Cultivators Handbook of Natural Tobacco Author:Bill Drake This book offers you everything you need to know to grow a personal crop of the finest heirloom organic tobacco, whether for personal consumption, for sharing with a family member who is trapped in the death spiral of smoking commercial so-called tobacco products, or for beginning a small business as a natural tobacco entrepreneur selling your p... more »roducts at a local farmers market or over the internet. You will not only learn the ancient techniques of Native American tobacco growers, but you'll also find extensive information on the techniques developed in past centuries by master tobacco growers around the world.
You'll discover that growing your own heirloom natural tobacco can be fun, and it's certainly easy. Even if your thumb is only the palest shade of green, this book will give you everything you need to produce an excellent crop.
I hope that this book will inspire you the reader to become a native natural tobacco grower and, even if only in some small way, help to take back for all people one of the great sources of wealth and pleasure in the world, long ago stolen by the white race from the Native Americans and later stolen by giant corporations from its rightful owners ? all people who live on and work the sacred soil of Mother Earth. If you are Native American, or are a non-Native person who understands what it means to a people to lose a critical part of their heritage to predatory conquerors and exploiters, then the simple act of growing your own Tobacco, and using it with respect and moderation, enables you to make a powerful statement. Ultimately, many such voices joined together, can bring down the strongest walls that these evil institutions have erected to protect themselves from their destiny, which is economic destruction.« less