Agriculture category: 3369 books
The Organic Medicinal Herb Farmer
The Ultimate Guide to Producing High-Quality Herbs on a Market Scale
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
A new approach to growing local medicine, including information on geo-authenticity, wildcrafting, and developing a good business plan
Both a business guide and a farming manual*, The Organic Medicinal Herb Farmer* will teach readers how to successfully grow and market organic medicinal Western...
by Jimmy Doherty
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2011
In this practical guide TV farmer Jimmy Doherty imparts his experience and ideas to show you how to achieve the self-sufficient lifestyle and add to your life whether growing for your own pleasure – or profit! Farmer, entrepreneur and TV presenter Jimmy Doherty is living proof that you can successfully...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2011
Managing biosecurity is everybody’s business. The book’s multi-site, multi-sectoral research contributes to an holistic, evidence-based strategy for managing plant biosecurity in complex contexts. The intent is to provide a starting point for all stakeholders in the biosecurity endeavor – policy...
Dear County Agent Guy
Calf Pulling, Husband Training, and Other Curious Dispatches from a Midwestern Dairy Farmer
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
“Jerry Nelson’s column comes from the true heart of the Midwest. He has the true voice, the slow twang. He knows wheat from barley. He knows hardware, he knows vegetation, he knows people.”—Garrison Keillor
In the tradition of Mark Twain and Jean Shepherd, Dave Barry and Garrison Keillor,...
by Amanda Eliza Bertha
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
The world food system is in serious danger. People are starving to death because their food is being hoarded, sold to other countries or is just not being produced. This book takes a look at the economic crisis with special attention to the world food system.
Sustainable Communities Design Handbook
Green Engineering, Architecture, and Technology
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2010
The objective of Sustainable Communities Design Handbook is to ensure a better quality of life for everyone, both now and for generations to come. This means creating a better and safer environment internationally through the sustainable use of natural resources, encouraging sustainable development...
by Alex Nkenchor Uwajeh
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Cuando la mayoría de la gente piensa en la agricultura, se imagina grandes granjas que ocupan enormes extensiones de terreno, piensan en miles de reses vagando por un paisaje de verdes praderas, rebosantes de doradas espigas, que esperan la llegada en cadena de una carísima maquinaria agrícola...
by Alex Nkenchor Uwajeh
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Si estás preparado para dejar de lado la vida de locos planteada por las grandes multinacionales y pasar a ser tu propio jefe, el sector agropecuario es una opción interesante. Obviamente hay trabajo que hacer y riesgos a los que enfrentarse a la hora de empezar, pero la recompensa supera claramente los riesgos que has de correr.
How to Survive Civilization
Reconstruction by Way of The Soil
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
They have already come to learn that this age, so distinguished for its scientific progress and its widespread knowledge has, in spite of these advantages, completely failed in its promise of peace and prosperity. Even in such vital social problems as feeding and employment, it has failed and failed...
Grass Productivity
An Introduction to Rational Grazing
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
SIMPLE questions often help us to understand problems better; and I think it indispensable, at the beginning of this work, to ask a question which appears simple in the extreme:
“What is grazing?”
The answer is generally as follows:
“Causing grass to be eaten by an animal.”...
Healthy Living on a Small Farm
A Manual of Rural Sanitation and Hygiene
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
What a pity it is that the young will not learn from the experience of those who have gone before them!
Could they only do so, how much suffering and woe could be avoided in this world. Unfortunately, however, there are few men so constituted that they are willing to be guided by the experience...
Soil Fertility, Animal Health
With "The Loss of Soil Organic Matter and Its Restoration
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
Nature works and has been working for a billion and a half years—ever since there were living things on earth. This is important. We talk of controlling nature, but any wise farmer or stockman knows that nature makes the rules for us to learn and follow, if we can. In short, the ecologist is in...
The Vegetable Garden
What, When, and How to Plant
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
Perhaps the most characteristic feature of Northern and Eastern farms is the home vegetable garden. Even where no orchard has been planted, and where the ornamental surroundings of the home have been neglected, a fairly well-kept garden in which are grown a number of the staple kinds of vegetables...
by Sharon Fullen
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
A business plan precisely defines your business, identifies your goals and serves as your firm's resume. The importance of a comprehensive, thoughtful business plan cannot be over emphasized. Much hinges on it, including outside funding and credit from suppliers.