Agriculture category: 3369 books

“The Practical Bee-Keeper” is a complete and comprehensive guide to bee-keeping, containing chapters on everything from the natural history and society of beers, to setting up and managing a successful apiary. Although old, this profusely-illustrated guide contains information still relevant for...

This vintage book contains a complete guide to farming fish, with information on starting out, creating ponds and lakes, nutrition, spawning, hatching, and many other related aspects. With simple instructions and helpful illustrations, “Fish Farming; For Pleasure And Profit” will be of utility...

Farm lands are each year being brought closer to markets by steam and electric roads; telephone and telegraphic wires give immediate service; and the daily distribution of mails brings the producer into close touch with the consumer. The day of isolation and seclusion has passed, and the farmer is...

This book deals with all aspects of goat culture, from breeding to feeding, together with the care and treatment of the milk and the making of butter and cheese. The author is well known for her writings and broadcast on the subject, for she draws from a thorough practical knowledge and a lifetime's...

One farm. Two worlds. Three generations. Fuelled by dreams of a rural idyll, Lorna Sixsmith and her husband swap the 9 to 5 for a return to her family's ancestral farm at Garrendenny. They love the fields and lanes of their corner of Ireland where their black and white herd flourishes,...

Roger Evans, everyone’s favourite dairy and poultry farmer, is back with his daily account of rural life, full of laughter, grumbles and witty observations about what makes life tick in the real countryside. From his own farmyard, or looking down on his village from his tractor, or on a stool in the local pub, Roger tells it like it is.

New House Farm is a small dairy farm of 140 acres in Tytherington, Gloucestershire. Run by Bill Cornock and his sons, Richard and Tom, it has been in the family since 1822. In a beautiful and diverse collection of photographs, A Year on a Dairy Farm faithfully captures the day-to-day workings of a...

Snow Leopards: Biodiversity of the World: Conservation from Genes to Landscapes is the only comprehensive work on the biology, behavior, and conservation status of the snow leopard, a species that has long been one of the least studied, and hence poorly understood, of the large cats. Breakthroughs...

Every society expresses its fundamental values and hopes in the ways it inhabits its landscapes. In this literate and wide-ranging exploration, Eric T. Freyfogle raises difficult questions about America's core values while illuminating the social origins of urban sprawl, dwindling wildlife habitats,...

The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.​ At the 36th Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures Mary Berry–Executive Director of The Berry Center–moderated a conversation between Berry...

The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.​ All of us together—city people and country people—have to eat. The most significant aspect of the agricultural crisis, Wendell Berry argues,...

More Tree Talk is an insightful and compelling look at the human dimension of the challenges facing forestry. First published in 1981, Tree Talk was widely hailed as the meven-handed and well-written introduction to forestry issues available. More Tree Talk is an entirely revised edition of that classic...

David Kline has been called a “twentieth-century Henry David Thoreau” by his friends and contemporaries; an apt comparison given the quiet exuberance with which he records the quotidian goings-on on his organic family farm. Under David’s attentive gaze and in his clear, insightful prose the...

How to Keep Bees is a great handbook for beginners.