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Seed Library
Our Seed Library at New River Library shares its collection of seeds with the community.
Seed packets with growing instructions can be picked up at your nearest PCLS library through our online order form.
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Earth's Garden volume 11
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Ken learns how the Tjapukai people of northern Australia construct wind instruments called didgeridoos from local plants.
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Earth's Garden volume 2
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Ken visits Holland and Italy, home of the tulip and the olive tree respectively, to learn how depictions of these romantic plants have influenced the hearts - and the pocket books - of the people there.
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Earth's Garden volume 10
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Ken sets foot on the shores of Botany Bay in Australia, as did Sir Joseph Banks more than 200 years ago, to examine the plant specimens of one of the world's most eccentric collectors.
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Earth's Garden volume 7
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Ken samples mead in a 17th century English manor and meets a young winemaker in the south of France who has learned to make Banyuls using traditional methods.
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Earth's Garden volume 5
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Ken looks back to ancient Egypt, tracing the history of perfume from the time of the pharaohs to the modern day.
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Earth's Garden volume 12
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A look back in history reveals which plants the ancient Egyptians revered and why, and the ruins of Rome and Hadrian's Villa hide sacred planet associations in architecture.
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Earth's Garden volume 1
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Ken Beattie travels to the South Pacific, where he meets people whose lives have been enhanced by the healing plants that grow in these tropical paradises.
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Earth's Garden volume 6
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Ken journeys to Australia to witness a recently discovered clutch of 65 million-year-old Jurassic plants.
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Earth's Garden volume 8
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For 3000 years, Egypt had a monopoly on papyrus papermaking. Ken meets the person who rediscovered ancient methods of making paper.
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Earth's Garden volume 13
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Ken travels to the remote island of Ovalau, Fiji in search of kava, a plant native to the western Pacific whose roots are consumed as a sedative.
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Earth's Garden volume 3
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Ken discovers the intimate relationship between the people of Malaysia and the stinky Durian fruit, as well as the passion Cook Islanders have for Taro.
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Earth's Garden volume 4
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English
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In this episode, Ken enters the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew to find the some of the world's oldest, biggest, and strangest plants - frozen in time for future use.
14) Thorns of truth
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Nearly five decades after they were swapped at birth, two women change each other’s lives
Sylvie Rosenthal is dying, and one great mistake still weighs on her soul. In 1943, as a new mother in a Bronx maternity ward, she feared for her life. What would happen when her husband saw their new daughter, whose dark hair and black eyes proved she wasn’t his own? Sylvie couldn’t bear to find out, and during a terrifying hospital...
Sylvie Rosenthal is dying, and one great mistake still weighs on her soul. In 1943, as a new mother in a Bronx maternity ward, she feared for her life. What would happen when her husband saw their new daughter, whose dark hair and black eyes proved she wasn’t his own? Sylvie couldn’t bear to find out, and during a terrifying hospital...
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Learn how to create a lovely French garden and then create delicious dishes with your produce using this easy-to-use French cookbook. In this sumptuous volume, the American master of edible landscaping looks at French vegetables and variations on the traditional French parterre garden, in which edibles are grown right along with flowers in formal settings. This book is a must-have for any gardener interested in the flavors of France. The "Resources"...
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Plant, grow, and harvest the vegetables of a century ago, and serve them up using some of the delightful traditional recipes (with modern twists) in this sumptuous heirloom cookbook and gardening guide. Replete with photographs of tomatoes, squash, carrots, beans, cabbages and many more, reminiscent of an old-time county fair, author Rosalind Creasy takes you on a tour of heirloom gardens from New England to Idaho and back to the Iowa heartland, where,...
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This vegetable cookbook and gardening guide has everything you need to know about cultivating, harvesting, and serving green leafy vegetables from around the world. You'll learn about preparing soil, when to plant, and when and how to harvest. Creasy shares her own extensive knowledge, as well as drawing on the expertise of other culinary and gardening experts. You'll find photographs and instructions on how to grow and use more than two dozen varieties...
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Learn how to create a lovely Mexican garden and then create delicious dishes with your produce using this easy-to-use Mexican cookbook and gardening guide. Rosalind Creasy, the grande dame of edible landscaping, has compiled an amazing variety of Mexican herbs and vegetables and has brought them up from south of the border straight to our dinner plates. Mexican food, Creasy tells us, consists not only of crispy tacos and refried beans, but also savory...
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The Edible Pepper Garden acquaints the pepper novice with the numerous members of the Capsicum annum species from the pea-sized, blazing-hot chiltepin to the eight-inch sweet banana pepper and gives the chile initiate inspiration and suggestions to expand their pepper repertoire. With stunning photography and extensive definitions and explanations, Rosalind Creasy, the doyenne of edible landscaping, has taken the American fascination with peppers...
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