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Record Nr.

UNINA9910149178903321

Autore

Crawford Martin

Titolo

How to grow your own nuts : choosing, cultivation and harvesting nuts in your garden / / Martin Crawford

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, [England] : , : Green Books, , 2017

2017

ISBN

0-85784-394-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (459 pages) : illustrations, photographs

Disciplina

634.5

Soggetti

Nuts

Nut trees

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

This is the definitive book on growing your own nuts written by Martin Crawford, the leading forest gardening expert. Nut trees are perennials, requiring little maintenance or soil cultivation, so it is no surprise that nuts are the ideal forest garden crop. How to grow your own nuts is a beautifully presented and comprehensive guide to selecting, cultivating, harvesting and processing all types of nuts. Here are old favourites like hazelnuts and walnuts alongside less common varieties such as hickories and butternuts and the exotically named chinkapin. Filled with gorgeous illustrations of trees and nuts in all stages of maturity, this book will inspire gardeners, homesteaders and commercial farmers with its clear and detailed instructions. For everyone who wants to grow their own food and aim at self-sufficiency, this book is a must.Throughout the book we learn how delicious, nutritious and versatile nuts are. Nuts are at the heart of our culinary tradition. They have everything for health: magnesium to lower blood pressure; low carbohydrate to control blood sugar; high protein to keep our energy up, and healthy fats to help absorb vitamins. They are chock full of antioxidants. Eating a daily portion of nuts could lengthen your life, as nuts decrease the risk of heart and neuro-degenerative diseases. Recent Harvard studies indicate that eating pecan nuts



increase the survival rates of prostate cancer. For vegetarians and vegans in particular, nuts are a crucial source of protein, but they are enjoyed by many more worldwide as a delicious alternative protein from meat.Martin describes how nuts can be planted singly in a small area, ingroups in an orchard or nuttery, as silvopasture around grazing animals, in alley cropping between cereal crops or intercropping between fruit bushes.Nuts are also multipurpose trees and the A-Z describes their many secondary uses from timber, oil, dyes, fodder and cosmetics to medicines and honey. The beautiful spring blossom, particularly of almond and sweet chestnut, are highly attractive to bees.Every page is rich with the authenticity, passion and experience of a master grower and forest gardener. Whether you are planning to grow nuts at home or commercially, this book is essential reading.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910967789503321

Titolo

About Raymond Williams / / edited by Monika Seidl, Roman Horak, and Lawrence Grossberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, NY, : Routledge, 2010

ISBN

1-135-26307-8

1-135-26308-6

1-282-97499-8

9786612974991

0-203-86515-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (208 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GrossbergLawrence

HorakRoman

SeidlMonika

Disciplina

828.91409

Soggetti

Criticism - Great Britain - History - 20th century

Literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc

Mass media criticism - Great Britain

Historical materialism

Culture - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1 Raymond Williams - towards cultural materialism: an introduction; Chapter 2 Raymond Williams and the absent modernity; Chapter 3 'All forms of signi.cation'; Chapter 4 The perspectives of radical democracy: Raymond Williams' work and its significance for a critical social theory; Chapter 5 The 1968 May Day Manifesto; Chapter 6 Fellow-travellers at the conjunction: Williams and educational communicators; Chapter 7 The pedagogy of cultural materialism: Paulo Freire and Raymond Williams

Chapter 8 Raymond Williams and online video: the tragedy of technologyChapter 9 Cultural studies and common culture: Raymond Williams' approach towards media cultural studies; Chapter 10 'Even the dead will not be safe': on dis(re)membering Williams; Chapter 11 Raymond Williams in the South Atlantic; Chapter 12 Williams and ecology; Chapter 13 Cultural studies is ordinary; Chapter 14 Raymond Williams: reading novels as knowable communities; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

About Raymond Williams represents the overdue critical acclaim of Williams' lasting influence and unbroken repercussions in critical thought. His writings have effectively shaped the ways in which people understand the complexity of the notion of 'culture' and many of the ways it has been taken up in scholarly practice.