Out of the Scientist's Garden
Subtitle: a Story of Water and Food
Publisher: CSIRO Pub.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Melbourne
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780643100145; 9781283156257
Subjects: Management; Business
Description: The garden is the lens through which we can explore how the world can manage water and feed itself.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Prologue: Entering the scientist's garden; Acknowledgements; Part 1: The view from our garden; The colour of water; A year in the vegetable garden; Intrigue in the orchard; Feathered thieves; The lapsed organic gardener; Outsmarting pests and disease; Flavour; Part 2: A journey through soil; The tale of Clever Clover; Soil and soil scientists; The Machingalana is talking to me; Watering grass; Grey water and the washing machine; At the end of the river; The Goldilocks principle; Part 3: Feeding ourselves; A short history of agriculture; What we eat; To till or not to till.; title: Permaculture to agroforestryThe road to Tompi Seleka; Simplicity; Saving water; Epilogue: Reflections in the scientist's garden; Chapter notes.