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Author
Publisher
Storey Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Growing your own food means you know there are no chemical or genetic secrets, that it is pure and good. But you have questions about what and how much to plant, how to store, how to preserve. Pleasant provides a guidebook for people who want to control their food, from garden to pantry to table.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In Sweet Sorghum we are introduced to the filmmaker's daughter, Rosie, (now in her early twenties) as she reflects on her childhood spent among the Hamar herdsmen, an isolated people of southwestern Ethiopia. The film reveals the intimacy of shared family life and childhood relationships between the Hamar, Rosie and her brother.
8) Fall harvest
Author
Publisher
Pebble Books
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Simple text and photographs describe how several different crops, including pumpkins, apples, wheat, corn, and potatoes, are harvested by humans and by machine.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"With the growth of genetically modified foods, the use of many seeds is dwindling--of 80,000 edible plants, only about 150 are being cultivated. With a global cast of men and women, scientists and laypeople, and photographic documentation, Nancy Castaldo chronicles where our food comes from, and more importantly, where it is going as she digs deeper into the importance of seeds in our world"--
10) Harvest year
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A photographic essay about foods that are harvested year-round in the United States.
11) Dani Houses
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Dani Sweet Potatoes (19 min) follows the sophisticated process of sweet potato horticulture developed by the Dani. It follows the Dani sweet potato cycle from clearing off the old brush and weeds from a fallow field to planting, harvesting, cooking and eating. Dani Houses (16 min) observes both round and square house construction techniques of the Grand Valley Dani. It shows how the ground is cleared, walls are made from boards, poles lashed together,...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Dani Sweet Potatoes (19 min) follows the sophisticated process of sweet potato horticulture developed by the Dani. It follows the Dani sweet potato cycle from clearing off the old brush and weeds from a fallow field to planting, harvesting, cooking and eating. Dani Houses (16 min) observes both round and square house construction techniques of the Grand Valley Dani. It shows how the ground is cleared, walls are made from boards, poles lashed together,...
Author
Publisher
Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The true adventures of David Fairchild, a late-nineteenth-century food explorer who traveled the globe and introduced diverse crops like avocados, mangoes, seedless grapes--and thousands more--to the American plate.
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