Authors:Jan Hassink, Majken Dijk van,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: farming, america, wageningen, frontis, series, states, united, health, care, across, europe
Number of Pages: 357
Published: 2006-03-01
List price: $179.00
ISBN-10: 1402045409
ISBN-13: 9781402045400

Farming for Health describes the utilization of agricultural farms, farm animals, plants and landscapes as a base for promoting human mental and physical health and social well-being. This book gives an overview of the development of ‘Farming for Health’ initiatives across Europe. This development is a logical result of the changing paradigms in the health-care sector and the demand for new social and financial impulses in agriculture and rural areas. Researchers from The Netherlands, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Slovenia, Germany, Belgium, Poland, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Austria and It

Author: L.C. Corbett
Publisher: Addison Press
Keywords: farming, intensive
Number of Pages: 180
Published: 2007-10-29
List price: $27.45
ISBN-10: 1408624710
ISBN-13: 9781408624715

INTENSIVE FARMING - 1913 - CONTENTS - CHAPTER 1: THE PROBLEM . . . II. VEGETABLEG ROWING . . . 111. ONIONS . . . IV. CELERY . . . . . V. FRAMEC ULTURE VI. THE V EGETABLEF ORCINIGN DUS TRY . . . . VII. FRUIT G ROWING . . . . . VIII. SMALL FRUITS . . . IX. THEC ITRUSI NDUSTR . Y X. PLANT B REEDING AS A FACTO IN R INTENSIV FA E R MING . XI. SEED GROWING . XII. THE N URSERY A N EXAMPL O E F INTENSIVCREO P PRODUCTION XIII. IRRIGATIO . N . XIV. ANIMAL I NDUSTR . Y . XV. ECONOM O IC F S IN TENSI I V N E D US TRIES . . . . XVI, THE CROPPING SYSTEM AS A UNIT . . . . ILLUSTRATIONS A Field of Celery Grow

Author: B.T. et al. Kang
Publisher: Macmillan Education Ltd
Keywords: farming, alley
Number of Pages: 120
Published: 1999
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0333600800
ISBN-13: 9780333600801

Author: Edwidge Danticat
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: bones, farming
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 1999-09-01
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0140280499
ISBN-13: 9780140280494

From the bestselling author of Breath, Eyes, Memory, a passionate and profound novel of two lovers struggling against political violenceThe Farming of Bones begins in 1937 in a village on the Dominican side of the river that separates the country from Haiti. Amabelle Desir, Haitian-born and a faithful maidservant to the Dominican family that took her in when she was orphaned, and her lover Sebastien, an itinerant sugarcane cutter, decide they will marry and return to Haiti at the end of the cane season. However, hostilities toward Haitian laborers find a vitriolic spokesman in the ultra-nation

Author: Richard Kendall Munkittrick
Publisher: Duey Press
Keywords: farming
Number of Pages: 108
Published: 2008-04-09
List price: $26.45
ISBN-10: 1408695391
ISBN-13: 9781408695395

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author: P. J. Fowler
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: britain, prehistoric, farming
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1983-07-29
List price: $36.99
ISBN-10: 0521273692
ISBN-13: 9780521273695

Peter Fowler’s essay on later prehistoric agriculture in the first volume of The Agrarian History of England and Wales was hailed by reviewers as a ’masterpiece of informed synthesis’. In The Farming of Prehistoric Britain Dr Fowler, a foremost authority on agrarian archaeology, has revised and updated his original work to provide an accessible and comprehensive survey of the evolution of British farming and its landscape during the last two millennia BC. Emphasizing past gains in knowledge from experimental, aerial and field archaeology, Dr Fowler demonstrates how the applic

Author: Peter V. Fossel
Publisher: Voyageur Press
Keywords: need, everything, farming, organic
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2007-05-15
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0760324697
ISBN-13: 9780760324691

Going organic may be a clear way of getting back to basics—and getting away from the havoc chemicals can wreak on our health and our environment—but the basics themselves may not be so clear. How to begin? What kind of fertilizer and feed are allowed? Is there natural pest management? What does certification entail? And is this the way to go? This book covers the basics and then some. Whether you’re thinking of starting an organic farm or making the transition to organics, whether you’re growing crops or raising animals, you’ll find everything you need to know in these pages—from