Sprout Lands: Tending the Endless Gift of Trees
Sprout Lands: Tending the Endless Gift of Trees

Author: William Bryant Logan

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2019-03-26

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 0393609421

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Arborist William Bryant Logan recovers the lost tradition that sustained human life and culture for ten millennia. Once, farmers knew how to make a living hedge and fed their flocks on tree-branch hay. Rural people knew how to prune hazel to foster abundance: both of edible nuts, and of straight, strong, flexible rods for bridges, walls, and baskets. Townspeople cut their beeches to make charcoal to fuel ironworks. Shipwrights shaped oaks to make hulls. No place could prosper without its inhabitants knowing how to cut their trees so they would sprout again. Pruning the trees didn’t destroy them. Rather, it created the healthiest, most sustainable and most diverse woodlands that we have ever known. In this journey from the English fens to Spain, Japan, and California, William Bryant Logan rediscovers what was once an everyday ecology. He offers us both practical knowledge about how to live with trees to mutual benefit and hope that humans may again learn what the persistence and generosity of trees can teach.

Why I Let My Hair Grow Out
Why I Let My Hair Grow Out

Author: Maryrose Wood

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2007-03-06

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780425213803

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Being sent to your room is one thing. But being sent to another country? Morgan's boyfriend dumped her on the last day of school-it seemed the only thing to do was to hack off her hair and dye the stubble orange. Unfortunately, Morgan's parents freaked and decided a change of scenery would do her good. So they're sending her off on a bike tour of Ireland. But Morgan gets more than she bargained for on the Emerald Isle-including a strange journey into some crazy, once upon a time corner of the past. There, she meets fairies, weefolk, and a hunky warrior-dude named Fergus, and figures out that she's got some growing to do-and she doesn't just mean her hair.

Mint
Mint

Author: Teresa A. Swift

Publisher: AbsolutelyAmazingebooks.com

Published: 2022-03-23

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 1955036292

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"What a magnificent read this book delivers! From the first sentence to the very last letter, this story was a real treat. It should become an instant classic. The author's vivid descriptions of Mint's experiences elicit chills." -Dr. Morris L. Redd, Grace for Granted: Finding Extraordinary Blessings in Ordinary Settings Her slave name is Sarah May Robertson, but they called her Mint. Mint is 110 years old, and she has a story to tell about her life. The year is 1966, and she starts to write, but it's too painful to confront her past and face the truth about her life. Her story is a chilling detailed account of her painful life as a slave and a free woman. Many of her experiences she has never dared to whisper. When her grandson learns about her story, he sets out to show Mint that her story is worth telling.

Though the Young Redwood Grows
Though the Young Redwood Grows

Author: Richard Thompson

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2019-03-23

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 1728303877

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Though the young redwood grows is a supernally happy story with childhood surliness that explains how machines exist to augment man and may cast off the shackles of his physical limitations. This tale is about a capacity for empathy that had never existed in a robot before. The year is 3217 in Eddy, the coastal town where Marshall Powers lives. Marshall Powers who is a forester at Toad Island clocks out and goes to his home before receiving a call from Chester. True to life, Marshall and Chester meet a girl. They go to a party she invited them to. Marshall becomes spaced-out with a party goer whose son wakes up after going to bed. He decides to take a stand, responsibility drops in his lap, after seeing what the little boy’s Mother allows him to do. The next day at work the technical ignoramus with a linebacker’s build calls Child Welfare. Marshall talking to a social worker about Joey (Frieda’s son) puts into motion him seeing treelike machinery with a human form. The sylvan mechanism is followed by Marshall before they reach Jude, an ergonomics student.