A Weavers Garden

Author : Rita Buchanan
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486136396
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book A Weaver's Garden written by Rita Buchanan and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-07-03 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Valuable hints on dyeing fibers and fabrics, soap plants to use for cleaning textiles, fragrant plants to scent and protect fabrics; planning and creating a garden featuring cotton, flax, indigo, and much more.

Author : Rita Buchanan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book A Weaver's Garden written by Rita Buchanan and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Woys Weaver
Publisher : Voyageur Press (MN)
ISBN 13 : 076035992X
Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Heirloom Vegetable Gardening written by William Woys Weaver and published by Voyageur Press (MN). This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is sure to be a modern classic and is one of the most important books on gardening in the current century." —Jere Gettle, founder, Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds Heirloom Vegetable Gardening has always been a book for gardeners and cooks interested in unique flavors, colors, and history in their produce. This updated edition has been improved throughout with growing zones, advice, and new plant entries. Line art has been replaced with lush, full-color photography. Yet at the core, this book delivers on the same promise it made two decades ago: It’s a comprehensive guide based on meticulous first-person research to these 300+ plants, making it a book to come back to season after season.

Author : Tara Austen Weaver
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0345548086
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Orchard House written by Tara Austen Weaver and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of Anne Lamott, a profoundly moving memoir of rediscovering, reinventing, and reconnecting, as an estranged mother and daughter come together to revive a long-abandoned garden and ultimately their relationship and themselves. Peeling paint, stained floors, vined-over windows, a neglected and wild garden—Tara Austen Weaver can’t get the Seattle real estate listing out of her head. Any sane person would have seen the abandoned property for what it was: a ramshackle half-acre filled with dead grass, blackberry vines, and trouble. But Tara sees potential and promise—not only for the edible bounty the garden could yield for her family, but for the personal renewal she and her mother might reap along the way. So begins Orchard House, a story of rehabilitation and cultivation—of land and soul. Through bleak winters, springs that sputter with rain and cold, golden days of summer, and autumns full of apples, pears, and pumpkins, this evocative memoir recounts the Weavers’ trials and triumphs, detailing what grew and what didn’t, the obstacles overcome and the lessons learned. Inexorably, as mother and daughter tend this wild patch and the fruits of their labor begin to flourish, green shoots of hope emerge from the darkness of their past. For everyone who has ever planted something that they wished would survive—or tried to mend something that seemed forever broken—Orchard House is a tale of healing and growth set in a most unlikely place. Praise for Orchard House “This touching memoir chronicles how the act of transforming a garden together—of ‘planting hope’—helps a mother and daughter reconnect and revive the sense of groundedness that had been lost within their relationship and themselves. . . . [Orchard House] deftly [captures] the love, laughter, trials and tears that make motherhood the joy and job it truly is.”—American Way “Honest and moving . . . [the story of] one woman’s initiation into intensive gardening with her mother, which changed a neglected space into something beautiful and bountiful and shifted their relationship as well.”—Kirkus Reviews “Fascinating, tender, often heartbreaking . . . The perfect gift for a mother or a daughter with an appreciation for the transformative power of gardening.”—HGTV Gardens “A wise exploration of family roots . . . Nurturing a garden is a lovely metaphor for healing a family. . . . [Orchard House] could serve as a handbook for both.”—Shelf Awareness “With buoyant grace and empathic insights, Weaver offers an ardent tribute to both the science of perseverance and the art of letting go.”—Booklist “This is a glorious book—lyrical, honest, compassionate, and wise. It reminds us that gardens and families are messy businesses, but from them we can harvest hope and food and moments of grace.”—Erica Bauermeister, author of The School of Essential Ingredients “Filled with sensuous descriptions, this beguiling story enchants. Gardeners and non-gardeners alike will delight in this lyrical tale of how a garden grows a family.”—Diana Abu-Jaber, author of The Language of Baklava and Birds of Paradise “Orchard House is a glorious and deeply moving story of one family’s redemption. If Anne Lamott and Wendell Berry ever had a literary love child, Tara Austen Weaver might well be her.”—Elissa Altman, author of Poor Man’s Feast

Author : Rita Buchanan
Publisher : Interweave
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Dyer's Garden written by Rita Buchanan and published by Interweave. This book was released on 1995 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An explanation of the plants to grow for fabric dyes, how to care for them, and how to make dyes.

Author : Catherine Rice
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1783276622
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Cottage Gardens and Gardeners in the East of Scotland, 1750-1914 written by Catherine Rice and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2021 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering study tells the story of the emergence of rural workers' gardens during a period of unprecedented economic and social change in the most dynamic and prosperous region of Scotland. Much criticised as weed-infested, badly cultivated and disfigured by the dung heap before the cottage door, eighteenth-century cottage gardens produced only the most basic food crops. But the paradox is that Scottish professional gardeners at this time were highly prized and sought after all over the world. And by the eve of the First World War Scottish cottage gardeners were raising flowers, fruit and a wide range of vegetables, and celebrating their successes at innumerable flower shows. This book delves into the lives of farm servants, labourers, weavers, miners and other workers living in the countryside, to discover not only what vegetables, fruit and flowers they grew, and how they did it, but also how poverty, insecurity and long and arduous working days shaped their gardens. Workers' cottage gardens were also expected to comply with the needs of landowners, farmers and employers and with their expectations of the industrious cottager. But not all the gardens were muddy cabbage and potato patches and not all the gardeners were ignorant or unenthusiastic. The book also tells the stories of the keen gardeners who revelled in their pretty plots, raised prize exhibits for village shows and, in a few cases, found gardening to be a stepping-stone to scientific exploration.

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1248 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Better Homes and Gardens written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Garden Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : R R Franck
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 1845690613
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Bast and Other Plant Fibres written by R R Franck and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2005-03-28 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bast and Other Plant Fibres, a title in Woodhead Publishing’s series on fibres published in association with The Textile Institute, UK, is the first book in over 50 years to cover the most interesting plant fibres and those with high annual production. Bast fibres have many textile applications, with natural fibre composites being the fastest growing due to the combination of their relatively low cost and excellent technical characteristics. Following the editor’s introductory chapter, which includes a comprehensive set of tables comparing the physical and chemical characteristics of the fibres, Chapter 2 discusses jute while Chapters 3 and 4 cover flax and hemp. Subsequent chapters are devoted to ramie, sisal, coir and abaca. Chapter 9 brings together information on minor fibres that may deserve greater interest on the part of international markets, while Chapter 10 is dedicated to the use of bast and leaf fibres in composites. Information is included on production and processing, physical and chemical properties, and on economic, environmental, and health and safety considerations. This book is an essential reference to academics and researchers in agriculture and horticulture as well as those working in textiles, apparel and industrial design, and textile testing and forensic science laboratories. It will also be invaluable to those working in government departments such as agriculture or trade and industry. Essential discussion on chemical and physical properties of individual natural fibres Looks at environmental advantages of bast fibres over synthetic fibres First book of its kind in over 50 years

Author : Mrs. Loudon (Jane)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Ladies' Flower-garden of Ornamental Annuals written by Mrs. Loudon (Jane) and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: