Resources Tagged: Vegetable

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  1. Pachira glabra - Saba Nut

    Edible Portion:Seeds, Nuts, Vegetable, Leaves A small tree. It grows 17 m high. The trunk is bright green. The leaves have 5-7 leaflets. The leaves have long leaf stalks. The flowers come out at night. They have light green strap-like petals. The stamen are white and curved. The fruit is a green...
    Glabrous pachira Saba Nut Guinea Nut Guinea Chesnut Edible Seeds Edible Leaves FPI Nuts Edible Nuts Vegetable

  2. The Honest Herbal: A Sensible Guide to the Use of Herbs and Related Remedies

    Are any herbs safe, effective, and suitable for self-treatment? The Honest Herbal answers this question with clear, concise, authoritative information backed by scientific references readers can check for themselves.
    Materia Medica Therapeutic Use Herbs Vegetable

  3. Thirty Plants That Can Save Your Life

    Thirty Plants That Can Save Your Life introduces readers to the best plants for promoting wellness, preventing illness, and cleansing and soothing mind and body. To find the plants most widely and successfully used in traditional medicine, Schar researched herbal and medical lore from around the...
    Herbs Medicinal Plants Vegetable Materia Medica Therapeutic Use

  4. Herbs & Proverbs of the Virgin Islands

    1974-01-01 Arona Petersen has not only written an entertaining book on Virgin Islands herbs and the old sayings that go with their varied uses, but she has also captured a large slice of West Indian culture between the two covers.
    Proverbs Creole Herbs Virgin Islands Materia Medica Vegetable

  5. Oriental Herbs & Vegetables

    1984-01-01 Chinese, Japanese, Thai: Growing, selecting & cooking! (2 Copies)
    Vegetables Chinese Herb gardening Thai Japanese Materia Medica Vegetable Natural Medicine

  6. Small-Scale Postharvest Handling Practices: A Manual for Horticultural Crops (4th ed.)

    2015-11-20 The three main objectives of applying postharvest technology to harvested fruits and vegetables are: 1) To maintain quality (appearance, texture, flavor and nutritive value), 2) To protect food safety, and 3) To reduce losses between harvest and consumption. Effective management during the...
    Vegetable Post Harvest Techn... Post Harvest

  7. Fresh Food, Dirt Cheap (All Year Long!)

    1981-01-01 This publication tells how to garden organically and includes some recipes.
    Organic gardening Vegetable gardening Fruit Food Processing In... Vegetable Postharvest Manage...

  8. Vegetables for SW Florida in the Summer Months

    Key Resource 2009-01-01 Within a couple days after Bonnie and I arrived in Florida in June 1981 to assume my new role as founding CEO of ECHO, I began digging a garden. For an avid gardener used to the long winters “up north” this was an exciting adventure. I was going to grow flowers and vegetables year-round in the...
    Home Garden Perennial Vegetables Leafy Vegetables Garden Vegetables Vegetable Legumes Vegetable Moringa Squash and Gourds ... Urban Gardening Yard Gardens Legume

  9. Sapa: The Natural Way of Growing Food for the Solomon Islands

    1994-01-01 This book has been written with a number of aims. First, of all to help decision makers consider the best alternatives in farming, especially regarding top soil conservation and soil fertility. The second aims is to teach our people of the old and new knowledge of how to achieve the best results...
    Organic gardening Vegetable Solomon Islands

  10. Food from Dryland Gardens

    Key Resource 1991-02-01 Food from Dryland Gardens encourages gardens that serve local needs, that are based on local knowledge, and that conserve natural resources and the biological diversity of traditional crops. It was written for field workers, extension agents, students, project workers, and program planners. Both...
    Dryland Farming Vegetable Gardening