Agriculture
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Fair Food: Growing a Healthy, Sustainable Food System for All
$15.99 Add to cartA host of books and films in recent years have documented the dangers of our current food system, from chemical runoff to soaring rates of diet-related illness to inhumane treatment of workers and ani… [more below]
- Author: Hesterman, Oran B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 05 2012
- ISBN10: 1610391020
- Language: English
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Opium Poppy Garden: The Way of a Chinese Grower
$15.95 Add to cartA complete guide to cultivating and harvesting the beautiful opium poppy.
The opium poppy is a potent plant that has been cultivated and used for thousands of years to alleviate suffering. The use of- Author: Griffith, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 77
- Publish Date: December 09 1993
- ISBN10: 0914171674
- Language: English
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Lives of Weeds: Opportunism, Resistance, Folly
$24.95 Add to cartLives of Weeds explores the tangled history of weeds and their relationship to humans. Through eight interwoven stories, John Cardina offers a fresh perspective on how these tenacious plants came abou
- Author: Cardina, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: September 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1501758985
- Language: English
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Quality Agriculture: Conversations about Regenerative Agronomy with Innovative Scientists and Growers
$24.99 Add to cartAn increasing number of farmers and scientists believe the foundational ideas of mainstream agronomy are incomplete and unsound. Conventional crop production ignores biology in favor of chemical inter… [more below]
- Author: Kempf, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 298
- Publish Date: June 10 2020
- ISBN10: 1734844507
- Language: English
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The Apple Grower: Guide for the Organic Orchardist, 2nd Edition
$44.95 Add to cartFor decades fruit growers have sprayed their trees with toxic chemicals in an attempt to control a range of insect and fungal pests. Yet it is possible to grow apples responsibly, by applying the intu
- Author: Phillips, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: November 30 2005
- ISBN10: 1931498911
- 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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Slow Wine USA Guide 2024: A year in the life of the vineyards and wines of the USA
$25.00 Add to cartSlow Wine US is a new and revolutionary guide to the wines of California, Oregon, New York and Washington. Thanks to the help of a handful of expert contributors, we’ve selected the best wineries from
- Author: Parker Wong, Deborah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: December 03 2023
- ISBN10: 8894733211
- Language: English
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The Haymakers: A Chronicle of Five Farm Families
$19.95 Add to cartSpanning 150 years, Steven R. Hoffbeck’s The Haymakers tells a story of the labor and heartbreak suffered by five families in five different eras struggling to make the hay that fed their livestock, a… [more below]
- Series: Minnesota
- Author: Hoffbeck, Steven R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 223
- Publish Date: March 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0873513959
- Language: English
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Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman: Conservation Heroes of the American Heartland
$30.99 Add to cartA Kirkus Best Book of 2016
Many of the men and women doing today’s most consequential environmental work–restoring America’s grasslands, wildlife, soil, rivers, wetlands, and oceans–would not call th
- Author: Horn, Miriam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 08 2017
- ISBN10: 0393354873
- Language: English
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The Beginner’s Guide to Raising Chickens: How to Raise a Happy Backyard Flock
$24.99 Add to cartA beginner’s guide to ruling the roost and raising happy backyard chickens
The Beginner’s Guide to Raising Chickens makes it easy to start keeping these surprisingly smart birds right in your own back
- Author: Kuo, Anne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1638079978
- Language: English
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Humane Livestock Handling: Understanding Livestock Behavior and Building Facilities for Healthier Animals
$24.99 Add to cartDiscover how humanely handling your livestock can improve the day-to-day operation and profitability of your farm. Stressing the importance of understanding livestock behavior, Temple Grandin shows yo… [more below]
- Author: Grandin, Temple
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 227
- Publish Date: July 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1603420282
- Language: English
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King Sequoia: The Tree That Inspired a Nation, Created Our National Park System, and Changed the Way We Think about Nature
$27.00 Add to cartFrom a towering tree, one of California’s preeminent naturalists unspools a history that echoes across generations and continents. Former park ranger William C. Tweed takes readers on a tour of the Bi… [more below]
- Author: Tweed, William C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1597143510
- Language: English
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AgriHood Baltimore: Community Collaboration and Cleaner, Greener Foods: Community Collaboration
$14.99 Add to cartAgriHood Baltimore: Community Collaboration and Cleaner, Greener Foods includes the first-person stories of seventeen junior farmers, volunteers, elders, and leaders revolutionizing urban farming in B
- Author: Alvarado, Santana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 114
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 9798986096179
- Language: English
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The Suburban Micro-Farm: Modern Solutions for Busy People
$34.95 Add to cartNonfiction Book Awards 2018 Gold Winner
Foreword INDIE Awards 2018 Gold Winner (Hobbies & Home category)
Nautilus Book Awards 2018 Silver Winner (Green Living & Sustainability category)
Reduce your la
- Author: Stross, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 356
- Publish Date: March 19 2018
- ISBN10: 0997520833
- Language: English
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The Frugal Homesteader: Living the Good Life on Less
$24.99 Add to cart“Practical advice . . . from the farm field to foraging in the forest . . . a must-have for anyone looking to transition from homeowner to homesteader.”–Scott Mann, host of The Permaculture Podcast
- Author: Moody, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 02 2018
- ISBN10: 0865718938
- Language: English
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Change Comes to Dinner
$22.00 Add to cartA fascinating exploration of America’s food innovators, that gives us hopeful alternatives to the industrial food system described in works like Michael Pollan’s bestselling Omnivore’s Dilemma
Change- Author: Gustafson, Katherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 08 2012
- ISBN10: 0312577370
- Language: English
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The Bee Book: Discover the Wonder of Bees and How to Protect Them for Generations to Come
$27.99 Add to cartThe Bee Book shows you step-by-step how to create a bee-friendly garden, get started in beekeeping, and harness the power of honey for well-being.
Fully illustrated with full-color photographs througho
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1465443835
- Language: English
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Raising Butterflies and Moths in the Garden
$29.95 Read moreAn essential guide to rearing butterflies and moths in a butterfly-friendly garden.
This outstanding guidebook is for butterfly lovers and gardeners who not only want to create a butterfly-friendly
- Author: Dziedzic, Brenda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0228104203
- Language: English
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Ten Acres Enough: The Classic 1864 Guide to Independent Farming
$10.95 Read moreWhen author Edmund Morris left the Philadelphia business world in the early 1800s and bought a small farm in the New Jersey countryside, he was so pleased with the results of his venture that he decid… [more below]
- Author: Morris, Edmund
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: July 01 2004
- ISBN10: 048643737X
- Language: English
