Titres dans Techniques

Drawing on findings from leading health researchers as well as conversations with both chemical and organic farmers from coast to coast, Maria Rodale irrefutably outlines the unacceptably high cost of chemical farming on our health and our environment. She traces the genesis of chemical farming and the rise of the immense companies that profit from it, bringing to light the government's role in allowing such practices to flourish.

I believe everyone can grow great gardens at home using food scraps and reducing waste. You could be just months away from a harvest of delicious, fresh organic food from your food scrap garden.

This practical guide is designed for those folks who want to grow their own organic fruits and vegetables, with the added benefits of fresh fish as their healthy source of protein. Let me show you how to build and maintain your very own aquaponics system. I give you step-by-step instructions on how to do just that in this guide. You’ll will finally learn how to completely become self-sufficient by growing healthy organic fruits, vegetables, and fresh water fish.

A Natural History of North American Trees gives us a picture of life in America from its earliest days to the middle of the last century. The information is always interesting, though often heartbreaking. While Peattie looks for the better side of man's nature, he reports sorrowfully on the greed and waste that have doomed so much of America's virgin forest.

How to Improve Soil Condition in Your Garden is a great audiobook for beginner and intermediate gardeners. The health of your garden, whether it is fruits, vegetables, flowers, herbs, or other plants, is in direct relation to the health of the garden soil. In many cases, today's' soils are not what they were several generations ago, so the need and importance to amend and boost the soil's nutrient levels, as well as improving soil texture exists.

Pest Control for Organic Gardening is a short book dedicated to gardeners, who want to keep their gardens free from synthetic and often times harmful pesticides, and fertilizers. However, there still is the problem and pests and disease. This book gives practical and sometimes surprising ways to address these problems in a biological method. It contains an extensive list of beneficial insects that can be used to battle harmful pests.

Organic gardening is natural gardening. Enthusiastic fan of natural gardening Tom shows us how we can have a flourishing garden without pesticides and chemicals.

This book is for BEGINNERS to gardening (organically). You get all the basics including which tools to use for doing what, terminology, etc. If you are an advanced gardener, there are still things to be gleaned from it. Learning how to start an organic vegetable garden beginning with pure organic seeds, whether indoor or outdoor, is what Organic Gardening 101 -"How To" Essentials and Tips for Starting an Outdoor or Indoor Organic Vegetable Garden teaches you to do.

Composting, and how to, is the theme that runs through this book, which also looks at the state of the world and adds a few folk tales and essays that may provoke your mind.

For beginning gardeners and veteran green-thumbs, this uplifting collection of stories is filled with what every gardener knows: gardens fill lives with a special richness because they are a living reminder of the beauty in the world.

Margaret Roach has been harvesting 30 years of backyard parables - deceptively simple, instructive stories from a life spent digging ever deeper - and has distilled them in this memoir along with her best tips for garden making, discouraging all manner of animal and insect opponents, at-home pickling, and more. After ruminating on the bigger picture in her memoir And I Shall Have Some Peace There, Margaret Roach has returned to the garden, insisting as ever that we must garden with both our head and heart, or as she expresses it, with "horticultural how-to and woo-woo."

How the Government Got in Your Backyard distills the science, the politics, and the unbiased, nonpartisan truth behind hot-button environmental issues from pesticides to global warming. By clearly representing what the left says, what the right says, what the science is, and what the facts are, Gillman and Heberlig don't set out to provide the answer - they light the path so concerned citizens can uncover their own true and informed opinion.

A groundbreaking look at the Founding Fathers and their obsession with gardening, agriculture, and botany by the author of Magnificent Rebels and New York Times bestseller The Invention of Nature. “Illuminating and engrossing.” —The New York Times Book Review For the Founding Fathers...

In this introduction to sustainable landscaping practices, Linda Chalker-Scott addresses the most common myths and misconceptions that plague home gardeners and horticultural professionals. The Informed Gardener is based on basic and applied research from university faculty and landscape professionals. This book will be of interest to landscape architects, nursery and landscape professionals, urban foresters, arborists, certified professional horticulturists, and home gardeners.

Alan Titchmarsh is known to millions through the popular BBC TV programmes Ground Force and Gardener's World. Now you can enjoy an amusing, informative, and entertaining evening with the Gardening Broadcaster of the Year. Alan talks about his life and career, tells hilarious behind-the-scenes anecdotes, reads some of his favourite stories and poems, and, of course, gives useful advice about gardening.

Gardening can be both a challenge and a joy. Get it right, and it can provide boundless pleasure; get it wrong, and it is a source of infinite frustration. Help is at hand, however, in this specially recorded ‘Gardeners’ Question Time’ compilation, in which the regular team offers all-year round advice on everything from plants and planting to pests, diseases, design and seasonally topical tips.

Die CityFarm Augsburg ist gewachsen! Benjamin Vogt und seine Frau Ildikó haben ihren Traum wahrgemacht. Der ehrenamtlich betriebene, gemeinnützige Mini- Bauernhof steht nach dem Kraftakt des Umzugs vor neuen Herausforderungen. Wie bekommt man eine Subsistenzwirtschaft mitten in der Stadt hin? Warum muss an Silvester eine Wächtergemeinschaft die Schafe beschützen? Wie versorgt man die tierischen Mitbewohner ohne Strom- und Wasseranschluss? Mal humorvoll, mal kritisch, aber immer unterhaltsam führt Benjamin Vogt durch die turbulenten Geschehnisse auf der CityFarm.

Dieser Ratgeber soll als Inspiration dienen, Ihnen eine Hilfestellung geben und gleichzeitig eine Anleitung dazu sein, endlich Ihr eigenes Gartenparadies in Ihrem Außenbereich entstehen zu lassen. Egal, ob auf der Terrasse oder dem Balkon, er beinhaltet die Grundlagen des Urban Gardening und stellt diese anschaulich dar. Der Ratgeber bietet außerdem Lösungsansätze für verschiedenste Probleme, die Ihnen in Ihrer Laufbahn hin zum Hobbygärtner sicherlich das ein oder andere Mal begegnen werden.

Bonsai - das Wort klingt für unsere Ohren gleichzeitig fernöstlich-exotisch und doch vertraut. Fast jeder hat schon einmal ein solch eigentümlich geformtes Gewächs in Büro oder Wohnzimmer stehen gehabt, aber die Wenigsten wissen, dass hinter den Miniaturbäumen eine ganze philosophische Kultur steckt. Denn tatsächlich offenbart die Zucht der Bäumchen ein Universum aus hingebungsvoller Gärtnerkunst, uraltem Zen-Buddhismus, meditativer Versenkung und tiefer Naturverbundenheit.

Viele sind sofort abgeschreckt bei der Aussicht auf stundenlange Arbeit, Erde unter den Fingernägeln und lästige Schädlinge. Dabei kann Gärtnern so einfach sein! Und zwar mit Hochbeeten. Die höher gelegten Beetflächen sind platzsparend, können praktisch überall errichtet werden und sind ein echter Blickfang. Sie ermöglichen eine angenehme Körperhaltung während des Arbeitens und garantieren durch ihren Schichtaufbau ein schnelles Wachstum der Pflanzen.