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Sustainable gardening for the Southeast
While issues such as climate change, pollution, and water shortages become increasingly difficult to ignore, the movement toward sustainability continues to grow. Even though most gardeners are attuned to nature, some common processes of garden maintenance can take a toll on the environment. Sustainable Gardening for the Southeast is a vividly illustrated guide that offers simple techniques to help conserve water, reduce pollutants, and mitigate climate change while increasing biodiversity and attracting pollinators and wildlife. Gardeners will be inspired and empowered to protect and enhance the local ecology as they cultivate a resilient landscape featuring native plants, colorful flowers and trees, and even organically grown fruits and vegetables. And for those who cherish their emerald lawns, Susan Varlamoff provides tips for keeping it green and environmentally sound. Gardeners in the Southeast-whether amateurs or professional landscapers-who want to implement sustainable strategies will find this book the ultimate resource for cultivating a garden that gives back to the earth-- Page 4 cover.
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Litchi and longan: botany, production and uses
Litchi (lychee) and the related fruit longan are grown extensively in China and South-East Asia, as well as in Australia, Florida (USA), Southern Europe and Southern Africa. This book represents the only comprehensive, balanced and internationally focused publication on these fruit. It covers all aspects of production, from taxonomy and breeding, to propagation, flowering and fruit set, to diseases, pests and postharvest storage and processing. It also contains information on photosynthesis, productivity, plant-water relations and nutrition.
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The Edible South
The cultural processes associated with food-production, regulation, representation, identity, and consumption-have taken on aliases such as agriculture, animal science, civil rights, consumption, decorative arts, domesticity, drink, economy, exchange, garden, horticulture, hunger, malnutrition, marketplace, nutrition, obesity, pottery, poverty, property, reform, segregation, slavery, starvation, sustenance, terroir, trade, and wealth. Kim Severson observes this same pattern on a national level, reporting that the number of college graduates committed to social change who are participating in agricultural apprenticeships has never been as high as in 2009: They come armed with little more than soft hands and dog-eared copies of Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma, which takes a dim view of industrial agriculture.
Journal Article
Biorational tree-fruit pest management
As the human impact upon the environment becomes more apparent and severe, the need to develop agricultural techniques that cause minimal damage to the environment has increased. This is particularly the case in the area of pest management, where integrated pest management (IPM) strategies have become a fundamental component of plant protection. Focusing on insect pests of tree fruits and combining behavioural research with crop protection applications, this book emphasizes the importance of environmentally sustainable approaches in an agroecosystem. Both experimental and applied topics are discussed, including the conceptual framework of IPM, functional and behavioural ecology of a pest, host detection mechanisms and monitoring tool development, as well as pest management case studies. Representing a comprehensive discussion of tree-fruit pest management, from the evolution, ecology and behaviour of insect pests to the implementation of applied biorational programmes, this will be essential reading for researchers as well as commercial growers and extension agents.
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Sustainability's incomplete circles: towards a just food politics in Austin, Texas and Havana, Cuba
This chapter questions the use of sustainability discourses in urban agriculture projects, with a comparative study of Austin, Texas and La Habana, Cuba. Faced with a food security crisis in the 1990s, Cuba turned to a diversified and mostly organic agricultural system in order to feed its habitants. Austin also has a well-established community garden programme and a lot of positive press for its sustainable agriculture programmes. The case studies may seem different: the Austin case revolves around community resentment at the establishment and practices of urban farms, while the work in Cuba focuses on the inability of government-led sustainable production to meet the needs of many low-income communities. However, some comparable dynamics can be found. In both Austin and La Habana, the ways in which agricultural practices are deemed sustainable in the cultural and political discourses is predicated upon the ways in which food is produced, with less regard to continuing issues of food insecurity that urban agriculture has yet to redress. Still less attention is paid to the cultural politics of food: the ways in which race, class and gender can shape access to food choices, as well as have the capacity to shape political discourse around food. What this study finds in Austin and La Habana are similar sets of agricultural practices, as well as similar discourses towards their value for the community and the nation. The study also finds comparable outcomes in terms of the ways in which food can expose spatial and social divisions.
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Traveler's Aid: Flower festivals herald spring
Immediately following the parade, head to the annual Japanese Street Festival --- a one-day presentation of Japanese culture with dance, music, arts, cuisine, crafts and even a beer garden. www.nationalcherryblossomfestival.org. > From April 5 to May 18, spring is celebrated at the Festival of Flowers at the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, N.C. Wander through more than 90,000 tulips in the Walled Garden and enjoy live music on the weekends.
Newspaper Article
Welcoming spring: Home and garden tours showcase Southern charms Getaway: YOUR WEDNESDAY GUIDE to QUICK TRIPS and GOOD DEALS
May 6-7: Spring Garden Tour, Dothan. Enjoy performances by local musicians as you tour 15 private gardens around the city. Sponsored by the Dothan Area Botanical Garden, 334-793-3224. March 25-26: Spring Garden Festival at Kanapaha Botanical Garden, Gainesville. Garden strolls, exhibitions and symposiums fill the weekend at gardens reclaimed from a waste-water site. 352-372-4981. April 28-June 11: Epcot International Flower and Garden Festival, Walt Disney World, Lake Buena Vista. Tour the many gardens of the Magic Kingdom and learn from Disney gardening experts how to keep your garden blooming year-round. Also enjoy musical performances at the Flower Power Concert series featuring '60s and '70s artists such as the Turtles and Paul Revere and the Raiders. 407-824-4321; disney.go.com.
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Garden tours abloom: Three you shouldn't miss
Southerners are renowned for their hospitality and pride of place. That's evident when spring ushers in the garden tour season. Folks welcome strangers --- sometimes by the hundreds --- into their homes to sample the local hospitality and history. Besides those highlighted here, see our complete listing of Southern garden shows on Page F4. An author and homespun philosopher, [Emily] Whaley welcomed visitors to share her beloved back yard in person and through the pages of her 1997 book, \"Mrs. Whaley and Her Charleston Garden\" (Fireside, $12). Whaley died in 1998 at age 86, and planned renovations of the house took the garden off this year's tour --- for a while. Just this week, festival coordinator Leigh Handel announced that renovations had been postponed and the garden will be on the Glorious Gardens Tour. \"Mrs. Whaley's garden is everyone's favorite,\" she said, \"so this is a wonderful surprise for festivalgoers.\" The 53rd festival includes walking tours with local guides of the historic district (there are 11 afternoon or evening candlelight tours of homes and gardens, with eight-10 houses on each), strolls through public and private gardens with landscaping experts and oyster roasts at historic Drayton Hall Plantation.
Newspaper Article
Southern scribes
Miller discusses garden writers Henry Mitchell and Elizabeth Lawrence. Each was extremely influential, and each continues to be so even after death.
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