Many Hands Make a Farm By Jack Kittredge and Julie Rawson
Many Hands Make a Farm: 47 years of Questioning Authority, Feeding a Community, and Building an Organic Movement By Jack Kittredge and Julie Rawson Chelsea Green Publishing Reading […]
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Homestead Tsunami By Joel Salatin
Homestead Tsunami: Good for Country, Critters, and Kids By Joel Salatin Polyface When I mentioned the title of Joel Salatin’s new book to a friend, he asked “Why […]
What Your Food Ate By David R. Montgomery & Anne Biklé
What Your Food Ate: How to Heal Our Land and Reclaim Our Health By David R. Montgomery and Anne Biklé W.W. Norton & Company Montgomery and Biklé provide […]
Fifty Years of Biodynamic Farming
Fifty Years of Biodynamic Farming: Essays From the Field Henning K. Sehmsdorf S&S Homestead Press Henning Sehmsdorf’s Fifty Years of Biodynamic Farming: Essays From the Field is a […]
For the Love of Soil By Nicole Masters
For the Love of Soil: Strategies to Regenerate Our Food Production Systems By Nicole Masters Independently published This educational and enjoyable book is written in an endearing story […]
Gabe Brown Regenerative Agriculture
Dirt to Soil: One Family’s Journey into Regenerative Agriculture By Gabe Brown Chelsea Green Publishing To say that Gabe Brown is larger than life is an understatement; it […]
Three books by Charles Dowding
How to Create a New Vegetable Garden: Producing a Beautiful and Fruitful Garden from Scratch UIT Cambridge Charles Dowding’s Vegetable Course Frances Lincoln Publishers Organic Gardening – The […]
Sleep Tight Farm By Eugenie Doyle
Sleep Tight Farm: A Farm Prepares for Winter By Eugenie Doyle Becca Stadtlander, Illustrator Chronicle Books (Ages: 2-7) This delightful and colorful picture book lays out all the […]
All the Places to Love By Patricia MacLachlan
All the Places to Love Book by Patricia MacLachlan Mike Wimmer, Illustrator HarperCollins (Ages: 2-7) This picture book encompasses the beauty and simplicity of family life on a […]
Revisioning Food, Farm and Forest
Revisioning Food, Farm and Forest: The Badges of Meadows Bee By Rick Veitch Meadows Bee Farm This comic-book-style book was written to showcase the sustainable agriculture program designed […]
Ancestral Living for Families By Cory and Jabrielle Troup
Ancestral Living for Families By Cory and Jabrielle Troup LivingAncestrally.com Ancestral Living for Families is an easy-to-use, thirty-lesson health curriculum—what I consider a sort of “Wise Traditions handbook” […]
Malabar Farm by Anneliese Abbott
Malabar Farm: Louis Bromfield, Friends of the Land, and the Rise of Sustainable Agriculture By Anneliese Abbott Kent State University Press The Malabar Farm was the Polyface Farm […]
The Regenerative Growers Guide to Garden Amendments By Nigel Palmer
The Regenerative Growers Guide to Garden Amendments: Using Locally Sourced Materials to Make Mineral and Biological Extracts and Ferments By Nigel Palmer Chelsea Green Publishing Soil life is […]
Dr. Paul Dettloff’s Complete Guide to Raising Animals Organically by Paul Dettloff
Dr. Paul Dettloff’s Complete Guide to Raising Animals Organically: Natural Ways of Farming, Feeding and Treating Cattle and Other Ruminants By Paul Dettloff with Megan Dettloff-Meyer Acres USA […]
Agricultural Policy in Disarray
Agricultural Policy in Disarray Vincent H. Smith, Joseph W. Glauber, and Barry K. Goodwin, Editors American Enterprise Institute Imagine being an investigative journalist tasked with digging into the […]
Fibershed By Rebecca Burgess
Fibershed: Growing a Movement of Farmers, Fashion Activists, and Makers for a New Textile Economy By Rebecca Burgess with Courtney White Chelsea Green Publishing A few years ago, […]
Miracle on Montgomery Farm by Landis and Shelly
Miracle on Montgomery Farm: The Almost True Story Of How An Orphaned Calf And A Crippled Lamb Helped Save The Family Farm By Cynthia K. Landis and Michelle […]
The Frugal Homesteader By John Moody
The Frugal Homesteader By John Moody New Society Publishers More and more Americans are becoming dissatisfied with the routine of working a meaningless job just to collect a […]
Nature’s Garden By Samuel Thayer
Nature’s Garden: A Guide to Identifying, Harvesting, and Preparing Edible Wild Plants By Samuel Thayer Forager’s Harvest With spring just around the corner (at least as I write […]
Silvopasture by Steve Gabriel
Silvopasture: A Guide to Managing Grazing Animals, Forage Crops, and Trees in a Temperate Farm Ecosystem By Steve Gabriel Chelsea Green Publishing Our farm consists of thirty-five […]
Big Chicken By Maryn McKenna
Big Chicken: The Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World EatsBy Maryn McKennaNational Geographic A decade ago, I remember picking up The Omnivore’s Dilemma […]
The Lean Farm by Ben Hartman
The Lean Farm by Ben Hartman Chelsea Green Publishing The standard American paradigm for success is to keep getting bigger. That’s the theory. In practice what seems to […]
Modified by Caitlin Shetterfly
Modified: GMOs and the Threat to Our Food, Our Land, Our Future by Caitlin Shetterfly G. P. Putnam’s Sons Around 90 percent of food seeds are owned by […]
The Green Revolution Delusion by Walt Davis & Tony Winslett
The Green Revolution Delusion: A False Promise Written and published by Walt Davis & Tony Winslett The term “green revolution” can be a little confusing because it sounds […]
The Art and Science of Grazing by Sarah Flack
The Art and Science of Grazing by Sarah Flack Chelsea Green With the growing interest in moving animals back to their natural diets, especially pasture and other such […]
One Straw Revolutionary by Larry Korn
One Straw Revolutionary: The Philosophy and Work of Masanobu Fukuoka by Larry Korn Chelsea Green There are many approaches to farming—organic, biodynamic, permaculture, hydroponic, aquaponic, chemical factory farming, […]
Fields of Farmers By Joel Salatin
Fields of Farmers: Interning, Mentoring, Partnering, Germinating By Joel Salatin Polyface Farms, Inc. All of us admire Joel Salatin for his pioneering work in pasture-based, multi-species agriculture. As […]
Miraculous Abundance by Perrine and Charles Hervé-Gruyer
Miraculous Abundance: One Quarter Acre, Two French Farmers, and Enough Food to Feed the World Perrine and Charles Hervé-Gruyer Chelsea Green Publishing Some books engage the mind. Others […]
Beyond Biotechnology by Holdrege &Talbott
Beyond Biotechnology: The Barren Promise of Genetic Engineering Craig Holdrege & Steve Talbott University Press of Kentucky Before reading this book I was under the impression that I […]
Intelligent Gardener by Steve Solomon
The Intelligent Gardener: Growing Nutrient-Dense Food Steve Solomon with E. Reinheimer New Society Publishers On my shelf with many other gardening books The Intelligent Gardener stands tall, providing […]
Farm as Ecosystem by Jerry Brunetti
The Farm as Ecosystem: Tapping Nature’s Reserve—Biology, Geology, Diversity Jerry Brunetti Acres USA Mycorrhizal fungi are mutualistic fungi that grow among the root systems of plants. This mutualistic […]
CAFO Reader by Daniel Imhoff
The CAFO Reader: The Tragedy of Industrial Animal Factories Edited by Daniel Imhoff Published by The Foundation for Deep Ecology in collaboration with Watershed Media, first edition 2010 […]
Biggest Estate on Earth By Bill Gammage
The Biggest Estate on Earth How Aborigines Made Australia By Bill Gammage Allen & Unwin When the Europeans came to Australia, they were amazed at what they found―a […]
Gaining Ground by Forrest Pritchard
Gaining Ground: A Story of Farmers Markets, Local Food and Saving the Family Farm by Forrest Pritchard Pritchard is a seventh generation farmer from the Shenandoah Valley who […]
Tending the Wild by M. Kat Anderson
Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California’s Natural Resources by M. Kat Anderson University of California Press, 2006 When the early European explorers and […]
Son of a Farmer, Child of the Earth by Eric Herm
Son of a Farmer, Child of the Earth by Eric Herm Dreamriver Press, 2010 Eric Herm grew up on a cotton farm in Texas and now is a […]
Folks, This Ain’t Normal by Joel Salatin
Folks, This Ain’t Normal: A Farmer’s Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World Hachette Book Group, 2011 By Joel Salatin Joel Salatin is well known […]
Small-Scale Poultry Flock by Harvey Ussery
The Small-Scale Poultry Flock by Harvey Ussery Chelsea Green Publishing, 2011 The foreword to The Small-Scale Poultry Flock is written by Joel Salatin, which is always a good way to start […]
Sheer Ecstacy of Being a Lunatic Farmer by Joel Salatin
The Sheer Ecstasy of Being a Lunatic Farmer By Joel Salatin Polyface Farm, Inc. 2010 Environmentalism is important and also controversial. We have choices. We can look for […]
Call of the Land by Steven McFadden
The Call of the Land – An Agrarian Primer for the 21st Century By Steven McFadden NorLightsPress We often hear the claim, touted as a well-established fact, that […]
Ten Acres is Enough by Edmund Morris
Ten Acres is Enough: How a Very Small Farm Can Keep a Very Large Family Edmund Morris Review Press, 2009 First published in 1867, this reprint offers a […]
Corrupt to the Core By Shiv Chopra
A Thumbs Up Book Review Corrupt to the Core Memoirs of a Health Canada Whistleblower By Shiv Chopra KOS Publishing, 2008 Review by Tim Boyd Most of our […]
Everything I Want to Do is Illegal by Joel Salatin
A Thumbs Up Book Review Everything I Want to Do is Illegal: War Stories From the Local Food Front By Joel Salatin Polyface Publications, 2007 Reviewed by Katherine […]
Seeds of Deception by Jeffrey Smith
A Thumbs Up Book Review Seeds of Deception By Jeffrey Smith Yes! Books, 2003 Review by Sally Fallon “The Washington Post reported that mice, usually happy to munch […]
Stolen Harvest by Vandana Shiva
A Thumbs Up Book Review Stolen Harvest By Vandana Shiva Review by Sally Fallon “Over the past two decades every issue I have been engaged in as an […]