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Had an excellent book club meeting today, hosted by Pat....MGBUDSBOOKCLUB says thank you!   Some notes from the reading are included below.  "Clubbers", please share your thoughts. Had a total of 8 people and our group gave the book 4 smiley faces.  Lowest was 2  and the highest score was 5 (on a scale of … Continue reading Brilliant Green by Stefano Mancuso & Alessandra Viola (December Book)

No picture this month, camera isues! 8  people in attendance October book The "club" gives the book a thumbs up! one straw revolution Introduction  1970 and the humans are creating a poor food scarcity in the world Chemical farming no soil disruption organic foods might not be that expensive Fukuoka says no till confronting scarcity … Continue reading One-Straw Revolution

Book for September meeting All about fig trees for restoration In the bible maybe the apple tree was a fig tree? A must read studying the fig over a million years figs are important influenced our evolution restore rain forest stem loss of wild species limit  climate change some figs can grow over 30 meters … Continue reading Gods, Wasps, and Stranglers by Mike Shanahan

This is not in our book club reading list, but am interested in the topic.  So I'm going to make a few comments

7/15 Prolog working planted radishes farm is large/cows/pigs/snow melting use no tractors no herbicides provides food for the year (pay 2-3 thousand per year) farming transforms you deprived from the pleasure of denial Part one people like organic food slaughter a pig...had never done that before saw it shot worked on carcus Author lost life … Continue reading The Dirty Life by Kristin Kimball (21 August)

7 July Buds, Have not picked up the book for a couple weeks, but I'm just going to list a couple of talking point for discussing the seeds of hope: was surprise in the documentation that communication between trees in forest warn each other about "invading" insects Talk about seeds (3) pods that were replanted … Continue reading “The Seeds of Hope” (17 July)

Eight people in attendance Bringing to life the science and adventure of eighteenth-century plant collecting, The Brother Gardeners is the story of how six men created the modern garden and changed the horticultural world in the process. It is a story of a garden revolution that began in America. In 1733, colonial farmer John Bartram … Continue reading The Brothers Gardens by Andrea Wulf (June 19th)

In The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben shares his deep love of woods and forests and explains the amazing processes of life, death, and regeneration he has observed in the woodland and the amazing scientific processes behind the wonders of which we are blissfully unaware. Much like human families, tree parents live together with … Continue reading The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohleben (May 15th)

This is going to be MY OWN talking points for this book.  This will be the start of our monthly book review: What did you think of the book including its purpose? To start out with, the title of the book (in my opinion) didn't give much justice to what was written.  Talked about the … Continue reading The Songs Of Trees

From the Buds:   [five in attendance] (one missing in picture) Interesting and enjoyable read...especially the original Sand County section. Most enjoyable - his word pictures - descriptions His writing in beautiful and poetic.  His love and observation were best expressed in the Sand County parts.  The western parts added to the book were more … Continue reading Sand County Almanac