Wild Plant Culture


Book Description

Reconnect. Restore. Reciprocate. Repairing landscapes and reconnecting us to the wild plant communities around us. Integrating restoration practices, foraging, herbalism, rewilding, and permaculture, Wild Plant Culture is a comprehensive guide to the ecological restoration of native edible and medicinal plant communities in Eastern North America. Blending science, practice, and traditional knowledge, it makes bold connections that are actionable, innovative, and ecologically imperative for repairing both degraded landscapes and our broken cultural relationship with nature. Coverage includes: Understanding and engaging in mutually beneficial human-plant connections Techniques for observing the land's existing and potential plant communities Baseline monitoring, site preparation, seeding, planting, and maintaining restored areas Botanical fieldwork restoration stories and examples Detailed profiles of 209 native plants and their uses. Both a practical guide and an evocative read that will transport you deep into the natural landscape, Wild Plant Culture is an essential toolkit for gardeners, farmers, and ecological restoration practitioners, highlighting the important role humans play in tending and mending native plant communities.




About the Bayberry Bush


Book Description




Gardenista


Book Description

Named a Best Gift Book for Gardeners by The New York Times Book Review, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle Times, Domino magazine, and Goop. The team behind the inspirational design sites Gardenista.com and Remodelista.com presents an all-in-one manual for making your outdoor space as welcoming as your living room. Tour personality-filled gardens around the world and re-create the looks with no-fail planting palettes. Find hundreds of design tips and easy DIYs, editors’ picks of 100 classic (and stylish) objects, a landscaping primer with tips from pros, over 200 resources, and so much more.




Edible Wild Plants


Book Description

Presents a season-by-season guide to the identification, harvest, and preparation of more than two hundred common edible plants to be found in the wild.




Bringing Nature Home


Book Description

“With the twinned calamities of climate change and mass extinction weighing heavier and heavier on my nature-besotted soul, here were concrete, affordable actions that I could take, that anyone could take, to help our wild neighbors thrive in the built human environment. And it all starts with nothing more than a seed. Bringing Nature Home is a miracle: a book that summons butterflies." —Margaret Renkl, The Washington Post As development and habitat destruction accelerate, there are increasing pressures on wildlife populations. In his groundbreaking book Bringing Nature Home, Douglas W. Tallamy reveals the unbreakable link between native plant species and native wildlife—native insects cannot, or will not, eat alien plants. When native plants disappear, the insects disappear, impoverishing the food source for birds and other animals. Luckily, there is an important and simple step we can all take to help reverse this alarming trend: everyone with access to a patch of earth can make a significant contribution toward sustaining biodiversity by simply choosing native plants. By acting on Douglas Tallamy's practical and achievable recommendations, we can all make a difference.




A Way to Garden


Book Description

“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.




Heal Local


Book Description

The author of Sweet Remedies offers a straightforward, empowering guide to homegrown herbal remedies for illness injuries, and preventative health. Most of us understand the value of eating and buying local. Taking back our food, goods, and services from multinational corporations and sourcing them from small growers, producers, artisans, and entrepreneurs benefits our families, our environment, and our communities. Heal Local argues that “100-mile healthcare” can be equally valuable in terms of how we treat illness and injury and maintain wellness. This innovative guide demonstrates that by harnessing multifaceted whole plants, we can rely on homegrown or regionally produced herbs rather than importing exotics and non-natives. Based on the small apothecary model, author Dawn Combs explains how to: · Maximize the benefits of homegrown first aid, from increased freshness, potency, and effectiveness to community resilience and local economic growth · Make home herbal healthcare less intimidating and more attainable, by focusing on twenty herbs to effectively treat most common injuries and ailments · Implement a local medicine culture safely and sustainably, while protecting and respecting wild plant populations Many herbals overwhelm their readers, presenting a list of hundreds of herbs, each with a different purpose. Heal Local empowers readers by showing that you don’t need to know everything about every herb on the planet to create a complete home apothecary. Anyone can be self-sufficient with their wellness, regardless of their previous knowledge, experience, or available space. Mother Earth News Books for Wiser Living Recommendation “An excellent reflection on integrating the western medicine model and local medicine communities.” —Cheri Dinsmore, RN, BSN, president, Harmony Farm




The Humane Gardener


Book Description

In this eloquent plea for compassion and respect for all species, journalist and gardener Nancy Lawson describes why and how to welcome wildlife to our backyards. Through engaging anecdotes and inspired advice, profiles of home gardeners throughout the country, and interviews with scientists and horticulturalists, Lawson applies the broader lessons of ecology to our own outdoor spaces. Detailed chapters address planting for wildlife by choosing native species; providing habitats that shelter baby animals, as well as birds, bees, and butterflies; creating safe zones in the garden; cohabiting with creatures often regarded as pests; letting nature be your garden designer; and encouraging natural processes and evolution in the garden. The Humane Gardener fills a unique niche in describing simple principles for both attracting wildlife and peacefully resolving conflicts with all the creatures that share our world.




Phoma Identification Manual


Book Description

Nomenclator of the genus and its section; The generic characters; The methods used for differentiaton and identification; Entries to the differentiation of the sections; Notes on adjacent or convergent genera; Entries to the species per section; A phoma sect. phoma; B phoma sect. heterospora; C phoma sect. paraphoma; D phoma sect. peyronellaea; E phoma sect. phyllostictoides; F phoma sect. sclerophomella; G phoma sect. plenodomus; H phoma sect. Macrospora; I phoma sect. pilosa; Miscellaneous.




The Complete Technology Book on Wax and Polishes (Reprint)


Book Description

Wax and polishes are used for many purposes. Wax has their principal use in waterproofing; they are mainly consumed industrially as components of complex formulations, often for coatings. Waxes confer matting effects and wear resistance to paints. Although most natural waxes are esters, paraffin waxes are hydrocarbons, mixtures of alkanes usually in a homologous series of chain lengths. These materials represent a significant fraction of petroleum. They are refined by vacuum distillation. The degree of branching has an important influence on the properties. Millions of tons of paraffin waxes are produced annually. They are used in adhesives, in foods (such as chewing gum and cheese wrapping), in cosmetics, and as coatings. Paraffin wax is typical of the agents that are coated on a film or sheet, one that really melt. Waxed paper, still the most widely used heat sealing material, was the earliest product to bring the advantages of heat sealing to packaging. Paraffin wax is mostly found as a white, odorless, tasteless, waxy solid, with an average melting point. The FT waxes are purely synthetic polymers of carbon monoxide and hydrogen which can be best be described chemically as mineral waxes. Duroxons of the B group also serve as additives in the manufacture of lubricating greases for the purpose of raising their dropping point and improving the consistency. There are various types of mineral waxes; lignite wax, montan wax, durmont wax, ozocerite wax, utah wax, peat wax etc. Utah waxes are successfully utilized in dance floor wax, linoleum wax, shoe polish etc. Some other important uses of waxes are in candles, polishes, electrical insulation, coatings and carbon paper. There are various types of polishes having industrial and domestic applications; abrasive polish, aluminium polish, motor car polishes, cellulose friction polishes, furniture polishes, leather belt polishes, pine oil metal polish etc. For many years, petroleum wax was considered a byproduct of lubricant base stock production, it has come onto its own over the last decade and is considered by most refiners to be a relatively high margin product and is often an important contributor to the overall profitability of the refinery. Pure paraffin wax is an excellent electrical insulator. There are many refineries in India which have with fuel, lube, wax and petrochemical feed stocks production facilities. Mineral waxes (including petroleum) account for an estimated 85% of this global demand, with synthetic waxes accounting for 10% and animal and vegetable waxes, accounting for 5%. Wax consumption is expected to grow at an average annual growth rate of 1% in this decade. Clearly, different regions and different product applications will enjoy different growth rates. This book basically deals with microcrystalline waxes in floor polishes, properties of braxilian grades of carnauba wax, compatibility of paraffin waxes with other substances, synthetic mineral waxes, miscellaneous synthetic waxes, additives for raising melting point of candles, wax coating for fruits, shribs, and plants, effect of paraffin on esparto montan mixtures, water proofing of kraft papers, production of montan wax, polish, abrasives, metal cleaners, nickel silver castings, cleaning, polishing metals for metallographic analysis, paste for wax calf leather, burnishing polishes for automobile maintenance, etc. The purpose of this book is to present comprehensive information of different types of wax and polishes like their processing, properties and uses. This book is very useful for new entrepreneurs, technocrats, professionals and researchers. TAGS Automobile polish, Best small and cottage scale industries, braxilian grades of carnauba wax, Bright Drying Floor Polish Emulsion, Buffing Compounds, Burnishing polishes for automobile, Business Plan for a Startup Business, Business start-up, Cream Buffing Wax, Dance Floor Wax, Diamond abrasive, Floor Polish, Floor wax, Formula of Waxes and Polishes, Formulae of Waxes and Polishes, Formulation of Polishes, Formulation of Wax, Furniture Cleaner, Furniture Polish, Furniture Wax Polish, Glass Polish Manufacturing, How furniture polish is made, how to Start a Floor Polishing, Waxing, & Cleaning Materials Business, How to Start a Polish Production Business, How to Start a Polish Production Industry?, How to start a successful Polish manufacturing business, How to start a successful Wax manufacturing business, How to Start a Wax Production Business, How to Start a Wax Production Industry?, How to Start Polish manufacturing Industry in India, How to Start Wax manufacturing Industry in India, Industrial Uses of Wax, Jewelry Polish Manufacturing, Manufacturing Process of floor polishes, Manufacturing Process of Metal polishes, Manufacturing Process of Polishes, Manufacturing Process of Wax, Manufacturing Process of Wax and Polishes with Formulations, Metal Cleaning and Polishing Cloth, Metal Polish, Microcrystalline waxes in floor polishes, Microcrystalline Waxes manufacturing, Modern small and cottage scale industries, Most Profitable Polish manufacturing Business Ideas, Most Profitable Wax manufacturing Business Ideas, New small scale ideas in Polish manufacturing industry, New small scale ideas in Wax manufacturing industry, Nickel silver castings, Oil Polishes, Paraffin Wax manufacturing, Paraffin waxes, Polish making Business, Polish making machine factory, Polish Making Small Business Manufacturing, Polish Production Industry in India, Polish, Abrasives, Metal Cleaners manufacturing, Preparation of Project Profiles, Process technology book on polish, Process technology book on wax, Process technology books, Production of Commercial Wood Polish Wax, Production of montan wax, Production of Polish Shoe & Floor, Production of Shoe Polishes, Production of Vegetable Waxes, Profitable small and cottage scale industries, Profitable Small Scale Polish Manufacturing, Profitable Small Scale Wax Manufacturing, Rubber Polishes, Rubber Wax Floor Polish, Setting up and opening your Polish Business, Setting up and opening your Wax Business, Shoe Creams, Silver Polish Manufacturing, Small scale Commercial Polish making, Small scale Commercial Wax making, Small Scale Polish manufacturing, Small scale Polish Production line, Small Scale Wax manufacturing, Small scale Wax Production line, Small Start-up Business Project, Start up India, Stand up India, Starting a Polish manufacturing Business, Starting a Wax manufacturing Business, Startup, Start-up Business Plan for Polish, Start-up Business Plan for Wax, Startup ideas, Startup Project for Wax and Polish, Synthetic Abrasive, Synthetic Mineral Waxes manufacturing, Synthetic mineral waxes, Technology Book on Wax and Polishes, Vegetable Waxes manufacturing, Wax coating for fruits, Wax making Business, Wax Making Small Business Manufacturing, Wax Polish For Car, Wax Polishes, Wax Production Industry in India