Chelsea Green Publishing: 239 books
Growing Healthy Vegetable Crops
Working with Nature to Control Diseases and Pests Organically
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
Part of the NOFA Guides. Includes information on:
Basic concepts of pest control (host susceptibility, soil health, genetic resistance, ecosystem factors)
Practical approaches (crop cultural practices, rescue treatments, special section on mammals and birds, food safety)
Farm design for pest...
Mitochondria and the Future of Medicine
The Key to Understanding Disease, Chronic Illness, Aging, and Life Itself
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
With information for patients and practitioners on optimizing mitochondrial function for greater health and longevity
Why do we age? Why does cancer develop? What's the connection between heart failure and Alzheimer's disease, or infertility and hearing loss? Can we extend lifespan, and if...
The Greened House Effect
Renovating Your Home with a Deep Energy Retrofit
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
With greater public awareness of the need for energy independence, the issue of how we can make our existing homes more resource efficient is becoming ever more critical. Residential buildings make up a large fraction of our energy needs, largely due to heating and air-conditioning. So it's no longer...
The Lean Farm Guide to Growing Vegetables
More In-Depth Lean Techniques for Efficient Organic Production
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
At Clay Bottom Farm, author Ben Hartman and staff practice kaizen, or continuous improvement, cutting out more waste—of time, labor, space, money, and more—every year and aligning their organic production more tightly with customer demand. Applied alongside other lean principles originally developed...
The Organic Seed Grower
A Farmer's Guide to Vegetable Seed Production
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
The Organic Seed Grower is a comprehensive manual for the serious vegetable grower who is interested in growing high-quality seeds using organic farming practices. It is written for both serious home seed savers and diversified small-scale farmers who want to learn the necessary steps involved in...
Organic Seed Production and Saving
The Wisdom of Plant Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
Part of the NOFA guides. Includes information on:
Strengths and limitations of hybrid varieties
Before you grow the seed (selecting varieties, saving seed and improving crops, intellectual property rights)
Growing seed (pollination biology, harvesting, cleaning, storage, germination testing)
Details...
The Healthy Bones Nutrition Plan and Cookbook
How to Prepare and Combine Whole Foods to Prevent and Treat Osteoporosis Naturally
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2016
A Medicine Through Food™ Guide
Drugs that claim to prevent or redress bone loss can actually cause bones to crumble and break. Calcium supplements, fortified processed food, and pasteurized dairy don't work because the calcium in them doesn't reach our bones. It’s a grim picture, but The...
Farming for the Long Haul
Resilience and the Lost Art of Agricultural Inventiveness
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
It’s all but certain that the next fifty years will bring enormous, not to say cataclysmic, disruptions to our present way of life. World oil reserves will be exhausted within that time frame, as will the lithium that powers today’s most sophisticated batteries, suggesting that transportation...
Gods, Wasps and Stranglers
The Secret History and Redemptive Future of Fig Trees
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Over millions of years, fig trees have shaped our world, influenced our evolution, nourished our bodies and fed our imaginations. And as author and ecologist Mike Shanahan proclaims, “The best could be yet to come.”
Gods, Wasps and Stranglers weaves together the mythology, history and ecology...
Sustainable Medicine
Whistle-Blowing on 21st-Century Medical Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
Sustainable Medicine is based on the premise that twenty-first century Western medicine—driven by vested interests—is failing to address the root causes of disease. Symptom-suppressing medication and “polypharmacy” have resulted in an escalation of disease and a system of so-called “health...
Mastering Stocks and Broths
A Comprehensive Culinary Approach Using Traditional Techniques and No-Waste Methods
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
2018 James Beard Foundation Book Award Finalist, "Single Subject" Category
“Top Ten Cookbook of 2017”—Booklist
Stocks and broths are the foundation of good cooking, yet information on their use is often relegated to the introductions or appendices of cookbooks. Until...
Master Your Diabetes
A Comprehensive, Integrative Approach for Both Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
The evidence is clear: We are in the midst of a worldwide diabetes epidemic. In the United States alone, one in three Americans is either diabetic (29 million patients) or prediabetic (87 million patients), costing an annual $242 billion in medical treatments.
In Master Your Diabetes, naturopathic...
by Helen Nearing
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1993
Helen and Scott Nearing, authors of Living the Good Life and many other bestselling books, lived together for 53 years until Scott's death at age 100. Loving and Leaving the Good Life is Helen's testimonial to their life together and to what they stood for: self-sufficiency, generosity, social justice,...
Farming While Black
Soul Fire Farm’s Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
In 1920, 14 percent of all land-owning US farmers were black. Today less than 2 percent of farms are controlled by black people—a loss of over 14 million acres and the result of discrimination and dispossession. While farm management is among the whitest of professions, farm labor is predominantly...