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Book Synopsis How to Grow Banana Plants Like a Professional: Beginner's Guide and Tips to Get You Started by : Mike Cape
Download or read book How to Grow Banana Plants Like a Professional: Beginner's Guide and Tips to Get You Started written by Mike Cape and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-02-15 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Would you like to give your garden a tropical flavor? Banana plants will give your garden the much needed curb appeal. Banana plants are grown the world over and even a beginner gardener can easily plant and tend to them. Banana plants while often referred to as trees are considered a giant herb. In this book you will learn The ideal soil for banana plants The moister and drainage needed to keep your banana plants healthy. Proper transplanting and initial cultivation of your banana plant. How to properly prepare the soil for your new banana plants.
Download or read book Food Routes written by Robyn Metcalfe and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finding opportunities for innovation on the path between farmer and table. Even if we think we know a lot about good and healthy food—even if we buy organic, believe in slow food, and read Eater—we probably don't know much about how food gets to the table. What happens between the farm and the kitchen? Why are all avocados from Mexico? Why does a restaurant in Maine order lamb from New Zealand? In Food Routes, Robyn Metcalfe explores an often-overlooked aspect of the global food system: how food moves from producer to consumer. She finds that the food supply chain is adapting to our increasingly complex demands for both personalization and convenience—but, she says, it won't be an easy ride. Networked, digital tools will improve the food system but will also challenge our relationship to food in anxiety-provoking ways. It might not be easy to transfer our affections from verdant fields of organic tomatoes to high-rise greenhouses tended by robots. And yet, argues Metcalfe—a cautious technology optimist—technological advances offer opportunities for innovations that can get better food to more people in an increasingly urbanized world. Metcalfe follows a slice of New York pizza and a club sandwich through the food supply chain; considers local foods, global foods, and food deserts; investigates the processing, packaging, and storage of food; explores the transportation networks that connect farm to plate; and explains how food can be tracked using sensors and the Internet of Things. Future food may be engineered, networked, and nearly independent of crops grown in fields. New technologies can make the food system more efficient—but at what cost to our traditionally close relationship with food?
Book Synopsis The Complete Book of Bananas by : William O. Lessard
Download or read book The Complete Book of Bananas written by William O. Lessard and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In THE COMPLETE BOOK OF BANANAS, W.O. Lessard writes to fill a void in information available to a small but growing population of the world. One interested in growing bananas as a hobby. The author is an accepted authority on the growing of bananas with twenty five years of growing experience. He is well known throughout the banana industry & is currently employed by a major South American banana company as a growing consultant. The book consists of 120 pages packed with information on history, culture, diseases & cold protection of the banana. There is a compendium consisting of a discussion of 50 varieties of bananas along with 42 color photographs. There are 11 pages of recipes gleaned from many tropical countries describing how to use bananas in every stage of maturity from green to overripe. The book is of top quality in every respect. It is hardbound with a leather cover & a high quality dust cover. It gives all the information a hobby grower needs to grow a small grove of bananas in the American sunbelt or a greenhouse. The cost of the book is $35.00. Contact person is William Lessard, 19201 SW 248 St., Homestead, FL 33031. (305) 247-0397.
Book Synopsis How Do Bananas Grow? by : Kathleen Connors
Download or read book How Do Bananas Grow? written by Kathleen Connors and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone knows bananas are a fruit but, unlike apples and oranges, they don't grow on trees. Banana plants look like they have a trunk, but it is really densely packed leaves holding up a huge plant and bunches of bananas. Young readers will love learning the truth about banana plants, including that they don't grow from seeds but a piece of another banana plant. Colorful photographs take kids right to banana farms as this plant grows and produces a favorite fruit.
Book Synopsis Watch a Strawberry Grow by : Kirsten Chang
Download or read book Watch a Strawberry Grow written by Kirsten Chang and published by Watch It Grow. This book was released on 2018-12-15 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Watch a Strawberry Grow, early fluent readers learn how strawberries grow. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text will engage young readers as they learn about how this delicious berry is grown and harvested.
Download or read book Bananas written by Virginia Jenkins and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before 1880 most Americans had never seen a banana. By 1910 bananas were so common that streets were littered with their peels. Today Americans eat on average nearly seventy-five per year. More than a staple of the American diet, bananas have gained a secure place in the nation's culture and folklore. They have been recommended as the secret to longevity, the perfect food for infants, and the cure for warts, headaches, and stage fright. Essential to the cereal bowl and the pratfall, they remain a mainstay of jokes, songs, and wordplay even after a century of rapid change. Covering every aspect of the banana in American culture, from its beginnings as luxury food to its reputation in the 1910s as the “poor man's” fruit to its role today as a healthy, easy-to-carry snack, Bananas provides an insightful look at a fruit with appeal.
Download or read book Fair Bananas! written by Henry J. Frundt and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bananas are the most-consumed fruit in the world. In the United States alone, the public eats about twenty-eight pounds of bananas per person every year. The total value of the international banana trade is nearly five billion dollars annually, with 80 percent of all exported bananas originating in Latin America. There are as many as ten million people involved in growing, packing, and shipping bananas, but American consumers have only recently begun to think about them and about their working conditions. Although European nations have helped create a “fair trade” system for bananas grown in Mediterranean and Caribbean regions, the United States as a country has not developed a similar system for bananas grown in Latin America, where large corporations have dominated trade for more than a century. Fair Bananas! is one of the first books to examine the issue of “fair-trade bananas.” Specifically, Henry Frundt analyzes whether a farmer-worker-consumer alliance can collaborate to promote a fair-trade label for bananas—much like those for fair-trade coffee and chocolate—that will appeal to North American shoppers. Researching the issue for more than ten years, Henry Frundt has elicited surprising and nuanced insights from banana workers, Latin American labor officials, company representatives, and fair-trade advocates. Frundt writes with admirable clarity throughout the book, which he has designed for college students who are being introduced to the subject of international trade and for consumers who are interested in issues of development. Frankly, though, Fair Bananas! will appeal to anyone who wants to know more about bananas, including where they come from and how they get from there to here.
Book Synopsis The Biography of Bananas by : Rachel Eagen
Download or read book The Biography of Bananas written by Rachel Eagen and published by Crabtree Publishing Company. This book was released on 2006 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains the history of bananas, where they are grown, how they are harvested, and the different varieties. Provides a history of the world's largest herb, discussing the trade, cultivation, and consumption of bananas, as well as describing the environmental impact resulting from monoculture.
Download or read book Banana written by Dan Koeppel and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Award-winning journalist Dan Koeppel navigates across the planet and throughout history, telling the cultural and scientific story of the world's most ubiquitous fruit"--Page 4 of cover.
Download or read book Climate-Smart Food written by Dave Reay and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book asks just how climate-smart our food really is. It follows an average day's worth of food and drink to see where it comes from, how far it travels, and the carbon price we all pay for it. From our breakfast tea and toast, through breaktime chocolate bar, to take-away supper, Dave Reay explores the weather extremes the worlds farmers are already dealing with, and what new threats climate change will bring. Readers will encounter heat waves and hurricanes, wildfires and deadly toxins, as well as some truly climate-smart solutions. In every case there are responses that could cut emissions while boosting resilience and livelihoods. Ultimately we are all in this together, our decisions on what food we buy and how we consume it send life-changing ripples right through the global web that is our food supply. As we face a future of 10 billion mouths to feed in a rapidly changing climate, its time to get to know our farmers and herders, our vintners and fisherfolk, a whole lot better. Dave Reay is Professor of Carbon Management at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He has studied climate change for over 20 years, from warming impacts in the Southern Ocean, through carbon fluxes in forests, to greenhouse gas emissions from wetlands and agriculture. In 2018 he received the Chancellors Award for Teaching for his work in climate change education. His latest project involves managing a large area of coastal land in Scotland to regrow native tree species and trap a lifetimes carbon.
Download or read book Bananas written by Luis Montes and published by Bioversity International. This book was released on 1933 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Bananas and Plantains by : John Charles Robinson
Download or read book Bananas and Plantains written by John Charles Robinson and published by CABI. This book was released on 2010 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bananas and plantains are major fruit crops in the tropics and subtropics, making a vital contribution to the economies of many countries. In the last 15 years, substantial changes have occurred in banana production, among them the increased importance of fungal and viral diseases and their serious impact on Cavendish export cultivars, smallholder plantains and cooking bananas. Changes in production systems such as protected greenhouse cultivation, organic, fair-trade and integrated cultivation and their respective certification schemes have also become prominent. This book provides an accessi.
Download or read book Bananas written by Richard Alfred Smith and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bananas written by Liz Ray and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2004-09 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phonics Readers is a recognized leader in helping you teach phonics and phonemic awareness, within the context of content-area reading. Content area focus: Goods and Services Phonics Skills: r-controlled vowel syllables
Download or read book Banana Farming written by Lucky James and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-08 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains a step by step guide on how to start a banana farm. If you want to venture into commercial banana farming you really need this book. Everything about banana farming are contain in this book.
Book Synopsis Watch a Banana Grow by : Kirsten Chang
Download or read book Watch a Banana Grow written by Kirsten Chang and published by Bullfrog Books. This book was released on 2018-12-15 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Watch a Banana Grow, early fluent readers learn how bananas grow. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text will engage young readers as they learn about how this delicious fruit is grown and harvested.
Book Synopsis The Forest Garden Greenhouse by : Jerome Osentowski
Download or read book The Forest Garden Greenhouse written by Jerome Osentowski and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2015 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a revolutionary new "Climate Battery" design for near-net-zero heating and cooling By the turn of the nineteenth century, thousands of acres of glass houses surrounded large American cities, becoming a commonplace symbol of the market garden and nursery trades. But the possibilities of the indoor garden to transform our homes and our lives remain largely unrealized. In this groundbreaking book, Jerome Osentowski, one of North America's most accomplished permaculture designers, presents a wholly new approach to a very old horticultural subject. In The Forest Garden Greenhouse, he shows how bringing the forest garden indoors is not only possible, but doable on unlikely terrain and in cold climates, using near-net-zero technology. Different from other books on greenhouse design and management, this book advocates for an indoor agriculture using permaculture design concepts--integration, multi-functions, perennials, and polycultures--that take season extension into new and important territory. Osentowski, director and founder of Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute (CRMPI), farms at 7,200 feet on a steep, rocky hillside in Colorado, incorporating deep, holistic permaculture design with practical common sense. It is at this site, high on a mountaintop, where Osentowski (along with architect and design partner Michael Thompson) has been designing and building revolutionary greenhouses that utilize passive and active solar technology via what they call the "climate battery"--a subterranean air-circulation system that takes the hot, moist, ambient air from the greenhouse during the day, stores it in the soil, and discharges it at night--that can offer tropical and Mediterranean climates at similarly high altitudes and in cold climates (and everywhere else). Osentowski's greenhouse designs, which can range from the backyard homesteader to commercial greenhouses, are completely ecological and use a simple design that traps hot and cold air and regulates it for best possible use. The book is part case study of the amazing greenhouses at CRMPI and part how-to primer for anyone interested in a more integrated model for growing food and medicine in a greenhouse. With detailed design drawings, photos, and profiles of successful greenhouse projects on all scales, this inspirational manual will considerably change the conversation about greenhouse design.
