Agriculture category: 3369 books
by Charles Walters
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Weeds, Control Without Poisons demonstrates the necessity in agriculture today for a more holistic, eco-centered perspective. The author explains what 50 years of deadly chemicals have already done to our soil and our bodies, demonstrating that this process does not work in any long-term commonsense...
by Richard Heinberg, Hildegarde Hannum
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2006
The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.
It is high time that the discussion of peak oil includes a solution to the decline in supply. Richard Heinberg conveys to us the urgency...
Stolen Harvest
The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
For the farmer, the seed is not merely the source of future plants and food; it is a vehicle through which culture and history can be preserved and spread to future generations. For centuries, farmers have evolved crops and produced an incredible diversity of plants that provide life-sustaining nutrition....
Six Steps Back to the Land
Why we need small mixed farms and millions more farmers
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Practical guidance on reclaiming our food production at a time when food security is more relevant than ever The farms that are truly productive, sustainable, and resilient are the mixed, tightly integrated and low-input farms, which are complex and need a lot of skilled people to run them. These...
Unnaturally Delicious
How Science and Technology Are Serving Up Super Foods to Save the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
The food discussion in America can be quite pessimistic. With high obesity rates, diabetes, climate change, chemical use, water contamination, and farm animal abuse, it would seem that there wasn't very much room for a positive perspective. The fear that there just isn't enough food has expanded to...
The Soil Will Save Us
How Scientists, Farmers, and Foodies Are Healing the Soil to Save the Planet
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Thousands of years of poor farming and ranching practices—and, especially, modern industrial agriculture—have led to the loss of up to 80 percent of carbon from the world's soils. That carbon is now floating in the atmosphere, and even if we stopped using fossil fuels today, it would continue...
by Celia Cordle
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Based on oral histories and farm books, this account offers a fascinating analysis of some 300 years of hop-cultivation history in the Weald of Kent, a rural area in the South of England, and in the Borough at Southwark, London. The diverse processes of hop agriculture are examined within the wider...
Nature Next Door
Cities and Trees in the American Northeast
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
The once denuded northeastern United States is now a region of trees. Nature Next Door argues that the growth of cities, the construction of parks, the transformation of farming, the boom in tourism, and changes in the timber industry have together brought about a return of northeastern forests. Although...
The New Horse-Powered Farm
Tools and Systems for the Small-Scale, Sustainable Market Grower
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
In an era when fuel is a primary concern, draft horses are seen by many as the solution to small-scale, resilient farming with a closed-loop system. Horses bring farmers back to the roots of what it means to work the land and present a viable model for a small farm that lasts, while offering enjoyment...
Food Movements Unite!
Strategies to Transform Our Food System
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
Food Movements Unite! Strategies to transform our food systems The present corporate food regime dominating the planet’s food systems is environmentally destructive, financially volatile and socially unjust. Though the regime’s contributions to the planet’s four-fold food-fuel-finance and climate...
Miscanthus
For Energy and Fibre
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Miscanthus is a promising non-food crop yielding high quality lignocellulosic material which can be used in a number of ways, including energy and fibre production, thatching, and industrial use. This book encompasses the results and recommendations arising from extensive trials and experiments carried...
by Gheorghe H. Popescu, Jean Vasile Andrei
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Agriculture represents a basic economic sector for Romanian economy with major implication on a large part of inland population. The accession to the EU has imposed major changes to the Romanian agricultural sector to achieve better outcomes and to adapt to the new economic performance criteria. The...
by Allan Savory, Hildegarde Hannum
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.
While viewing the impending threat of climate change, Allan Savory invites the audience to take a global view of the current situation of...
by Arthur D. Cromwell
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
This volume contains a guide to running a successful and profitable farm, focusing on account keeping. The management of money is one of the most important factors of farming, and this volume aims to walk the reader through what must be done and avoided to ensure fiscal success. “Farm Accounts and...