Agriculture, Food, Botany, Ethnobotany

Researching plants, agriculture or sustainable farming or ethnobotany? Start here!

To Search for Books

Subject headings like these work well to find books in the SUNY Adirondack Library.

Medicinal plants                          Agriculture                           Watermilfoil
Wild flowers                               Farms, Small                         Fruit
Pharmacognosy                          Self-reliant living                   Aquatic plants
​Materia medica                          Insects                                 Plant ecology
​Herbs Therapeutic use               Garden*                               Biological diversity
Natural products                       Woody plants                        Botany

Freshwater algae                      Endangered plants                 Water pollution
Transgenic plants                      Trees                                    Plant genetic engineering


- Use “and” to combine two subjects, such as: trees and New York.
- Use truncation to find various “wildcard” endings: herb* will retrieve herb, herbs, herbal, etc.
- Make sure to also see the Gardening research guide!   

• Plant identification guides: The library owns many field guides: eastern U.S. trees, wild flowers, weeds of the Northeast, seeds, ferns, grasses, mushrooms and more. Search for terms such as “wild flowers” (note: it’s two words, not one!) , or a more precise search with truncation, such as “Wild flowers and identif* ”.

Agriculture Books

United Nations Book

Locavore Books

To find books about locavores, search with these phrases to find books:

Local foods
Food supply Seasonal variations
Locavores
Food supply United States
Farmers’ markets
Food Environmental aspects United States
Urban agriculture United States
Sustainable farming United States

Gardening Books

Vegetable Diseases Electronic Book

The SUNY Adirondack Library subscribes to the electronic British edition of this book. Click the book link and log in with your college username/password to read and print pages.

Tree & Plant Identification Books

Fruits of Warm Climates

Julia Morton's 1987 book Fruits of Warm Climates has chapters on pineapples, bananas, figs and much more. Purdue University offers it free online:

Botany Books

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