This classic lovingly studies the plant world. It is the fruit of a lifetime of patient and detailed observation of nature. Volume One begins with the flowering plant, and then turns to the living face of Earth. Grohmann then goes on to consider the threefold nature of the plant and the nature of the human being. Finally, there is a description of the "ladder of the plant kingdom." Volume Two adds further plant descriptions and extends the cosmological viewpoint begun in the first volume.

The Plant: Flowering Plants

Religion & Spirituality

Fisher, Thomas

New Age & Spirituality

Biodynamic Farming & Gardening Association

With this remarkable series of lectures presented in Koberwitz, Silesia, June 7-16, 1924, Rudolf Steiner founded biodynamic agriculture. They contain profound insights into farming, the plant and animal world, the nature of organic chemistry, and the influences of heavenly bodies. This translation from the original German by Catherine E. Creeger and Malcolm Gardner is a fundamental text for many intermediate and advanced students of biodynamic agriculture ― one to which the biodynamic practitioner will refer again and again over the years. In addition to the eight lectures, this version includes four discussions by Steiner, color plates of Steiner’s chalk drawings, the address to the members of the Agricultural Experimental Circle, Steiner’s report to members of the Anthroposophical Society after the lectures, Steiner’s handwritten notes to the Agriculture Course, further agricultural indications given by Steiner, and “New Directions in Agriculture,” by Ehrenfried Pfeiffer (a colleague of Steiner’s who brought biodynamic agriculture to North America).

Agriculture: Spiritual Foundations for the Renewal of Agriculture (CW 327)

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

STEINER, RUDOLF

Gardening & Landscape Design

This book makes a wonderful complement to a CSA share! It celebrates harvest and the four seasons―it is your guide for good nutrition and flavor. The author draws from years of experience of running a gourmet vegetarian restaurant. With space provided for your own notes, this book is surprisingly inspiring and beautiful: its warmly written text, recycled paper, and vegetable drawings provide cooks with a down-to-earth, friendly experience and years of help in the kitchen, Louise Frazier’s advice will guide and inspire you toward new culinary adventures with local produce.

Louise's Leaves: a Cook's Journal Around the Calendar with Local Garden Vegetable Produce

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Frazier, Louise

Regional & International

The first edition of this book was published in 2002, four years before the term “Colony collapse disorder” was coined to describe the widespread and growing crisis of honeybee population loss. Yet this decrease in the honeybee population has been ongoing from at least the mid-twentieth century; and as we approach the third decade of the twenty-first century, with each passing year the situation becomes more dire. Gunther Hauk does not offer a “magic bullet” solution (there is not and cannot be one), but instead provides the straightforward basis for thinking of the honeybee crisis in a different way, which then provides the ground for taking action appropriately. The sound, holistic approach outlined here is needed now more than ever. Written out of a deep love and concern for the earth and all of creation, Gunther Hauk’s Toward Saving the Honeybee is a light that shows the way forward for farmers, gardeners, hobbyist beekeepers, and anyone concerned about the future of our planet. This new edition is richly illustrated with 57 color photographs and was revised and expanded by the author.

Toward Saving the Honeybee

Science & Math

Hauk, Gunther

Nature & Ecology

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