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Last year was my first year to try to garden organically, and it didn't work out too well. But this year I actually know what I'm doing! I would definatly recommend it!
The book devotes 100 pages to growing fruits. Learn how to make an aphid trap out of a milk jug or how to propagate berry plants and fruit trees. There are detailed care and maintenance write-ups on 12 of the most common fruits & berries.
The Herb section talks about controlling invasive herbs, companion planting, and how to perform a technique called layering.
The Controlling Pest and Diseases section points out beneficial insects and plants. The book also explains organic tricks for solving insect, plant deficiency, and disease problems. I love the way the book uses home products to solve common gardening problems in an easy to read format. This is my favorite gardening book.
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The author bios themselves make for fascinating reading. (You can't help but wonder how your own life would be summed up in a paragraph or two.) And of course, as I'd expect from any good anthology, this collection inspired me to add quite a few items to my "to-read" list. The nearly 40-page bibliography includes very helpful summaries, and lists not just the sources of this anthology's selections but many other works as well.
Whatever you might expect from Sisters of the Earth, I doubt you'll be disappointed. There should be something in it for everyone -- and it's a pretty book that would make a great gift.
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Recent apocalyptic stories have been of the "asteroid hits earth, tidal waves and earthquakes everywhere" variety. But this is a more traditional "virus destroys 99.99% of the population" type, and is as a result far more interesting and satisfying. After all, everything is left standing, all the machines and cities, but there are too few people to make anything work.
A new strain of influenza spreads by means of air travel. One person infects ten, they each infect more, soon the virus has spread throughout the world, travelling by jet. Just a 'flu at first, but the mortality rate is almost total. Within a month, almost everyone on earth is infected and dying. Everything stops, as everyone is sick or dead. No transport, no electricity, no hospitals, no government, nothing.
In our society, everyone is just a small part of a larger process, everyone is specialised. Imagine waking up to a world where all of the knowledge, ability and expertise had just died along with the vast bulk of the population - you and I probably know less than a stone age man as far as living in a world like that is concerned! And that's what this book is all about - the struggle to survive when you have no idea what to do, and no-one is going to come and help you.
The heroine of the story is Abby, who gets sick, but lives. As she recovers, the world is suddenly an empty and lonely place. She looks for others, and eventually joins a small community trying to rediscover how to farm, build and live with diminishing technology. Resources are scarce and getting scarcer - petrol is more valuable than useless gold - but some bands of survivors are happier to steal from others than to work to rebuild the world. Abby is our eyes and ears in this harsh world, as we follow her in her search for her son whom she hopes also survived. Abby eventually has to make a hard choice whether to keep her search alive, leading to a tragic finale.
When I read this book as a teenager, I was amazed at the incredible detail of the story, how Terry Nation portrayed all of the consequences, big and small, of a world so devastated by disease, as well as the scope of the disaster that befell the world. In this story ALL of civilisation come to an end in the matter of a month or two, and the plausibility of the story is frightening! But in addition to a fabulous story, well told, there is the human drama, played out against a backdrop of hardship and desperation.
This is a great book, one you won't forget.
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Covington and Ellis' biography of Sanford offers a great deal of insight into Sanford's formative years and his political career. The authors researched their subject thoroughly, and the reader gains a great deal of insight into North Carolina politics and into the historical forces shaping the country.
Many of Sanford's colleagues, family, and friends were interviewed for this book, and their stories and perspectives add depth to this book. Many of the characters in the book are still active in North Carolina politics, including "Jimmy Hunt" (as he is referred to in the book) who now serves as Governor of North Carolina.
People who still believe that our government can be a force for good, and that a political life can be synonomous with a life of public service, will be inspired by this book and by the life of this outstanding public servant.