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There is a book you should know about-
Sustainable Agriculture and the Environment in the Humic Tropics.
Brand new (1993), looks good.
$60.
email agaccess@igc.org for more information.
regards
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1993 15:40:43 -0700
From: Preston Hardison <pdh@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list INDKNOW <INDKNOW%UWAVM.BITNET@cmsa.Berkeley.EDU>
Subject: PUB: Sherpa Subsistence
=================================================================
Claiming the High Ground:
Sherpas, Subsistence, and Environmental
Change in the Highest Himalaya
Stanley F. Stevens. 1993.
Department of Geography and Anthropology
Louisiana State University
University of California Press, Berkeley, California.
================================================================
Part One: Sherpa Cultural Ecology
Sherpa Country
A High-altitude Economy
Farming on the Roof of the World
Good Country for Yak
Sacred Forests and Fuel Wood
Part Two: Economic and Environmental Change
Four Centuries of Agropastoral Change
Subsistence, Adaptation, and Environmental Change
Local Resource Management: Decline and Persistence
From Tibet Trading to the Tourist Trade
Tourism, Local Economy, and Environment
Conclusions
Newsgroups: bionet.plants
From: dangold1@iastate.edu (Daniel M Goldman)
Subject: Re: Building a Controlled Environment for Plant Growth
Keywords: controlled environment plant growth
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1993 19:23:38 GMT
>I am contemplating building a controlled plant growth environment
>for my upcoming senior thesis. It would include fully automatic
>watering, light, etc. My questions is this: has this been done
>before, and if so, are there any articles/journals that document
>the efforts? Any other suggestions are welcome.
Here are a few suggestions:
1) A book by Robert Langhans called "A growth chamber manual"
2) Check with NASA on the CELSS project (Controlled Environment Life
Support Systems, includes crops).
3) Check an older book, circa 1956, by F.W. Went, something like
Environmental control of plant growth.
If these don't bury you good with info and references, let me know,
I have a lot more. -DmG
Article: 1390 of alt.sustainable.agriculture
From: frankh@sr.hp.com (Frank Hamlin)
Subject: Re: _Practical Survival Mag_ and/or similar mags
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1993 03:52:02 GMT
: I came accross a magazine called "Practical Survival" (vol 1,
: Feb/March 1992) that I really liked. It is a non-militaristic survival
: magazine with articles about wild edibles, choosing the right cold weather
: gear, herbal first aid, wilderness navigation, backcountry cooking,
: survival fishing, grains, home aquacultural...Man, seems like a GREAT
: magazine. Only problem is.. I called the 800 number and the publisher
: doesn't make it any more.
Western Rescue Journal
Califonia's Survival Magazine
April 1993
This issue talks about building fires, how to get water, how much water
you need under different conditions, signs of dehydration, small boat
survival, and using a compass and map.
Their phone number is 800-233-3893
From: GELLMORE@PEARL.TUFTS.EDU (BIOHEAD)
Newsgroups: bionet.plants
Subject: New book on seed germination
Date: 4 Oct 93 21:36:23 GMT
An unusual but tremendously useful (for propagations by seed) book
has arrived on my desk. It is published by its author. The first edition
was quickly snapped up by the horticulture community. Its been interesting
reading because it is written by a long-time practicioner of seed
germination (I wonder about the grammar of that sentence...)
Anyway heres the info: Deno, N.C. 1993. Seed germination: theory and practice.
242 pp.
To get a copy, send a $20 check to Norman C. Deno, 139 Lenor Drive, State
College, PA 16801 USA
I have no vested interest in this book, or in Prof Deno. Its just that the
utility of this book is surprisingly high, and acquiring the book
requires going through this unconventional channel.
Best, Ellmore
Biology, Tufts Univ.
From: br105@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jeffrey A. Del Col)
Newsgroups: rec.gardens
Subject: WANTED: book UNDEREXPLOITED TROPICAL PLANTS...
Date: 2 Oct 1993 05:37:56 GMT
I will pay $15.00 for a copy of the book
UNDEREXPLOITED TROPICAL PLANTS OF POTENTIAL ECONOMIC VALUE.
If anyone has a copy of this book or knows where I can get one,
please e-mail me at
<<Del_Col@ab.wvnet.edu>>
It is out of print and the GPO doesn't plan to issue a new edition.
I am also desperate to buy a copy of LOST CROPS OF THE INCAS and will pay
original price ($24.95) for it in very good to excellent condition.
From: f_griffith@ccsvax.sfasu.edu
Newsgroups: rec.gardens
Subject: self-sufficiency
Date: 5 Oct 93 14:02:21 CST
The September issue of _The McAlvaney Intelligence Advisor_
has a long section on "Greater Self-Sufficiency for Troubled
Times". It includes thought provoking discussion and lots of
practical suggestions.
To get a copy of this section send a long, self-addressed
envelope with 52 cents postage to:
III
Box 4630 SFA Sta.
Nacogdoches, TX 75962
Please tell on what group you saw this notice.
Permission granted to repost this notice through 12/31/93.
From: klier@cobra.uni.edu
Newsgroups: rec.food.historic
Subject: Re: Whole grain flour and bread - When, How and Why did we lose it?
Date: 17 Oct 93 20:22:42 -0500
> Does anyone know anything about when, how, and why our society converted
> from whole grain bread to white bread? I would like to learn about that,
> or about refererences.
There's a nice section on this in Richard Klein's _This Green World_. (Harper
& Row 1987, a nice, chatty economic botany text with wonderful stories).
Essentially, yes, the shift to white bread depended on changes of milling
techniques (milling through fairly widely spaced stones first to remove
bran and germ) then sifting through fine silk bolting cloths. If memory
serves (and it often doesn't... I was reading just before going to sleep!),
the technique came from France to the US, where the first fine flour mill
was started in Minneapolis/St Paul (St Anthony Falls, perhaps???), but
later moved to Niagara Falls because of the greater hydropower available
there.
And yes, bread was the mainstay of diet in most of Europe for many centuries.
Kay Klier Biology Dept UNI
Newsgroups: misc.rural
From: amirza@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Anmar Caves)
Subject: Re: water reservoir liner, cheapest
Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington IN
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 1994 14:38:34 GMT
>I worked on a dude ranch in Colorado a long time ago, and we had a number
>of ponds where trout was stocked (one of the things I had to do every....
>Anyway, these ponds leaked quite a bit since they were pretty new, and
>this was before plastic was widely used as a liner. One of the old
>ranchers told me the best way to seal a pond bottom is to have horse/
>cow livestock in it for awhile. He indicated that the manure would have
>a strong "sealing" action on the bed of the eventual pond.
>I've got no idea how long after you put water in it all of the organics
>would decompose back to a normal level if you wanted to keep fish, etc...
I believe Tom Mattson discusses this in his book "Earth Ponds". The
resulting organic mixture makes what he termed "gley". It isn't the
manure that does the sealing, it is the straw and hay you put down,
the livestock churns it into the ground. The resulting mixture is
supposed to last for many years under water.
From: claird@sugar.NeoSoft.COM (Cameron Laird)
Subject: Xylophilia (was: Biggest thing alive) [LONG]
Followup-To: rec.arts.books,misc.rural,rec.gardens
Date: 16 Feb 1994 09:36:28 -0600
>Dunno 'bout that, but as far as I know, the biggest living organism on
>earth is 'General Sherman', the massive giant sequia (a tree) in California.
>I don't remember the latin name of the species, might be something like
>Sequiadendron something (giganteum ?).
>General is roughly 80 meters high, the perimeter is about 65 meters at
>ground level (not sure if I remember right) and its volume is about 1200
>cubic meters!!! I doubt that any fungus could beat that.
.
.
.
It's not quite so rotund as your memory has it; I can't find
any estimate for General Sherman's circumference that tops
150 feet, and I'm a bit skeptical of that. *Sequoiadendron
giganteum* has many specimens that top 2000 tons, ten times
the weight of the largest whales. One of the spectacular
aspects of this species is that their habit is rather lonely;
they grow without other trees nearby, so that "You can stand
back and see the whole monstrous vegetable: its untapering
shaft going up like a road to the tangle of heavy branches
that make its head--perhaps 100 feet of lively sprouting
above 200 feed of simple, unadorned log." Some have a first
"branch [that is] alone bigger than the biggest elm tree in
the world ..."
The quotations are from
Johnson, Hugh
1984 Hugh Johnson's Encyclopedia of Trees.
Gallery Books, New York City
a marvelous coffee-table book. As the dust jacket says,
it
is a fully illustrated guide to all the
major garden and forest trees . . . an
unforgettable journey through a magnif-
icent and intricate world of natural
beauty, and an unmatched work of refer-
ence for gardeners and tree lovers.
The *Encyclopedia* shows the world of
trees in thorough and loving detail:
the structure and life cycle of trees,
their place in history and ecology,
forestry past and present, the use of
trees in garden and landscape design,
tree planting and care.
Forming the heart of the *Encyclopedia*
is a visually beautiful omnibus of deci-
duous and coniferous trees--more than
six hundred species--illustrated with
close to a thousand full-color photo-
graphs and drawings and accompanied by a
text that sparkles with fascinating facts
and tree lore.
It's true. The dust jacket completely jumps the track, though,
when it quotes a former Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens
as of the opinion that
Hugh Johnson .... writes without prejudice
or inhibition, eager to share his vivid en-
joyment and his remarkable understanding.
If you start his book with a feeling for
trees, I don't see how you can finish it
without loving them.
There's nothing wrong with this, either, except for the "without
prejudice" phrase; how could dendrology possibly be an arena for
the display of prejudice? In fact, the *Encyclopedia* answers
that question, too. Johnson is gloriously prejudiced, prejudiced
about trees. Moreover, his prejudices are, well, correct.
Johnson is best known as a wine critic. His physiognomy, though,
rather suggests a rugby player whose teammates think he's a bit
too enthusiastic about the rough and tumble. In any case, he's
lusty in his affections, and forthright in his writing. Cheerful
personal views fill his *Encyclopedia*:
I feel obliged to mention what to me is the
ugliest tree in the world--the weeping
wellingtonia. This freak from a French nur-
sery has branches that grow straight
downwards, as near the trunk as they can get.
. . . To grow one seems to me rather like
exhibiting Siamese twins.
. . . The larch is one of the fastest-grow-
ing of all trees; certainly the fastest to
make strong and heavy wooed with almost oak-
like qualities. . . . Possibly more
important than any of the species, however,
is a hybrid, the fruit of a union romantically
formed at a ducal seat in the highlands of
Scotland. . . . The 4th Duke was so smitten
with the larch that he planted 17,000,000 of
them.
For a non-fanatic to write of rhododendrons
at all is foolhardy, but to try to distinguish
those that should be called trees, at least
without long experience in the Himalayas, is
almost suicidal. There never was a rhododen-
dron with the sort of long straight trunk
that would tempt a forester, that is certain.
Yet who would call a plant 90 feet high, how-
ever curving and many-stemmed, a shrub?
What can you grow that gives a garden such a
sense of established well-being as a fig tree
or a mulberry? I've no doubt it is just wit-
less harking back to a three-quarters-mythical
past: the fig-tree mentioned so often in the
Bible and popping out from under every fallen
marble frieze in the ruins of the classical
world, and the mulberry appearing from China
in the Dark Ages--maybe long before--and with
it the Secret of Silk. . . . Mulberries are
gastronomically neglected. They are somehow
not quite right as fruit, combining the ex-
tremes of squashiness and pippiness ...
He continues for another three hundred pages. These in-group
jokes and flamboyance are the sort of thing that make a re-
viewer instinctively reach for such adjectives as "cloying"
and "fanatical". Johnson is better than that. Read him your-
self, and you'll find that his overadrenalized prose actually
delivers on its promise to entertain and communicate with
accuracy. When he compares the flowering ashes to "the velvet-
framed bosom of Nell Gwynn ...", it turns out that there's
some artistic justification for his almost-over-wrought prose.
I've narrowed follow-ups; I encourage others to make their own
adjustments.
Cameron Laird
claird@Neosoft.com (claird%Neosoft.com@uunet.uu.net) +1 713 267 7966
claird@litwin.com (claird%litwin.com@uunet.uu.net) +1 713 996 8546
From: edwardbarry@ins.infonet.net
Newsgroups: misc.rural
Subject: rural reading
Date: 17 Feb 1994 18:01:34 GMT
hello from the ranch. I still read everything I can get my hands on about
farming, ranching, gardening, this newsgroup is addicting. Anyway what
helped me most when I started were Country Women, a handbook for the new
farmer,Tetrault/Thomas. Back to BAsics.Readers digest, Mother Earth news,
Countryside and Small Stock Journal,Harrowsmith, now Countryside or something.
Also specifics to your interests, Dairy Goat Journal, Organic Gardening,
oh the Best Carla Emery's Recipe Book
An excellent resource and inspiration!
good luck!
sarah
edwardbarry@ins.infonet.net
Article 7820 of misc.rural:
From: claird@sugar.NeoSoft.COM (Cameron Laird)
Subject: Re: Xylophilia (was: Biggest thing alive)
Date: 17 Feb 1994 14:18:28 -0600
> Johnson, Hugh
> 1984 Hugh Johnson's Encyclopedia of Trees.
> Gallery Books, New York City
For somewhat more sedate coverage of the same topic, see
Hora, Bayard, consultant editor
1981 The Oxford Encyclopedia of
Trees of the World. Oxford
University Press, Oxford
My exuberance about *... Johnson's ...* perhaps obscured the
fact that there's some sense in his idiosyncrasies. He writes
for the enthusiast, and particularly one with an estate he'd
like to populate dramatically. I gave myself a *Taxodium di-
stichum* for my birthday one year, before they became so
fashionable in that area, based solely (well, almost) on his
description of its virtues and charms. My current land-hold-
ings still barely top one acre, but Johnson inspires marvelous
fantasies.
*The Oxford Encyclopedia ...* shares the same format--both
profile botanical families in roughly 200 pages of sumptuously-
illustrated cataloguing, with fifty pages of introduction,
extensive reference sections, and so on--but *... Oxford ...*
strikes a somewhat more formal tone. Its categories are a bit
finer, and its range a bit more universal, while Johnson allows
himself the luxury of devoting more space to his favorites.
*... Oxford ...* is more didactic: more of its illustrations
are the sort one would find in an identification key, it is
more earnestly culturologic and keeps a focus on economic
value. Johnson includes a photograph only when it has
artistic merit apart from its botanical significance; *all*
his trees look dramatic, in one way or another. Johnson has
a dozen pages on "Tree Planting and Care"; *... Oxford ...*
devotes about the same amount to a *Scientific American*-level
introduction to the biology of trees. The best decision, once
one has decided where in one's library to shelve these--they're
both over 11-1/2 inches high--is simply to purchase both.
--
Cameron Laird
claird@Neosoft.com (claird%Neosoft.com@uunet.uu.net) +1 713 267 7966
claird@litwin.com (claird%litwin.com@uunet.uu.net) +1 713 996 8546
From: edwardbarry@ins.infonet.net
Newsgroups: misc.rural
Subject: Re: Address for goat journals
Date: 18 Feb 1994 19:37:36 GMT
>Could someone tell me the subscribing address for the Dairy Goat Journal? Or
>any other good magazine specializing in goats?
hello!I don't have the address for DGH as it has changed address recently. The
Caprine Supply Co. (P>O> Box y,33001 W 83rd St., DeSoto,Ks. 66018) Has
subscriptions for that, also United Caprine News, a good monthly newspaper, and
all sorts of good goat information and great goat stuff. Country Women by
Thomas is a great resource, also Raising Dairy Goats the Modern Way by Belanger
(editor of Countryside) is excellent. Good luck, from a goat farmer in the midd
le
of cow country!
Sarah
Newsgroups: misc.rural
From: aayyaa@mixcom.mixcom.com (Lloyd Schultz)
Subject: Re: Address for goat jour
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 1994 22:18:19 GMT
MA>Could someone tell me the subscribing address for the Dairy Goat Journal? Or
MA>any other good magazine specializing in goats?
Dairy Goat Journal
Dave Thompson / Editor
W2997 Markert Rd
Helenville, WI 53137
Tell them you got the address from Lloyd off the Internet (really)
LLoyd Schultz
Bel Canto Dairy Goat Farm
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 1994 12:49:07 -0800
From: Deborah Letourneau <dletour@cats.ucsc.edu>
Subject: best papers in agroecology
AGROECOLOGISTS ON THE NET!!!
Please take a look at the top list which comes pretty much
verbatum from your suggestions
and the appended list, which comes from our working group, and see
if there is a foundational paper which is left out of the two lists.
If so, send us the reference at dletour@cats.ucsc.edu.
We are collecting additional references via "surface and air" mail.
A COMPLETED AND CORRECTED list will be mailed to you via the net by
April 1. Thanks again for your enthusiastic responses and input.
LIST FROM THE NET:
Albrecht, W. A. 1938. Loss of soil organic matter and its
restoration. In Yearbook of Agriculture 1938. Soils and Men. USDA.
"Agricultural development -- looking to the future" IN
William C. Clark and R.E. Munn, eds.,
Cambridge Univ. Press, Sustainable Development
of the Biosphere
Crosson, Pierre. Resources for the Future, Washington, D.C.
Higley, L.G. and W.K. Wintersteen. 1992. A novel approach to environmental
risk assessment of pesticides as a basis for incorporating environmental costs
into economic injury levels. Amer. Entomol. 38(1):34-39.
Holling, C. S. 1973. Resilience and stability of ecological systems.
Ann. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 4:1-23.
Gosdin, G. W., Matthias Stelly, and W. E. Adams. 1950. The
organic matter and nitrogen content and carbon-nitrogen ratio of
Cecil soil as influenced by cropping systems on Classes II, III and
IV land. Soil Sci Soc Amer Proc 14:203-208.
Jenny, Hans. 1941. Factors of Soil Formation. McGraw-Hill
Book Co., Inc. New York. (See discussion on soil productivity.)
Jackson, Wes. all writings. The Land Institute in Salina, KS.
Kovach, J., C. Petzoldt, J. Degni and J. Tette. 1992. A method to measure the
environmental impact of pesticides. NY Food and Life Sci. Bull. no. 139.
Lamb, J. A., G. A. Peterson, and C. R. Fenster. 1985. Wheat
fallow tillage systems' effect on a newly cultivated grassland soils'
nitrogen budget. Soil Sci Soc Amer J 49:352-356.
Leighty, Clyde E. 1938. Crop rotation. In Yearbook of
Agriculture 1938PSoils and Men. USDA.
Leopold, Aldo. A Sand County Almanac.
McDonald, D.G. and C.J. Glynn. 1993 (or 1994). Difficulties in measuring
adoption of apple IPM: a case study. J. Agric., Ecosystems and the Environment
[this was in press when I read the manuscript]
McRae, R. et al. 1990. Farmscale agronomic and economic conversion from
conventional to sustainable agriculture. Adv. Agron. 43:155-198.
Miller, M. F. and H. H. Krusekopf. 1932. The influence of
systems of cropping and methods of culture on surface runoff and
soil erosion. Mo. Agr. Exp. Sta. Res. Bul. No. 177.
Monteith, J. Principles of Environmental Physics.
Pimentel, D. et al. 1973. food productin and the energy crisis. Science 182:
443-449.
Rose, D.A. and D.A. Charles-Edwards (Eds.). Mathematics and Plant Physiology.
"Strategies for Agriculture," with
Norman J. Rosenberg, in "Managing Planet Earth."
Schumacher, E.F. Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered.
Sorensen, A.A. 1993. Integrated pest management; finding a new direction.
Cereals World 38(4):187-195.
Whiteside, E. P. and R. S. Smith. 1941. Soil changes
associated with tillage and cropping in humid areas of the United
States. J Amer Soc Agron 33:765-777.
APPENDED LIST
Tentative Working List from Grad Seminar members, UCSC
1. Ewel, JJ; MJ Mazzarino; CW Berish. 1991. Tropical soil fertility
changes under monocultures and succesional communities of different structure.
Ecological Applications 1: 289-302.
2. Gliessman, SR; R Garcia E.; M Amador A. 1981. The ecological basis
for the application of traditional agricultural technology in the
management of tropical agro-ecosystems. Agro-Ecosystems 7: 173-185.
3. Goodman, D. 1975. The theory of diversity-stability relationships
in ecology. Quart. Rev. Biol. 50(3): 237-x.
4. Hairston, NG; FE Smith; LB Slobodkin. 1960. Community structure,
population control, and competition. The American Naturalist 94(879): 421-425.
5. Hanson, Herbert C. 1939. Ecology in Agriculture. Ecology 20: 111-117.
6. Hart, RD. 1980. A natural ecosystem analog approach to the design
of a successional crop system for tropical forest environments. ?: 73-82.
7. Janzen, D. H. 1973. Tropical Agroecosystems. Science 182: 1212-19.
8. McCalla, TM; Duley, FL. 1948. Stubble mulch studies:
effect of sweetclover extract on corn germination. Science 108:163.
9. Murdoch, WW. 1975. Diversity, complexity, stability and pest control.
J. Appl. Ecol. 12: 795-807.
10. Odum, EP. 1969. The strategy of ecosystem development.
Science 164: 262-270.
11. Pimentel, D.; LE Hurd; AC Bellotti; MJ Forster; IN Oka; OD Sholes;
RJ Whitman. 1973. Food production and the energy crisis. Science 182: 443-449.
12. Pimentel, David. 1961. Species Diversity and Insect Population O
utbreaks. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 54: 76-86.
13. Price, P. W. 1976. Colonization of crops by arthropods: non-equilibrium
communities in soybean fields. Environmental Entomology 5: 605-611.
14. Rabb, R. L. 1978. A sharp focus on insect populations and
pest management from a wide-area view. Bulletin of the
Entomological Society of America 24(1): 55-61.
15. Risch, S.J. 1979. A comparison, by sweep sampling, of the insect
fauna from corn and sweet potato monocultures and dicultures in Costa Rica.
Oecologia 42: 195-211.
16. Root, R. B. 1973. Organization of a plant-arthropod association in
simple and diverse habitats: the fauna of collards (Brassica oleracea).
Ecolog. Monographs 43: 95-124.
17. Smith, R. F.; H.T. Reynolds; Farvar, M. T.; J.P. Milton, (eds ). 1972.
Effects of manipulation of cotton agro-ecosystems on insect populations.
The Careless Technology: Ecology and International Development.
Natural History Press. 373-406.
18. Stern, VM; RF Smith; R van den Bosch; KS Hagen. 1959. The integration
of chemical and biological control of the spotted alfalfa aphid.
Hilgardia 29(2): 81-130.
19. Strong, D. R.; E.D. McCoy; J.R. Rey. 1976. Time and the number
of herbivore species: the pests of sugarcane. Ecology 58(1): 167-175.
20. van Emden, H. F. 1965. The role of uncultivated land in the
biology of crop pests and beneficial insects. Scientific Hort. 17: 121-136.
21. Vandermeer, J. 1981. The interference production principle:
An ecological theory for agriculture. BioScience 31(5): 361-364.
22. Way, M. J. 1979. Significance of diversity in agroecosystems.
Proc. IX Intnl. Cong. Plant Prot.; Washington DC. pp9-11
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.herbs
From: murphye@fraser.sfu.ca (Douglas George Murphy)
Subject: review: Med.Plants of the Pacific West
Keywords: medicinal plants, herbs, herb identification, book review
I highly recommend Michael Moore's MEDICINAL PLANTS OF THE PACIFIC WEST
to anyone on or near the west coast. This is a very useful book for US$19.95.
Beautiful line drawings by Mimi Kamp for each plant and over 30 small
colour plates assist identification.
The plant monographs are:
aconite, alum root, amole lily, angelica, arnica, balsam poplar,
balsam root, baneberry, bergamot mint, betony, bidens, bittersweet,
black cohosh, bleeding heart, blueberry, brook mint, buckbean,
buckwheat bush, bunchberry, california bay, california bayberry,
california buckeye, california mugwort, california poppy, california
snakeroot, california spikenard, desert milkweed, devil's club, european
pennyroyal, false solomon's seal, figwort, fireweed, goldthread,
hawthorn, hedge nettle, horehound, hummingbird sage, hypericum,
inside-out flower, labrador tea, lemon balm, licorice fern, lomantium,
madrone, maidenhair fern, manzanita, matilija poppy, mormon tea, nettle,
oregon grape, oxeye daisy, pearly everlasting, peppermint, pitcher sage,
prickly poppy, red cedar, red root, redwood, salal, sarsaparilla,
silk tassel, spearmint, stream orchid, sweet root, trillium, urva ursi,
valerian, vanilla leaf, western coltsfoot, western pasque flower,
western peony, western skunk cabbage, white sage, wild ginger, yarrow,
yellow pond lily, yerba buena, yerba del lobo, yerba reuma, and yerba santa.
There is one appendix that briefly describes another hundred or so plants
in about 20 pages and another that lists plants by therapeutic use in 8
pages. In addition, there is a good glossary of almost 30 pages.
A 5 page list of selected references and an index of plant names follow.
The following excerpt is the devolved for email and sans line drawing
version of the monograph for Maidenhair Fern - pg 174-176.
copyright 1993 Michael Moore so buy the book, eh?
>MAIDENHAIR FERN
>Adiantum pedatum (Polypodiaceae)
>OTHER NAMES Five-Finger Fern; Culantrillo
>
>APPEARANCE To describe this lovely is almost redundant. The fronds form
>colonies that arise from creeping, scaly rootstalks, and the individual
>fronds splay out palmately and fanlike from 1- to 2-foot shiny black or
>brown wire-stems. The colonies and the places they grow evoke images of
>salamanders, deva-magic, and the cool shade of the world before Man.
>The fronds are kind of groovy too: water won't wet them. There are two
>other species you may encounter. In warm, clean canyons of coastal
>California you may find California Maidenhair (A. jordanii); it is
>irregular-leaved, dark brown, shiny stemmed, and with the leaflets
>(pinnules) shaped like little fans that are more broad than long.
>The European Venus-hair fern (A. capillus-veneris) is to be found
>occasionally, with greater ferny side stems and leaflets more long than
>broad. I don't like gathering it, as a rule, only because of its relative
>scarcity.
>HABITAT Our primary Maidenhair Fern can be found throughout the Pacific
>Coast, from central California (the San Francisco Bay Area and the Sierra
>Nevada) north to Alaska and east through cool forests, from near the beaches
>to the middle mountains. Cool, damp, shady, and clean is the ticket. The
>California Maidenhair is found mostly in the coastal mountains, from Santa
>Cruz to San Diego, rarely east of the Central Valley, up warm, wet canyons,
>near seeps and Monkey Flowers.
>
>CONSTITUENTS Filicine, filcinal, adiantone, adipedifol (hopanetype tri-
>terpenes); b-sitosterol, stigmasterol, campesterol (phytosterols); mucilage,
>and tannin.
>
>COLLECTING Gather the frond and stems, removed at ground level, bundle,
>and dry Method A. The bundles look so nice hanging around the house on
>hooks that sometimes it's tempting to leave them up as decorations until they
>are needed. Sadly, they fade rather quickly, so store them in the the dark,
>away from the appreciative glances of friends.
>
>STABILITY If stored in the dark, Maidenhair Fern is stable for at least two
>years.
>
>PREPARATION Standard Infusion, 1 to 4 fluid ounces, or just any old way
>you want.
>
>MEDICINAL USES Maidenhair Fern is a gentle remedy and is not for the
>heroic of inclination. It does work quite nicely, however, for a variety of
>common imbalances. It is astringent, hemostatic,and slightly stimulant to
>to mucus membrane functions. The widest use is for coughing and
>heaviness in the lungs, either from an actual bronchial infection or from
>tiredness or weakness in those who seem to show every little problem by
>wheezing, gurgling, and throat clearing. I have found it helps to drink a cup
>of the tea in the morning if you are particularly susceptible to smog and air
>pollution. In Europe and Latin America it has a long history of stimulating
>slow and crampy menses to organize. It seems most effective for young
>women and those having trouble getting back on cycle after birthing, nursing,
>or coming off birth control pills.
> In a far subtler fashion, Maidenhair Fern combines well with Horsetail,
>another botanical source of silica, for strengthing, over a period of time,
>chronic stress on connective tissues, particularly in filtering organs. This
>makes it helpful for liver weakness, especially from alcohol, early
>borderline emphysema, and kidney weaknesses that might, in time, become overt
>renal failure. It has mild vasopressor and diuretic effects in rats.
>
>OTHER USES The tea, either infusion or decotion, is an exellent Hair rinse,
>adding some body (particularly in sun-dried or over-processed conditions)
>and, with Chamomile or Yarrow added to the tea, some sheen and, dare I
>say it, luster.
from: Michael Moore, 1993. MEDICINAL PLANTS OF THE PACIFIC WEST.
Red Crane Books, 826 Camino de Monte Rey, Santa Fe,
New Mexico 87501.
ill. by Mimi Kamp
ISBN 1-878610-31-7
Article 1867 of alt.folklore.herbs:
From: bk19@cornell.edu (Brij Kothari)
Subject: Recent Book of Medicinal Plants
Date: 10 Feb 1994 03:22:55 GMT
Keywords: Ethnobotany; Medicinal Plants; Indigenous Knowledge;
Participatory
Action Research; Ecuador;
"Nucanchic Panpa Janpicuna" or "Plantas Medicinales del Campo" is
the name of a bilingual (Quichua-Spanish) book that documents more than 120
medicinal plants used in the indigenous communities of La Esperanza,
Angochagua, and Caranqui, Imbabura, Ecuador. The investigation for this
project was undertaken primarily by two campesino volunteers from every
participating community, under the auspices of the Union de Organizaciones
y Comunidades Indigenas de Angochagua, La Esperanza, y Caranqui
(UNOCIAE-C).
The illustrated bilingual edition was developed primarily for the
campesinos of the region. It includes drawings and latin names of most of
the plants and icons to pictorially represent methods of remedy preparation
and use. An attempt was made to maintain the flavor of the languages, as
spoken and understood by the campesinos concerned.
Future extensions of the project include the creation of a garden
of medicinal plants in each community. Funding for the creation and
maintenance of the gardens is expected to be generated by proceeds from the
sale of this book. The book will be sold within the communities, below
printing cost.
The book was published jointly by ABYA-YALA and colegio
SINT-TRUIDEN (Belgium). If anyone is interested in more info or a copy
($10.00), please contact Brij Kothari at (607) 255-0504; 277-3761, or
e-mail: bk19@cornell.edu
All proceeds go to the communities.
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 1994 17:42:28 -0800
From: Eugene Hunn <hunn@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list INDKNOW <INDKNOW@UWAVM.BITNET>
Subject: Re: Curriculum Information
Dear M. E. Swisher,
You should contact Gary J. Martin, Co-ordinator, "People and Plants: the
WWF/UNESCO/KEW Initiative on Ethnobotany and Sustainable Use of Plant
Resources," at 3, rue Chaptal, 75009 Paris, FRANCE, Te. 33/1/45960412;
fax 33/1/47550625. He is in the process of writing & editing a manual
for the conduct of ethnobiological research.
E. Hunn
On Wed, 16 Feb 1994, M. E. Swisher wrote:
> Does anyone have examples of undergraduate curricula and/or descriptions of
> undergraduate educational programs in the areas of ethnobotany, ethnozoology,
> and/or ethnobiology? Thank you.
>
> Mickie Swisher
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 1994 06:55:30 EST
From: Bob Carling <BCARLIN@chall.mhs.compuserve.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list INDKNOW <INDKNOW@UWAVM.BITNET>
Subject: Ethnobiology etc. Curriculum
Following on from Mickie Swisher's request for info on curricula and/or
educational programs in ethnobiology, ethnobotany, etc., and from replies
from Brian Compton and E. Hunn, this is the very latest lowdown from Gary
Martin's Publisher Bob Carling at Chapman & Hall UK!
Gary's book will be published later this year as part of a series of five
plant conservation handbooks coming out of the People and Plants Initiative
(co-partnered by WWF, UNESCO and Royal Botanic Gardens Kew - and supported
with some funding from the Darwin Initiative of the UK). They will all be
relevant to courses, which are beginning to grow, on this important
subject.
The five handbooks will be:
1. Gary Martin. Ethnobotany - A Methods Manual. Chapman & Hall ISBN
0-412-48370-X. Due for publication late 1994.
2. Quentin Cronk & J. Fuller. Plant Invaders - the Threat to Natural
Ecosystems. Chapman & Hall ISBN 0-412-49380-7. Also due for publication
late 1994.
3. A.B. Cunningham. People and Wild Plant Use. Chapman & Hall. ISBN to be
allocated. Due for publication spring 1995.
4. Peggy Stern & Peter Ashton. Botanical Surveys for Conservation.
Publication also early 1995.
5. Botanical Databases for Conservation and Development. Author to be
decided. Publication 1995.
Also check out the excellent WWF booklets:
1. Tony Cunningham "Ethics, Ethnobiological Research, and Biodiversity"
2. Martin Walters and Alan Hamilton. "The Vital Wealth of Plants." (both
available from WWF in Godalming, Surrey, U.K.).
Also there is Lisa Famolare and Mark Plotkin's excellent book published by
Island Press for Conservation International "Sustainable Harvest and
Marketing of Rainforest Products" which has relevant chapters. There is
also an excellent book called "Biodiversity Prospecting" published by World
Resources Institute.
Also you should consult the Plants and People newsletter edited by Trish
Flaster of the Society for Economic Botany which has a ongoing column on
ethnobotany and economic botany courses.
Dr R C J Carling
Senior Editor, Life Sciences
Chapman & Hall
2-6 Boundary Row
London
SE1 8HN United Kingdom
Tel: +44-(0)71-865-0066
Fax: +44-(0)71-522-9623/4
email: BCARLIN@CHALL.MHS.COMPUSERVE.COM
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 1994 07:48:04 PST
From: Brian Compton <bcompton@UNIXG.UBC.CA>
To: Multiple recipients of list INDKNOW <INDKNOW@UWAVM.BITNET>
Subject: reply to Mickey Swisher
Dear Mickie,
I forgot to mention that Dr. Gilbert Hughes at the University of British
Columbia also teaches a course entitled "Plants and People." This is
essentially an economic botany course - it does not treat the ethnobotany
of Native peoples to any great extent - but is a very good one in ters*
terms of major plants of commerce, plant domestication, etc. (I assisted
Dr. Hughes in teaching this course when I was a graduate student at UBC.)
Brian D. Compton
Newsgroups: alt.agriculture.misc
From: cathyj@tyrell.net (Cathy Julian)
Subject: Re: Herbal Farming
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 1994 17:37:02 GMT
: I am considering herbal farming.
: I have 1-20 acres of sandy soil in upstate New York.
: Would like any and all information concerning crops, soil prep,
May I recommend _A_Weaver's_Garden_ by Rita Buchanan as an excellent
discussion of crops for dyers, spinners, etc., including soap plants and
implement plants (e.g., the teasel). She covers growing, harvesting,
using, and storing. Very readable. Hardback. ISBN 0-934026-28-9.
You do not say what you plan to do with your herbs once you've farmed
them, which of course will affect your decisions about what and how much
you plant. Food industry? Hobby? Potpourri? Fiber enthusiasts?
Homeopathic medicine? Herbal remedies? Heirloom plants?
Please give an idea of what you have in mind so responses can more closely
meet your needs. Thanks! :-)
Cathy in Kansas
Date: 17 Feb 1994 14:10:03 -0500 (EST)
From: CLOUTIERD@qcrgmo.agr.ca
To: sanet-mg@ces.ncsu.edu
Subject: Weeds as indicators of environmental conditions
In response to the query on indicator weeds, here is a partial list
of references on the topic. There is also a lot of information
available through the phytosociology literature but it is often
in german or french.
Good reading.
Daniel Cloutier
Agriculture Canada
Experimental Farm
801, route 344
P.O. Box 3398
L'Assomption, Quebec, Canada
Tel: (514) 589-2171
Fax: (514) 589-4027
E-mail:CLOUTIERD@QCRGMO.AGR.CA
Brooks, R.R. 1972. Geobotany and biochemistry in mineral exploration.
Harper and Row, New York. 290 pp.
Chaphekar, S.B. 1978. Biological indicators: the concept and new
additions. International Journal of Ecology and Environmental
Sciences. 4:45-52.
Chikishev, A.G. (Editor) 1965. Plant indicators of soils, rocks, and
subsurface waters. Consultants Bureau, New York. 210 pp.
(Translation of a Russian book).
Clements, F.E. 1920. Plant indicators: the relation of plant
communities to process and practice. Carnegie Inst. Wash. Publ.
No. 290. 388 pp.
Cocannouer, J.A. 1964. Weeds: guardians of the soil. Devon-Adair, New
York. 179 pp.
Dale, M.H. 1966. Weed complexes on abandoned pastures as indicators of
site characteristics. Canadian Journal of Botany 44:11-17.
Dale, M.H., P.J. Harrison, and G.W. Thomson. 1965. Weeds as indicators
of physical site characteristics in abandoned pastures. Canadian
Journal of Botany 43:1319-1327.
Duke, J.A. 1976. Perennial weeds as indicators of annual climatic
parameters. Agricultural Meteorology 16:295-298.
Hill, S.B. and J. Ramsey. 1997. Weeds as indicators of soil
conditions. Macdonald Journal June 1997, p.8-11, 16
Holzner, W. 1982. Weeds as indicators for the whole complex of
environmental factors. Geobotany 2:187-190.
Pfeiffer, E.E. 1970. Weeds and what they tell. Reoriented by
Biodynamic Farming and Gardening Association, Inc. P.O. Box 550,
Kimberton, PA 19442, USA.
Rogers, L.H., O.E. Gail and R.M. Barnette. 1939. The zinc content of
weeds of volunteer grasses and planted land covers. Soil Science
47:237-243.
Rorison, I.H. and D. Robinson. 1984. Calcium as an environmental
variable. Plant, Cell and Environment 7:381-390.
Sampson, A.W. 1939. Plant indicators - concept and status. Botanical
Review 5:155-206.
Shantz, H.L. 1911. Natural vegetation as an indicator of the
capabilities of land for crop production in the Great Plains area.
U.S.D.A. Bur. Pl. Ind. Bul. 201:1-100.
Subject: Book on organic soil amendments & fertilizers (fwd. SANET-MG)
From: dechaney@ucdavis.edu
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 14:13:29 -0800
To: sanet-mg@oes.orst.edu
Subject: New Publication Available
January 15, 1993
A NEW PUBLICATION FROM:
The UC Sustainable Agriculture
Research & Education Program
University of California
Davis, CA 95616
Title: Organic Soil Amendments and Fertilizers
by David Chaney, Laurie Drinkwater, and G. Stuart Pettygrove
Price: $5.00 (includes shipping and handling)
Order through: UC ANR Publications, 6701 San Pablo Avenue,
Oakland, CA 94608-1239. Tel. (510) 642-2431.
DAVIS ~ A new book about recycling organic wastes in
agriculture has been released by the Davis-based UC Sustainable
Agriculture Research and Education Program (SAREP).
"Organic Soil Amendments and Fertilizers was written because
of a growing interest in the use of organic materials as
fertilizers and for improving soil tilth," said David Chaney,
SAREP information analyst and lead author. "With more and more
materials on the market, deciding which to use and how much to
apply can be a difficult task. This publication will help
farmers and gardeners with these decisions."
He noted that farmers and gardeners are usually interested
in organic soil amendments for several reasons: poor soil
quality, strict standards for growing "organic" produce which do
not allow the use of petroleum-based fertilizers, access to a
source of organic material or "waste product," increasing cost of
synthetic fertilizers, or a desire to promote recycling and
reduce dependency on synthetic fertilizers.
Chaney said the publication will serve as both handbook and
reference, with information about selecting and managing various
organic materials available in California. Organic soil
amendments and fertilizers include animal manures, compost,
sewage sludge, green manures, crop residues, cannery wastes, fish
emulsion and meal, kelp, sawdust and bark. They are specifically
derived from plants or animals. "This sense of the term
'organic' is the primary one used in the publication," he said.
What makes them unique compared to synthetic materials,
Chaney said, is that their effect on the soil is richer and more
complex than petroleum-based fertilizers.
Organic Soil Amendments and Fertilizers reports the benefits
of organic matter, provides guidelines for evaluating various
organic amendments and fertilizers, and describes the management
and availability of more than 25 common organic materials.
"This book was written mainly for a California audience, but I
believe that farmers, advisers, waste management specialists, and
home gardeners everywhere will find it of interest," Chaney said.
Chaney's two co-authors are UC Davis Land, Air and Water
Resources soils specialist Stuart Pettygrove and Vegetable Crops
researcher Laurie Drinkwater. Organic Soil Amendments and
Fertilizers is available for $5.00 (publication 21505, includes
shipping and handling) from UC ANR Publications, 6701 San Pablo
Avenue, Oakland, CA 94608-1239. Tel. (510) 642-2431. Media
should contact Chaney at (916) 757-3280.
###
Newsgroups: rec.gardens
From: pharvey@quack.sac.ca.us (Paul Harvey)
Subject: Grafting Book was Home Orchard Society
Date: 2 Feb 1993 19:37:59 UTC
"The Grafter's Handbook", R.J. Garner, Published in association with The
Royal Horticultural Society, Cassell, London, ISBN: 0-304-32172-9
"A classic text which has stood pre-eminent for 40 years." -Philip
McMillan Browse, Director of the Royal Horticultural Society's Gardens
at Wisley.
The Grafter's Hanbook, long established as *the* encyclopedia of plant
propagation by grafting, is updated once again in this new fifth
edition. Everything the dedicated amateur, the student, and the
professional horticulturist wants to know about grafting is to be found
in this book, clearly written in a concise and straightforward style,
the distillation of a lifetime's careful study and research. The
author's line drawings are complemented by well chosen photographs, and
a new Appendix on micrografting by Dr. O.P. Jones of the East Malling
Research Station completes the book.
R.J. Garner was for many years based at the East Malling Research
Station in Kent. His contribution to the knowledge, development and
teaching of grafting techniques over the period cannot be overestimated.
He long ago became *the* authority on his subject. The first and
subsequent editions of The Grafter's Handbook have been an indispensable
reference for gardeners and horticulturalists around the world for forty
years.
In the US, I got a new copy for about $20 from Sterling Publishing
Company, 900 Magnolia Avenue, Elizabeth, New Jersey, 07201. I don't have
a phone number for them, try directory assistance.
Newsgroups: alt.sustainable.agriculture
Subject: Publication on sustainable agriculture books from N.A.L.
Thu 4 Feb 93 15:14
By: Bob Batson
Re: Free Directory of Sust. Ag. Books
The National Agricultural Library has the following publication FREE.
S.R.B.--92.15. Sustainable Agriculture in Print: Current Books,
August 1992, 29 pages.
To request a copy, send the number and title, with a return address
label to --
Reference Section
Room 111
National Agricultural Library
10301 Baltimore Blvd.
Beltsville, MD 20705-2351
* Origin: From the north forty in Kansas, USA! (1:280/322.3)
From: kelly@cco.caltech.edu (Kelly F.)
Newsgroups: rec.gardens
Subject: Square Foot Gardening...more of it!
Date: 8 Feb 1993 04:01:21 GMT
[Many good posts about Square Foot Gardening deleted...]
For those of you interested in intensive gardening, the following
books are also great:
Jeff Ball's Sixty MInute Vegetable Garden, by Jeff Ball (he also
has a flower garden book.) Topics include: How to save time, increase
productivity, raised beds, season extending tunnels, vertical growing,
soil management (making compost, long/short term amendments, solarizing
the soil, etc,) drip irrigation, backyard integrated pest management,
and plans for many of the ideas from backyard sinks to raised beds,
tunnels, etc. His newly revised paperback edition is now out and available
everywhere, I *highly* recommend this book! :)
High Yield Gardening by Marjorie B. Hunt and Brenda Bortz. Topics
include: raised beds (etc,) what to grow for highest yields, special
techniques, season extending crops, devices, special regional probs and
their solutions... this book discusses 'crops' how and what to grow
more thoroughly than Jeff Ball's book who focuses more on technique.
How to Grow More Vegetable by john Jeavons and published by Ecology
Action, a group dedicated to biointensive gardening methods to 'feed
the hungry of the world'. Ecology Action does still have a current catalog
filled with their books, seeds, and products, its one of the original
books about intensive methods and a lot of fun to read (yes, this is
a revised edition.)
If anyone else has suggestions to add to the list, stand up and be heard! :-)
Kelly
kelly@cco.caltech.edu
Newsgroups: rec.gardens
From: kjp@well.sf.ca.us (Karen Paulsell)
Subject: Re: Herbicides, Pesticides????
Another book that you might want to have available as a reference:
Common-Sense Pest Control by Olkowski, Daar, and Olkowski, from Taunton
Press, (c) 1991, ISBN 0-942391-63-2.
I've used nothing but insecticidial soaps, bacillus thurengensis, and
Tree-Tanglefoot in my small urban garden for 4+ years. I have a mad
diversity of flowers, always, to help provide food for the many
beneficial insects that control pests. And when pests arrive, I try to
give the beneficial bugs a chance before I consider even the
least-harmful alternatives. The Rodale-Press books, and Common-Sense Pest
Control, and other good books on non-chemical solutions can help you
control outbreaks of particular pests, while building the long-term health
of your garden.
Newsgroups: rec.gardens
Subject: Re: need good book on citrus varieties
From: bmoon@eis.calstate.edu (Bruce A. Moon)
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1993 04:12:46 GMT
Try HPBooks CITRUS: How to Select, Grow and Enjoy by Richard Ray and Lance
Walheim. I have checked the book out from the library two or three times.
I'm going to have to buy it, hope it is still in print.
This book includes pictures of trees, blossoms, and fruit for the
varieties. The entries are listed with tree size, characteristics, fruit
size, color, ease of peeling, seeds, holds on tree, flavor and juiciness,
harvest period of primary citrus growing regions, and paragraph
descriptions of the varieties. Ortho also has a book (I think)
Bruce Moon
Rio Linda, CA
From: UDBS063@HAZEL.CC.KCL.AC.UK
Newsgroups: bionet.plants
Subject: new book
Date: 24 Mar 93 15:51:14 GMT
Anouncing a major new publication from
CHAPMAN & HALL
PHOTOSYNTHESIS AND PRODUCTION IN A CHANGING ENVIRONMENT
A field and laboratory manual
Edited:
D.O.Hall, J.M.O.Scurlock, H.R.Bolhar-Nordenkampf, R.C.Leegood, S.P.Long
This book is an updated version of a previously published title TECHNIQUES IN
BIOPRODUCTIVITY AND PHOTOSYNTHESIS, 2nd eddition (Coombs et al.) and, like its
predecessor, has been derived from UNEP-sponsored training courses which are
internationally known and respected.
PHOTOSYNTHESIS AND PRODUCTION IN A CHANGING ENVIRONMENT provides unique coverage
of many measurement techniques of photosynthesis and relates them to the
subject of global climate change, which is becoming of increasing concern. The
editors, themselves of international standing, have brought together an eminent
team of plant scientists, each of whom provides up-to-date information on a
single important parameter of plant growth, the techniques employed in its
measurement and detailed review of the techniques themselves.
This book wiil be invaluable for all those involved in plant science research,
from an environmental and ecological stand point, as well as being a vital
manual and reference book for students and researchers in plant physiology,
ecology and environmental science, throughout the world.
KEY FEATURES:
* new version of extremly well-received book
* book has resulted from UNEP funded research and training courses
* much new information included
* vital tool and reference for plant scientist and ecologists
CONTENTS: Introduction: Photosynthesis and the changing environment - D.O.Hall
and S.P.Long; Measurement of plant biomass and net primary production -
M.J.Roberts, S.P.Long, L.L.Tieszen, C.L.Beadle; Remote sensing of biomass and
productivity - J.M.O.Scurlock, S.D.Prince; Plant growth analysis - C.L.Beadle;
Plant microclimate - M.B.Jones; Controlled-environment studies - T.W.Tibbits,
R.W.Langhans; Canopy structure and light interception - P.S.Nobel, I.N.Forseth,
S.P.Long; Fuctional leaf anatomy - H.R.Bolhar-Nordenkampf, G.Draxler; Water
relations - C.L.Beadle, M.M.Ludlow, J.L.Honeysett; Measurement of CO2
assimilation by plants in the field and laboratory - S.P.Long, J.E.Hallgren;
Polarographic measurement of oxygen - D.A.Walker; Carbon isotope discrimination
- H.Griffiths; Chlorophyll fluorescence as a tool in photosynthesis research -
H.R.Bolhar-Nordenkampf, G.O.Oquist; Modelling - leaf to canopy - I.N.Forseth,
J.M.Norman; Models of canopy carbon and water balance: tools for data synthesis
- R.E.McMurtrie: Carbon partitioning - J.F.Farrar; Carbon metabolism - R.C.
Leegood; Chloroplasts and protoplasts - R.C.Leegood, D.A.Walker; Thylakoid
components and processes - G.Hind; Nitrogen fixation and nitrate reduction -
P.Lindblad, M.G.Guerrero; Ammonia assimilation, photorespiration and amino
acid biosynthesis - P.J.Lea, R.D.Blackwell; Micro-algae: laboratory growth
techniques and biotechnology of bionmass production - A.Vonshak. Appendix A:
Equipment for plant physiological research in a changing environment.
Appendix B: Experimental design and presentation of resultes. Appendix C:
Biomass production and data. Appendix D: Units, symbols and abbreviations.
Appendix E: 'GASEX': a program to study the influence of data variations on
calculated rates of photosynthesis and transpiration. Appendix F: 'TISWAT.BAS':
a program to calculate simple water-relations parameters from pressure chamber
measurements. Appendix G: 'ENERGY','SOLAR' and 'TLEAF': sun and leaf modelling
programs. References. Index.
January 1993: 246x189: 512 pp, 140 illus
Hardback: 0-412-42900-4
Paperback: 0-412-42910-1
PC compatible computer diskette containing programmes described
in the book: 0-412-42920-9
Software and paperback: 0-412-54990-5
Order address: Direct Response Supervisor, Chapman & Hall Ltd, Cheriton House,
North Way, Andover, Hants, SP10 5BE, Englan
From: abeaton@TrentU.CA (Drew Beaton)
Newsgroups: alt.sustainable.agriculture
Subject: Re: Books
Date: 10 Apr 93 20:21:52 GMT
>I've read some of Wendel Berry (a few articles and "The Unsettling of
>America") along with "Malabar Farm". Haven't even been able to find "The
>Plowman's Folly". But would like to know of other books along the
>conservations theme in agriculture. Books not so technical, but more
>popular, as the above.
>Also, I've been given the address of ACRES USA (P.O. Box 9547, Kansas City.
>MO 64113) in order to get a catalog for such books. Anybody hear of any
>other publishers list?
Try writing to:
The New Catalyst,
P.O. Box 189,
Gabriola Island,
B.C.
V0R 1X0
They have an excellent "Bioregional Bibliography" which might be just what
you are looking for. They can also give you the address for the
Permaculture Institute, which is somewhere in the States... I haven't
connected with them yet, but I understand they publish a quarterly and
perhaps some books. Establishing a system of permanent agriculture is one
of the biggest challenges ahead - fortunately, there are a lot of us
working on it. Best of luck.
---------------------------------------------------------
Drew Beaton, abeaton@trentu.ca
Hunter Street West, (705) 748-3820
Peterborough. *Don't Move!*
From: fahole@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: bionet.plants
Date: 19 Apr 93 12:59:12 MDT
Zea mays
Corn and Corn Improvement. 1977 reprinted 1985 G. F. Sprague editor.
American Society of Agronomy Publisher, Monograph #18,
677 S. Segoe Rd. Madison WI 53711
ISBN 0-89118-043-5
The Maize Handbook. 1993 Michael Freeling, Virginia Walbot eds.
Springer-Verlog, 1-800-springer
ISBN 0-387-97826-7
With these two references (which should be in your library), you're
well on your way.
--
David Hole DHOLE@MENDEL.USU.EDU
Utah State University FAHOLE@CC.USU.EDU
Logan, UT Just say snow!
Subject: Re: Mail Order Book Source
Date: Thu, 6 May 1993 16:36:07 GMT
agAccess, po box 2008, Davis, CA, 95617, (916) 756-7177
>Color Handbook of Garden Insects,Carr,1979,241pgs,ROD013,.95
This book is out of print according to Rodale Press. AgAcess has
an order in for 15, I don't know how they are going to get them.
agAccess, po box 2008, Davis, CA, 95617, (916) 756-7717
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Neem: A Tree for Solving Global Problems, NRC 1992, 141pgs, BOS043,
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Cover Crops for Clean Water, Hargrove, 1991, 198 pgs, SCS008,
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Western Garden Book, Sunset, 1988, 512 pgs, LAN001,
Complete Book of Bananas, Lessard, 1992, 120pgs/hrdcvr, LSD001,
African Gardens & Orchards, Dupriez & DeLeener, 1989,333pgs,MML014,
Drip Irrigation, Kourik, 1992, 118pgs, MTP004,
Gray Water Use in the Landscape,Kourik,1988,28pgs,MTP002,
Color Handbook of Garden Insects,Carr,1979,241pgs,ROD013,.95
Common Sense Pest Control,Daar et al.,1991,715pgs/hrdcvr,NRT024,.95
Fertile Soil, Parnes,1990,210pgs,PAN032,.95
Fermented Foods of the World, Platt,1987,291pgs/hrdcvr,BUT041,.95
Seed to Civilization: The Story of Food, Heiser, 1990,228pgs,HRV039,.95
Seeds of Woody Plants of the US,USDA,1974,882pgs/hrdcvr,USA034,
Seed to Seed, Ashworth, 1991, 222 pgs, SEE008,
Let it Rot!, Campbell, 2nd ed, 1990, 150pgs, GAR101, .95
American Ginseng: Green Gold, Persons, 1986, 172pgs, BMB001,
Ginseng: Concise Handbook, Duke, 1989, 273pgs/hrdcvr,REF008,.95
Cornucopia: Source Book of Edible Plants,Facciola,1990,675pgs,KMP001,
Olive Oil, Kiritsakis, 1991, 185pgs/hrdcvr, AOC001,
Raising Snails for Food, Baratou, 1988,68 pgs, ILL001, .95
Ill. Dict. of Chinese Med. Herbs,Chin/Keng,1992,184pgs/hrdcvr,CRP001,.95
Mushrooms Demystified,Arora,2nd ed,1986,759pgs,TEN005,.95
Sus. Ag. for Ca: Info Guide,UC Sus. Ag Research,1991,191pgs,ANR219,
93 CCOF Cert. Handbook,66pgs,CCO007,
Sus. Ag. Dir. of Expertise 93,USDA,300pgs,SUP002,.95
Farmers of Forty Centuries,King,1911,441pgs,ROD021,.95
Prin. & Prac. of Dryland Farming,Brengle,1982,178pgs/hrdcvr,HPL002,.50
Gardener's Guide to Fava Beans,Evans,1992,48pgs,APV001,.50
Organic Farming,Lampkin,1989,350pgs/hrdcvr,DIA028,.25
Natural Way of Farming,Fukuoka,1985,280pgs,JAP001,.95
Pests of Garden & Farm,Flint,1990,288pgs,ANR183,
Permaculture: Designer's Manual,Mollison,1988,576pgs/hrdcvr,TAG003,.95
Intro to Permaculture,Mollison,1991,198pgs,TAG004,.95
How to Grow More Veg ... in less space...,Jeavons,2nd,1991,158pgs,TEN006,.95
Breed Your Own Veg,Deepe,1993,282pgs,LBC041,.95
Common Weeds of US,USDA,1971,454pgs,DOV026,.95
Weeds of the West,Whitson,1991,630pgs,ANR216,
Oaks of Ca.,Pavlik,1992,184pgs,CCH001,.95
Compatible Plants Under & Around Oaks,CA Oak Found,1991,69pgs,COF002,
Golden Gate Gardening,Peirce,1993,397pgs,PAN036,.95
Scythe Book,Tresemer,1982,120pgs,BHF002,.95
Grafter's Handbook,Garner,5th,1988,324pgs,STE069,.95
Manag. Covercrops,Sus. Ag Network,1992,114pgs,SUP001,.95
From: Bob.Batson@mtask.omahug.org (Bob Batson)
Newsgroups: rec.gardens
Subject: Re: Amaranth
Date: 05 May 93 13:55:14 CST
> I just got arround to reading Ogranic Gardening's April edition article
> on Amaranth. ..............................................
> The article mentions that there are two main species of grain amaranth,
> _Amaranthus cruentus_ and _Amaranthus hypochondriacus_. I make the
> hypothesis, after reading the article that _A. cruentus is the new
> world variety. (I make this hypothesis after noting that several of
> the _A. cruentus_ varieties are available from Native Seed. So I
> could be off base--It is just a wild guess.) Can anybody provide
> more information?
I suggest you try and read the books _AMARANTH : Modern Prospects for an
Ancient Crop_ by Report of an ad hoc panel of the Advisory Committee on
Technology Innovation, Board on Science and Technology for International
Development,Office of International Affairs, National Research Council
1985, 76 pages).
_Amaranth, from the Past for the Future_ by John N. Cole (c1979, 311
pages). Both of these books are from Rodale Press.
> Also, does anybody know of any sources for amaranth seed beyond those
> given in the article. (I like having a phone number--none of these
> have a phone number.)
PLANTS OF THE SOUTHWEST [CAT - $2US]
930 Baca Street
Santa Fe, NM 87501
(505) 983-1548
> Also, does anybody have any information on millet, Quionia, or other
> small grains?
The book _Small-Scale Grain Raising by Gene Logsdon (Rodale Press, c1977,
305 pages) MIGHT have some chapters you'd find interesting. Seeds of Change
sells both millet and Quinoa.
> Here are the sources they listed.
> Abundant Life Seed Foundation
TEL: (206) 385-7192
> Johnny's Selected Seeds
TEL: (207) 437-4301
FAX: (207) 437-2165
> Native Seed/SEARCH
TEL: (602) 327-9123
> Park Seed Co.
TEL: (803) 223-7333
> Salt Spring Seeds
TEL: (604) 537-5269 [NO TELEPHONE ORDERS]
> Seeds of Change
TEL: (505) 438-8080
FAX: (505) 438-7052
Bob Batson
bob.batson@p3.f322.n280.z1.fidonet.org | Primary address
bob.batson@mtask.omahug.org | Backup address
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If you're in Davis, they have a retail store at 603 Fourth Street.
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Subject: Re: address of mail-order companies?
Date: 6 May 93 03:35:12 GMT
Get a copy of American Survival Guide magazine. It's geared towards
outdoor enthusiasts, but also covers preparedness for natural disasters,
personal defense, and a little politics & history. And it's chock full
of ads for that sort of gear.
NOT in my latest issue of ASG are:
Shomer-Tec
P.O. Box 2039
Bellingham, WA 98227
Loompanics Unlimited (Sellers of unusual books)
P.O. Box 1197
Port Townsend, WA 98368
"The best book catalog in the world" Too many subjects to list. The best
book catalog in the world, just like they say.
Newsgroups: misc.rural
From: amirza@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Anmar Mirza)
Subject: Re: turpentine
Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 03:06:47 GMT
>Does anyone know how to make turpentine? I think it comes from coniferous
>trees, because there's a picture of them on the can. But does it come from
>the sap? The leaves? And how is it extracted?
>
A book I just read, "Americans and Their Forests, a Historical
Geography" described the process. The bark of the pine is slashed in
a V shape down the side of the tree and the sap is collected in
buckets. Tends to kill the tree after a few years...
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 1994 17:08:49 -0500 (EST)
From: Steve Diver <steved@ncatfyv.uark.edu>
To: Ian Staples <ianst@qdpii.ind.dpi.qld.gov.au>
Cc: sustag-public@twosocks.ces.ncsu.edu
Subject: Re: Botanical name of the Indian crop "dhaincha"?
> A colleague has an Indian paper referring to the effect of various pre-crops
> on a subsequent rice crop. One of the crops discussed is simply called by
> the Indian vernacular name "dhaincha", and we don't know what this is :-(
I have seen this in the literature associated with
crotalaria (Crotalaria juncea), or maybe its kenaf
(Hibiscus cannabinus)?.
I'm pretty sure it is crotalaria, though, because crotalaria
is a common green manure crop which precedes rice (or used to be).
The common name for the crotalaria grown as a fiber crop and green
manure in India is Sunn Hemp.
Recent interest in the U.S. has focused on the nematacidal
properties of a crotalaria cover crop and secondly, for the
allelochemicals released sunn hemp seed that suppress the growth of
leafy spurge, a noxious range weed.
Literature sources for further reading:
Dempsey, James M. 1975. Chapter 9. Sunn Hemp, p. 417-447.
In: Fiber Crops. The University Presses of Florida,
Gainesville. 457 p.
Duke, James A. 1981. Handbook of Legumes of World Economic
Importance. Plenum Press, New York. 345 p.
5 crotalia species covered on p. 61-70.
Also:
McKee, Roland, and C.R. Enlow. 1931. Crotalaria, A New
Legume for the South. USDA Circular No. 137. 31 p.
McKee, Roland, et al. 1946. Crotalaria Culture and Utilization.
USDA Farmers' Bull. No. 1980. 17 p.
White, G.A., and J.R. Haun. 1965. Growing Crotalaria juncea,
a multipurpose legume, for paper pulp. Econ. Botany 19(2):
175-183.