The heirloom gardener : traditional plants & skills for the modern world / John Forti ; illustrations by Mary Azarian, Patricia Wakida
Material type: TextPublisher: Portland, Oregon : Timber Press, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Description: 263 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781604699937
- 1604699930
- 635Â 23
- SB455.3Â .F65 2021
- SB455.3Â .F65 2021
Item type | Current library | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | Garnett Public Library Adult Non-Fiction | Garnett Public Library | Adult Books | 635 Forti, John (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Checked out | 05/21/2024 | 35303000309861 | |
Book | Independence Public Library Adult Non-Fiction | Independence Public Library | Adult Books | 635 FORT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 36123010459442 |
Includes index
Angelica -- Apple cart -- Artisanal skills -- Bee balm -- Biodiversity -- Botanizing and herbaria -- Chestnut -- Cordials -- Dandelion -- Distillation -- Dooryard gardens -- Edible flowers -- Elder -- Elm -- Ethnobotany -- Fiddleheads -- Floriculture -- Foraging -- Garden craft -- Gruit -- Heirlooms -- Herbalism -- Indigenous plants -- Jack-o-lanterns -- Johnny-jump-ups -- Kelp -- Kitchen craft -- Kitchen gardens -- Language of flowers -- Lawn -- Maple syrup -- May Day -- Milkweed -- Nasturtium -- Old ways -- Organic growing practices -- Perennial crops -- Queen Anne's lace -- Quince -- Raised beds -- Rhubarb -- Rosemary -- Sage -- Seasonality -- Sorrel -- Tea -- Thanksgiving grace -- Tonics -- Valerian -- Victory gardens -- Wattle -- Wreaths -- Wuttahimneash -- Xeriscaping -- Yards -- Yarrow -- Zinnia -- Zucchini
An award-winning heirloom specialist, garden historian, ethnobotanist and writer offers this wood-block illustrated, alphabetical compendium of heirloom flowers and artisanal crafts like distilling and wreath-making to help inspire gardeners to connect with the natural world
Forti celebrates gardening as a craft, and shares the plants, lore, and traditional practices that link us with our environment and each other. Arranged alphabetically from angelica to zucchini, the brief chapters are a trove of garden history to different elements of the craftsmanship behind building an heirloom garden-- and a happy homestead. -- adapted from back cover and Introduction
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