Plant Life category: 1095 books
The Fungal Pharmacy
The Complete Guide to Medicinal Mushrooms and Lichens of North America
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
In The Fungal Pharmacy, noted herbalist Robert Rogers introduces readers to more than 300 species of medicinal mushrooms and lichens found in North America. These fungi, Rogers explains, have the capacity to heal both the body and, through the process of myco-remediation, the planet itself. Throughout...
Morel Hunting
How to Find, Preserve, Care for, and Prepare the Wild Mushrooms
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011
Identifying the most popular wild mushroom and distinguishing them from false morels.
by Timothy J. Baroni
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
A must-have for mushroom hunters in the northeast
The Northeast is one of the best places to find mushrooms; they are both abundant and spectacularly diverse. Mushrooms of the Northeastern United States and Eastern Canada is a compact, beautifully illustrated guide packed with descriptions and...
Mushrooms for Health
Medicinal Secrets of Northeastern Fungi
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
There is a burgeoning interest in natural medicines in the United States. Among these natural health powerhouses are mushrooms, and here mycologist Greg Marley introduces ten species found in New England-and elsewhere, too, in many cases. Marley describes where to find and how to prepare these fungi...
by R. T. and F. W. Rolfe
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
Mankind has always had a love-hate relationship with fungi. On the positive side, edible mushrooms and truffles are gastronomic delights, and certain fungi possess medicinal properties. On the other hand, many mushrooms are poisonous, and fungi can inflict costly damage on crops and other property. This...
Orchid Care
For the Beginner
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2017
Orchid Care: For the Beginner “demystifies orchid care for a wide audience in this slim, instructive volume. The book can function as a reference guide, but it's best read cover to cover, as the information is well chosen to keep from frightening off beginning
enthusiasts.” This quote came...
by Steve Houser, Linda Pelon, Jimmy W. Arterberry
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
In this unprecedented effort to gather and share knowledge of the Native American practice of creating, designating, and making use of marker trees, an arborist, an anthropologist, and a Comanche tribal officer have merged their wisdom, research, and years of personal experience to create Comanche...
by Leonard Adkins
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
Using full-color photography and expertly crafted prose, Wildflowers of the Blue Ridge and Great Smoky Mountains turns a day hike or drive through our nation's most beautiful and rugged expanse of forested mountains into an object lesson in the stunning beauty of nature.
by Susan Gaber
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
Susan Gaber's garden is a black-and-white Eden of lush flower design — 100 graceful, botanically accurate garden flowers rendered for artists and anyone who admires or needs floral designs and motifs: needleworkers, craftsmen of all sorts, designers. All the drawings may be used royalty-free.Ms....
Gardener's Guide to July Wildflowers
A Year in Wildflowers, #4
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2015
This wildflower identification guide includes over twenty common summer blooming wildflowers with photographs. Gardener’s Guide to July Wildflowers allows easier identification of wildflowers in the field because it is composed only of the early summer wildflowers of the season.
Summer blooming...
The Last Stand
A Journey Through the Ancient Cliff-Face Forest of the Niagara Escarpment
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2007
The most ancient and least disturbed forest ecosystem in eastern North America clings to the vertical cliffs of the Niagara Escarpment. Prior to 1988 it had escaped detection even though the entire forest was in plain view and was being visited by thousands upon thousands of people every year. The...
Tending Fire
Coping With America's Wildland Fires
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
The wildfires that spread across Southern California in the fall of 2003 were devastating in their scale-twenty-two deaths, thousands of homes destroyed and many more threatened, hundreds of thousands of acres burned. What had gone wrong? And why, after years of discussion of fire policy, are some...
Scorched Earth
How the Fires of Yellowstone Changed America
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2005
With vivid descriptions of the famous fires that have raged in Yellowstone, the heroes who have tried to protect it, and the strategies that evolved as a result, Barker draws us into the very heart of a debate over our attempts to control nature and people.
Forest Bathing
How Trees Can Help You Find Health and Happiness
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
The definitive guide to the therapeutic Japanese practice of shinrin-yoku, or the art and science of how trees can promote health and happiness
Notice how a tree sways in the wind. Run your hands over its bark. Take in its citrusy scent. As a society we suffer from nature deficit disorder,...