Buffalo Bird Woman's Garden

Buffalo Bird Woman's Garden
Author: Gilbert L. Wilson
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2009-06-30
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 0873516605

This that I now tell is as I saw my mothers do, or did myself, when I was young. My mothers were industrious women, and our family had always good crops; and I will tell now how the women of my father's family cared for their fields, as I saw them, and helped them. --Buffalo Bird Woman

Native American Gardening

Native American Gardening
Author: Michael J. Caduto
Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1996
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 9781555911485

Using tribal tales from across the country as inspiration, the authors provide practical information about seed preservation, planting and maintaining the garden, reaping and cooking the harvest.

Empire's Garden

Empire's Garden
Author: Jayeeta Sharma
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2011-08
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0822350491

A history of the colonial tea plantation regime in Assam, which brought more than one million migrants to the region in northeast India, irrevocably changing the social landscape.

Indian Gardens

Indian Gardens
Author: Tom Turner
Publisher: Gardenvisit.com
Total Pages: 112
Release:
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This is the first English translation of Marie-Luise Gothein's classic Indische Garten (1926). It is a real work of scholarship and a much more extensive treatment of Indian gardens than in her monumental History of Garden Art. Gothein learnt Sanskrit in order to research the subject.

Seychelles

Seychelles
Author: Sarah Carpin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 236
Release: 1997
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 9789622175082

For scenic splendour, isolated coral beaches, lush vegetation and a hot tropical climate, the Republic of Seychelles is almost too good to be true. But, as Carpin shows, the islands of the Seychelles have even more to offer.'

The Drought-Defying California Garden

The Drought-Defying California Garden
Author: Greg Rubin
Publisher: Timber Press
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2016-04-06
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 1604697091

A must-have for every gardener in California looking for a new way to garden in a changing climate In recent years California has been facing extreme drought, and in 2015 they passed state-wide water restrictions that affect home owners. Unfortunately the drought is only going to get worse, and gardeners who aren’t willing to abandon their beloved pastime entirely are going to have to learn how to garden with the absolute minimum of water. The Drought-Defying California Garden highlights the best 230 plants to grow, shares advice on how to get them established, and offers tips on how to maintain them with the minimum amount of water. All of the plants are native to California—making them uniquely adept at managing the harsh climate—and include perennials, annuals, shrubs, trees, and succulents.

How Indians Use Wild Plants for Food, Medicine & Crafts

How Indians Use Wild Plants for Food, Medicine & Crafts
Author: Frances Densmore
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
Total Pages: 172
Release: 1928
Genre: Cooking
ISBN:

Describes Chippewa techniques of gathering and preparing nearly two hundred wild plants of the Great Lakes area and provides information on their medicinal usage and botanical and common names. Bibliogs

Garden and Landscape Practices in Pre-colonial India

Garden and Landscape Practices in Pre-colonial India
Author: Daud Ali
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2020-11-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 1000365670

This book presents a set of new and innovative essays on landscape and garden culture in precolonial India, with a special focus on the Deccan. Most research to date has concentrated on the comparatively well preserved gardens and built landscapes of the celebrated Mughal empire, giving the impression that they have been lacking in other times and regions. Not only does this volume provide a corrective to such assumptions, it also moves away from traditional art-historical approaches by posing new questions and exploring hitherto neglected source materials. The contributors understand gardens in two related ways: first as real or imagined spaces and manipulated landscapes that are often invested with pronounced semiotic density; and second as congeries of institutions and practices with far-reaching social ramifications for the constitution of elite societies. The essays here present a multi-disciplinary approach to the study of garden culture in precolonial India, and together suggest several new and exciting directions of enquiry for those working in the Deccan, Mughal India, and beyond.