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An A-Z $27.95 The Alternative Kitchen Garden is an evolving idea of what a kitchen garden could be in the twenty-first century: organic, environmentally sustainable, resilient, and about localizing at least some of our food production. It's also a place not only for learning and practicing growing skills but also for enjoying ourselves and having fun. The Alternative Kitchen Garden is the ideal companion for anyone getting dirt under their fingernails for the first time and full of fascinating ideas and experiments for the adventurous gardener.
A Guide for the Organic Orchardist, Second Edition $40.00 You can grow fruit organically--here is the latest scientific knowledge about growing apples and other tree fruits. For commercial growers, CSA gardeners, and backyard gardeners.
A Hands-on Guide to Gardening Berries, Brambles, & Vine Fruit in the Home Garden $17.95 Packed with reliable methods and details of berry growing for all regions of the country.
A Complete Guide to Growing Fruit Trees in the Home Garden $16.95 "...packed with down-to-earth information that the home gardener and master gardener crave."
--Journal of Small Fruit and Viticulture
$25.00 Starting with the principles, design processes, and tools needed for designing, Ross Mars takes us through water harvesting, urban and rural designs, gardens, permaculture in schools and communities, and appropriate technology.
The Gardener's and Farmer's Guide to Plant Breeding and Seed Saving $29.95 In the age of biotech companies, genetic patents, and multinational seed companies, Deppe makes learning to save and breed your own seed and varieties easy and desirable for the gardener or farmer.
A Cultivator's Guide to Small-Scale Organic Herb Production $34.95 On Sale: $22.72!
A leading light in the field of medicinal herb cultivation, The Chinese Medicinal Herb Farm highlights how we can produce high-quality efficacious herbs here in the United States (for all climates) with the historical connectedness of ancient practitioners.
$34.95 Information about sustainable forestry practices that should be all but common sense.
$24.95 “The apple is a wonderful symbol of variety, the orchard an intricate example of the cultural landscape.”
Feeding the Soil on the Organic Farm $12.95 Part of the NOFA Guides Series.
Information on composting techniques from the author of The Soul of Soil, Grace Gershuny.
$19.95 Gene Logsdon combines vegetable gardening, raising livestock, pastures, grains and woodlots to create "cottage farming" for fun and profit. Logsdon's ebullient sense of humor and devotion to the land are apparent through stories and anecdotes about contrary farming.
Working with Nature to Grow Edible Crops $49.95 Creating a Forest Garden tells you everything you need to know - whether you want to plant a small area in your back garden or develop a larger plot. It includes advice on planning, design (using permaculture principles), planting and maintenance, and a comprehensive directory of over 450 trees, shrubs, herbaceous perennials, herbs, annuals, root crops and climbers - almost all of them edible and many very unusual.
$64.95
Currently on Backorder This set includes Martin Crawford's A Forest Garden Year DVD and Creating a Forest Garden book. It tells you everything you need to know - whether you want to plant a small area in your back garden or develop a larger plot. It includes advice on planning, design (using permaculture principles), planting and maintenance, and a comprehensive directory of over 450 trees, shrubs, herbaceous perennials, herbs, annuals, root crops and climbers - almost all of them edible and many very unusual.
Soil Resiliency and Health on the Organic Farm $12.95 Part of the NOFA guides. Covers:
* Historical roots of cover crop techniques
* Thinking beyond this season's cash crop (disease and pest reduction, weed suppression, cash vs. cover crops)
* What is a good rotation? (mapping the farm, grouping crops, sample groupings)
* The economics of rotations and cover cropping (organizing your work, reducing labor inputs, land and cover-crop seed costs)
Including on-farm examples and detailed appendices.
$49.95 Designing and Maintaining Your Edible Landscape Naturally is the authoritative text on edible landscaping featuring a step-by-step guide to designing your own aesthetic yet productive environment using vegetables, fruits, flowers, and herbs for a combination of ornamental and culinary purposes.
Second Edition $24.95 Drip irrigation is the best way to help any plant flourish and survive tough times, especially short or long droughts. Pick the wrong “stuff ” and you easily can feel overwhelmed. Robert Kourik’s Drip Irrigation for Every Landscape and All Climates clearly explains how to use less water yet increase the yields of vegetables and promote the growth and flowering of all plants—trees, shrubs, and container plants—in any climate, even where it rains irregularly.
A Permaculture Handbook for Britain and Other Temperate Climates $75.00 Patrick Whitefield, one of Europe's foremost permaculture teachers, has packed The Earth Care Manual with useful information, contacts, and ideas. This book is clearly and accessibly written, lavishly illustrated, and contains many case studies.
$37.95 The principle for permaculture is simple: provide back to the earth what we take from it to create a sustainable environment. The three principle aims are: Care for people; Care for the earth; and Redistributing everything surplus to one’s needs.
Ecological Vision and Theory for Temperate Climate Permaculture $75.00 On Sale: $56.25!
Edible Forest Gardens is the authoritative text on edible landscaping featuring a step-by-step guide to designing your own aesthetic yet productive environment using vegetables, fruits, flowers, and herbs for a combination of ornamental and culinary purposes
Volume I: Ecological Vision and Theory for Temperate Climate Permaculture,
Volume II Ecological Design and Practice for Temperate Climate Permaculture $150.00 On Sale: $97.50!
Edible Forest Gardens is the authoritative text on edible landscaping featuring a step-by-step guide to designing your own aesthetic yet productive environment using vegetables, fruits, flowers, and herbs for a combination of ornamental and culinary purposes
Ecological Design and Practice for Temperate Climate Permaculture $75.00 On Sale: $56.25!
Edible Forest Gardens is the authoritative text on edible landscaping featuring a step-by-step guide to designing your own aesthetic yet productive environment using vegetables, fruits, flowers, and herbs for a combination of ornamental and culinary purposes
War Stories from the Local Food Front $23.95 Salatin’s expert insight explains why local food is expensive and difficult to find and will illuminate for the reader a deeper understanding of the industrial food complex.
A Multi-Generational Home-Based Business Testament $35.00 A well-written, easily read book on raising a family, children, and running a farm for a profitable business.
$19.95 From award-winning journalist Jared Flesher comes The Farmer and the Horse, a film that digs into difficult questions about sustainability,
self-sufficiency, and why we do the work we do. Flesher’s film goes beyond the usual platitudes of smiling organic farmers talking about the
good life. Farming is hard work—especially if you don’t use a tractor.
The Complete Guide to Building and Running a Small, Farm-Based Cheese Business $29.95 There has never been a better time to be making and selling great cheese. People worldwide are consuming more high-quality, handmade cheese than ever before. The number of artisan cheesemakers has doubled in recent years, and many of the industry's newcomers are "farmstead" producers—those who work only with the milk of their own animals. Today, more than ever before, the people who choose to become farmer-cheesemakers need access to the knowledge of established cheese artisans who can help them build their dream.
An Organic Grower's Guide to Raising and Selling Cut Flowers $35.00 A beautifully written and illustrated look at growing organic flowers—for yourself or business.
How to Turn Your Yard Into a Garden and Your Neighborhood Into a Community $25.00 Gardening can be a political act. Creativity, fulfillment,
connection, revolution�it all begins when we get our
hands in the dirt.
$22.50 This 49-minute DVD shows how you can apply the principles of forest gardening to spaces big and small. Martin takes viewers through the seasons in his Devon, England, forest garden and shows them how to plan your planting to mimic the layering, density, and diversity of a forest.
Cultivating an Edible Landscape $25.00 Hart uses years of experience in farming to explain "backyard permaculture."
with Robert Hart $22.50 Some 45 years ago, the late Robert Hart had a vision of planting a small food-producing forest that could fulfill the needs of a healthy diet and at the same time create a beautiful and ecologically sound environment. Having explored Hart’s practical and philosophical ideas, this film goes on to look at two other projects inspired by the principles of forest gardening and perennial vegetable growing.
Organic Vegetables From Your Home Garden All Year Long $24.95 Fresh salad in February, tomatoes in April—can this be Maine? If Eliot Coleman can produce a four-season harvest on his northern homestead, so can you.
A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture $29.95 On Sale: $19.47!
The first edition of Gaia's Garden sparked the imagination of America's home gardeners, introducing permaculture's central message: Working with Nature, not against her, results in more beautiful, abundant, and forgiving gardens. This extensively revised and expanded second edition broadens the reach and depth of the permaculture approach for urban and suburban growers.
An Inventory of Seed Catalogs Listing All Nonhybrid Vegetable Seeds Available in the United States and Canada $26.00 Garden Seed Inventory is an essential reference for all serious vegetable growers who care about seeds and preserving our common garden heritage.
Memoir of a Seed Saver $25.00 Daughter of Iowa farmers, Missouri homesteader, and mother of five, Diane Ott Whealy never anticipated that one day she would become a leader in a grass-roots movement to preserve our agricultural biodiversity. The love for the land and the respect for heirloom seeds that Diane shared with her husband, Kent Whealy, led to their starting Seed Savers Exchange in 1975.
$14.95 Over 50 practical projects to create productive gardens using mainly recycled materials
Chain Saws, Portable Sawmills, and Woodlots $25.00 A look at woodcutting: equipment, people, and the connections to land.
A Guide to Organic Viticulture $35.00 Now for the first time comes a book for grape growers who wish to use organic growing methods to raise healthy, thriving vineyards in the backyard or on a small commercial scale. The Grape Grower distills the broad knowledge and long-time personal experience of Lon Rombough, one of North America's foremost authorities on viticulture.
$24.95 Don’t like spending money in garden centers? Think you can make it yourself for a fraction of the price or find a cheaper option? Dave Hamilton shows you how, by recycling and reusing materials creatively and making the most of what you have, you can gather all you need to grow your food on a budget.
The Definitive Guide for Organic Gardeners and Small Farmers $16.95 Growing Great Garlic is the definitive growers' guide written by a small scale farmer who makes his living growing over 200 strains of garlic. Commercial growers will want to consult this book regularly.
Animal-Free Organic Techniques $35.00 The essential guide to growing organic vegetables, animal-free.
Working with Nature to Control Diseases and Pests Organically $12.95 Part of the NOFA Guides. Includes information on:
* Basic concepts of pest control (host susceptibility, soil health, genetic resistance, ecosystem factors)
* Practical approaches (crop cultural practices, rescue treatments, special section on mammals and birds, food safety)
* Farm design for pest reduction (diversity, crop rotation)
* Unorthodox approaches (farmers out of the box)
* Identifying pests
* Crop-by-crop pests and practices
A Chronicle of Death, Life, and Vegetables $17.95 Michael Pollan calls her one of his food heroes. Barbara Kingsolver credits her with shaping the history and politics of food in the United States. And countless others who have vied for a food revolution, pushed organics, and reawakened Americans to growing their own food and eating locally consider her both teacher and muse.
The Art and Practice of Healing with Plant Medicines $30.00 The Herbalist's Way offers all that aspiring and experienced herbalists need to inform and inspire their practice. This updated version of The Village Herbalist provides a complete introduction to the herbalist's place in family and community life.
Tree Fruits and Berries the Biological Way $39.95 On Sale: $25.97!
Many people want to grow fruit on a small scale but lack confidence—fearing that they'll mangle their trees and waste their time and money. But growing fruit is something virtually anyone with space and desire can do, and The Holistic Orchard demystifies the basic skills everybody should know, from grafting to seed saving to backyard breeding.
Managing Manure To Save Mankind $17.50 On Sale: $11.38!
With his trademark humor, his years of experience writing about both farming and waste management, and his uncanny eye for the small but important details, Logsdon artfully describes how to manage farm manure, pet manure and human manure to make fertilizer and humus.
$19.95 Are you using your polytunnel to its full potential? If so, not only will it provide you with tomatoes and cucumbers in the summer, you’ll also be harvesting fresh crops all year round, even when the ground outside is frozen. You could be harvesting sweet potatoes and late celery in November; winter radish, baby carrots and celeriac in early February; salads leaves right through the winter; and even in the “hungry gap” you’ll have a choice of new potatoes, pak choi, broad beans, peas, tender cabbages, cauliflower, beetroot and more.
$24.95 Winter and early spring require a different kind of gardening than the summer months: not a lot grows at this time, but a well-planned plot may nonetheless be quite full. This book explains how to have plenty of vegetables to eat during the winter months, both stored and fresh. Through winter, soil is cool and transforms the plot into a large outdoor larder where many vegetables keep healthy and alive, ready for harvesting when needed.
A Guide for Complete Beginners $12.95 If you’ve never opened a seed packet before and want to grow your food but don’t know where or when to start, this book is for you. With advice for the new gardener, covering everything from how to plant seeds, when to pull up the carrot, and how to harvest potatoes, this book will guide you—whether you have a balcony, bare concrete, a patio, or a larger patch of ground.
$30.00 A how-to guide to growing a garden based on the model of a natural woodland forest.
The Ultimate Guide $16.95 Composting is easy, fun, saves you money, and helps you to grow lovely plants. Whether you live in an apartment with no garden or have a family and garden that generate large amounts of food and garden waste, this book shows you how to compost everything that can be composted at home, work, or school, and in spaces big and small.
A Manual for Organic Growers $12.95 Part of the NOFA Guides Series.
Organic poultry basics for egg and meat flocks.
The Complete Guide $45.00 The guru of earth ponds explains how to site, design, shape, and plant these beloved fixtures of rural landscapes--and make them fit your property and your life.
Farming & the American Dream $25.00 The Contrary Farmer revisits the state of farming in America with good sense and regret for what might have been. Along the way, he gives us good pointers for getting back to an authentic way of living in harmony with the Earth.
The Ecological Importance of Plant Medicines to Life on Earth $19.95 A passionate and solidly researched critique of the modern perspective that has cut an artificial rift between human beings and the natural world.
Organic Approaches to Modern Apiculture $35.00 On Sale: $22.75!
Long-term organic solutions for healthy beehives.
Growing Beyond the Vegetable Garden $29.95 This groundbreaking new book expands the concept of food gardening to embrace the whole garden. The new food garden is centered around the intensive vegetable garden, but doesn’t stop there. It puts hedges, ponds, pathways, arbors, lawns, roofs, and walls to work as additional growing space for food plants. Fruit and nut trees, bush fruit, edible vines, perennial vegetables, herbs, annual crops, aquatic plants, weeds, and edible wild plants are used to increase the quantity and variety of foods available with little extra work.
A Master's Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market Gardener $24.95 Practical advice, good sense, and inspiration about every aspect of organic gardening including pest control and growing for market.
$79.95 A series of 8 guides originally published by NOFA (Northeast Organic Farming Association), on organic principles and practices for both the beginner farmer as well as established farmers looking to convert to organic, or deepen their practices. Each book is 100 pages, but the information is weighty; the guides use a strong whole-systems farming theory behind their practical advice, as well as offer historical information, further resources, detailed appendices, and profiles of various organic farms across the Northeast.
A Comprehensive History and Description of Varieties for Collectors, Growers, and Fruit Enthusiasts $75.00 A book that became an instant classic when it first appeared in 1995, Old Southern Apples is an indispensable reference for fruit lovers everywhere, especially those who live in the southern United States. Out of print for several years, this newly revised and expanded edition now features descriptions of some 1,800 apple varieties that either originated in the South or were widely grown there before 1928.
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Part of the NOFA guides. Includes information on:
- -Soils, the foundation of health (manure management)
- -Crop production and grazing management (forage species, pasture management, setting up a grazing system)
- -Livestock (selection, nutrition, winter and summer feed considerations, seasonal milking, habitat, herd health, milk quality)
- -Marketing (selling fluid milk, regulations, facility and equipment, selling raw milk)
- -Recordkeeping
- -The transition to organic
- -Nutritional qualities of grass-fed milk
Featuring examples from various farms in the Northeast.
A Complete Guide to Managing Finances, Crops, and Staff—and Making a Profit $34.95 On Sale: $22.72!
In The Organic Farmer’s Business Handbook, Richard Wiswall shares advice on how to make your vegetable production more efficient, better manage your employees and finances, and turn a profit. From his twenty-seven years of experience at Cate Farm in Vermont, Wiswall knows firsthand the joys of starting and operating an organic farm—as well as the challenges of making a living from one. Farming offers fundamental satisfaction from producing food, working outdoors, being one’s own boss, and working intimately with nature. But, unfortunately, many farmers avoid learning about the business end of farming; because of this, they often work harder than they need to, or quit farming altogether because of frustrating—and often avoidable—losses.
The Case for Organic Farming $22.50 Organic Futures presents an overwhelming argument for replacing modern farming methods with organic techniques.
$24.95 The Organic Gardeners Handbook tells you everything you need to know to create a highly productive vegetable garden. Combining European tradition with American creativity, it covers the art and science of organic gardening with a depth that is rarely seen in contemporary books. There are chapters on every aspect of organic vegetable gardening, soil dynamics, soil management, cultivation, composting, crop planning, raising seedlings, watering, harvesting, seed saving, greenhouses, and much more. Whether you are a complete novice and need your hand held through every step, or a veteran gardener with a permanent layer of soil under your fingernails, you will find this book both helpful and informative. A book that will soon be covered in dirty fingerprints, The Organic Gardeners Handbook is a companion to The Vegetable Growers Handbook.
The Natural No-Dig Way $22.00 Dowding shares his philosophy, tips, and techniques that have enabled him to run a successful organic garden that has supplied local restaurants and shops for 25 years.
A Farmer's Guide to Vegetable Seed Production $49.95
Available for Pre-order (Expected Ship Date: August 27, 2012) A comprehensive manual on how to produce a quality organic seed crop for the backyard seed saver or professional grower.
The Wisdom of Plant Heritage $12.95 Part of the NOFA guides. Includes information on:
* Strengths and limitations of hybrid varieties
* Before you grow the seed (selecting varieties, saving seed and improving crops, intellectual property rights)
* Growing seed (pollination biology, harvesting, cleaning, storage, germination testing)
* Details on individual crops (amaranth, crucifers, beets and chard, lettuce, cucurbits, corn and small grains, nightshades, root veggies)
Plus detailed appendices including more info on seed cleaning, seed companies, and more.
$12.95 After reading this book, readers will not only have a different view on soil, but on weeds as well. Knowing and utilizing the energies and characteristics of weeds, as Gilman teaches, will make for a more productive garden, and less stressful gardening.
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A couple working six months per year for 50 hours per week on 20 acres can net $25,000-$30,000 per year with an investment equivalent to the price of one new medium-sized tractor. Seldom has agriculture held out such a plum. In a day when main-line farm experts predict the continued demise of the family farm, the pastured poultry opportunity shines like a beacon in the night, guiding the way to a brighter future.
From Artichokes to Zuiki Taro, a Gardener's Guide to Over 100 Delicious, Easy-to-Grow Edibles $35.00 In Perennial Vegetables the adventurous gardener will find information, tips, and sound advice on less common edibles that will make any garden a perpetual, low-maintenance source of food.
Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability $30.00 David Holmgren brings into sharper focus the powerful Permaculture concept he pioneered with Bill Mollison in the 1970's, drawing together 25 years worth of ideas into twelve simple design principles. Explains the foundations of sustainable design and culture.
$25.00 This is simply the best book that you can buy about every aspect of permaculture gardening in a cool climate.
$12.95 This inspiring book is a concise and accessible introduction to the principles and practice of permaculture in temperate climates. It explains how permaculture works in the city and the countryside, including on farms, and also explores ways people can work in cooperation to recreate real communities. Permaculture in a Nutshell is the ideal introduction to this complex subject—essential reading for those wishing to understand how a new way of perceiving horticulture can transform our relations other humans and with the Earth.
Ecologically sound living—by design $20.00 This DVD, whose aim is to inspire people to start their own permaculture projects, shows how permaculture is practiced in four very different settings: a Hampshire back garden belonging to the editors of Permaculture Magazine, including fruit trees, vegetables, bees, chickens, and ducks; a City Challenge project in Bradford close to a housing estate with 10,000 residents, tackling the problems of unemployment, environmental awareness, and backyard food growing; a community co-op in Devon, which involves a café, allotments, and local composting scheme; and a small farm in the Forest of Dean where innovative marketing schemes ensure a close link between producer and consumer, including meat production, a vegetable box scheme, and locally produced charcoal.
Stories from the New Frontier $34.95 Permaculture is much more than organic gardening. Arguably it is one of Australia’s greatest intellectual exports, having helped people worldwide to design ecologically sustainable strategies for their homes, gardens, farms and communities. This book charts a history of the first three decades of permaculture, through the personal stories of Australian permaculturists. From permaculture co-originator David Holmgren, to ABC Gardening Australia host Josh Byrne, the authors span the generations and the continent.
A Selection $29.95 This is an easy to use guide to selecting hundreds of perennial species. It is indispensable for growers and designers working in subtropical and warm temperate/arid climates, and also includes some cool tolerant species. Permaculture Plants: A Selection details hundreds of common and unusual edible, medicinal and useful plants.
Practical Steps to Create a Self-Sustaining World $29.95 The Permaculture Way shows us how to consciously design a lifestyle which is low in environmental impact and highly productive; how to meet our needs, make the most of resources by minimizing waste, and still leave the Earth richer than we found it.
$18.95 The last decade has seen an unprecedented rise in demand for organic fruit and vegetables, and each year more of us are discovering that homegrown food is fresher, tastier, and more nutritious than food shipped in from elsewhere. A polytunnel can be used as an affordable, low-carbon aid to growing your own food all year round, from crispy salads and fresh vegetables in the dead of winter to juicy melons and mouthwatering grapes in high summer.
Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times $29.95 On Sale: $19.47!
Scientist/gardener Carol Deppe combines her passion for gardening with newly emerging scientific information from many fields—resilience science, climatology, climate change, ecology, anthropology, paleontology, sustainable agriculture, nutrition, health, and medicine. In The Resilient Gardener, Deppe extends these principles with detailed information about growing and using five keystone crops that are especially important for anyone seeking greater self-reliance: potatoes, corn, beans, squash, and eggs.
Change Your Gardening Habits to Help Roots Thrive $25.00 Roots Demystified explains simple solutions for growing healthy roots and, thereby, healthier plants. The book explores the subterranean part of every gardener’s world, revealing how roots really grow while correcting common errors such as where most gardeners apply water, mulch, and fertilizer or compost. This is the first and only book in print for gardeners with such an extensive number of illustrations of garden and orchard roots. The roots covered underlie lawns, prairies, shrubs, vegetables, fruit trees, and native and ornamental trees. Practical tips for how a gardener can use this information to create more abundant vegetables, better lawns, and sturdier trees and shrubs are offered with each of the 70 illustrations. Roots Demystified also describes several ways to garden without turning the soil--no-till and surface cultivation--a plus for aging baby-boomers.
$35.00 Beef can be lean and good for you when it is not a product of the industrial agriculture machine--Salatin brings us back to small scale family farming and teaches us how to make "salad bar beef."
Organic Growing from Pot to Plot $22.00 Small is beautiful, less is more; a salad a day—but not the supermarket way. This compendium of practical methods for growing a wide variety of salads throughout the year will inspire you to grow your own, whether on a windowsill or a garden. Here is all the information you need for productive, healthy, and tasty salads. Learn the subtleties of salad seasons and virtues of different leaves throughout the year. And when your table is groaning with the abundance of your harvests, there are delicious and imaginative recipes from Susie, Charles’ wife, exploiting the fantastic flavors, color, and vitality of home-grown salad leaves.
Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners $24.95 Seed to Seed is a complete seed-saving guide that describes specific techniques for saving the seeds of 160 different vegetables. This book contains detailed information about each vegetable, including its botanical classification, flower structure and means of pollination, required population size, isolation distance, techniques for caging or hand-pollination, and also the proper methods for harvesting, drying, cleaning, and storing the seeds.
An Outlandish Revolution to Save Food $17.95
Available for Pre-order (Expected Ship Date: June 2, 2012) A journey to the front lines of food sovereignty and the quiet revolution to secure our food supply—one seed at a time.
A Practical Guide to Small-Scale, Integrative Farming and Gardening $29.95 In this book, Sepp Holzer shares the skill and knowledge acquired over his lifetime. He covers every aspect of his farming methods, not just how to create a holistic system on the farm itself, but how to make a living from it. Holzer writes about everything from the overall concepts, down to the practical details.
A Citizen's Guide to Community Supported Agriculture $35.00 In this thoroughly revised and expanded edition of a Chelsea Green classic, authors Henderson and Van En provide new insight into making CSA not only a viable economic model, but the right choice for food lovers and farmers alike.
$25.00 Foodies and environmentally-minded folks often struggle to understand and articulate the fundamental differences between the farming and food systems they endorse and those promoted by Monsanto and friends. With visceral stories and humor from his own half-century as a lunatic farmer, Salatin contrasts the differences on many levels: practical, spiritual, social, economic, ecological, political, and nutritional.
A No-Stress Philosophy for All Senses and Seasons $29.95 Doing something slowly means savoring what you do. However, in just a few generations, we've gone from eating mostly home-cooked food and gardening with mostly local resources to a fast-food culture and cookie-cutter "mow-and-blow" landscapes filled with unproductive and high-maintenance plants from afar. Sure, we've shed a lot of the menial labor it takes to put both food on the table and flowers in the garden, but at what cost to the Earth, and our own bodies?
An Organic Guide to Growing, Processing, and Using Nutritious Whole Grains for Home Gardeners and Local Farmers $29.95 More and more Americans are seeking out locally grown foods, yet one of the real stumbling blocks to their efforts has been finding local sources for grains, which are grown mainly on large, distant corporate farms. At the same time, commodity prices for grains—and the products made from them—have skyrocketed due to rising energy costs and increased demand. In this book, Gene Logsdon proves that anyone who has access to a large garden or small farm can (and should) think outside the agribusiness box and learn to grow healthy whole grains or beans—the base of our culinary food pyramid—alongside their fruits and vegetables.
An All-Natural Approach to Raising Chickens and Other Fowl for Home and Market Growers $39.95
Currently on Backorder With information on building soil fertility, replacing purchased feed, and working with poultry in the garden. The most comprehensive guide to date on raising organic poultry for the backyard farmer, homesteader, and professional grower. Harvey Ussery offers a comprehensive and practical whole-systems, integrative approach to animal husbandry, including growing your own feed, brooding at home, and poultry as weed managers in the garden.
Growing Vegetables Year-Round the American Intensive Way $39.95 Solar Gardening shows how to increase efforts of the sun during the coldest months of the year and how to protect tender plants from the intensity of the scorching sun during the hottest months through the use of solar "mini-greenhouses." The book includes instructions for building a variety of solar appliances plus descriptions of more than 90 different crops, with charts showing when to plant and harvest each. The result is a year-round harvest even from a small garden.
How to Grow $500,000 on One Acre & Peace on Earth $35.00 Solviva describes the exciting trials and triumphs of Anna Edey's journey, and offers convincing proof that we can, with today's technology and knowledge, live in ways that reduce pollution and depletion of resources by 80 percent or more, and at the same time reduce cost of living and improve quality of life in urban and rural locations.
A Soil-Building Guide for Master Gardeners and Farmers, 4th Edition $25.00 On Sale: $16.25!
The soil is the soul of the garden. This book provides sensible, focused, and passionate information for creating and preserving healthy soil. A must for all serious gardeners.
Natural Farming, Global Restoration, and Ultimate Food Security $17.95
Available for Pre-order (Expected Ship Date: May 25, 2012) This revolutionary book presents Fukuoka’s plan to rehabilitate the deserts of the world using natural farming, including practical solutions for feeding a growing human population, rehabilitating damaged landscapes, reversing the spread of desertification, and providing a deep understanding of the relationship between human beings and nature. Fukuoka’s message comes right at the time when people across the world seem to have lost their frame of reference, and offers us a way forward.
How to Use Your Time and Energy to Run a Successful Smallholding $24.95 It’s a dream come true when you finally get a piece of land or join an eco-community and start to plan your sustainable land-based enterprise. But all too often the dream is spoiled by lack of money, stress, exhaustion, and poor time management, and your work and future plans can dissolve into discord, illness, and poverty. Smallholdings provide food, home, fuel, and employment for those who run them and local, seasonal, often organic and ethical food and timber for an expanding market.
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Terra Madre People presents the farmers, breeders, fishermen, cooks, students, and academics at the Terra Madre 2008 meeting who actively support local, sustainable food production and the preservation of taste and biodiversity.
$25.00 More than twenty years ago, when Italian Carlo Petrini learned that McDonald’s wanted to erect its golden arches next to the Spanish Steps in Rome, he developed an impassioned response: he helped found the Slow Food movement. Since then, Slow Food has become a worldwide phenomenon, inspiring the likes of Alice Waters and Michael Pollan. Now, it’s time to take the work of changing the way people grow, distribute, and consume food to a new level.
$20.00 More than twenty years ago, when Italian Carlo Petrini learned that McDonald’s wanted to erect its golden arches next to the Spanish Steps in Rome, he developed an impassioned response: he helped found the Slow Food movement. Since then, Slow Food has become a worldwide phenomenon, inspiring the likes of Alice Waters and Michael Pollan. Now, it’s time to take the work of changing the way people grow, distribute, and consume food to a new level.
Confessions of a Suburban Homesteader $19.95 On Sale: $14.96!
Barbara Kingsolver calls This Organic Life "the most important book I've read in a long while." The memoir of one woman's quest to change the world by growing and eating her own food. Full of recipes, personal stories, and well-reasoned arguments for returning our diets to locally available, seasonal produce.
Using and Growing the Wild Plants of the United States and Canada $24.95 A must-have for foragers, botanists, herbalists, gardeners, permaculturists, and anyone who wants
to learn more about wild plants, this insightful guide provides interesting and valuable uses for more than 1200 species in 500 genera of wild plants found throughout North America and beyond.
$22.95 This highly practical book contains all the information you need to successfully grow more than 50 common vegetables. There are specific step-by-step instructions for each crop: soil requirements, variety selection, raising transplants, direct sowing, protection, harvesting, seed saving, and storage. After telling you what to do (and when), the Handbook also tells you why, by explaining in detail how crops grow. A book with imagination, it also discusses many unusual crops, culinary herbs, and more. It then goes on to unusual growing ideas, edible flowers, enhanced nutrition foods, additional uses for common crops, and even how to use common edible wild plants and garden weeds. There is also a small selection of outstanding vegetarian recipes. The Vegetable Growers Handbook is the companion to The Organic Gardeners Handbook.
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Will Allen’s War on Bugs reveals how advertisers, editors, scientists, large scale farmers, government agencies, and even Dr. Seuss, colluded to convince farmers to use deadly chemicals, hormones, and genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in an effort to pad their wallets and control the American farm enterprise.
Ecological Imperatives, Personal Values and Economics $12.95 Part of the NOFA Guides. Includes information on:
* Lessons from systems science (including tools)
* Assessing the whole farm (what are we managing? The people, physical and mental assets, money)
* Understanding the farm ecosystems (the water and mineral cycles, dynamics of biological community, energy flow)
* Choosing appropriate tools
* Making a framework to test decisions
Including examples and statements from practicing farmers, and more holistic resources and alternative business models.
$99.95 Choosing locally grown organic food is a sustainable living trend that’s taken hold throughout
North America. Celebrated farming expert Eliot Coleman helped start this movement with The New Organic Grower published 20 years ago. He continues to lead the way, pushing the limits of the harvest season while working his world-renowned organic farm in Harborside, Maine.
Year-Round Vegetable Production Using Deep-Organic Techniques and Unheated Greenhouses $29.95 Choosing locally grown organic food is a sustainable living trend that's taken hold throughout
North America. Celebrated farming expert Eliot Coleman helped start this movement with The New Organic Grower published 20 years ago. He continues to lead the way, pushing the limits of the harvest season while working his world-renowned organic farm in Harborside, Maine.
Second Edition $25.00 In 1985, Julian Evans fulfilled every forester's ambition and bought a wood with his wife and brother-in-law. This is his personal story of how he, his family, and his friends care for it using ancient and modern skills, and the drama of the two great storms.
A Permaculture Approach to Sustainable Woodland Management $36.95 This brilliant book covers every aspect of woodland stewardship from both a practical and philosophical standpoint. Ben Law writes from the heart after long years of struggle with a whole host of naysayers who tried to convince him by fair means and foul to give up his vision for a renaissance in the countryside.
Mid-Scale Vermicomposting of Lunchroom Wastes $29.95 Teacher Binet Payne and her students helped reduce her middle school's waste disposal fees by $6,000 a year through composting lunchroom food wastes with redworms. Contains earthworm diagrams, bulletin board materials, quizzes, a letter to parents, charts, work sheets, posters, dozens of resources, and a 30-page annotated guide.
How to Set Up and Maintain a Worm Composting System, 2nd Ed. $12.95 A new edition of the definitive guide to vermicomposting--a process using redworms to recycle human food waste into nutrient-rich fertilizer for plants. Completely illustrated instructions on setting up and maintaining small-scale worm composting systems.
Classroom Activities for A Better Environment $22.95 This curriculum uses over 150 worm-related classroom or home activities to help children in grades 4-8 develop problem-solving and critical-thinking skills. Centered around a classroom worm bin, activities integrate science, mathematics, language arts, biology, solid waste issues, ecology, and the environment.
$80.00 This filmed workshop on year-round vegetable production offers farmers and gardeners the rare chance to sit in with Eliot Coleman, one of the pioneers of the organic farming movement and author of The New Organic Grower, Four-Season Harvest, and The Winter Harvest Handbook.
The Entrepreneur's Guide to Start and Succeed in a Farming Enterprise $35.00 Starting and succeeding in a farming enterprise.
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