- 2018-04-02 This symposium will bring together researchers and practitioners to discuss and deliberate on: How to highlight extension’s crucial role in international agricultural development What works in agricultural/rural advisory services and why How to effectively deliver extension services to...
- 2018-04-30 Permaculture or Permanent Agriculture is the conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally productive ecosystems which have the diversity, and resilience of natural ecosystems. This deliberate design is based on the ethics of caring for others and creation while cultivating a fair share for...
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Uses drawings and detailed descriptions to identify more than a thousand species of mushrooms, and indicates which are edible, and which are poisonous
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Includes 62 plants (and other remedies) from the countryside of South Carolina. Includes botanical & common names, habitat, range, current use in SC, properties and historical medical uses, toxicity, etc. With color photos. 2 Copies
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1983-01-01 A great choice for the small or backyard farmer, dairy goats require a smaller investment than cows and produce milk that makes delicious yogurt and cheese. This fourth edition includes more on pygmy goats, health care, breeding, and making dairy products. You’ll have everything you need to you...
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1976-01-01 This book includes a record of the astonishingly rich and diverse flora of cultived plants of the United States, Canada, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico.
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The definitive work in its field--gives more information on the pests of agricultural crops, humans, domestic animals and the home than any other book. Comprises a brief and concise introduction to entomology, covering insect anatomy, morphology, development, physiology and classification. Unique...
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1998-01-19 This book was written as a companion volume to Reasons for Hope: Instructive Experiences in Rural Development, a collection of case studies of programs that have succeeded in improving the lives and prospects of large numbers of rural hosuseholds, often in very inhospitable settings. We draw...
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1973-01-08 This book discusses many of the culinary and medicinal herbs native to North America, the kinds that were well known to the Indians and early settlers. 303 pages, illustrations
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This is a field guide to the identification of 594 of some 865 species of trees native to North America north of Mexico. Included are the most common and most important species and also many that are less familiar but no less interesting. To make the book most useful in the field, the text, range...