Uniting Farmers and Environmentalists to Transform American Agriculture
America's farms are key to the preservation of vital ecosystems and a stable climate. Yet farmers and environmentalists have not always seen eye-to-eye about the best ways to manage agricultural landscapes. Since 1980, American Farmland Trust (AFT) has been bringing people together to work for healthy land and a healthy food system. No Farms, No ......
Mowing Hay, Cutting Weeds, and Harvesting Small Grains with Hand Tools, 2021 edition
The Scythe Book shows how a traditional hand tool can often outperform modern technology for cutting grasses and weeds and harvesting small grains, and provides detailed guidance on fitting the scythe to the individual, care and repair of the blade, principles of movement, and much fascinating lore.
Dispatches on Influenza, Agribusiness, and the Nature of Science
In Big Farms Make Big Flu, a collection of dispatches by turns harrowing and thought-provoking, Wallace tracks the ways influenza and other pathogens emerge from an agriculture controlled by multinational corporations.
This is the extraordinary saga of Countess Evelina van Millingen Pisani, a modern woman who lived in the age of Queen Victoria. A friend of Henry James and Isabella Stewart Gardner, she led a rich but turbulent life that spanned from Rome to Constantinople and Venice.
A reference for those farmers who are unsatisfied with conventional methods and for those gardeners who wish to improve the quality of life around them as well as the food they serve their families. This work provides an array of research data and results, as well as details on animal feeding, crop rotation, diseases, pests, and fertilizing.
How Chinaas Peasants Lost Collective Farming and Gained Urban Poverty
In the early 1980s, China undertook a massive reform that dismantled its socialist rural collectives and divided the land among millions of small peasant families. Known as the decollectivization campaign, it is one of the most significant reforms in China's transition to a market economy.
Just four annual crops (corn, wheat, rice, and soybeans) account for 75% of the calories consumed by people. We are missing out on a tremendous bounty of perennial foods--foods that can not only enrich our diets but help heal the land and combat climate change. By investing energy in robust root systems rather than just annual growth, perennial ......
A Forest Farm is the culmination of years of diligent research, recording the dynamic history of Tickeridge Farm in the hamlet of Kingscote, East Grinstead in Sussex. The book is a comprehensive study of the farm's development from Neolithic times to the present day. Kim Bayne travelled all over the country to discover and bring to life the ......
Three Generations and the Death of the Family Dairy Farm
When Ryan Dennis’s father was crushed by heavy machinery on their New York dairy farm, both men accepted the accident as a risk of agricultural life. But it was harder to comprehend being crushed by low milk prices, big banks, and the policies that destroyed America’s family farms.
