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HARDBOUND and PAPERBACK BOOKS
FIVE ACRES and INDEPENDENCE
Kains, 1940, Paperback, 413pp, 1 Pound 1 Ounce. $8.95
The classic work on small farming from the pre-DDT era. Much has changed,
but there is plenty of practical information and sound advice here.
NEW
GROWING PLANT MEDICINE Vol 1.
R. & S. Cech, 2022. PB, 354pp, 2 pounds. $29.95
A magnificent overview of all aspects of natural gardening—weather, soil,
insects, seeds, water, even humans. Details on garden planning, wet and dry
gardens, seed sowing, planting, and tending. Extensive info on harvesting seeds,
leaves, and roots. The medicinal section is listed by plant families, giving
individual species and common names. Includes descriptions of the plants in
their natural areas, cultivation, and traditional uses. This volume covers
families A to H. Richo's love of the natural world shines through on every page.
Written with grace and humor, with Sena's charming illustrations, there is
something here for gardeners of every level, from beginners to experienced
professionals.
HOW INDIANS USE WILD PLANTS FOR FOOD, MEDICINE, AND CRAFTS
Densmore, 1928. Paperback, 120pp, 11 Ounces. $7.95
Originally titled Uses of Plants by the Chippewa Indians, published by the
Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology, this is high-quality
ethnobotany. Details Chippewa uses of plants for food, medicine, dyeing,
basketry, and other crafts. Interesting information on medical practices,
including surgical treatments, and interesting crafts such as transparencies
made from birch bark and ornamental patterns bitten into leaves.
IN ONE YARD: Close to Nature
W. Hatch, 2015. PB, 103pp, 27 Ounces. $25.00
Over 500 beautiful color photos of wildlife found "in one yard" Warren
Hatch's 45 by 161 foot urban yard in Portland Oregon. A true 'old-school'
naturalist so rarely seen these days, Warren has dedicated his life to showing
people the beauty of small organisms when magnified. Crystal-clear, world-class
photos of bees, dragonflies, frogs, algae, millipedes, spiders, protists,
beetles, mites, ants, and many more. Magnificent!
IN ONE YARD: Close to Nature, Book 2.
W. Hatch, 2020, HB, 215pp, 2 pounds. $30.00 OUT OF STOCK -
EXPECTED
Another epic work by Warren Hatch! Page after page of stunning photographs showing the incredible beauty and diversity of organisms found 'in one yard'. Insects, arachnids, mollusks, flowers, pollen, seeds, soil organisms, fungi, lichens, mosses, and more. Warren's photographic skills are world class, and he has dedicated his life to showing people the hidden beauties that are all around us.
MAKING PLANT MEDICINE 4th Edition
Richo Cech, 2016. Paperback, 336pp, 1 Pound. $24.95
The long-awaited new edition, fully revised and including 28 new plants.
An excellent overview of making medicinal tinctures, vinegars, glycerines and
water-based preparations, syrups, salves, baths, poultices, etc. Clearly
explains the methods so you can make everything from simple teas to
professional-quality, mixed-solvent tinctures equal to those in health-food
stores. Includes 'A Gardener's Herbal Formulary', covering over 100 herbs, with
over 500 formulas, giving medicinal action, dosage and use. Interesting stories
of his own experiences give the book immediacy, and bring the processes 'off the
page' and into practical focus. Those expensive tinctures can be made
inexpensively at home—if you use plant medicines, you should grow and prepare
your own.
MEDICINAL and OTHER USES of NORTH AMERICAN PLANTS
Erichsen-Brown, 1979. Paperback, 521pp, 1 Pound 10 Ounces. $17.95
Subtitled A Historical Survey With Special Reference to the Eastern Tribes,
this remarkable compendium spans nearly 500 years of literature. Each plant is
described, range and common names given, then chronologically quotes what has
been recorded about the plant and its uses. Exceptionally detailed, with
extensive information. An interesting read.
A MODERN HERBAL
Maude Grieve, 1931. Paperback, 2 volumes, 915pp, 3 Pounds 5 Ounces. $35.90
A comprehensive encyclopedia of medicinal plants detailing well over 1000
species worldwide. Gives botanical and common names, description of the plant
and often of the dried product, cultivation, history, folklore, constituents,
medicinal action and dose, culinary and cosmetic properties, innumerable
recipes, anecdotes, and over 200 botanical illustrations. An excellent work,
first published in 1931.
XEROGRAPHIC REPRINTS
These are the answer to the often heard complaint, 'They don't write them
like that anymore!' Remember, even the best photocopies are not equal to the
original, and photos do not reproduce well, so don't expect perfection! Also, be
sure to check for missing pages on arrival - the machines occasionally skip one.
ECOFASCISM: Lessons From the German Experience.
Biehl and Staudenmaier. 1995. Paperback, 53 pp, 7 Ounces. $12.50
"For most compassionate and humane people today, the ecological
crisis is a source of major concern." So begins this important little
book. Yet most of us who call ourselves environmentalists are unaware that
ecological ideas and concerns have been, and continue to be, used for dangerous
and repressive political ends. This book details the history of ecological
thought in Germany, and how such ideas were central to the rise of the Nazis.
Hitler's Reich explicitly situated itself as an organic, holistic,
nature-centered movement, which practiced organic agriculture, forest
protection, promoted a 'return to nature', and implemented far-reaching
nature-protection laws. The modern ultra-right-wing in Germany is reviving this
form of 'eco-fascism', even calling for a 'Green Adolf'. Most U.S.
environmentalists are completely opposed to the aims of fascism, but reactionary
forces have begun to bend ecological themes towards these very ends. Only
through knowledge may we prevent this perversion of environmentalism. Every
environmentalist should have this book—those who do not remember the past are
destined to repeat it.
ECONOMIC PLANTS AND THEIR ECOLOGICAL DISTRIBUTION
Duke, Hurst and Terrell, 1976. 16pp, 2 Ounces. $2.00
A table of 1000 plants of economic importance, including herbs, spices,
medicinal plants, etc. Gives botanical name, common name, Holridge life zone
range, life style, annual precipitation and temperature ranges, center of
diversity, and diploid chromosome numbers for each plant. Good source of
information for those growing herbs as cash crops.
ETHNOBOTANY OF THE HOPI
A. F. Whiting, 1939. 120pp, 13 Ounces. $23.50
This is a completely new reprint - I had the original book
scanned and enlarged so that it is much clearer and easier to read. Instead of
two pages side by side, it is one page per page. It came out very nice!
An important work on the Hopi and their crop plants, wild plants for food,
seasoning, beverages, chewing gum, etc., as well as plants for medicine,
firewood, construction, musical instruments and household utensils. Half of the
book consists of a list of all plants used by the Hopi, with botanical name,
English name, Hopi name, and description of the plants use. Interesting and
informative.
ETHNOBOTANY of the TEWA INDIANS
Robbins, et al., 1916. 132pp, 15 Ounces. $26.50
Detailed ethnobotany of the Tewa, pueblo dwellers of the upper Rio Grande
valley of New Mexico. Extensive information on the language concerning plants,
as well as the uses of wild and cultivated plants for food, medicine, fiber,
soap, ornament, etc. Includes corn, cotton, chiles, tobacco, and others.
PRINCIPLES and PRACTICES of SEED STORAGE, USDA Agriculture Handbook No. 506.
Justice and Bass, 1978. 289pp, 2 Pounds. $43.00
This is a completely new reprint - I had the original book
scanned and enlarged so that it is much clearer and easier to read. Instead of
two pages side by side, it is one page per page. It came out very nice!
Covers factors affecting seed storage life—seed characteristics, storage
temperature and humidity, etc. Also drying, storage structures, packaging,
monitoring, and records of old and ancient seeds. A wealth of practical and
technical info for the professional.
THE USEFUL PLANTS OF WEST TROPICAL AFRICA
J. M. Dalziel, 1937. 612pp, 4 Pounds. $67.00
This is a completely new reprint - I had the original book
scanned and enlarged so that it is much clearer and easier to read. Instead of
two pages side by side, it is one page per page. It came out very nice!
A massive and detailed work, covering thousands of plants, giving a
fantastic amount of ethnological information. All uses from edible, medicinal
and dye plants, to plants used in construction, for industrial use, for
cosmetics and perfumes, magical and superstitious uses, results of
pharmacological research, plant myths, firewoods, fish-poisons, walking sticks,
war clubs, ordeal poisons, and every other imaginable use to which plants can be
put. Fully indexed by botanical name, common English name, and thousands of
tribal names. A much-used reference.
TOBACCO BOOKS
Recent anti-tobacco moralizing and legislation only point out our own lack
of knowledge and respect for this plant. The books offered below will change
forever the way you view this powerful medicine.
"It is a curious fact that while the whites took over the material
tobacco from the Indians, they took with it no fragment of the world that
accompanied it, nor were they at first aware that there was such a world...
enshrined among the whites only as a drug, as a taste, as a habit, along with
the seeking after mild and tasty forms, while the Karuk make tobacco a heritage
from the gods, a strange path which juts into this world and leads to the very
ends of magic."—Harrington, 1929.
TOBACCO AMONG THE KARUK INDIANS OF CALIFORNIA
J. P. Harrington, 1929. 284pp, 2 Pounds 9 Ounces. $34.00
This is a completely new reprint - I had the original book
scanned and enlarged so that it is much clearer and easier to read. Instead of
two pages side by side, it is one page per page. It came out very nice!
The Karuk, a hunting and gathering people of Northern California cultivated
only one plant, Nicotiana bigelovii var. exaltata. This detailed study
presents every aspect of tobacco. its cultivation, gathering, curing, storing,
pipe and tobacco-basket making (step-by-step, in great detail), customs, use in
medicine and shamanism, ceremony and mythology. The greater part of the book is
information told by the Karuk themselves, in their own language,
phonetically transcribed, and translated into their idiomatic English, presented
in two columns, side by side on each page. Thus it is not a white
anthropologist's interpretation, but the people's own ways and views that are
described. As tobacco was a part of daily life, a cross section of their lives
is revealed, from the mundane to the profound, their humor and acute observation
giving a beautiful picture of another way of living.
THE TOBACCO SOCIETY OF THE CROW INDIANS
Robert H. Lowie, 1919. 100pp, 7 Ounces. $13.00
Describes the various chapters of the Society, adoption and initiation into
the chapters, planting, cultivating and harvesting the plant, origin traditions,
tobacco songs and visions, etc., recorded by the author during his visits from
1907 to 1919.
TOBACCO: Instructions for its Cultivation and Curing. Farmers' Bulletin No.6,
USDA
John Estes, 1892. 8pp, 1 Ounce. $1.50
Basics of cultivating tobacco; sowing, transplanting, topping, harvesting
and curing. This is a new reprint - completely re-typeset
and nice and clear - much better than the old photocopy of the original USDA
pamphlet.
METHODS OF CURING TOBACCO. Farmers' Bulletin Number 60, USDA
Milton Whitney, 1898. 15pp, 1 Ounce. $2.00
Methods of curing various types of tobacco used in the main tobacco-growing
regions of that time. This is a new reprint - completely
re-typeset and nice and clear - much better than the old photocopy of the
original USDA pamphlet.
"There have always been those who attempt to control the necessities of
life for their own gain. Genetic resources have always been the common heritage
of all humanity, and we must not allow them to be exploited."—S.
Calkins, 1984.