutional and human capacities.
Download or read book Food Culture in Belgium written by Peter Scholliers and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-11-30 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Belgian food and drink, often overshadowed by the those of powerhouse neighbors France and Germany, receive much deserved attention in this thorough overview, the most comprehensive available in English. Belgian waffles, chocolate, and beer are renowned, but Food Culture in Belgium opens up the entire food culture spectrum and reveals Belgian food habits today and yesterday. Students and food mavens learn about the question of Belgianness in discussions of the foodways of distinct regions of Flanders, Wallonia, and Brussels. Packed with daily life insight, consumption statistics, and trends gathered from the culinary community on the Web, this is the ultimate source for discovering what has been called the best-kept culinary secret in Europe. Scholliers thoroughly covers the essential information in the topical chapters on history, major foods and ingredients, cooking, typical meals, special occasions, eating out, and diet and health. He is keen to illuminate how Belgium's unique food culture has developed through time. Before independence in 1830, Belgian regions had been part of the Celtic, Roman, Spanish, Austrian, French, Dutch, and German empires, and Belgium's central location has meant that it has long been a trade center for food products. Today, Brussels is the European Union administrative center and a cosmopolitan dining destination. Readers learn about the ingredients, techniques, and dishes that Belgium gave to the world, such as pommes frites, endive, and beer dishes. A timeline, glossary, selected bibliography, resource guide with websites and films, recipes, and photos complement the essays.
Download or read book The Urban Garden City written by Sandrine Glatron and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-03-24 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an interdisciplinary overview of the role of gardens in cities throughout different historical periods. It shows that, thanks to various forms of spatial and social organisation, gardens are part of the material urban landscape, biodiversity, symbolic and social shape, and assets of our cities, and are increasingly becoming valued as an ‘order’ to follow. Gardens have long been part of the development of cities, serving different purposes through the ages: shaping neighborhoods to promote health or hygiene, introducing aesthetic or biological elements, gathering the citizens around a social purpose, and providing food and diversity in times of crisis. Highlighting examples that can serve as the basis for comparisons, the chapters offer a brief panorama of experiences and models of gardens in the city – in the European context and in various periods of history – while also discussing issues related to garden cities, urban agriculture and community gardens. The contributors are university staff from various disciplines in the human and life sciences, in discourse with other academics but also with practitioners who are interested in experiences with urban gardens and in promoting an awareness of their spatial, social and ‘philosophical’ goals throughout history. The book will appeal to urban geographers, sociologists and historians, but also to urban ecologists dealing with ecosystem services, biodiversity and sustainable development in cities. From a more operational standpoint, landscape planners and architects are sure to find many of the projects enlightening and inspirational.
Download or read book Toward Sustainable Relations Between Agriculture and the City written by Christophe-Toussaint Soulard and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives an overview of frameworks, methods, and case studies useful for the analysis of the relations between agriculture and the city, in Europe and the Mediterranean. Its originality lies in the analysis of urban food systems sustainability from an actors’ perspective. All the chapters consider the key role of actors in the definition of innovations and pathways, which enhance sustainability, seen as an ongoing process. Part 1 presents systemic approaches of agricultural-urban interactions at the city-region scale in France, Egypt, Italy and Morocco. Part 2 deals with methods and tools for urban planning and local development, utilized to design and assess sustainable food systems. The Part 3 inventories the recent changes in urban agriculture and the new forms of governance which are emerging in European cities (Athens, Berlin, Lisbon, Montpellier, Paris and Zurich). These results are useful for students, academics and activists involved in local policies and projects.
Download or read book Rethinking Los Angeles written by Michael J. Dear and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1996-08-20 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Los Angeles region is increasingly being held up as a prototype for the collective urban future of the United States. Yet it is probably the least understood, most under-studied major city in the US. Very few people beyond the boundaries of Southern California have an accurate appreciation of what the region is, who lives there, and what it does. This groundbreaking collection of essays brings together well-respected contributors to dispel the myths about Southern California and to begin the process of `rethinking' Los Angeles.
Download or read book Rooftop Urban Agriculture written by Francesco Orsini and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-16 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book guides architects, landscape designers, urban planners, agronomists and society on the implementation of sustainable rooftop farming projects. The interdisciplinary team of authors involved stresses the different approaches and the multi-faceted forms that rooftop farming may assume in any context. While rooftop farming experiences are sprouting all over the world the need for scientific evidence on the most suitable growing solutions, policies and potential benefits emerges. This volume brings together existing experiences as well as suggestions for planning future sustainable cities.
Download or read book Food Urbanism written by Craig Verzone and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2021-07-05 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With an increasing interest in quality of nutrition and health, urban food production has begun to occur inside the growing cities worldwide and risks to compete with other urban needs. The book introduces typologies, tools, evaluation methods and strategies, and shows the practical applications of the methods. Multiple projects illustrate solutions that augment quality via the insertion of food production entities into the urban realm.
Download or read book Anthos written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes written by Andre Viljoen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-04 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book on urban design extends and develops the widely accepted 'compact city' solution. It provides a design proposal for a new kind of sustainable urban landscape: Urban Agriculture. By growing food within an urban rather than exclusively rural environment, urban agriculture would reduce the need for industrialized production, packaging and transportation of foodstuffs to the city dwelling consumers. The revolutionary and innovative concepts put forth in this book have potential to shape the future of our cities quality of life within them. Urban design is shown in practice through international case studies and the arguments presented are supported by quantified economic, environmental and social justifications.
Download or read book Dealing with Contaminated Sites written by Frank A. Swartjes and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-01-12 with total page 1121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This standard work on contaminated site management covers the whole chain of steps involved in dealing with contaminated sites, from site investigation to remediation. An important focus throughout the book is on Risk Assessment. In addition, the book includes chapters on characterisation of natural and urban soils, bioavailability, natural attenuation, policy and stakeholder viewpoints and Brownfields. Typically, the book includes in-depth theories on soil contamination, along with offering possibilities for practical applications. More than sixty of the world’s top experts from Europe, the USA, Australia and Canada have contributed to this book. The twenty-five chapters in this book offer relevant information for experienced scientists, students, consultants and regulators, as well as for ‘new players’ in contaminated site management
Download or read book Landscape Theory in Design written by Susan Herrington and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-12-08 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phenomenology, Materiality, Cybernetics, Palimpsest, Cyborgs, Landscape Urbanism, Typology, Semiotics, Deconstruction - the minefield of theoretical ideas that students must navigate today can be utterly confusing, and how do these theories translate to the design studio? Landscape Theory in Design introduces theoretical ideas to students without the use of jargon or an assumption of extensive knowledge in other fields, and in doing so, links these ideas to the processes of design. In five thematic chapters Susan Herrington explains: the theoretic groundings of the theory of philosophy, why it matters to design, an example of the theory in a work of landscape architecture from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, debates surrounding the theory (particularly as they elaborate modern and postmodern thought) and primary readings that can be read as companions to her text. An extensive glossary of theoretical terms also adds a vital contribution to students’ comprehension of theories relevant to the design of landscapes and gardens. Covering the design of over 40 landscape architects, architects, and designers in 111 distinct projects from 20 different countries, Landscape Theory in Design is essential reading for any student of the landscape.
Download or read book Urban Allotment Gardens in Europe written by Simon Bell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-10 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although urban allotment gardening dates back to the nineteenth century, it has recently undergone a renaissance of interest and popularity. This is the result of greater concern over urban greenspace, food security and quality of life. This book presents a comprehensive, research-based overview of the various features, benefits and values associated with urban allotment gardening in Europe. The book is based on a European COST Action project, which brings together researchers and practitioners from all over Europe for the first detailed exploration of the subject on a continent-wide scale. It assesses the policy, planning and design aspects, as well as the social and ecological benefits of urban allotment gardening. Through an examination of the wide range of different traditions and practices across Europe, it brings together the most recent research to discuss the latest evolutions of urban allotment gardening and to help raise awareness and fill knowledge gaps. The book provides a multidisciplinary perspective, including insights from horticulture and soil science, ecology, sociology, urban geography, landscape, planning and design. The themes are underpinned by case studies from a number of European countries which supply a wide range of examples to illustrate different key issues.
Download or read book Beyond the Visible and the Material written by Laura M. Rival and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the anthropological development of Amazonia, this volume explores the legacy of Peter Rivière, a recently retired Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Oxford. An international group of leading specialists contributes to the substantial and growing body of Amazonian ethnography, discussing topics that include kinship and genealogy, the village as a unit of ethnographic observation, the human body in political and social processes, and gender relationships as aspects of political cosmological thinking.
Download or read book Birthright written by Stephen R. Kellert and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human health and well-being are inextricably linked to nature; our connection to the natural world is part of our biological inheritance. In this engaging book, a pioneer in the field of biophilia—the study of human beings' inherent affinity for nature—sets forth the first full account of nature's powerful influence on the quality of our lives. Stephen Kellert asserts that our capacities to think, feel, communicate, create, and find meaning in life all depend upon our relationship to nature. And yet our increasing disconnection and alienation from the natural world reflect how seriously we have undervalued its important role in our lives. Weaving scientific findings together with personal experiences and perspectives, Kellert explores specific human tendencies—including affection, aversion, intellect, control, aesthetics, exploitation, spirituality, and communication—to discover how they are influenced by our relationship with nature. He observes that a beneficial relationship with the natural world is an instinctual inclination, but must be earned. He discusses how we can restore the balance in our relationship by means of changes in childhood development, education, conservation, building design, ethics, and everyday life. Kellert's moving book provides exactly what is needed now: a fresh understanding of how much our essential humanity relies on being a part of the natural world.
