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Connecting With Nature: Mindful Stitching and Textile Art Through the Seasons by Tilly RoseFrom eco-dyeing, cyanotype and weaving to collage, embroidery and slow stitching, Tilly Rose harnesses many crafts to help her connect with Mother Earth in every season. She creates beautiful keepsakes that capture memories and encourage creativity with wild and natural materials. Discover how to: arrange nature mandalas, make your own natural paints and dyes, press your own flowers, enjoy slow stitching, explore sun printing, create botanical journals, preserve and display your work.
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Good Nature: Why Seeing, Smelling, Hearing, and Touching Plants is Good for Our Health by Kathy WillisIn Good Nature, Kathy Willis takes the reader on a journey where having a vase of roses on your desk or a green wall in your office makes a measurable difference to your well-being; certain scents in room diffusers genuinely can boost your immune system; and, in a chapter that Kathy calls "Hidden Sense," we learn that touching organic soil has a significant effect on the healthiness of your microbiome.
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Survival Gardening: Grow Your Own Emergency Food Supply From Seed to Root Cellar by Sam CoffmanA survival skills expert provides practical strategies for growing your own food supply to enhance resilience against global crises and supply chain disruptions, covering topics such as selecting valuable crops, emergency food cultivation, perennial planting, mushroom growth, backyard foraging, and long-term food storage techniques.
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Our Green Heart: The Soul and Science of Forests by Diana Beresford-KroegerIn this inspiring culmination of Diana Beresford-Kroeger's life's work as botanist, biochemist, biologist and poet of the global forest, she delivers a challenge to us all to dig deeper into the science of forests and the ways they will save us from climate breakdown--and then do our part to plant and protect them. Her influential message is to pay rapt attention to trees, because they are the green heart of the living world. Forests are our lungs, our medicine, our oxygen and the renewal of our soil.
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Meet the Bishnoi, followers of a religion with nature conservation at its heart. Today, Bishnois remain fierce defenders of trees and animals, living by principles set by their guru Jambhoji in the fifteenth century. They chase down armed poachers, rescue and care for injured animals, save endangered species, and lead heroic reforestation efforts in the Rajasthani desert. In a time of biodiversity loss and climate change, what lessons do they have to teach us? |
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Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature by Patricia Ononiwu KaishianA queer, neurodivergent scientist shows how fungi, amphibians and other overlooked organisms challenge rigid norms, celebrate diversity and offer profound lessons about identity, acceptance and the natural world's hidden complexities.
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Forsyth County Public Library
660 W. Fifth St., Winston-Salem, NC 27101
336-703-2665forsythlibrary.org |
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