Agriculture

The author is a Biodynamic farmer in Northern California. Seven years ago she was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, a retinal eye disease that usually leads to blindness. The memoir takes the reader on a journey deep into nature. It is the light and color that radiates from the natural world that helps to heal her.

The 2021 edition of the Midwest Vegetable Production Guide for Commercial Growers is a collaboration of land-grant universities from eight states. It provides vegetable production information that is valid for the current year in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, and Ohio. This includes fertility, variety, cultural, and pest management recommendations. Visit www.mwveguide.org for the latest information.

This Piranesi Press classic 1852 reprint of the 2nd revised edition of Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward's classic treatise on the Wardian case, —or covered glass aquariums and greenhouses as we know them today— , is sure to please the natural history buff, horticulturist, or gardener in your family. N.B. Ward was a renowned botanist and problem solver. He became highly sought after for his expertise after introducing to the world his method for transporting plants under glass from across the British Empire on long and arduous ship journeys. This book is basic reading for anyone wishing to gain a foundational understanding of the plant growing mechanisms involved in terrarium and greenhouse g ...

Oregonian writer and grower, Peter Oscar Tolstoy, has released a new marijuana growing plan that's straight out of Oregon's most successful outdoor pot growers' play-books. It's a step-by-step program simply titled The Ten Pound Plant. The book is groundbreaking information on growing. It's laid out in easy to follow layman's terms and diagrams that function as a grower's daily planner from January to harvest in October. The author sells the book with a bold claim. Any would-be gardener, new or seasoned, can 'grow marijuana with 10 pound harvests.'