Agribusiness
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The Profitable Hobby Farm: How to Build a Sustainable Local Foods Business
$23.99 Add to cartTurn your hobby farm into a successful business
No experience in farming? No problem! The Profitable Hobby Farm gives you all the tools you need to launch a thriving hobby farm business. Based on the a
- Author: Aubrey, Sarah Beth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 01, 2010
- ISBN10: 0470432098
- Language: English
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Grass-Fed Cattle: How to Produce and Market Natural Beef
$29.95 Add to cartSuccessfully raise grass-fed cattle and enjoy the benefits of great-tasting beef and a financially stable enterprise. In this comprehensive guide, Julius Ruechel covers every aspect of raising healthy… [more below]
- Author: Ruechel, Julius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1580176054
- Language: English
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Storey’s Guide to Raising Beef Cattle, 4th Edition: Health, Handling, Breeding
$24.95 Add to cartWhether a farmer is raising one cow or a herd, Storey’s Guide to Raising Beef Cattle is the most reliable reference for ensuring a successful, healthy cattle operation. In this fully updated, full-col… [more below]
- Series: Storey’s Guide to Raising
- Author: Thomas, Heather Smith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 27 2018
- ISBN10: 1635860393
- Language: English
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The Market Gardener: A Successful Grower’s Handbook for Small-Scale Organic Farming
$29.99 Read moreGrow better not bigger
AS LOCAL ORGANIC agriculture continues to flourish, young professional growers like Jean-Martin Fortier are leading the way with their innovative ideas about how to start a farm
- Author: Fortier, Jean-Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0865717656
- Language: English
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Start Your Farm: The Authoritative Guide to Becoming a Sustainable 21st-Century Farmer
$22.95 Read moreDo you dream of starting your own farm but wonder where to begin? Or do you already have a farm but wish to become more sustainable to compete in today’s market? Start Your Farm, the first comprehens… [more below]
- Author: Polishuk, Ellen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 10 2018
- ISBN10: 1615194894
- Language: English
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Food & Freedom: How the Slow Food Movement Is Changing the World Through Gastronomy
$24.95 Read moreInspiring the global fight to revolutionize the way food is grown, distributed, and eaten. In the almost thirty years since Carlo Petrini began the Slow Food organization, he has been constant… [more below]
- Author: Petrini, Carlo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0847846857
- Language: English
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The House of Mondavi: The Rise and Fall of an American Wine Dynasty
$24.00 Add to cartAn epic, scandal-plagued story of the immigrant family that built–and then spectacularly lost–a global wine empire
Set in California’s lush Napa Valley and spanning four generations of a talented and
- Author: Siler, Julia Flynn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1592403670
- Language: English
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Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America’s Food Industry
$24.99 Add to cartNow with a new chapter on the Distribution Barons!
Best Books of 2024: “Frerick’s prose throughout is both direct and masterfully controlled, with every point supported by extensive references and no- Author: Frerick, Austin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1642834440
- Language: English
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Every Last Fish: A Deep Dive Into Everything They Do for Us and We Do to Them
$29.99 Add to cartSlippery, wet, and strange: Fish can be easier to think of as food than as fellow animals. But what do we know about these creatures we meet on our dinner table and how they got there? For the first t
- Author: George, Rose
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0393881474
- Language: English
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Feeding a Divided America: Reflections of a Western Rancher in the Era of Climate Change
$24.95 Add to cartIn Feeding a Divided America, third-generation Montana rancher and international agriculture development specialist Gilles Stockton explores the causes of what he refers to as the “rural-urban divide
- Series: New Century Gardens and Landscapes of the American Southwest
- Author: Stockton, Gilles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 15 2024
- ISBN10: 0826366104
- Language: English
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Dark Calories: How Vegetable Oils Destroy Our Health and How We Can Get It Back
$32.00 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling author of Deep Nutrition explains how eight common seed oils cause the cellular damage that underlies virtually all chronic disease, exposes the corruption that deceives… [more below]
- Author: Shanahan, Catherine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 0306832399
- Language: English
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Menhaden: A Biologist’s Thirty-Two Year Journey with the Fish and the Fishery
$41.99 Add to cartA Narrative of the U.S. Menhaden Fisheries: IndustryHistory, Fishing Operations, Product Journey, Fisheries Management, and Government Research Insights from the Beaufort Laboratory offers a well-deta
- Author: Smith, Joseph W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 690
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 9798822979635
- Language: English
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Culture of Control: Farming With the Shackles of the Canadian Wheat Board
$36.99 Add to cartIn 1935 the Canadian Wheat Board was established to oversee the marketing, handling, and transportation of Western Canadian grain. Under the CWB’s increasingly rigid regulations, farmers in the West w… [more below]
- Author: Motiuk, Ken
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 356
- Publish Date: April 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1038317533
- Language: English
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Napa: The Story of an American Eden
$21.99 Add to cartJames Conaway’s remarkable bestseller delves into the heart of California’s lush and verdant Napa Valley, also known as America’s Eden. Long the source of succulent grapes and singular wines, this reg
- Author: Conaway, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 24 2002
- ISBN10: 0618257985
- Language: English
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Microfarms: Organic Market Gardening on a Human Scale
$34.99 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of The Market Gardener – key principles for biointensive market gardening and powerful stories of successful growers who are farming profitably on a human-scale
Microfarms
- Author: Fortier, Jean-Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1774060043
- Language: English
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The Seed Farmer: A Complete Guide to Growing, Using, and Selling Your Own Seeds
$39.99 Read moreThe comprehensive grower’s guide to seed production
The Seed Farmer is required reading for any grower who cares about being part of a truly sustainable local food system.
Whether you’re interested in
- Author: Brisebois, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0865719969
- Language: English
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The Lean Farm: How to Minimize Waste, Increase Efficiency, and Maximize Value and Profits with Less Work
$34.95 Add to cartA practical, systems-based approach for a more sustainable farming operation
“Ben Hartman has revolutionized his methods, cut down his work hours dramatically, and shrunk the size of his farm, all whi
- Author: Hartman, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 16 2015
- ISBN10: 1603585923
- Language: English
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Slaughterhouse: The Shocking Story of Greed, Neglect, And Inhumane Treatment Inside the U.S. Meat Industry
$19.99 Add to cartSlaughterhouse is the first book of its kind to explore the impact that unprecedented changes in the meatpacking industry over the last twenty-five years – particularly industry consolidation, increas… [more below]
- Author: Eisnitz, Gail A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: November 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1591024501
- Language: English
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From the Ground Up: The Women Revolutionizing Regenerative Agriculture
$27.99 Add to cartAn award-winning author’s powerful exploration of the remarkable women driving transformative change in America’s food system
It’s well known that our industrialized food system has abandoned priorit
- Author: Anderson, Stephanie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1620978148
- Language: English
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Who Really Feeds the World?: The Failures of Agribusiness and the Promise of Agroecology
$14.95 Add to cartDebunking the notion that our current food crisis must be addressed through industrial agriculture and genetic modification, author and activist Vandana Shiva argues that those forces are in fact the … [more below]
- Author: Shiva, Vandana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 28 2016
- ISBN10: 1623170621
- Language: English
