Growing Hybrid Hazelnuts: The New Resilient Crop for a Changing Climate Contributor(s): Rutter, Philip (Author), Wiegrefe, Susan (Author), Rutter-Daywater, Brandon (Author) |
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ISBN: 1603585346 ISBN-13: 9781603585347 Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Company OUR PRICE: $37.95 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 2015 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Technology & Engineering | Agriculture - Organic - Gardening | Trees - Gardening | Organic |
Dewey: 634.54 |
LCCN: 2014039561 |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 7.2" W x 9.7" (1.40 lbs) 272 pages |
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Publisher Description: Civilization is facing global threats like never before. Climate instability. Food insecurity. The endangered family farm. Water pollution and scarcity. Mass extinction. Converting agricultural land into more secure, climate-stabilizing, water-filtering, wildlife-harboring farms would be positively transformative. Luckily, there is a way, currently under development, to do just this in many temperate climates: hybrid hazelnuts. - The historical use of hazels as a staple food in Europe and Asia; - The nutrient composition of the crop; - The benefits of woody agriculture and the superior productivity of these hazels; - Site requirements: slope, soils, soil tests; - Planting and the establishment period; - Managing the productive plantation, including maintaining biodiversity; - When to harvest, and harvesting options (hand or machine); - Processing, from harvest to market: drying, husking, cleaning, sizing, cleaning, roasting; - Value-added options (oil, meal, nut butters); - Co-products and their values (wood, shells, husks, sub food-grade nuts, biodiesel); - The state of the world hazel market, and more |
Contributor Bio(s): Rutter, Philip: - Philip Rutter is the chief scientist, founder, and CEO of Badgersett Research Farm; founding president of The American Chestnut Foundation; and past president of the Northern Nut Growers Association. He is an evolutionary ecologist, with a Masters and "ABD" (All But Dissertation of PhD) in zoology, with a minor in animal behavior. At one point he escaped from academia, when he discovered it was not his cup of cappuccino. With a parasitologist PhD advisor, he is deeply trained in the evolution of diseases and symbiotic systems. Wiegrefe, Susan: -Dr. Susan Wiegrefe is Badgersett's research associate. She has a PhD in plant breeding and plant genetics and taught courses in plant propagation and nursery management for four years at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls. Co-incorporator and past president of the North American branch of The Maple Society, her latest personal endeavor is as the owner and operator of Prairie Plum Farm, where she raises Babydoll sheep, fruit, and nuts, and soon will include an aquaponic vegetable/tilapia system. In her spare time she hangs out with her two Havanese dogs, when she's not spinning or making cheese and beer. Rutter-Daywater, Brandon: -Dr. Brandon Rutter-Daywater grew up on Badgersett Farm, eating some dirt |