Organic Tobacco Growing in America and Other Earth-Friendly Farming

Organic Tobacco Growing in America and Other Earth-Friendly Farming
Author: Mike Little
Publisher: Sunstone Press
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2008-12
Genre: Organic farming
ISBN: 0865347077

"Organic Tobacco Growing in America" is a quintessential American story of applying vision and values to innovation. The practical guide is ideal for a world that yearns for sustainable, Earth-friendly farming.

Organic Tobacco Growing in America

Organic Tobacco Growing in America
Author: Mike Little
Publisher: Sunstone Press
Total Pages: 131
Release: 2016-07-05
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 1611391547

When a small company dedicated to doing things differently decided some twenty years ago to make as natural a tobacco product as possible, they turned to America’s tobacco farmers and proposed an unheard of proposition: How about growing organic tobacco? Today, demand for organic tobacco leaf is doubling each year. But when it was first proposed, there were more than a few skeptics. Now, many are looking at the growing practices and sustainable farming techniques developed by this small group of pioneers. Here’s the colorful history behind this new old way of farming. Organic Tobacco Growing in America is a quintessential American story of applying vision and values to innovation. More than just a practical guide on how and why to embrace organic growing, this is a story that stretches from its American Indian-inspired beginnings in the windswept high desert of northern New Mexico to the fabled tobacco roads of the southeast. Along the way, meet the growers who learned how organic farming of not just tobacco, but vegetables and other produce as well, is returning the principles of nature back to the family farm. This is a story about the rebirth of a lifestyle—a way of life that once was and now is meant to be again—for a world that yearns for sustainable, earth-friendly farming.

The Cultivators Handbook of Natural Tobacco

The Cultivators Handbook of Natural Tobacco
Author: Bill Drake
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010-03-06
Genre: Tobacco
ISBN: 9781451514643

Native Americans believe that Tobacco is one of the most sacred gifts of the Great Spirit to his People, along with corn, beans and squash. I also believe that tobacco is a great gift of the great spirit of the natural world, and I want people who enjoy tobacco to be able to liberate themselves from the thrall of the multinational so-called "Tobacco companies," whose products really have nothing to do with the sacred herb and are nothing more than industrialized poison. Now I'm sharing my years of experience raising natural Tobacco in what I hope is a useful, interesting and thoughtful book - The Cultivators Handbook of Natural Tobacco. As I hope you'll come to see, the ultimate aim of this book is to make it possible for smokers to no longer be enslaved to criminal corporations for their personal supply of pure, natural tobaccos.In addition to sharing my own growing experience. This is not a "How-To" book but a "How It's Been Done For Ages" book. I've reached far into the past to find tobacco growing books written by masters of the subject, from Cuba to the Philippines, from America to Brazil. In an all-new Section Two I've gathered together the best advice from these old-time masters regarding every aspect of Tobacco cultivation, from which varieties grow best in which soils and environments, to the carefully guarded secrets of curing and flavoring the primo leaves of this unusual plant. Also, I'll give you an internet address where you can download all of these original, invaluable tobacco resources for free in PDF format for easy reading on your computer or any reading device. I wrote this book to offer you the accumulated knowledge of generations of Tobacco growers. From them you'll learn how to grow a personal crop of the finest heirloom organic tobacco, whether for personal consumption, for sharing with a family member who is trapped in the death spiral of smoking commercial so-called tobacco products, or for beginning a small business as a natural tobacco entrepreneur selling your products at a local farmers market or over the internet. You will not only learn the ancient techniques of Native American tobacco growers, but you'll also find information on the techniques developed in past centuries by master tobacco growers around the world. You'll discover that growing your own heirloom natural tobacco can be fun, and in spite of the impression most of us have, tobacco is easy to grow, harvest, cure and enjoy on a very small scale - even just one or two plants. I hope that this book will inspire you to become a native natural tobacco grower and, even if only in some small way, help to take back for yourself and your friends one of the great sources of wealth and pleasure in the world, long ago stolen by the White race from the Native Americans and later stolen by giant corporations from the people who live on and work the sacred soil of Mother Earth.

Cultivator's Handbook of Marijuana

Cultivator's Handbook of Marijuana
Author: Drake
Publisher: Ronin Publishing
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1993-01-28
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780914171539

This revised and updated edition of the classic Cultivators Handbook of Marijuana had complete information on growing marijuana indoors and out. Full of examples, fantastic illustrations and horticultural knowledge. Drake is a leading authority on marijuana cultivation. His book Cultivators Handbook of Marijuana includes information on the marijuana plant, marijuana and land, working with young plants, marijuana and light, harvesting and curing, making a good plant better, cultivation of psychoactive tobacco, and cultivation awareness.

Tobacco's Hidden Children

Tobacco's Hidden Children
Author: Margaret Wurth
Publisher:
Total Pages: 139
Release: 2014
Genre: Child labor
ISBN: 9781623131340

Methodology -- I. Tobacco farming in the United States -- II. Child tobacco workers in the United States -- III. Health and safety -- IV. Hours, wages, and education -- V. International legal standards -- VI. Obligations of the US government to protect child farmworkers -- VII. Responsibilities of businesses purchasing tobacco in the United States -- VIII. Recommendations -- Acknowledgments.

Tobacco and Slaves

Tobacco and Slaves
Author: Allan Kulikoff
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 468
Release: 2012-12-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0807839221

Tobacco and Slaves is a major reinterpretation of the economic and political transformation of Chesapeake society from 1680 to 1800. Building upon massive archival research in Maryland and Virginia, Allan Kulikoff provides the most comprehensive study to date of changing social relations--among both blacks and whites--in the eighteenth-century South. He links his arguments about class, gender, and race to the later social history of the South and to larger patterns of American development. Allan Kulikoff is professor of history at Northern Illinois University and author of The Agrarian Origins of American Capitalism.

How Tobacco Smoke Causes Disease

How Tobacco Smoke Causes Disease
Author: United States. Public Health Service. Office of the Surgeon General
Publisher:
Total Pages: 728
Release: 2010
Genre: Government publications
ISBN:

This report considers the biological and behavioral mechanisms that may underlie the pathogenicity of tobacco smoke. Many Surgeon General's reports have considered research findings on mechanisms in assessing the biological plausibility of associations observed in epidemiologic studies. Mechanisms of disease are important because they may provide plausibility, which is one of the guideline criteria for assessing evidence on causation. This report specifically reviews the evidence on the potential mechanisms by which smoking causes diseases and considers whether a mechanism is likely to be operative in the production of human disease by tobacco smoke. This evidence is relevant to understanding how smoking causes disease, to identifying those who may be particularly susceptible, and to assessing the potential risks of tobacco products.

Tobacco Culture

Tobacco Culture
Author: T. H. Breen
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2001-08-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0691089140

The great Tidewater planters of mid-eighteenth-century Virginia were fathers of the American Revolution. Perhaps first and foremost, they were also anxious tobacco farmers, harried by a demanding planting cycle, trans-Atlantic shipping risks, and their uneasy relations with English agents. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and their contemporaries lived in a world that was dominated by questions of debt from across an ocean but also one that stressed personal autonomy. T. H. Breen's study of this tobacco culture focuses on how elite planters gave meaning to existence. He examines the value-laden relationships--found in both the fields and marketplaces--that led from tobacco to politics, from agrarian experience to political protest, and finally to a break with the political and economic system that they believed threatened both personal independence and honor.

The Tobacco Atlas

The Tobacco Atlas
Author: Judith Mackay
Publisher: World Health Organization
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2002
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9789241562096

Research in the past five years suggests a bleak picture of the health dangers of smoking, with tobacco the biggest single killer of all forms of pollution. It is estimated that one person dies every ten seconds due to smoking-related diseases. This publication considers the history and current position regarding tobacco use, as well as providing some predictions for the future of the tobacco epidemic upto the year 2050. It contains a number of full-colour world maps and graphics to illustrate the variations between countries and regions. Issues discussed include: tobacco prevalence and consumption; youth smoking; the economics of tobacco farming and manufacturing; smuggling; the tobacco industry, promotion, profits and trade; smokers' rights; legislative action such as smoke-free areas, tobacco advertising bans and health warnings.

Tobacco

Tobacco
Author: Iain Gately
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2007-12-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0802198481

“A rich, complex history . . . Deeply engaging and witty” (Los Angeles Times). Long before Columbus arrived in the New Word, tobacco was cultivated and enjoyed by the indigenous inhabitants of the Americas, who used it for medicinal, religious, and social purposes. But when Europeans began to colonize the American continents, it became something else entirely—a cultural touchstone of pleasure and success, and a coveted commodity that would transform the world economy forever. Iain Gately’s Tobacco tells the epic story of an unusual plant and its unique relationship with the history of humanity, from its obscure ancient beginnings, through its rise to global prominence, to its current embattled state today. In a lively narrative, Gately makes the case for the tobacco trade being the driving force behind the growth of the American colonies, the foundation of Dutch trading empire, the underpinning cause of the African slave trade, and the financial basis for victory in the American Revolution. Well-researched and wide-ranging, Tobacco is a vivid and provocative look at the surprising roles this plant has played in the culture of the world. “Ambitious . . . informative and perceptive . . . Gately is an amusing writer, which is a blessing.” —The Washington Post “Documents the resourcefulness with which human beings of every class, religion, race, and continent have pursued the lethal leaf.” —The New York Times Book Review