http://www.therawfoodworld.com/ en Copyright (c) 2013 Matt rawworldservice@gmail.com (Matt) rawworldservice@gmail.com (Matt) Mon, 20 May 2013 14:35:22 -0500 Zen-Cart v. v 2.1.4 14.02.2008 15:26 RSS 2.0 Feed 1440 http://www.therawfoodworld.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=1004777 http://www.therawfoodworld.com/index.php?main_page=product_reviews&products_id=1004777 The Basics of Permaculture Design, first published in Australia in 1996, is an excellent introduction to the principles of permaculture, design processes, and the tools needed for designing sustainable gardens, farms, and larger communities.

Packed with useful tips, clear illustrations, and a wealth of experience, it guides you through designs for gardens, urban and rural properties, water harvesting systems, animal systems, permaculture in small spaces like balconies and patios, farms, schools, and eco-villages. This is both a do-it-yourself guide for the enthusiast and a useful reference for permaculture designers.

Starting with the principles, design processes, and tools needed for designing, Ross Mars takes us through water harvesting, urban and rural designs, gardens, permaculture in schools and communities, and appropriate technology.

Ross Mars is an experienced permaculture teacher, designer and consultant. He is a qualified high school teacher and has been actively involved in permaculture education in schools. He is the author of the well known text The Basics of Permaculture Design and has also produced an educational video on energy efficient housing called Passive Solar Design of Buildings.

]]> rawworldservice@gmail.com (Matt) http://www.therawfoodworld.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=1004777 Tue, 07 May 2013 18:18:22 -0500 25.00 USD 1004777 http://www.therawfoodworld.com/images/bopcd.jpg http://www.therawfoodworld.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=1004778 http://www.therawfoodworld.com/index.php?main_page=product_reviews&products_id=1004778 The Gardener's and Farmer's Guide to Plant Breeding and Seed Saving

All gardeners and farmers should be plant breeders, says author Carol Deppe. Developing new vegetable varieties doesn't require a specialized education, a lot of land, or even a lot of time. It can be done on any scale. It's enjoyable. It's deeply rewarding. You can get useful new varieties much faster than you might suppose. And you can eat your mistakes. Authoritative and easy-to-understand, Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties: The Gardener's and Farmer's Guide to Plant Breeding and Seed Saving is the only guide to plant breeding and seed saving for the serious home gardener and the small-scale farmer or commercial grower.

Discover:

How to breed for a wide range of different traits (flavor, size, shape, or color; cold or heat tolerance; pest and disease resistance; and regional adaptation)

How to save seed and maintain varieties

How to conduct your own variety trials and other farm- or garden-based research

How to breed for performance under organic or sustainable growing methods

In this one-size-fits-all world of multinational seed companies, plant patents, and biotech monopolies, more and more gardeners and farmers are recognizing that they need to "take back their seeds." They need to save more of their own seed, grow and maintain the best traditional and regional varieties, and develop more of their own unique new varieties. Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties: The Gardener's and Farmer's Guide to Plant Breeding and Seed Saving shows the way, and offers an exciting introduction to a whole new gardening adventure.

Oregon plant breeder Carol Deppe has a BS in zoology from the University of Florida, a PhD in biology from Harvard University, and specializes in developing public-domain crops for organic growing conditions, sustainable agriculture, and human survival for the next thousand years. She is author of Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties: The Gardener's and Farmer's Guide to Plant Breeding and Seed Saving (Chelsea Green, 2000) and Tao Te Ching: A Window to the Tao through the Words of Lao Tzu. See www.caroldeppe.com for news and further adventures. Deppe lives in Corvallis, Oregon.

]]> rawworldservice@gmail.com (Matt) http://www.therawfoodworld.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=1004778 Tue, 10 May 2011 08:32:32 -0500 29.95 USD 1004778 http://www.therawfoodworld.com/images/byovb.jpg http://www.therawfoodworld.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=1003648 http://www.therawfoodworld.com/index.php?main_page=product_reviews&products_id=1003648 Have your landscape and eat it too!

Landscaping ideas and special culinary uses for: Fruit trees-apple, cherry, peach, plum, pear, crabapple, quince.

Nut trees-pecan, walnut, chestnut, almond, hazelnut Bushes-Blueberry.

Herbs and vines-bay, grape, nasturtium, kiwi, lavender, mint, rosemary, sage, thyme.

Hot-country choices-fig, kumquat, lemon, lime, orange, olive, pomegranate.

Wildflowers-pawpaw, persimmon, rose, sunflower, yucca, prickly pear.

Also features an overview and tips on preserving the harvest, including canning, pickling, dehydrating, freezing, juicing and fermenting.

Nan K. Chase writes about architecture and landscape design. Her work has also appeared in the New York Times, Smithsonian, Fine Gardening, Architectural Record, and Southern Living. She lives in Asheville, North Carolina, where she is a contributing editor of WNC Magazine.

]]> rawworldservice@gmail.com (Matt) http://www.therawfoodworld.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=1003648 Sun, 18 Jul 2010 11:43:22 -0500 19.99 USD 1003648 1 http://www.therawfoodworld.com/images/eatyouryard.jpg http://www.therawfoodworld.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=1005755 http://www.therawfoodworld.com/index.php?main_page=product_reviews&products_id=1005755 Foreword By Steven Foster

Peg Schafer offers practical advice for anyone wanting to grow organic Chinese herbs, either in their home garden or to sell on a larger scale. There is no other book that takes on organic Chinese herb production in such an in-depth way. . . . Whether you intend to farm, or simply garden, The Chinese Medicinal Herb Farm is a book manifest through years of persistent sweat equity that furthers our collective knowledge of growing Chinese herbs in America, once a dream, now an ever-increasingly established reality.

—Steven Foster, author of A Desk Reference to NatureÂ’s Medicine and Herbal Emissaries: Bringing Chinese Herbs to the West

Including 79 detailed herb profiles, growing information, and medicinal uses

A leading light in the field of medicinal herb cultivation, The Chinese Medicinal Herb Farm is the first cultivation guide of its kind, and presents invaluable information for growers interested in producing high-quality efficacious herbs in all climates of the US, with the historical connectedness of ancient practitioners.

It has become increasingly important—especially as the market for herbal medicine continues to grow—that we transition to local and domestic medicinal cultivation. Increasingly there are concerns in regards to not only the quality but the purity of imported herbs, and wild herbs picked for medicinal purposes are ever more endangered than in past years both at home and abroad.

Peg Schafer, longtime grower and teacher, guides readers with information on propagating, cultivating, and harvesting Chinese herbs, and presents fascinating new scientific data that reveal the age-old wisdom of nature and the traditional systems of Chinese medicine. Through 79 detailed herb profiles—all tested and trialed on Schafer's certified organic farm—Schafer offers easy-to-follow information, suitable for both growers and practitioners, for growing efficacious wild-simulated herbs. Also included is important information on species conservation, crop integration, and how to avoid the introduction of invasive species. Sidebars on traditional medicinal uses for each herb and delicious recipes are also featured throughout.

Vegetable and CSA farmers will find this book of greatinterest for adding value-added crops to their repertoire, and beginner growers looking to incorporate medicinals into their gardens will find this an invaluable guide to understanding where herbal medicine comes from, and will make eating-your-medicine more accessible than ever.

About the Author

Peg Schafer is recognized as one of the pioneers and leaders in the field of the cultivation of Asian herbs. After more than fifteen years of commercial herb cultivation and research at the Chinese Medicinal Herb Farm in Petaluma, California, Schafer has distilled her findings into a guide for growers and practitioners of Chinese medicine. Schafer has played an influential role in establishing a network of organizations including Fu Tian Herbs, the first company in the United States to solely offer certified organic, domestically grown Chinese herbs (which she-co-founded), The Sonoma County Herb Association, and The Medicinal Herb Consortium. Along with offering seed and field-grown herbs, Schafer's own Chinese Medicinal Herb Farm operates as an experimental farm to investigate herb cultivation and aid herb conservation. Its internship program gives people hands-on knowledge experience in all aspects of growing and harvesting Chinese herbs.

]]> rawworldservice@gmail.com (Matt) http://www.therawfoodworld.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=1005755 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:24:53 -0600 34.95 USD 1005755 http://www.therawfoodworld.com/images/chmedherfar.jpg http://www.therawfoodworld.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=1005754 http://www.therawfoodworld.com/index.php?main_page=product_reviews&products_id=1005754 A Practical Guide to Small-Scale, Integrative Farming and Gardening

"As the era of cheap energy, stable climates and surplus fertilizer stocks comes to a close, the principles of permaculture will become increasingly attractive as one way to design our future food and agriculture systems. Sepp Holzer's Permaculture provides important insights for applying these principles, for both rural farming and emerging forms of urban agriculture."

—Frederick Kirschenmann, President, Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture

With information on mushroom cultivation, sowing a fruit forest, alternative ways to keep livestock, and more...

Sepp Holzer farms steep mountainsides in Austria 1,500 meters above sea level. His farm is an intricate network of terraces, raised beds, ponds, waterways and tracks, well covered with productive fruit trees and other vegetation, with the farmhouse neatly nestling amongst them. This is in dramatic contrast to his neighbors’ spruce monocultures.

In this book, Holzer shares the skill and knowledge acquired over his lifetime. He covers every aspect of his farming methods, not just how to create a holistic system on the farm itself, but how to make a living from it. Holzer writes about everything from the overall concepts, down to the practical details.

In Sepp Holzer’s Permaculture readers will learn:

How he sets up a permaculture system

The fruit varieties he has found best for permaculture growing

How to construct terraces, ponds, and waterways

How to build shelters for animals and how to work with them on the land

How to cultivate edible mushrooms in the garden and on the farm

and much more!

Holzer offers a wealth of information for the gardener, smallholder or alternative farmer yet the book’s greatest value is the attitudes it teaches. He reveals the thinking processes based on principles found in nature that create his productive systems. These can be applied anywhere.

About the Author

Josef ("Sepp") Holzer was born in the Province of Salzburg, Austria. He is a farmer, author and an international consultant for natural agriculture. He took over his parents' mountain farm business in 1962 and pioneered the use of ecological farming, or permaculture, techniques at high altitudes (1,100 to 1,500 meters above sea level) after being unsuccessful with regular farming methods. Called the "rebel farmer" because he persisted in these practices despite being fined and even threatened with prison for practices such as not pruning his fruit trees (unpruned fruit trees survive snow loads that will break pruned trees). He has also created some of the worlds best examples of using ponds as reflectors to increase solar gain for passive solar heating of structures, and of using the microclimate created by rock outcrops to effectively change the hardiness zone for nearby plants. He has also done original work in the use of Hugelkultur and natural branch development. He is conducting permaculture ("Holzer Permaculture") seminars at his farm and worldwide, while continuing to work on his alpine farm. His farm now spans over 45 hectares of forest gardens, including 70 ponds, and is said to be the most consistent example of permaculture worldwide. He is author of several books and the subject of the film The Agricultural Rebel. He works nationally as permaculture-activist in the established agricultural industry, and works internationally as adviser for ecological agriculture.

]]> rawworldservice@gmail.com (Matt) http://www.therawfoodworld.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=1005754 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:18:51 -0600 29.95 USD 1005754 http://www.therawfoodworld.com/images/sholtperma.jpg http://www.therawfoodworld.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=1004378 http://www.therawfoodworld.com/index.php?main_page=product_reviews&products_id=1004378 New Food Garden, the: Growing Beyond the Vegetable Garden, by Frank Tozer

This groundbreaking new book expands the concept of food gardening to embrace the whole garden. The new food garden is centered around the intensive vegetable garden, but doesn't stop there- it puts hedges, ponds, pathways, arbors, lawns, roofs, and walls to work as additional growing space for food plants. Fruit and nut trees, bush fruit, edible vines, perennial vegetables, herbs, annual crops, aquatic plants, weeds, and edible wild plants are used to increase the quantity and variety of foods available with little extra work.

The author doesn't just look upon the garden as a place to grow food, however; it is a place to be lived in and used, so he also concentrates on making it beautiful, comfortable, and efficient. He describes practical ways in which the garden can help us to reduce our impact on the earth. Included is advice on making the garden pay for itself, or even to provide an income. The author's ultimate aim is to change the way we approach the garden so that it feeds, heals, and nurtures us. The productive garden should be an integral part of the home, and growing food should be a part of everyday life.

]]> rawworldservice@gmail.com (Matt) http://www.therawfoodworld.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=1004378 Mon, 31 Jan 2011 12:18:18 -0600 29.95 USD 1004378 http://www.therawfoodworld.com/images/nfgarden.jpg http://www.therawfoodworld.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=1004379 http://www.therawfoodworld.com/index.php?main_page=product_reviews&products_id=1004379 Resilient Gardener, The: Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times by Carol Deppe

CREATIVE, PRODUCTIVE GARDENING FOR GOOD TIMES AND BAD. In an age of erratic weather and instability, people's interest in growing their own food is skyrocketing. The Resilient Gardener presents gardening techniques that stand up to challenges ranging from health problems, financial problems, and special dietary needs to serious disasters and climate change. Scientist and expert gardener Carol Deppe draws from emerging science in many fields to develop the general principles of gardening for resilience.

Gardeners will learn through Deppe's detailed instructions on growing, storing, and using the five crops central to self-reliance: potatoes, corn, beans, squash, and eggs. Learn how to: Grow food in an era of wild weather and climate change Garden with little to no irrigation or "store-bought" inputs Garden efficiently and comfortably (even with a bad back) Customize your garden to deal with special dietary needs or a need for weight control Make breads and cakes from home-grown corn using original gluten-free recipes (with no other grains, artificial binders, or dairy products) Keep a laying flock of ducks or chickens, integrate them with your gardening, and grow most of their feed And more . . .

The Resilient Gardener is both a conceptual and a hands-on gardening book for all levels of experience. Optimistic as well as realistic, Deppe offers invaluable advice for gardeners (and their communities) to flourish.

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