| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (121 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, map. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
A bur oak book
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Bur oak book.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 115-116) and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
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 of the Amana Society, Larry Rettig pays homage to the Amana gardening tradition and extends it into the twenty-first century. Each of the seven villages in Amana relied on the food prepared in its communal kitchens, and each kitchen depended on its communal garden for most of the d. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Amana Society.
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Amana Society. |
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Gardens -- Iowa -- Amana.
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Gardens. |
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Iowa -- Amana. |
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Gardening -- Iowa -- Amana.
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Gardening. |
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Gardening -- Iowa -- Amana -- History.
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History. |
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GARDENING -- Essays. |
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GARDENING -- Reference. |
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GARDENING -- Vegetables. |
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Horticulture. |
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GARDENING -- General. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Rettig, Lawrence L. Gardening the Amana way. First edition 9781609381905 (DLC) 2013010112 (OCoLC)833381239 |
| ISBN |
9781609382193 (electronic book) |
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1609382196 (electronic book) |
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9781609381905 |
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1609381904 |
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