An indispensable, wonderfully motivating growing guide, based on three decades of gardening experience, from the cofounders of Hedgehog Hill Farm in Sumner, Maine. The Silbers tell us how to go about searching for just the right seeds, plants, and information; how to determine the number of plants we need; how to set up a germinating area; how to seed and transplant; how to use cold frames and other methods of "hardening off" our seedlings. They take us into the garden and explain how to evaluate soils and break up top growth. We learn about setting out plants; about direct seeding in mulched areas and open ground; about weeding, watering, and fertilizing. They share their wisdom about controlling insect damage and battling plant diseases; about accommodating animals while protecting crops; about harvesting, fall cleanup, and collecting, saving, and storing seeds from our own gardens. Specific, detailed instructions are given for growing 37 vegetables--alphabetically arranged from asparagus to turnips--and 51 herbs, from angelica to woad. Well-organized charts make it easy to find essential information quickly, and drawings and photographs provide visual direction. Conveniently located sidebars give us guidance on such topics as growing hot peppers, planting mesclun, making sauerkraut, braiding onions, blanching cauliflower, growing moth-repellent herbs, making herb tempura and vinegars, and crystallizing flowers. Here is a book guaranteed to inspire us to dig into the gardening catalogues and then into the earth to begin the adventure of producing our very own bountiful harvest.

Growing Herbs and Vegetables: From Seed to Harvest

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Silber, Terry

Silber, Mark

Gardening & Landscape Design

KNOPF

Book by Silber, Mark. This is a book of black and white photographs of the people of Maine, in attempt to record the faces of Maineiacs. Some of the photographs first appeared in the July 1972 issue of Audience magazine. The photographer Mark Silber was born in 1956 in the Ukraine (USSR) and moved to Poland before coming to USA and receiving a degree from Harvard. The book was designed by Carol Schloss and 4,000 copies were printed. The photographs were reproduced by Foremost Lithographers in Providence, RI. the book was bound by A. Horowitz & Son by publisher David R. Godine, 306 Dartmouth St. Boston, MA 02116.

Rural Maine

D.R. Godine

Sumner 200 is an unique treatment of a town history, using historical, anthropological, and photodocumentary approaches. The first part of the book has a historical essay by historian George Healy. It is accompanied by vintage photographs of the area and its people. The second part consists of eighty-five interviews with area residents. The interviews probe how people feel about living in a small , rural town in its transition from an agricultural community to a suburb of a small city. The interviews also touch on the lives of people who are as young as six years old to those who are in their late nineties, evoking everyday experiences as well as memories of the past. It is a fascinating an provocative portrait. People reading this book one hundred years hence will savor its frankness and breadth. The interviews are accompanied by black and white documentary photographs, sometimes of the people interviewed, sometimes of the whole groups representing organizations and families of the town. The photographs have been compared by reviewers to work of Walker Evans and Richard Avedon. This book would be of interest to historians, social scientists (anthropologists sociologists, oral historians, folklorists) and documentary photographers.

Sumner 200: Portrait of a Small Maine Town

Healy, George

Town of Sumner

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