Agriculture category: 3369 books
by Amanda Owen
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
'Amanda Owen is like a breath of fresh air. Amanda's life is one of old-fashioned values, hard graft and plenty of love. She, like her life, is extraordinary.' - Ben Fogle
As seen on Channel 5's Our Yorkshire Farm.
From bestselling author Amanda Owen come more tales of life at Ravenseat,...
One Girl And Her Dogs
Life, Love and Lambing in the Middle of Nowhere
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
What happens when you swap 'I do' for pastures new?
When twenty-three-year-old shepherdess Emma Gray breaks off her engagement, the chance to take over an isolated Northumberland farm seems just the fresh start she needs. But while the beautiful scenery certainly offers plenty of scope for...
by Gene Woodwick, Brian Woodwick
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
Grays Harbor reigned supreme as the �Logging Capital of the World� for 150 years. Homesteaders became loggers and hired local Indians, who had logged the area�s massive trees since ancient times. Sailors, too, were hired to rig spar trees. They fearlessly plied lumber schooners across destructive...
by Iain R. Thomson
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
In August 1956 a young shepherd, his wife, two-year-old daughter and ten-day-old son sat huddled in a small boat on Loch Monar in Ross-shire as a storm raged around them. They were bound for a tiny, remote cottage at the western end of the loch which was to be their home for the next four years. Isolation...
The Seed Underground
A Growing Revolution to Save Food
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2012
There is no despair in a seed. There's only life, waiting for the right conditions-sun and water, warmth and soil-to be set free. Everyday, millions upon millions of seeds lift their two green wings.
At no time in our history have Americans been more obsessed with food. Options- including those...
by Miriam Horn
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
**Now a feature-length documentary on the Discovery channel narrated by Tom Brokaw.
“Lush, gorgeously written…A profoundly hopeful book.” —Tina Rosenberg, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award**
A Kirkus Best Book of 2016
Many of the men and women doing...
Looking for Longleaf
The Fall and Rise of an American Forest
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
Covering 92 million acres from Virginia to Texas, the longleaf pine ecosystem was, in its prime, one of the most extensive and biologically diverse ecosystems in North America. Today these magnificent forests have declined to a fraction of their original extent, threatening such species as the gopher...
Land on Fire
The New Reality of Wildfire in the West
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2017
“This comprehensive book offers a fascinating overview of how those fires are fought, and some conversation-starters for how we might reimagine our relationship with the woods.” —Bill McKibben, author of Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet
Wildfire season is burning longer and hotter,...
Bees in America
How the Honey Bee Shaped a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2005
Honey bees--and the qualities associated with them--have quietly influenced American values for four centuries. During every major period in the country's history, bees and beekeepers have represented order and stability in a country without a national religion, political party, or language. Bees...
Irrigated Eden
The Making of an Agricultural Landscape in the American West
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2009
Irrigation came to the arid West in a wave of optimism about the power of water to make the desert bloom. Mark Fiege�s fascinating and innovative study of irrigation in southern Idaho�s Snake River valley describes a complex interplay of human and natural systems. Using vast quantities of labor,...
Planning & Planting Your Dwarf Fruit Orchard
Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletin A-133
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1992
Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life.
Thrifty Chicken Breeds
Efficient Producers of Eggs and Meat on the Homestead
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2014
Do you want your chicken habit to pay for itself?
Many backyard chicken keepers are surprised to learn that they spend more on store-bought feed than they would have paid for eggs and meat at the grocery store. If you're on a budget and want your foray into poultry to save money, not lose money,...
Shaping the Shoreline
Fisheries and Tourism on the Monterey Coast
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2009
The Monterey coast, home to an acclaimed aquarium and the setting for John Steinbeck's classic novel Cannery Row, was also the stage for a historical junction of industry and tourism. Shaping the Shoreline looks at the ways in which Monterey has formed, and been formed by, the tension between labor...
by Bruce Edward Mowday
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2008
Chester County is well known for its sprawling scenic views, rich farmland, the Main Line, and mushrooms. Chester County, and specifically the village of Kennett Square, is known as the mushroom capital of the world because of the quantity and quality of mushrooms grown there. Mushrooms have been around...