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MOVIE SYNOPSIS [ General Audiences ] Having as main character to Sarah McCreanor (see full cast), this film directed by Vincent Tran was premiered in theaters in 2013. The feature film "Girl of Steel: Fan Film" was produced in USA. You can watch Girl of Steel: Fan Film online on TV cable or theaters with original audio in English at different dates. This film premiered in theaters in 2013.
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Runtime: 6 minutes
Sarah McCreanor, Arthur Roberts, Jill Penfold, Michael Tribby and Quinton Bunche.
Short film, Drama, Action.
6-minute film (full movie) directed by Vincent Tran.
The original audio of Girl of Steel: Fan Film has dialogues in Dolby Digital, it was produced in USA.
It premiered in cinemas or television in 2013.
Screenplay written by Vincent Tran.
Danit Sigler.
Michael Leblanc and Danny Saab.
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On-hit Onslaught Twitch
Twitch Build
Ability Sequence
On-hit Onslaught
Despite having 'Ambush' as a skill, the way Twitch surprises his enemies best is with 'Expunge' and it's extra burst of damage when the enemy assumes they have properly timed their getaway.
Sacrificing the hard-hitting damage items, this build looks instead to hurt more enemies more by spraying them with debilitating effects. The most important part of this build is the hurricane item, which slaps poison ticks on extra targets so that Expunge hits for more damage.
Naturally the next item boosts your defense: Frozen Mallet. Additionally it has one of the deadliest on-hit effects in the game, a slow that prevents enemies from escaping as quickly as they'd prefer. As soon as the victim does outrange your basic attack, you can slow them down with 'Venom Cask' in order to catch back up and put them in range of your ever-slowing basic attacks again.
Executioner's Blade is far cheaper than Infinity Edge and limits the effectiveness of life-gaining and life-stealing effects, making Twitch's presence in a teamfight more formidable as his constant barrage weakens the staying power and support potential of the enemy.
In my experience the Maw of Malmortious has proven it's worth time and time again with it's killer combination of attack damage AND resistance. It WILL save your life.
I leave the last item slot open because we all need versatility to handle the surprises our opponents throw at us. Wriggle's Lantern is another all-around good item, increasing armor, sustain, and damage for a relatively low cost. Blade Of The Ruined King has also been extremely popular with it's damage and life-steal combination, though.
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In the weeks before today's Alexander McQueen show, hairstylist Guido Palau found himself faced with a curious question: "The clothes were so dynamic; the shoes were so dynamic," he says, reflecting on designer **Sarah Burton'**s lushly ornate pieces for fall. "How do you make the hair equally dynamic without falling into couture?" He'd been looking at the collection with Burton and playing around with various stylized looks, "but it was all too elegant," he says simply. In search of a more modern McQueen woman, he returned to the hallmarks of her identity—namely, strength. "Sarah likes me to toughen the girls up a bit," says Palau, who ultimately found his answer in the sculptural platinum-colored wigs that his team could be seen rounding into a kind of smooth, futuristic "helmet" backstage, thanks to clouds of Redken Forceful 23 hairspray. To heighten the undercurrent of "iciness," he affixed a high-shine reflective silver visor—produced to his specs by Burton's in-house team—on each model's head just before she stepped onto the runway. Eclipsing her face all the way to the nose, it kept the focus where it should be— on "those visors and those clothes."


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Hey all. I have been trying for the last week to set up the trial version of Microsoft Office 2010 Home and Student on my new laptop, and I keep running into the same problem.
The download will get to Step 2 of 4, have about 7% of the download complete, then I will receive this popup message:
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Cannot connect to the Internet to download required files. Check your Internet connection, and then try again."
Here's what I have done to try to fix the problem:
-checked the wireless internet connection (which, incidentally, is always at full strength when I get this message).
-uninstalled then re-installed the click-to-run from the Microsoft website.
-tried running the program as the administrator.
-tried checking the compatibility and re-configuring the compatibility for Windows 7.
I do not know what else to do and I am really getting frustrated so any help that anyone can offer would be greatly appreciated. I should warn everyone ahead of time that layman's terms are the best way to explain what to do to me-I'm not very good at tech-speak if you know what I mean.
Thanks a bunch ahead of time for any help offered!
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Hello huysernati, welcome to the forum.
Some advice given by Microsoft Answers here:
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Hello huysernati,
Another alternative would be to contact Microsoft Technical Support via email re your issue.
I would imagine that they would welcome questions from a potential customer.
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Most people have heard of the law of attraction (LOA). It was written about extensively in The Secret.
I credit reading "The Secret" to me launching my blogs.
The Law of Attraction claims, that which we think about most, we draw to ourselves.
Think positively and more positive (things) will come to you, think negative and you'll get more of the same.
Today's Lesson
Over the past few weeks I have consistently been writing in my "gratitude journal". I write at least ten things I'm thankful for each day.
It can be as simple as the new blue jay that showed up at our bird feeder, or something more major like good health.
Recently I've been including how grateful I am when I find a new blog.
Ironically, coincidently, or is it the law of attraction, that same day, or the next, I find another great blog/blogger, or they find me (by commenting).
In the past week, I have added 12 new blogs to my reader.
I can't confirm that it's the law of attraction in action, but some type of "energy" has kicked in.
I remember in the past how I complained all I was finding were poor quality, nearly content free blogs. The more I complained and thought about it, the more of them I found.
Now, the reverse is happening.
Whatever it is, I'm keeping my thought process focused on the positive.
The results are much better.
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Have you seen the law of attraction in action with your blog(s)?
If you start being more optimistic, do more things go your way?
Do you think the law of attraction exists or is it just a myth?
Did you know you can now buy The Secret Gratitude Book
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Here at Green Beanery, we're avoiding the crowds and taking it easy because we've got Christmas covered, one way or another; and we'd like to share our Christmas solution with you. It's a simple, three-part plan: (1) Give the gift of coffee; (2) Give a coffee-related gift; (3) Give something else that we also carry. Let's take a look around.
Currently, online and at our 565 Bloor St. West store, we have three book titles on offer for the more serious coffee connoisseur. Scott Rao, credited with shaping the current generation of baristas and roasters, shares some of his secrets in The Coffee Roaster's Companion: an oft-needed (relatively technical) guide for trade roasters and gung-ho hobbyists aspiring to lift their roasting game - you might also want to include unroasted bean samplers with this gift to gauge the results of your recipient's progress. Anette Moldvaer's Coffee Obsession, on the other hand, provides enthusiasts of all abilities with an attractive reference guide to bean varieties and their growing regions, as well as 130 step-by-step coffee recipes (pictured). World-champion barista James Hoffman follows suit with The World Atlas of Coffee: From Beans to Brewing: a comprehensive, illustrated conversation piece packed with insights into all facets of black gold fascination - from growing, processing, brewing, grinding and roasting, to a country-by-country breakdown of coffee characteristics.
For stocking stuffers, our $15 gift bags of roasted whole beans sporting festive bows (available in-store) may save lives come Christmas morning when extra wakey juice for guests and celebration is required. If stocking space is tight, stir sticks made of sustainable bamboo make a thoughtful inclusion for anyone on your list using glass coffee makers. And we've just added new gift cards for the season - order here to receive via email. Need a hostess gift? Our bow-tied whole bean gift bags will guarantee your welcome anywhere (provided a grinder is available at the other end); if not, Bodum's small herb pots provide a novel and useful contribution - order in advance of your event (you supply the greens to suit the occasion). If this year you're the host, but without the most of what you need, our Kitchen department online will ensure your table is one of plenty - see here for dishes, drinkware, ice buckets, serving options and more (and, of course, coffee mugs).
With all of the good health news surrounding regular coffee consumption at the moment, never has there been a better time to give the gift of caffeine infusion. Fresh roasted, quality beans are touted as the optimal ingredients required to maximize coffee's benefits, which are fast becoming too numerous to list (although we try here). Roasted on our premises, a day or two prior to shipment or collection in person, the following beans, all of them espresso blends, remain steadfast favourites: at #1, what could be more Christmassy than Espresso Sweet Santa, or celebratory than the traditional European-style flavour of Espresso Jubilee; other enduring loves include the earthy Indian Storm, mild Mello and intense No Guff. For a luxury gesture at a significantly higher price point, Jamaica Blue Mountain No. 1 "Flamstead Estate" is our most sought after "fancy bean," followed by the rich and buttery Hawaiian Kona Estate "Captain's Ohana Farm" and the somewhat new to us, Yunnan Old Seed, a premium coffee from China's Xinzhai Coffee Co-op in Yunnan Province.
For online customers, we're offering special package deals on Bodum French presses and espresso cups, see here for more details. Meanwhile, in-store at our Bloor St. West location, we've paired the Bialetti Moka Stovetop Espresso Maker and a set of Bodum Pavina Espresso Cups for $25, as well as the Brazil Bodum French press and the Pavina cup set for $30. No clue what to give a young relative of drinking age? The affordability and capacity of French press coffee tends to hold the college and graduate crowd in thrall; see here for presses galore to score points with the millennials in your life.
To create a more grand impression - on family, partners or yourself - an immaculate espresso machine requiring minimal effort could well extend a festive mood for months to come. Browse our selection here and email us at firstname.lastname@example.com with any questions you may have. We also keep several models on display at our Bloor St. West store for a closer look in person, including Saeco's Talea Ring and Talea Touch Plus. For a hands-on, semi-automatic recommendation for espresso and specialty drinks, look no further than the consistent value-for-money charm of the Gaggia Classic or the comparable, somewhat more durable Rancilio Silvia (in combination with Rancilio's grinding mate, the aptly named Rocky). For the home roaster, the Behmor 1600 Plus remains our go-to, entry-level model for new and intermediate users, and for more experienced roasters, Hottop's KN-8828B-2 - Color LCD Display Auto Coffee Roaster with Manual Control - K-probe (pictured) is a popular choice.
Although grinders are a vital part of the overall coffee purchase - ideally, 50% of a budget that includes a low-end espresso machine (around $300) and 25% when the espresso machine is higher end ($1500+) - thankfully not all types of coffee require an investment grinder. Drip coffee, for instance, is fairly forgiving and if you're looking for a loud pop of fun in the morning and decent results, the Bodum Bistro Adjustable Conical Burr Coffee Grinder is just the ticket. It also serves as a visual cue for what the Christmas season is all about: noise, activity, colour, and sharing downtime with loved ones and beloved drinks (some of them hot). From us to you: Enjoy.
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Dec 24 - 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Dec 25 - Closed
Dec 26 - 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. (expect in-store sales on discontinued items and display models)
Dec 31 - 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Jan 1 - Closed
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Mumbai, Dec 10: Jammu and Kashmir, on Wednesday created history in Ranji Trophy when they beat 40-time champions Mumbai by 4 wickets in a Group A match at the Wankhede Stadium.
Needing 179 to win on the final day with 9 wickets in hand, Jammu and Kashmir reached the 237-run target for the loss of 6 wickets.
Opener Shubham Khajuria was the hero in the run chase as he topscored with 78 off 140 balls with 10 fours and 1 six. Hardeep Singh, batting at number 6, remained unbeaten on 41 to give the team a memorable win.
This was the first ever meeting between Jammu and Kashmir and Mumbai. And they stunned the multiple champions on their home ground.
Jammu and Kashmir are coached by former India left-arm spinner Sunil Joshi, who was appointed this season, replacing Bishan Singh Bedi.
"To beat Mumbai in Mumbai is a great achievement. Our graph has been rising steadily over the last 2-3 years, but we were told playing in elite division is different. We have answered that question," said captain Parvez Rasool beating the heavyweights in their very first clash in 80 years of the tournament.
Coach Joshi said for the first time in the last 20 years, he saw Mumbai batsmen "showing vulnerability against pace bowling."
"Our morale is up after this victory," said Rasool who rued that J&K would not be playing a single home match this season.
"We don't have any home advantage this season. Three out of our four victories last season were clinched at home," the J&K captain, the first cricketer from the state to have represented India, said.
"We have done so well despite lack of sufficient preparations (due to unprecedented floods in the Kashmir valley) which shows we have good potential. Due to the floods, the Srinagar boys, including myself, had a 15-day camp at Nagpur while the Jammu boys trained at their home town," said all-rounder Rasool.
Asked what he has told his teammates after his experiences with India and India A teams, Rasool said, "I have told them to inculcate self-belief." Rasool also praised the batting of Khajuria as "commendable."
Asked whether he was worried about the lower order batting carrying the team home after the first innings collapse when they lost the last five wickets for one run, he said, "We are not as bad as was made out by that happening."
Coach Joshi ascribed the victory to "team effort." "We did well in the one-day tournament (held before Ranji Trophy). Our bowling is good. We need to work some more on our batting. Playing away from home will give the team more exposure," said the former India left arm spinner.
Brief Scores
Mumbai 236 and 254 lost to Jammu and Kashmir 254 and 237/6 in 69.2 overs (Shubham Khajuria 78, Hardeep Singh 41 not out, Parvez Rasool 32, Ian Dev Singh 30, Vishal Dabholkar 2/66)
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Model timings and sizes for this latest run of swell have been slightly wide of the mark across the board. For today the latest buoy readings suggest we've forecast a little early and a little larger than it's likely to show at dawn.
Our model has lowballed both the recent peak day at Mavericks and the last swell at Jaws. Something of a sneaker tow session that saw Kai Lenny on an absolute bomb. For this one coming the opposite looks to be the case. Pauwela buoy readings from our friends at PacIOOS are showing slightly less than expected at we hit midnight local time. Add to that the drop in the forecast since the comp was called we're likely looking at a pretty different day to last years swell - at least the bombs of early morning. The swell is also a little later than called, this isn't actually a bad thing, potentially pushing the peak back towards late morning and giving us a little more scope for size towards the finals. In fact the latest buoy readings confirm that our offshore forecast for size is about right if we push the peak forward almost 12 hours. The other thing to note is our forecast is showing a good chunk of energy in the 18 second period band and the buoy confirms this with a long tail of longer period energy that we know will mean good news on the reef.
Latest Numbers:
- Magicseaweed 11.5ft @ 15 seconds.
- Surfline 15ft @ 16 seconds.
- Pauwela Buoy 11ft @ 14 seconds
MSW forecast from the latest model data is the dotted red line. You can see we're over calling the current swell right now. The solid red line is the forecast from yesterday. You can see how the model has cooled on this swell as we incorporated the latest wind data overnight. You can also see how we were almost 3ft shy of reality on the last pulse.
MSW Forecast for the offshore wave buoy versus the latest data. Here you can see the shift of about 12 hours for that peak. Theoretically we could see growth beyond that peak as the swell develops. This timing shift could actually be beneficial for competition
So what does a forecast 11-12ft@16 look like in the water? Cast back to the last swell of the El Nino winter in March. We should see some increase on this with that longer period energy in the mix and as the swell builds into the afternoon.


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An Unlikely Vineyard
By Deirdre Heekin
Named one of the Best Wine Books of 2014 by The New York Times, An Unlikely Vineyard tells the evolutionary story of Deirdre Heekin's farm from overgrown fields to a fertile, productive, and beautiful landscape that melds with its natural environment.
Is it possible to capture landscape in a bottle? To express its terroir, its essence of place—geology, geography, climate, and soil—as well as the skill of the winegrower?
That's what Heekin and her chef/husband, Caleb Barber, set out to accomplish on their tiny, eight-acre hillside farm and vineyard in Vermont.
But An Unlikely Vineyard involves much more. It also presents, through the example of their farming journey and winegrowing endeavors, an impressive amount of information on how to think about almost every aspect of gardening: from composting to trellising; from cider and perry making to growing old garden roses, keeping bees, and raising livestock; from pruning (or not) to dealing naturally with pests and diseases. As Eric Asimov, chief wine critic for The New York Times, writes, "I love this book, which conveys beautifully why the best wine is, at heart, an agricultural expression."
Challenged by cold winters, wet summers, and other factors, Deirdre and Caleb set about to grow not only a vineyard, but an orchard of heirloom apples, pears, and plums, as well as gardens filled with vegetables, herbs, roses, and wildflowers destined for their own table and for the kitchen of their small restaurant. They wanted to create, or rediscover, a sense of place, and to grow food naturally using the philosophy and techniques gleaned from organic gardening, permaculture, and biodynamic farming.
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The Bec Hellouin model for growing food, sequestering carbon, creating jobs, and increasing biodiversity without using fossil fuels
When Charles and Perrine Hervé-Gruyer set out to create their farm in an historic Normandy village, they had no idea just how much their lives would change. Neither one had ever farmed before. Charles had been circumnavigating the globe by sail, operating a floating school that taught students about ecology and indigenous cultures. Perrine had been an international lawyer in Japan. Each had returned to France to start a new life. Eventually, Perrine joined Charles in Normandy, and Le Ferme du Bec Hellouin was born.
Bec Hellouin has since become a celebrated model of innovative, ecological agriculture in Europe, connected to national and international organizations addressing food security, heralded by celebrity chefs as well as the Slow Food movement, and featured in the inspiring César and COLCOA award-winning documentary film, Demain ("Tomorrow"). Miraculous Abundance is the eloquent tale of the couple's evolution from creating a farm to sustain their family to delving into an experiment in how to grow the most food possible, in the most ecological way possible, and create a farm model that can carry us into a post-carbon future—when oil is no longer moving goods and services, energy is scarcer, and localization is a must.
Today, the farm produces a variety of vegetables using a mix of permaculture, bio-intensive, four-season, and natural farming techniques--as well as techniques gleaned from native cultures around the world. It has some animals for eggs and milk, horses for farming, a welcome center, a farm store, a permaculture school, a bread oven for artisan breads, greenhouses, a cidery, and a forge. It has also become the site of research focusing on how small organic farms like theirs might confront Europe's (and the world's) projected food crisis.
But in this honest and engaging account of the trials and joys of their uncompromising effort, readers meet two people who are farming the future as much as they are farming their land. They envision farms like theirs someday being the hub for a host of other businesses that can drive rural communities—from bread makers and grain millers to animal care givers and other tradespeople.
Market farmers and home gardeners alike will find much in these pages, but so will those who've never picked up a hoe. The couple's account of their quest to design an almost Edenlike farm, hone their practices, and find new ways to feed the world is an inspiring tale. It is also a love letter to a future in which people increasingly live in rural communities that rely on traditional skills, locally created and purveyed goods and services, renewable energy, and greater local governance, but are also connected to the larger world.
The Bio-Integrated Farm
By Shawn Jadrnicek and Stephanie Jadrnicek
Permaculture designer and farmer Shawn Jadrnicek is a master at engaging the free forces of nature to create sustainable food production systems. He weaves water, wind, sunlight, convection, gravity, and decomposition into his projects, showing us how to create sustenance in our landscapes with little effort or work on our part.
The Bio-Integrated Farm is a must-read, twenty-first-century manual for managing these natural resources and brings system farming and permaculture to a whole new level.
Jadrnicek's groundbreaking insights into permaculture go beyond the term's philosophical foundation to create hardworking farm-scale designs. Holding his designs to a higher standard, Jadrnicek's components serve at least seven functions, while classical permaculture theory only seeks at least two functions. With every additional function that a component performs, the design becomes more advanced and saves even more energy.
A bio-integrated greenhouse, for example, doesn't just extend the season for growing vegetables; it also serves as a rainwater collector, a pond site, an aquaponics system, and a heat generator. The Bio-Integrated Farm offers in-depth information about designing and building a wide range of bio-integrated projects including:
Jadrnicek focuses on his experience as farm manager at the Clemson University Student Organic Farm and at his residence in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. He created permaculture patterns that simplified the operation of the 125-share CSA farm while reducing reliance on outside resources. His landscape requires only the labor of harvesting, and the only outside input he buys is a small amount of chicken feed. Jadrnicek's prevalent theme is using water to do the work. Although applicable in many climates, his designs are particularly important for areas coping with water scarcity.
If you are interested in spending less time maintaining your farm or homestead, if you want to increase productivity, if you want to decrease your dependency on outside resources, or if you are curious about how to inexpensively extend your growing season, then this book is for you. The process is simple—put nature to work through intelligent design.
The Carbon Farming Solution
By Eric Toensmeier
In this groundbreaking book, author Eric Toensmeier offers a Big Idea: That agriculture, often blamed as a major culprit of our climate crisis, could be harnessed as part of a global solution to avert disaster, heal our planet, and provide real food security.
Toensmeier (Paradise Lot, Perennial Vegetables) argues that "carbon farming" has the potential—when combined with a massive reduction in fossil fuel emissions and in concert with adaptation strategies to our changing environment—to return our atmosphere to the "magic number" of 350 parts per million of carbon dioxide.
Carbon farming is a suite of agricultural practices and crops that sequester carbon in the soil and in aboveground biomass, which includes modifications to current cropping systems, the use of perennial crops, new approaches to animal grazing, agroforestry, and more. Toensmeier brings together these powerful strategies in one book including in-depth analysis of the available research and, where research is lacking, a discussion of what we need to understand better and the steps that can get us there. The book includes in-depth information on:
Using The Carbon Farming Solution as a guide, farmers, communities, and governments large and small can successfully launch carbon farming projects with the most appropriate crops and practices to their climate, locale, and socioeconomic needs. Along the way it can help address food security, social and climate injustice, women's empowerment, environmental degradation, and some of the core problems with the global food system.
Citizens, farmers, and funders will be inspired to use the tools and shovel-ready solutions presented in this important new book to transform degraded lands around the world into productive carbon-storing landscapes.
Available in: Hardcover
Horse-Powered Farming for the 21st Century
By Stephen Leslie
With contributions from more than 60 contemporary draft-animal-powered farmers and equipment manufacturers
Now is a time of exciting new developments for live animal power. As the numbers of adherents to this way of life grow, ecologically minded farmers in their fields are developing efficient horse-drawn systems, and equipment manufacturers in small shops all across North America and Europe are coming forth with new innovations in ground-drive technology that have us poised on the cusp of another agricultural revolution—with working horses, mules, donkeys, and oxen at the heart of it.
Stephen Leslie's first book, The New Horse-Powered Farm, presented an overview of the many facets of running a small, diversified farm with live horse power. Horse-Powered Farming for the 21st Century is focused entirely on the tools and methods required to successfully manage the horse-powered market garden with draft animal power. However, this is not a step-by-step how-to guide outlining one single system, but rather a manual that presents a range of options and approaches. Leslie examines the function and use of all the implements typically employed on a contemporary draft-animal-powered market garden and illustrates these points with insightful reports from the field, farm profiles, and home-built solutions contributed by over sixty draft animal-powered farmers from across North America and Europe.
Each teamster's story represents a patch in a quilt that is woven together with a narrative thread to guide the reader through the whole fabric of the growing season, from soil preparation to harvest. The book structure follows the seasonal progression of implements, beginning with several examples of contemporary draft-animal-powered produce farms; next an examination of the versatile utility of forecarts; then taking an in-depth look at fertility management on the farm; moving on through primary and secondary tillage, seeding and transplanting; then on to the multifold options for cultivators, tool carriers, and multipurpose implements, with technical harnessing and hitching details for the best use of the implements. For experienced teamsters and beginning market growers farming with horses, this is an invaluable and one-of-a-kind guide, sure to last forever in the agricultural canon.
The Backyard Orchardist
By Stella Otto
For novice and experienced fruit gardeners alike, The Backyard Orchardist: A complete guide to growing fruit trees in the home garden has been the go-to book for home orchardists for over 2 decades. This expanded and updated edition—organized into 6 easy-to-follow sections—offers even more hands-on horticulture. Award-winning author Stella Otto starts by systematically guiding readers through the all-important first steps of planning and planting the home orchard. Learn to:
Become familiar with the growing requirements of popular temperate zone tree fruit: the pome fruit—apples, pears, Asian pears, quince, and the novelty medlar—and stone fruit—cherries, apricots, plums, their new hybrid pluots and apriums, peaches and nectarines. In-depth chapters on each fruit offer recommendations on:
For urban gardeners in apartments, condos, and small lots, Otto walks you through the essentials of container growing and even how to winterize figs and other potted fruit trees.
Horticultural fundamentals are simplified into practical techniques for ongoing care and maintenance of a thriving orchard. Gain understanding of soil biology and how nutrient availability impacts the tree. Master how to prune with precision, including the when, how, and why of pruning and its importance to tree health and disease prevention. Water with confidence: learn when why, and how much.
The pests and disease sections are extensively illustrated to help with identification. Control solutions, both biological and synthetic have expanded greatly since the original edition, offering the gardener numerous choices based on their individual situation.
Harvest hints, use, and storage recommendations help you enjoy your fruit at its peak flavor or preserve it for the off-season. A seasonal to-do calendar, resource list, additional reading suggestions, glossary, illustrations, charts, and an index put all you need to know at your fingertips.
The Book of Pears
By Joan Morgan
Although apples may have won the battle for modern-day supermarket shelf space, throughout history the pear has usually ranked even higher in the hearts of fruit enthusiasts and connoisseurs. Cherries, plums, peaches, and many other fruits are also wonderful in their season, but the pear at its finest can be so much more exceptional in terms of its luscious texture, richness of taste, and its fragrances reminiscent of rose water, musk, and vanilla.
The Book of Pears is a one-of-a-kind guide to this extraordinary fruit, following its journey through history and around the world, accompanied by beautiful botanical watercolor paintings and period images. Noted pomologist and fruit historian Joan Morgan (The Book of Apples) has researched and crafted the definitive account of the pear's history and uses, from fresh eating to cooking and baking to making perry, the delicate and sophisticated pear equivalent of cider.
Featuring a directory of 500 varieties of both ancient and modern pears with tasting notes and descriptions for every one, The Book of Pears reveals the secrets of the pear as a status symbol, introduces readers to some of the most celebrated fruit growers in history, and explains how the pear came to be so important as an international commodity. This unique and fascinating book will prove indispensable for historians, horticulturists, and all fruit lovers.
The Forest Garden Greenhouse
By Jerome Osentowski
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.
Two Percent Solutions for the Planet
By Courtney White
Two Percent Solutions for the Planet profiles fifty innovative practices that soak up carbon dioxide in soils, reduce energy use, sustainably intensify food production, and increase water quality. The "two percent" refers to: the amount of new carbon in the soil needed to reap a wide variety of ecological and economic benefits; the percentage of the nation's population who are farmers and ranchers; and the low financial cost (in terms of GDP) needed to get this work done.
As White explained in Grass, Soil, Hope, a highly efficient carbon cycle captures, stores, releases, and recaptures biochemical energy, mitigating climate change, increasing water storage capacities in soil, and making green plants grow. Best of all, we don't have to invent anything new—a wide variety of innovative ideas and methods that put carbon back into the soil have been field-tested and proven to be practical and profitable. They're mostly low-tech, too, relying on natural resources such as sunlight, green plants, animals, compost, beavers, creeks, and more.
In Two Percent Solutions for the Planet, White expands what he calls the "regenerative toolbox," to include holistic grazing, edible forests, biochar, weed-eating livestock, food co-ops, keyline plowing, restoration agriculture, bioenergy, aquaponics, animal power, Farm Hack, bees, bears, wildlife corridors, rainwater harvesting, native seeds, and various other projects from across the United States, as well as in Canada, Europe, and Australia. These short, engaging success stories will help readers connect the dots between diverse, exciting, and pragmatic practices, and inspire them to dig deeper into each individual story and concept, energized by the news that solutions do exist.
The Hop Grower's Handbook
By Laura Ten Eyck and Dietrich Gehring
It's hard to think about beer these days without thinking about hops.
The runaway craft beer market's convergence with the ever-expanding local foods movement is helping to spur a local-hops renaissance. The demand from craft brewers for local ingredients to make beer—such as hops and barley—is robust and growing. That's good news for farmers looking to diversify, but the catch is that hops have not been grown commercially in the Eastern United States for nearly a century.
Today, farmers from Maine to North Carolina are working hard to respond to the craft brewers' desperate call for locally grown hops. But questions arise: How best to create hop yards—which are virtual forests 18-feet tall, are expensive to build, and the hop bines themselves often take up to three years to reach full production? How to best pick, process, and price them for market? And, how best to manage the fungal diseases and insects that wiped out the hop industry one reference years ago, and which are thriving in the hotter and more humid Eastern United States thanks to climate change? Answers to these questions can be found in The Hop Grower's Handbook—the only book on the market about raising hops sustainably, on a small scale, for the commercial craft beer market in the Eastern United States.
Written by hop farmers and craft brewery owners Laura Ten Eyck and Dietrich Gehring, The Hop Grower's Handbook is a beautifully photographed and illustrated book that weaves the story of their Helderberg Hop Farm with the colorful history of New York and New England hop farming, and relays horticultural information about the unusual hop plant and the mysterious resins it produces that give beer a distinctively bitter flavor, including an overview of the numerous native, heirloom, and modern varieties of hops and their purposes. The authors also detail an easy-to-understand explanation of the beer-brewing process, which is critical for hop growers to understand in order be able to provide the high-quality product brewers want to buy. The authors even include a few beer recipes, too.
The book also provides readers with detailed information on:
The overwhelming majority of books and resources devoted to hop production currently available are geared toward the Pacific Northwest's large-scale commercial growers, who use synthetic chemical pesticides, fungicides, herbicides, and fertilizers and deal with regionally specific climate, soils, weeds, and insect populations. Ten Eyck and Gehring, however, focus on farming hops sustainably. While they relay their experience about growing in a new Northeastern climate subject to the higher temperatures and volatile cycles of drought and deluge brought about by global warming, this book will be an essential resource for home-scale and small-scale commercial hops growers in all regions.
Year-Round Indoor Salad Gardening
By Peter Burke
The Low-Tech, No-Grow-Lights Approach to Abundant Harvest
Year-Round Indoor Salad Gardening offers good news: with nothing more than a cupboard and a windowsill, you can grow all the fresh salad greens you need for the winter months (or throughout the entire year) with no lights, no pumps, and no greenhouse.
Longtime gardener Peter Burke was tired of the growing season ending with the first frost, but due to his busy work schedule and family life, didn't have the time or interest in high-input grow lights or greenhouses. Most techniques for growing what are commonly referred to as "microgreens" left him feeling overwhelmed and uninterested. There had to be a simpler way to grow greens for his family indoors. After some research and diligent experimenting, Burke discovered he was right—there was a way! And it was even easier than he ever could have hoped, and the greens more nutrient packed. He didn't even need a south-facing window, and he already had most of the needed supplies just sitting in his pantry. The result: healthy, homegrown salad greens at a fraction of the cost of buying them at the market. The secret: start them in the dark.
Growing "Soil Sprouts"—Burke's own descriptive term for sprouted seeds grown in soil as opposed to in jars—employs a method that encourages a long stem without expansive roots, and provides delicious salad greens in just seven to ten days, way earlier than any other method, with much less work. Indeed, of all the ways to grow immature greens, this is the easiest and most productive technique. Forget about grow lights and heat lamps! This book is a revolutionary and inviting guide for both first-time and experienced gardeners in rural or urban environments. All you need is a windowsill or two. In fact, Burke has grown up to six pounds of greens per day using just the windowsills in his kitchen! Year-Round Indoor Salad Gardening offers detailed step-by-step instructions to mastering this method (hint: it's impossible not to succeed, it's so easy!), tools and accessories to have on hand, seeds and greens varieties, soil and compost, trays and planters, shelving, harvest and storage, recipes, scaling up to serve local markets, and much more.
The Lean Farm
By Ben Hartman
A practical, systems-based approach for a more sustainable farming operation
To many people today, using the words "factory" and "farm" in the same sentence is nothing short of sacrilege. In many cases, though, the same sound business practices apply whether you are producing cars or carrots. Author Ben Hartman and other young farmers are increasingly finding that incorporating the best new ideas from business into their farming can drastically cut their wastes and increase their profits, making their farms more environmentally and economically sustainable. By explaining the lean system for identifying and eliminating waste and introducing efficiency in every aspect of the farm operation, The Lean Farm makes the case that small-scale farming can be an attractive career option for young people who are interested in growing food for their community. Working smarter, not harder, also prevents the kind of burnout that start-up farmers often encounter in the face of long, hard, backbreaking labor.
Lean principles grew out of the Japanese automotive industry, but they are now being followed on progressive farms around the world. Using examples from his own family's one-acre community-supported farm in Indiana, Hartman clearly instructs other small farmers in how to incorporate lean practices in each step of their production chain, from starting a farm and harvesting crops to training employees and selling goods. While the intended audience for this book is small-scale farmers who are part of the growing local food movement, Hartman's prescriptions for high-value, low-cost production apply to farms and businesses of almost any size or scale that hope to harness the power of lean in their production processes.
One-Straw Revolutionary
By Larry Korn
One-Straw Revolutionary represents the first commentary on the work of the late Japanese farmer and philosopher Masanobu Fukuoka (1913 – 2008), widely considered to be natural farming's most influential practitioner. Mr. Fukuoka is perhaps most known for his bestselling book The One-Straw Revolution (1978), a manifesto on the importance of no-till agriculture, which was at the time of publication a radical challenge to the global systems that supply the world's food, and still inspires readers today. Larry Korn, who apprenticed with Mr. Fukuoka in Japan at the time, translated the manuscript and brought it to the United States, knowing it would change the conversation about food forever. The One-Straw Revolution, edited by Korn and Wendell Berry, was an immediate international success, and established Mr. Fukuoka as a leading voice in the fight against conventional industrial agriculture. In this new book, through his own personal narrative, Larry Korn distills his experience of more than thirty-five years of study with Mr. Fukuoka, living and working on his farm on Shikoku Island, and traveling with Mr. Fukuoka to the United States on two six-week visits.
One-Straw Revolutionary is the first book to look deeply at natural farming and intimately discuss the philosophy and work of Mr. Fukuoka. In addition to giving his personal thoughts about natural farming, Korn broadens the discussion by pointing out natural farming's kinship with the ways of indigenous cultures and traditional Japanese farming. At the same time, he clearly distinguishes natural farming from other forms of agriculture, including scientific and organic agriculture and permaculture. Korn also clarifies commonly held misconceptions about natural farming in ways Western readers can readily understand. And he explains how natural farming can be used practically in areas other than agriculture, including personal growth and development.
The book follows the author on his travels from one back-to-the-land commune to another in the countryside of 1970s Japan, a journey that eventually led him to Mr. Fukuoka's natural farm. Korn's description of his time there, as well as traveling with Mr. Fukuoka during his visits to the United States, offers a rare, inside look at Mr. Fukuoka's life. Readers will delight in this personal insight into one of the world's leading agricultural thinkers.
Understanding Roots
By Robert Kourik
Award-Winner in the "Home & Garden" category of the 2015 USA Best Book Awards
Understanding Roots uncovers one of the greatest mysteries underground—the secret lives and magical workings of the roots that move and grow invisibly beneath our feet.
Roots, it seems, do more than just keep a plant from falling over: they gather water and nutrients, exude wondrous elixirs to create good soil, make friends with microbes and fungi, communicate with other roots, and adapt themselves to all manner of soils, winds, and climates, nourishing and sustaining our gardens, lawns, and woodlands.
Understanding Roots contains over 115 enchanting and revealing root drawings that most people have never seen, from prairies, grasslands, and deserts, as well as drawings based on excavations of vegetable, fruit, nut, and ornamental tree roots. Every root system presented in this book was drawn by people literally working in the trenches, sketching the roots where they grew.
The text provides a verydetailed review of all aspects of transplanting; describes how roots work their magic to improve soil nutrients; investigates the hidden life of soil microbes and their mysterious relationship to roots; explores the question of whether deep roots really gather more unique nutrients than shallow roots; shares the latest research about the mysteries of mycorrhizal (good fungal) association; shows you exactly where to put your fertilizer, compost, water, and mulch to help plants flourish; tells you why gray water increases crop yields more than fresh water; and, most importantly, reveals the science behind all the above (with citations for each scientific paper).
This book contains at least eighty percent more new information, more results of the latest in-depth and up-to-date explorations, and even more helpful guidelines on roots than the author's previous book (Roots Demystified: Change Your Garden Habits to Help Roots Thrive). This is not a revised edition—it's a whole new stand-alone book.
The New Bread Basket
By Amy Halloran
For more than 10,000 years, grains have been the staples of Western civilization. The stored energy of grain allowed our ancestors to shift from nomadic hunting and gathering and build settled communities—even great cities. Though most bread now comes from factory bakeries, the symbolism of wheat and bread—amber waves of grain, the staff of life—still carries great meaning.
Today, bread and beer are once again building community as a new band of farmers, bakers, millers, and maltsters work to reinvent local grain systems. The New Bread Basket tells their stories and reveals the village that stands behind every loaf and every pint.
While eating locally grown crops like heirloom tomatoes has become almost a cliché, grains are late in arriving to local tables, because growing them requires a lot of land and equipment. Milling, malting, and marketing take both tools and cooperation. The New Bread Basket reveals the bones of that cooperation, profiling the seed breeders, agronomists, and grassroots food activists who are collaborating with farmers, millers, bakers, and other local producers.
Take Andrea and Christian Stanley, a couple who taught themselves the craft of malting and opened the first malthouse in New England in one hundred years. Outside Ithaca, New York, bread from a farmer-miller-baker partnership has become an emblem in the battle against shale gas fracking. And in the Pacific Northwest, people are shifting grain markets from commodity exports to regional feed, food, and alcohol production. Such pioneering grain projects give consumers an alternative to industrial bread and beer, and return their production to a scale that respects people, local communities, and the health of the environment.
Many Americans today avoid gluten and carbohydrates. Yet, our shared history with grains—from the village baker to Wonder Bread—suggests that modern changes in farming and processing could be the real reason that grains have become suspect in popular nutrition. The people profiled in The New Bread Basket are returning to traditional methods like long sourdough fermentations that might address the dietary ills attributed to wheat. Their work and lives make our foundational crops visible, and vital, again.
Trees for Gardens, Orchards, and Permaculture
By Martin Crawford
Are you wondering which productive trees to plant in your garden? Or are you planning a forest garden? Perhaps you are planting an orchard but want a greater diversity of useful trees than is typical? Or you'd like to know what unusual fruit trees you can use? The answers to all these questions can be found in master forest gardener Martin Crawford's new book.
Crawford has researched and experimented with tree crops for twenty-five years and has selected over one hundred of the best trees producing fruits, nuts, edible leaves, and other useful products that can be grown in Europe and North America. Each of the trees or tree groups includes details of:
The appendices make choosing trees for your situation easy, with lists of suitable trees for specific situations, plus flowcharts to guide you. If you want to know about and make use of the large diversity of tree crops that are available in temperate and continental climates, then this book—by an internationally acknowledged expert—is both fascinating and essential reading.
Beyond the War on Invasive Species
By Tao Orion
Invasive species are everywhere, from forests and prairies to mountaintops and river mouths. Their rampant nature and sheer numbers appear to overtake fragile native species and forever change the ecosystems that they depend on. Concerns that invasive species represent significant threats to global biodiversity and ecological integrity permeate conversations from schoolrooms to board rooms, and concerned citizens grapple with how to rapidly and efficiently manage their populations. These worries have culminated in an ongoing "war on invasive species," where the arsenal is stocked with bulldozers, chainsaws, and herbicides put to the task of their immediate eradication. In Hawaii, mangrove trees (Avicennia spp.) are sprayed with glyphosate and left to decompose on the sandy shorelines where they grow, and in Washington, helicopters apply the herbicide Imazapyr to smooth cordgrass (Spartina alterniflora) growing in estuaries. The "war on invasive species" is in full swing, but given the scope of such potentially dangerous and ecologically degrading eradication practices, it is necessary to question the very nature of the battle.
Beyond the War on Invasive Species offers a much-needed alternative perspective on invasive species and the best practices for their management based on a holistic, permaculture-inspired framework. Utilizing the latest research and thinking on the changing nature of ecological systems, Beyond the War on Invasive Species closely examines the factors that are largely missing from the common conceptions of invasive species, including how the colliding effects of climate change, habitat destruction, and changes in land use and management contribute to their proliferation. Beyond the War on Invasive Species demonstrates that there is more to the story of invasive species than is commonly conceived, and offers ways of understanding their presence and ecosystem effects in order to make more ecologically responsible choices in land restoration and biodiversity conservation that address the root of the invasion phenomenon. The choices we make on a daily basis—the ways we procure food, shelter, water, medicine, and transportation—are the major drivers of contemporary changes in ecosystem structure and function; therefore, deep and long-lasting ecological restoration outcomes will come not just from eliminating invasive species, but through conscientious redesign of these production systems.
Will Bonsall's Essential Guide to Radical, Self-Reliant Gardening
By Will Bonsall
"Society does not generally expect its farmers to be visionaries." Perhaps not, but longtime Maine farmer and homesteader Will Bonsall does possess a unique clarity of vision that extends all the way from the finer points of soil fertility and seed saving to exploring how we can transform civilization and make our world a better, more resilient place.
In Will Bonsall's Essential Guide to Radical, Self-Reliant Gardening, Bonsall maintains that to achieve real wealth we first need to understand the economy of the land, to realize that things that might make sense economically don't always make sense ecologically, and vice versa. The marketplace distorts our values, and our modern dependence on petroleum in particular presents a serious barrier to creating a truly sustainable agriculture.
For him the solution is, first and foremost, greater self-reliance, especially in the areas of food and energy. By avoiding any off-farm inputs (fertilizers, minerals, and animal manures), Bonsall has learned how to practice a purely veganic, or plant-based, agriculture—not from a strictly moralistic or philosophical perspective, but because it makes good business sense: spend less instead of making more.
What this means in practical terms is that Bonsall draws upon the fertility of on-farm plant materials: compost, green manures, perennial grasses, and forest products like leaves and ramial wood chips. And he grows and harvests a diversity of crops from both cultivated and perennial plants: vegetables, grains, pulses, oilseeds, fruits and nuts—even uncommon but useful permaculture plants like groundnut (Apios).
In a friendly, almost conversational way, Bonsall imparts a wealth of knowledge drawn from his more than forty years of farming experience.
"My goal," he writes, "is not to feed the world, but to feed myself and let others feed themselves. If we all did that, it might be a good beginning."
The New Livestock Farmer
By Rebecca Thistlethwaite and Jim Dunlop
Including information on cattle, pigs, poultry, sheep, and goats, and exotics like bison, rabbits, elk, and deer
How can anyone from a backyard hobbyist to a large-scale rancher go about raising and selling ethically produced meats directly to consumers, restaurants, and butcher shops? With the rising consumer interest in grass-fed, pasture-raised, and antibiotic-free meats, how can farmers most effectively tap into those markets and become more profitable? The regulations and logistics can be daunting enough to turn away most would-be livestock farmers, and finding and keeping their customers challenges the rest.
Farmer, consultant, and author Rebecca Thistlethwaite (Farms with a Future) and her husband and coauthor, Jim Dunlop, both have extensive experience raising a variety of pastured livestock in California and now on their homestead farm in Oregon. The New Livestock Farmer provides pasture-based production essentials for a wide range of animals, from common farm animals (cattle, poultry, pigs, sheep, and goats) to more exotic species (bison, rabbits, elk, and deer).
Each species chapter discusses the unique requirements of that animal, then delves into the steps it takes to prepare and get them to market. Profiles of more than fifteen meat producers highlight some of the creative ways these innovative farmers are raising animals and direct-marketing superior-quality meats.
In addition, the book contains information on a variety of vital topics:
• Governmental regulations and how they differ from state to state;
• Slaughtering and butchering logistics, including on-farm and mobile processing options and sample cutting sheets;
• Packaging, labeling, and cold-storage considerations;
• Principled marketing practices; and
• Financial management, pricing, and other business essentials.
This book is must reading for anyone who is serious about raising meat animals ethically, outside of the current consolidated, unsustainable CAFO (Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations) system. It offers a clear, thorough, well-organized guide to a subject that will become increasingly important as the market demand for pasture-raised meat grows stronger.
The Organic Medicinal Herb Farmer
By Jeff Carpenter and Melanie Carpenter
A new approach to growing local medicine, including information on geo-authenticity, wildcrafting, and developing a good business plan
Both a business guide and a farming manual, The Organic Medicinal Herb Farmer will teach readers how to successfully grow and market organic medicinal Western herbs.
Whether you're trying to farm medicinal plants, culinary herbs, or at-risk native herbs exclusively or simply add herbal crops to what you're already growing, successful small-scale herb farmers Jeff and Melanie Carpenter will guide you through the entire process—from cultivation to creating value-added products.
Using their Zack Woods Herb Farm in Vermont as a backdrop, the Carpenters cover all the basic practical information farmers need to know to get an organic herb farm up and running, including:
• Size and scale considerations;
• Layout and design of the farm and facilities;
• Growing and cultivation information, including types of tools;
• Field and bed prep;
• Plant propagation;
• Weed control, and pests and diseases;
• Harvesting, as well as wild harvesting and the concept of geo-authentic botanicals;
• Postharvest processing; and,
• Value-added products and marketing.
The authors also provide fifty detailed plant profiles, going deeper into the herbs every farmer should consider growing. In an easy-to-understand, practical, and comprehensive manner, readers will learn how to focus on quality over quantity, and keep costs down by innovating with existing equipment, rather than expensive technology.Market farmers who have never before considered growing medicinal herbs will learn why it's more important to produce these herbs domestically.
The Organic Medicinal Herb Farmer makes a convincing case that producing organic medicinal herbs can be a viable, profitable, farming enterprise. The Carpenters also make the case for incorporating medicinal herbs into existing operations, as it can help increase revenue in the form of value-added products, not to mention improve the ecological health of farmland by encouraging biodiversity as a path toward greater soil health.
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