Gardening the Amana Way /

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Gardening in Iowa's Amana Colonies is the culmination of techniques that stretch back several centuries to central Europe, when adherents to a new faith called the Community of True Inspiration formed their own self-reliant communities. As a child of parents who were part of the communal life o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rettig, Lawrence L.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2013]
Edition:First edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Amana Society.
Gardens.
Gardening.
GARDENING > General.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Horticulture.
GARDENING > Vegetables.
GARDENING > Reference.
GARDENING > Essays.
Gardening > Iowa > Amana > History.
Gardening > Iowa > Amana.
Gardens > Iowa > Amana.
Iowa > Amana.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The Community of True Inspiration
  • The evolution of communal gardening in Amana
  • Gardening in old Amana
  • Vegetable gardening in modern Amana
  • Flower gardening in modern Amana
  • Favorite plants in Cottage-in-the-Meadow Gardens
  • Creativity in and out of the gardens
  • Gardening indoors
  • Botanical names of plants in this book.

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