Agriculture category: 3369 books
Sepp Holzer's Permaculture
A Practical Guide to Small-Scale, Integrative Farming and Gardening
Language: German
Release Date: April 11, 2011
Sepp Holzer farms steep mountainsides in Austria 1,500 meters above sea level. His farm is an intricate network of terraces, raised beds, ponds, waterways and tracks, well covered with productive fruit trees and other vegetation, with the farmhouse neatly nestling amongst them. This is in dramatic...
The Beginner's Guide to Growing Heirloom Vegetables
The 100 Easiest-to-Grow, Tastiest Vegetables for Your Garden
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
Growing your own vegetables has never looked, or tasted, so good.
Are heirloom vegetables more difficult to grow than conventional hybrids? The Beginner's Guide to Growing Heirloom Vegetables debunks this myth by highlighting the 100 heirloom vegetables that are the easiest to grow and the...
Reclaiming Our Food
How the Grassroots Food Movement Is Changing the Way We Eat
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2011
Reclaiming Our Food tells the stories of people across the United States who are finding new ways to grow, process, and distribute food for their own communities. Discover how abandoned urban lots have been turned into productive organic farms, how a family-run sustainable fish farm can stay local...
Dodging Extinction
Power, Food, Money, and the Future of Life on Earth
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Paleobiologist Anthony D. Barnosky weaves together evidence from the deep past and the present to alert us to the looming Sixth Mass Extinction and to offer a practical, hopeful plan for avoiding it. Writing from the front lines of extinction research, Barnosky tells the overarching story of geologic...
Four Fish
The Future of the Last Wild Food
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2010
"A necessary book for anyone truly interested in what we take from the sea to eat, and how, and why." —Sam Sifton, The New York Times Book Review.
Acclaimed author of American Catch and The Omega Princple and life-long fisherman, Paul Greenberg takes us on a journey, examining the...
The Forest Unseen
A Year's Watch in Nature
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
A biologist reveals the secret world hidden in a single square meter of old-growth forest--a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Pen/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
Look out for David Haskell's new book, The Songs of Tree: Stories From Nature's Great Connectors, coming in April...
The Backyard Homestead Guide to Raising Farm Animals
Choose the Best Breeds for Small-Space Farming, Produce Your Own Grass-Fed Meat, Gather Fresh Eggs, Collect Fresh Milk, Make Your Own Cheese, Keep Chickens, Turkeys, Ducks, Rabbits, Goats, Sheep, Pigs, Cattle, & Bees
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
Enjoy a weekend breakfast featuring eggs, bacon, and honey from your own chickens, pigs, and bees, or a holiday meal with your own heritage-breed turkey as the main attraction. Gail Damerow covers everything you need to successfully raise your own farm animals, from selecting the right breeds to producing...
One-Woman Farm
My Life Shared with Sheep, Pigs, Chickens, Goats, and a Fine Fiddle
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
In this inspiring memoir, Jenna Woginrich reflects on the joys, sorrows, trials, and blessings discovered through a year of homesteading. With eloquent prose, delightful illustrations, and inspiring snippets of poetry, Woginrich revels in the unique charms of each season on the land. Full of poignant...
by Joel K. Bourne Jr
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
“An urgent and at times terrifying dispatch from a distinguished reporter who has given heart and soul to his subject.”—Hampton Sides
In The End of Plenty, award-winning environmental journalist Joel K. Bourne Jr. puts our fight against devastating world hunger in dramatic perspective....
Farm City
The Education of an Urban Farmer
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2009
Urban and rural collide in this wry, inspiring memoir of a woman who turned a vacant lot in downtown Oakland into a thriving farm
Novella Carpenter loves cities-the culture, the crowds, the energy. At the same time, she can't shake the fact that she is the daughter of two back-to-the-land hippies...
by John Suscovich
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Inside these pages, you will find step-by-step instructions for a mobile broiler chicken shelter for pastured poultry that is used by farmers and homesteaders all over the country.
Raising chickens on grass provides them with a healthy lifestyle and a delicious flavor. You can raise just enough...
Homegrown Honey Bees
An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Beekeeping Your First Year, from Hiving to Honey Harvest
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Discover the joys of harvesting honey from your own backyard. Alethea Morrison outlines what you’ll need to know to make it through the first year, while stunning macrophotography by Mars Vilaubi brings the inner workings of the hive to life. With in-depth discussions of allergies, colony hierarchy,...
The Honey Trail
In Pursuit of Liquid Gold and Vanishing Bees
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
A unique look at the history, culture, tradition, and environmental impact of honey
The Honey Trail is a global travel narrative that looks at different aspects of how honey and bees are being affected by globalization, terrorism, deforestation, the global food trade, and climate change. This...
Making Grasslands Sustainable in Mongolia
Adapting to Climate and Environmental Change
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Climate change threatens grassland ecosystems and herders' livelihoods in Mongolia. Herders depend on pasture and water resources for their livestock, and are thus among the most vulnerable groups to climate change impacts. However, although climate change impacts on grassland ecosystems are measurable,...