Tammi Hartung
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Promoting a holistic ecological view, Tammi Hartung encourages you to invite wildlife into your garden. You'll be amazed at how a variety of natural pollinators, pest predators, and soil enrichers can promote vibrant and healthy vegetables. Discover how a slug problem disappears once you've introduced a pond housing bullfrogs, how wasps can take care of tomato hornworms, and why skunks aren't so bad after all. Learn how to garden with animals, rather...
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History, literature, and botany meet in this charming tour of how humans have relied on plants to nourish, shelter, heal, clothe, and even entertain us. Did you know that during World War II, the US Navy paid kids to collect milkweed's fluffy white floss, which was then used as filling for life preservers? And Native Americans in the deserts of the Southwest traditionally crafted tattoo needles from prickly pear cactus spines. These are just two of...
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Enjoy a thriving, fragrant herb garden and use your harvest to bring beauty, flavor, and health to your everyday life. Tammi Hartung provides in-depth profiles of 101 popular herbs, including information on seed selection, planting, maintenance, harvesting, and drying. Hartung also shows you how to use your herbs in a variety of foods, home remedies, body care products, and crafts. Whether you're a seasoned herbalist or planting your first garden,...
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Die zwölfjährige Caspia muss den gesamten Sommer mit ihren Eltern in Brooklyn verbringen. Dabei hasst sie Großstädte, allen voran New York. Zu viele Menschen, zu laut, zu schmutzig. In dem Kinderzimmer des Apartments, das die Familie gemietet hat, steht eine Kommode, in der Caspia Briefe von einem blinden Mädchen entdeckt, das an der Seite ihres Botaniker-Vaters in den 50er und 60er Jahren die Welt bereiste und Pflanzen auf ihre ganz eigene Art...