Agriculture - Sustainable Agriculture
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The Biochar Handbook: A Practical Guide to Making and Using Bioactivated Charcoal
$39.95 Add to cartWith extensive research, real-world examples, and hands-on applications, this go-to guide offers a comprehensive look at the principles and practices of biochar–and all of its world-changing uses.
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- Author: Wilson, Kelpie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1645022307
- Language: English
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Malabar Farm: Louis Bromfield, Friends of the Land, and the Rise of Sustainable Agriculture
$29.95 Add to cartFinalist, Ohioana Book Awards
How Malabar Farm pioneered soil conservation and grew the sustainable agriculture movement
Established in 1939 by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and farmer Louis Bromfield
- Author: Abbott, Anneliese
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: December 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1606354310
- Language: English
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Holy Shit: Managing Manure to Save Mankind
$17.50 Add to cartIn his insightful book, Holy Shit: Managing Manure to Save Mankind, contrary farmer Gene Logsdon provides the inside story of manure — our greatest, yet most misunderstood, natural resource.
He begi
- Author: Logsdon, Gene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 30 2010
- ISBN10: 1603582517
- Language: English
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Against the Grain: How Farmers Around the Globe Are Transforming Agriculture to Nourish the World and Heal the Planet
$20.00 Add to cartWhen famine, drought, and malnutrition plagued their communities, these farmers tried something revolutionary–and managed to nourish their families and their land in the process.
Farmers in some of th
- Author: Thurow, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: August 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1572843403
- Language: English
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A Call to Farms: Reconnecting to Nature, Food, and Community in a Modern World
$28.00 Add to cartWithin a decade, nearly half of all American farmland will change hands as an older generation of farmers steps aside. In their place, a groundswell of new growers will face numerous challenges, inclu
- Author: Grayson, Jennifer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1682688461
- Language: English
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This Blessed Earth: A Year in the Life of an American Family Farm
$15.95 Add to cartThe family farm lies at the heart of our national identity, and yet its future is in peril. Rick Hammond grew up on a farm, and for forty years he has raised cattle and crops on his wife’s fifth-gener
- Author: Genoways, Ted
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 20 2018
- ISBN10: 0393356450
- Language: English
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Biodynamic Farming and Gardening: Renewal and Preservation of Soil Fertility (Revised)
$22.00 Add to cart“Every agricultural enterprise is a self-contained, biological unit.” —Ehrenfried Pfeiffer
There have been numerous developments and advancements in biodynamic agricultural methods since Ehrenfried P
- Author: Pfeiffer, Ehrenfried E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: January 05 2021
- ISBN10: 1938685296
- Language: English
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Polyface Designs: A Comprehensive Construction Guide for Scalable Farming Infrastructure
$90.00 Read moreA comprehensive how-to manual of Polyface Farm’s signature designs–with tips, tricks, and a half century of lessons learned through trial and error
Have you wondered how to build the Polyface broiler
- Author: Salatin, Joel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 568
- Publish Date: March 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1733686614
- Language: English
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The Year-Round Hoophouse: Polytunnels for All Seasons and All Climates
$32.99 Add to cartGrowing in hoophouses reduces the impact of increasingly unpredictable climate on crops, mitigates soil erosion, extends growing seasons, and strengthens regional food supply. The Year-Round Hoophouse
- Author: Dawling, Pam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 13 2018
- ISBN10: 865718636
- Language: English
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The Permaculture Earthworks Handbook: How to Design and Build Swales, Dams, Ponds, and Other Water Harvesting Systems
$34.99 Add to cartMaximize your water harvesting potential with efficient, cost-effective earthworks
In the face of drought and desertification, well-designed, water harvesting earthworks such as swales, ponds, and d
- Author: Barnes, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 18 2017
- ISBN10: 086571844X
- Language: English
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Bokashi Composting: Scraps to Soil in Weeks
$24.99 Add to cartThe safe, clean, and convenient way to compost all your food scraps.
Bokashi is Japanese for “fermented organic matter.” Bokashi composting is a safe, quick, and convenient way to compost in your kitc
- Author: Footer, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0865717524
- Language: English
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The Two-Wheel Tractor Handbook: Small-Scale Equipment and Innovative Techniques for Boosting Productivity
$39.99 Read moreSmall but mighty — a comprehensive guide to the use of two-wheel tractors for highly productive gardens, landscapes, and farms
TWO-WHEEL TRACTORS are multifunctional, economical, practical, maneuver
- Author: Loeks, Zach
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 0865719845
- Language: English
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The Organic No-Till Farming Revolution: High-Production Methods for Small-Scale Farmers
$34.99 Read moreLearn how to use natural no-till systems to increase profitability, efficiency, carbon sequestration, and soil health on your small farm.
The Organic No-Till Farming Revolution is the comprehensive fa
- Author: Mefferd, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 05 2019
- ISBN10: 0865718849
- Language: English
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What I Stand On: The Collected Essays of Wendell Berry 1969-2017: (A Library of America Boxed Set)
$75.00 Add to cartThe indispensable writings of our foremost voice on the current ecological and cultural crisis, more relevant now than ever, in a special two-volume edition prepared in consultation with the author.
W- Author: Berry, Wendell
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1702
- Publish Date: May 21 2019
- ISBN10: 1598536109
- Language: English
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The Organic Grain Grower: Small-Scale, Holistic Grain Production for the Home and Market Producer
$45.00 Read more“The Organic Grain Grower is the best resource we’ve seen for small-scale grain growers everywhere. . . . [Lazor’s] passion comes alive in this fine guidebook’s depth of detail.”–Mother Earth News
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- Author: Lazor, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1645022013
- Language: English
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Sowing Seeds in the Desert: Natural Farming, Global Restoration, and Ultimate Food Security
$24.95 Add to cartThe earth is in great peril, due to the corporatization of agriculture, the rising climate crisis, and the ever-increasing levels of global poverty, starvation, and desertification on a massive scale.
- Author: Fukuoka, Masanobu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: September 03 2013
- ISBN10: 1603585222
- Language: English
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Silvopasture: A Guide to Managing Grazing Animals, Forage Crops, and Trees in a Temperate Farm Ecosystem
$39.95 Add to cartA system for regenerating land, storing carbon, and creating climate resilience
The concept of silvopasture challenges our notions of both modern agriculture and land use. For centuries, European sett
- Author: Gabriel, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 14 2018
- ISBN10: 1603587314
- Language: English
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Secrets of Plant Propagation: Starting Your Own Flowers, Vegetables, Fruits, Berries, Shrubs, Trees, and Houseplants
$19.99 Read morePlant propagation is a fun, rewarding, and economical way to add shrubs to your yard or multiply your collection of houseplants. With step-by-step instructions for a variety of proven techniques, this… [more below]
- Author: Hill, Lewis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 02 1985
- ISBN10: 0882663704
- Language: English
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Psychotronics and a Biodynamic Garden: How to Grow and Harvest Healthier Food Through Radionics and Dowsing
$22.00 Add to cartDowsing and radionics are two practices and procedures for interpreting and interacting with the natural world. They nurture the processes of gardening, farming, and landscaping through communication
- Author: Kuepper, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: April 06 2021
- ISBN10: 1938685318
- Language: English
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The Worm Farmer’s Handbook: Mid- To Large-Scale Vermicomposting for Farms, Businesses, Municipalities, Schools, and Institutions
$29.95 Add to cartChoice Reviews, Outstanding Academic Title
Techniques and systems for processing food scraps, manure, yard debris, paper, and more
Turning waste into wealth sounds too good to be true, but many worm f
- Author: Sherman, Rhonda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 08 2018
- ISBN10: 1603587799
- Language: English
