Parsnips in the Snow

Jane Anne Staw, Mary Swander

• Paperback | Engels | Bur Oak Book
• Interviews with twelve gardeners reveal their approaches to growing vegetables and flowers in the harsh climate of the Midwest. Lees meer

A Country So Full of Game

James J Dinsmore

• Paperback | Engels | Bur Oak Book
• Indian agent Joseph Street said it well in 1833 when he described his trip across Iowa: "I had never rode through a country so full of game." In the e... Lees meer

Iowa Birdlife

Gladys Black

• Paperback | Engels | Bur Oak Book
• From robins nesting on window ledges to short-eared owls sailing low over snowy fields, pied-billed grebes diving for fish to catbirds singing on moon... Lees meer

Iowa's Changing Wildlife

James J Dinsmore, Stephen J Dinsmore

• Paperback | Engels | Bur Oak Book
• Much has changed with Iowa's wildlife in the years 1990 to 2020. Some species such as Canada goose, wild turkey, and white-tailed deer that once were ... Lees meer

Iowa's Geological Past

Wayne I Anderson

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• An illustrated survey of the geological history of the state of Iowa, from the Precambrian through to the end of the Great Ice Age, written by Profess... Lees meer

All Is Leaf

John T Price

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• Drawing inspiration and urgency from the storied Goethe Oak tree at Buchenwald concentration camp--and from the leaf as symbol of all change, growth, ... Lees meer

The Indians of Iowa

Lance M Foster

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• Many different Indian tribes have lived in Iowa, each existing as an independent nation with its own history, culture, language, and traditions. Some ... Lees meer

Neighboring on the Air

Evelyn Birkby

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• In 1925 Earl May began broadcasting KMA Radio-960 from Shenandoah, Iowa, to boost his fledgling seed business. The station aired practical information... Lees meer

Tending Iowa's Land

Cornelia F Mutel

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• 2023 Midwest Book Awards in Nonfiction - Nature, winner In the last 200 years, Iowa's prairies and other wildlands have been transformed into vast agr... Lees meer

An Illustrated Guide to Iowa Prairie Plants

Paul Christiansen, Mark Muller

• Paperback | Engels | Bur Oak Book
• Iowa is the only state completely within the tallgrass prairie formation. Thanks to rich soil, adequate rainfall, and warm summer temperatures, hundre... Lees meer

Birds of an Iowa Dooryard

Althea R Sherman

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• Written in the early part of this century, Birds of an Iowa Dooryard is full of meticulous and witty observations of species both avian and human. Lees meer

Nothing to Do But Stay

Carrie Young

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• This folk narrative by Carrie Young is a collection of essays that remininisce on her mother's North Dakota pioneering days. Lees meer

Land of the Fragile Giants

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• Not since the early nineteenth century, when George Catlin and Karl Bodmer thoroughly sketched the area, have the rough-textured Loess Hills of wester... Lees meer

Frontier Forts of Iowa

• Paperback | Bur Oak Book
• At least fifty-six frontier forts once stood in, or within view of, what is now the state of Iowa. The earliest date to the 1680s, while the latest da... Lees meer

A Tallgrass Prairie Alphabet

Claudia McGehee

• Hardcover | Engels | Bur Oak Book
• This volume presents the wildlife of the American prairie in text and illustrations. Lees meer

Where the Sky Began

John Madson

• Paperback | Engels | Bur Oak Book
• Describing prairie restorations, this work provides an up-to-date directory of representative tallgrass prairies, prairie nurseries and seed sources. Lees meer

My Vegetable Love

Carl H Klaus

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• My Vegetable Love offers a detailed daily record of gardenng, loving, and living during a single growing season--from the first outdoor planting in ea... Lees meer

A Sugar Creek Chronicle

Cornelia F Mutel

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• In 2010, while editing a report on the effects of climate change in Iowa, ecologist Cornelia Mutel came to grips with the magnitude and urgency of the... Lees meer

Iowa's Archaeological Past

Lynn M Alex

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• Iowa has more than eighteen thousand archaeological sites, and research in the past few decades has transformed our knowledge of the state's human pas... Lees meer

Picturing Utopia

Abigail Foerstner

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• More than a hundred years ago, Bertha Shambaugh set out to photograph the Amana Colonies, the utopian religious community twenty miles northwest of Io... Lees meer

Out of This World

Mary Swander

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• When a life-threatening allergic illness demanded that she eat only organically grown food, writer and professor Mary Swander built a new life in a fo... Lees meer

The Attic

Curtis Harnack

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• In The Attic , his sequel to the classic We Have All Gone Away , Curtis Harnack returns to his rural Iowa homeplace to sift through an attic full of t... Lees meer

Gardening in Iowa and Surrounding Areas

Veronica Lorson Fowler

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• On the East Coast, so the story goes, newcomers are asked where they come from; on the West Coast they are asked what they do for a living; in Iowa pe... Lees meer

A Woodland Counting Book

Claudia McGehee

• Hardcover | Engels | Bur Oak Book
• Towering oak and hickory woodlands once fringed the tallgrass prairie of the Midwest. In a wondrous mixture of plant and animal life, big mammals like... Lees meer