It’s hard to think about beer these days without thinking about hops. The runaway craft beer market’s convergence with the ever-expanding local foods movement is helping to spur a local-hops renaissance. The demand from craft brewers for local ingredients to make beer―such as hops and barley―is...
1/1/2014 A major reference work on exotic and underutilised fruits and nuts of the New World. While many of these are well known in the local markets and in Spanish-language literature, they have rarely been brought to the attention of the wider English-speaking audience, and as such this book will offer...
1/1/1993 Know and Enjoy Tropical Fruit is filled with interesting details about 141 tropical fruit and nuts. It explains how to identify, harvest or purchase, and how to store or tell the ripeness, and how to eat tropical fruit.
1/1/1992 In this book, Lessard explains how to grow bananas in the tropical and subtropical climates of the world. He speaks as a grower to other growers and serious hobbylists. This book is also of use to greenhouse growers in any of the temperate climates of the world.
1/1/1977 In this bulletin, Betty Jacobs tells you how to grow onions - and ten other favorite members of the onion family. She steers you to success, from preparing the soil to using the onions in preparing the dinner.
1/1/1989 A Golden Guide, surveys the fascinating family Orchidaceae--a worldwide group of more than 25,000 different plants. Identified here are about 400 representative species, not only the wild types that exemplify family characteristics and diversity, but also numerous cultivated beauties favored by...
Recurso clave1/1/1990 Complete reference and source book of edible plants of the world, invaluable to gardeners, cooks, economic botantists and those in the specialty and gourmet foods business. Inclued 3,000 species and 7,000 varieties of food plants. More that 1300 catalog sources for seeds, plants and food products...
Recurso clave20/11/1998 Complete reference and source book of edible plants of the world, invaluable to gardeners, cooks, economic botanists, those in the specialty and gourmet foods business. Includes 3,000 species and 7,000 varieties of food plants. More than 1300 catalog sources for seeds, plants and food products...
The Crucible Group is a highly diverse gathering of individuals who strongly and respectfully disagree on intellectual property, the rights of farmers, the mechanisms for benefit-sharing, and the appropriate structures for conservation of seeds. More than 45 individuals from 25 countries took...