Farming

The Farmer’s Office by Julia Shanks

A practical, how-to guide for farmers who want to achieve and maintain financial sustainability in their businesses You decided to become a farmer because you love being outside, working the land...

Soil Sisters by Lisa Kivirist

Women in agriculture are sprouting up in record numbers, but they face a host of distinct challenges and opportunities. Blending What Color is Your Parachute-style career advice with sustainable...

Teaming with Fungi by Jeff Lowenfels

“Accomplishes what few other books have—helping growers use mycorrhizae to improve the immune systems of plants. This natural union between plants and fungi is the foundation of our food web.” —Paul...

Sowing Seeds in the Desert by Masanobu Fukuoka

Sowing Seeds in the Desert, a summation of those years of travel and research, is Fukuoka’s last major work—and perhaps his most important. Fukuoka spent years working with people and organizations...

Chelsea Green

Salad Leaves for All Seasons by Charles Dowding

Small is beautiful, less is more; a salad a day_but not the supermarket way. This compendium of practical methods for growing a wide variety of salads throughout the year will inspire you to grow...

Farming for the Long Haul by Michael Foley

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...

American Hemp Farmer: Adventures and Misadventures in the Cannabis Trade by Doug Fine

The inside story of the world’s most fascinating and lucrative crop from gonzo journalist–turned–hemp farmer Doug Fine. Hemp, the non-psychoactive variant of cannabis (or marijuana) and one of...

A Nation of Farmers: Defeating the Food Crisis on American Soil by Sharon Astyk & Aaron Newton

“Astyk and Newton have written an important book with an unusual message: We need millions of new farmers…as soon as possible. You could not find two more reasonable, intelligent, sincere, and...

Resilient Agriculture: Cultivating Food Systems for a Changing Climate by Laura Lengnick

Climate change presents an unprecedented challenge to the productivity and profitability of agriculture in North America. More variable weather, drought, and flooding create the most obvious damage,...

Compact Farms by Josh Volk

Small is beautiful, and these 15 real farm plans show that small-scale farmers can have big-time success. Compact Farms is an illustrated guide for anyone dreaming of starting, expanding, or...

One-Straw Revolutionary by Larry Korn

One-Straw Revolutionary represents the first commentary on the work of the late Japanese farmer and philosopher Masanobu Fukuoka (1913 – 2008), widely considered to be natural farming’s most...

Dirt to Soil by Gabe Brown

Gabe Brown didn’t set out to change the world when he first started working alongside his father-in-law on the family farm in North Dakota. But as a series of weather-related crop disasters put Brown...