Carving Out A Living On The Land

Author : Emmet Van Driesche
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 9781603588263

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Carving Out a Living on the Land by Emmet Van Driesche Pdf

When he first envisioned becoming a farmer, author Emmet Van Driesche never imagined his main crop would be Christmas trees, nor that such a tree farm could be more of a managed forest than the conventional grid of perfectly sheared trees. Carving Out a Living on the Land tells the story of how Van Driesche navigated changing life circumstances, took advantage of unexpected opportunities, and leveraged new and old skills to piece together an economically viable living, while at the same time respecting the land's complex ecological relationships. From spoon carving to scything, coppicing to wreath-making, Carving Out a Living on the Land proves that you don't need acres of expensive bottomland to start your land-based venture, but rather the creativity and vision to see what might be done with that rocky section or ditch or patch of trees too small to log. You can lease instead of buy; build flexible, temporary structures rather than sink money into permanent ones; and take over an existing operation rather than start from scratch. What matters are your unique circumstances, talents, and interests, which when combined with what the land is capable of producing, can create a fulfilling and meaningful farming life.

Author : Brian Belcher,Bruce M Campbell,Anthony Cunningham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781136570162

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Carving Out a Future by Brian Belcher,Bruce M Campbell,Anthony Cunningham Pdf

Very little has yet been written about the cultural or economic contributions of woodcarving to people's livelihoods or the consequences of felling hardwood and softwood trees for the international woodcarving trade. Carving Out a Future is the first examination of this trade and its critical links to rural livelihoods, biodiversity, conservation, forestry and the international trade regime. A range of case studies from Australia, Bali, India,Africa and Mexico provides a lens for examining the critical issues relating to the significant impacts of woodcarving on forests, conservation efforts, the need to promote sustainable rural livelihoods and efforts to promote trade so that skilled artisans in developing countries get a fair economic return. Livelihoods, Carving and Conservation * Global Overview * The Case of Woodcarving in Kenya * Drums and Hornbills * Sculpture and Identity * Carving Wood in Southern Zimbabwe * The Kiaat Woodcrafters of Bushbuckridge, South Africa * Carvers, Conservation and Certification in India * Colour, Sustainability and Market Sense in Bali * Aboriginal Woodcarvers in Australia * BurseraWoodcarving in Oaxaca, Mexico * Linaloe Wood Handicrafts * Learning from a Comparison of Cases * Carving, Sustainability and Scarcity * Certification of Woodcarving * Planning for Woodcarving in the 21st Century *

Author : A. B. Cunningham,Bruce Morgan Campbell,Brian Murray Belcher,Unesco,Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Publisher : Earthscan
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Wood-carving industry
ISBN : 9781844070459

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Carving Out a Future by A. B. Cunningham,Bruce Morgan Campbell,Brian Murray Belcher,Unesco,Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Pdf

Very little has yet been written about the cultural or economic contributions of woodcarving to people's livelihoods or the consequences of felling hardwood and softwood trees for the international woodcarving trade. Carving Out a Future is the first examination of this trade and its critical links to rural livelihoods, biodiversity, conservation, forestry and the international trade regime. A range of case studies from Australia, Bali, India,Africa and Mexico provides a lens for examining the critical issues relating to the significant impacts of woodcarving on forests, conservation efforts, the need to promote sustainable rural livelihoods and efforts to promote trade so that skilled artisans in developing countries get a fair economic return.Livelihoods, Carving and Conservation * Global Overview * The Case of Woodcarving in Kenya * Drums and Hornbills * Sculpture and Identity * Carving Wood in Southern Zimbabwe * The Kiaat Woodcrafters of Bushbuckridge, South Africa * Carvers, Conservation and Certification in India * Colour, Sustainability and Market Sense in Bali * Aboriginal Woodcarvers in Australia * BurseraWoodcarving in Oaxaca, Mexico * Linaloe Wood Handicrafts * Learning from a Comparison of Cases * Carving, Sustainability and Scarcity * Certification of Woodcarving * Planning for Woodcarving in the 21st Century *

Author : A. L. Maraspini
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783111543222

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The study of an Italian village by A. L. Maraspini Pdf

To celebrate the 270th anniversary of the De Gruyter publishing house, the company is providing permanent open access to 270 selected treasures from the De Gruyter Book Archive. Titles will be made available to anyone, anywhere at any time that might be interested. The DGBA project seeks to digitize the entire backlist of titles published since 1749 to ensure that future generations have digital access to the high-quality primary sources that De Gruyter has published over the centuries.

Author : LT. COL. DAVID K. SWENDIMAN
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781387926961

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Alaska Ranger Training by LT. COL. DAVID K. SWENDIMAN Pdf

Author : Jack A. Sobon
Publisher : Storey Publishing, LLC
Page : 659 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781635860016

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Hand Hewn by Jack A. Sobon Pdf

Hand Hewn is a gorgeous celebration of the traditions and artistry of timber-frame building, a 7,000-year-old craft that holds an enduring attraction for its simple elegance, resilience, and the warmth of the wood. Internationally renowned timber-frame architect and craftsman Jack A. Sobon offers a fascinating look at how the natural, organic forms of trees become the framework for a home, with profiles of the classic tools he uses to hand hew and shape each timber and explanations of the clever engineering of the wooden joinery connecting the timbers, without a single nail. Inspiring photos of Sobon’s original interior home designs, as well as historical examples of long-lived structures in Europe and North America, make this a compelling tribute to the lasting value of artisanal craftsmanship and a thoughtful, deliberate approach to designing buildings. This publication conforms to the EPUB Accessibility specification at WCAG 2.0 Level AA.

Author : Christopher Dyer
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300090604

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Making a Living in the Middle Ages by Christopher Dyer Pdf

The period covered here saw dramatic alterations in the state of the economy; and this account begins with the forming of villages, towns, networks of exchange and the social hierarchy in the ninth and tenth centuries, and ends with the inflation and population rise of the sixteenth century.".

Author : Armand Spielman,Michael Travis
Publisher : Publication Consultants
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781594336096

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The Landmen by Armand Spielman,Michael Travis Pdf

Armand Spielman had no idea of the overwhelming task before him! It was March 1969 and Armand had accepted a temporary position as a landman for the company that would build the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System. His task–acquire the project right-of-way so that crude oil would flow from the oil-producing fields of Prudhoe Bay to the ice-free port of Valdez where it would be shipped to west-coast refineries. Later, realizing the daunting task at hand, Armand recruited his long-time friend Jay Sullivan. Jay assembled an unlikely group of men who proved that ingenuity, perseverance, and a bit of naivety could get the job done. This is their story–the struggles and obstacles overcome to obtain the land needed to build the great Alaskan pipeline.

Author : James Brewer Stewart
Publisher : Univ of Massachusetts Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Africans
ISBN : 1558497404

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Venture Smith and the Business of Slavery and Freedom by James Brewer Stewart Pdf

The family, determined to honor the bicentennial of their founding ancestor's death by discovering everything possible about his life, opened burial plots in the hope of recovering DNA for genealogical tracing. What began as a scientific inquiry into African origins rapidly evolved into an interdisciplinary collaboration between historians, literary analysts, geographers, genealogists, anthropologists, political philosophers, genomic biologists, and, perhaps most revealingly, a poet. Their common goal has been to reconstruct the life of an extraordinary African American and to assay its implications for the sprawling, troubled eighteenth-century world of racial exploitation over which he triumphed. From publisher description.

Author : Timothy P. Wickham-Crowley
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 0691023360

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Guerrillas and Revolution in Latin America by Timothy P. Wickham-Crowley Pdf

In this comparative study of the guerrilla movements of Latin America, the author explores the origins and outcomes of rural insurgencies in cases since 1956. Focusing on the personal backgrounds of guerrilla leaders, the book explores why some groups acquired greater military strength than others.

Author : Walter A. Hazen
Publisher : Good Year Books
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1999-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 0673586529

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Reconstruction to 1900 by Walter A. Hazen Pdf

Educational resource for teachers, parents and kids!

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1925
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:319510028021641

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The Wide World Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Richard Parker
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781605987149

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Lone Star Nation by Richard Parker Pdf

To most Americans, Texas has been that love-it-or-hate it slice of the country that has sparked controversy, bred presidents, and fomented turmoil from the American Civil War to George W. Bush. But that Texas is changing—and it will change America itself.Richard Parker takes the reader on a tour across today's booming Texas, an evolving landscape that is densely urban, overwhelmingly Hispanic, exceedingly powerful in the global economy, and increasingly liberal. This Texas will have to ensure upward mobility, reinvigorate democratic rights, and confront climate change—just to continue its historic economic boom. This is not the Texas of George W. Bush or Rick Perry.Instead, this is a Texas that will remake the American experience in the twenty-first century—as California did in the twentieth—with surprising economic, political, and social consequences. Along the way, Parker analyzes the powerful, interviews the insightful, and tells the story of everyday people because, after all, one in ten Americans in this century will call Texas something else: Home.

Author : Nancy C. Unger
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199735068

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Beyond Nature's Housekeepers by Nancy C. Unger Pdf

This book highlights the unique and complex role women have played in the shaping of the American environment from pre-Columbian Native Americans to present day environmental justice activists.

Author : Rajshahi University. Institute of Bangladesh Studies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Bangladesh
ISBN : UOM:39015078207977

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The Journal of the Institute of Bangladesh Studies by Rajshahi University. Institute of Bangladesh Studies Pdf