Downloadable PDF documents from
21st Century Greens:
Leaf Vegetables in Nutrition and Sustainable Agriculture.
This 260-page book may be downloaded for offline reading and/or printing. It is available here in PDF format. (For more information about using PDF documents, see "Using PDFs.")
Access individual PDF files from the list below:
- Front matter and cover (file size: 1.5 mb)
- Chapter 1: A Perspective On Our Food Supply (file size: 744 kb)
- Chapter 2: Core Food System Problems (file size: 497 kb)
- Chapter 3: The Potential and Limitations of Leaf Vegetables (file size: 481 kb)
- Chapter 4: Leaf Vegetables and Traditional Malnutrition (file size: 677 kb)
- Chapter 5: Leaf Vegetables and Diseases Related to the Industrialized Diet (file size: 493 kb)
- Chapter 6: Cooking Greens to Maximize Nutrition (file size: 678 kb)
- Chapter 7: Leaf Concentrate (file size: 1 mb)
- Chapter 8: Drying Leaf Vegetables (file size: 723 kb)
- Chapter 9: Fermented Leaf Vegetables (file size: 548 kb)
- Chapter 10: Leaf Vegetables In Sustainable Agriculture (file size: 741 kb)
- Chapter 11: Growing Leaf Vegetables (file size: 895 kb)
- Chapter 12: Eating Cover Crops (file size: 656 kb)
- Chapter 13: Selecting Leaf Vegetable Crops for Growing (file size: 598 kb)
- Chapter 14: Growing Leaf Vegetables Under Difficult Conditions (file size: 657 kb)
- Chapter 15: The Future of Leaf Vegetables (incl. Epilogue) (file size: 481 kb)
- Appendices (Leaf Vegetable Recipes, Glossary, Useful Latin Words for Leaf Vegetables, Seeds and Supplies, Useful Websites, Bibliography) and Index (file size: 929 kb)
Entire book (single PDF, w/ linked Table of Contents; file size: 9.1 mb)
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