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DOWNLOAD FROM ACRES U.S.A. Now you don’t have to wait for delivery from Acres U.S.A. You can download dozens of audio files and past issues directly from our store. These products include: • Past issues: Find past Acres U.S.A. magazine issues and download them straight to your phone, table or desktop computer. Starting at just $6.00 per issue.

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• New in 2018: Stay tuned for exciting changes to the www.acresusa.com store, including new books, new features and new tools for subscribers.

NOT A READER? That’s okay. We have hours of audio about soil and livestock management for you to enjoy from more than 40 years of Acres U.S.A. annual conferences. Highlights include: • Every speaker from 2011-2017 is available for download individually for just $8.00.

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Charles Walters Joel Salatin Grace Gershuny Neal Kinsey Jerry Brunetti Bruce Tainio Judith McGeary André Leu Mark Shepard

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Gary Zimmer Hugh Lovel Carrie Eastman Gabe Brown Dr. Richard Olree Arden Andersen Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin David Yarrow Ben Hartman

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Edwin Blosser Will Winter Bill McKibben Don Huber Larry Zibilske Kelly Klober John Slack AND MORE!

NEW TITLES | 5

NEW ACRES TITLES: COMING JANUARY 2018 Poisoning Our Children

Compost Revolution

ANDRÉ LEU

HELMUT SCHIMMEL

In this tragic but informative follow up to André Leu’s groundbreaking book, The Myths of Safe Pesticides, the author connects the dots between the widespread use of toxic farm applications and its affect on the health of our country’s children. It’s a must-read for all parents who are concerned with how their family’s food supply is grown. #7485 • Softcover • COMING SOON!

2017 Conference Speaker

Water for Any Farm MARK SHEPARD Why can some farmers survive so well through droughts? In the companion piece to Mark Shepard’s Acres U.S.A. bestseller, Restoration Agriculture, he explains simple but effective water management techniques that can apply to growers of orchards, livestock, crops or any type of living thing.

Take part in the long-time agricultural practice that is surging into the mainstream. Learn composting tactics and overcome all the normal growing pains, from small fruit and vegetables to out-of-control weeds.

Compost correctly and instantly watch the benefits to your crops.

#7486 • Softcover • COMING SOON!

#7484 • Softcover • COMING SOON!

Food, Farming and Health Respecting “Annam” — Agricultural Biodiversity & Traditional Indian Dietary Wisdom

Conference Keynote Speaker

BY DR. VANDANA SHIVA AND THE SCIENTISTS OF NAVDANYA Author and social activist Vandana Shiva explains what she has learned studying the acts of harvesting the land responsibly and harvesting the soul responsibly in this stunning novel.

A keynote speaker at the 2017 Acres U.S.A. Eco-Ag Annual Conference in Columbus, Ohio, Shiva grew up in Dehra Dun, near the foothills of the Himalayas. In 1982, she founded the Research Foundation for Science, Technology, and Natural Resource Policy, an organization devoted to developing sustainable methods of agriculture. The daughter of a forestry official and a farmer received a master’s degree in the philosophy of science from Guelph University, Ontario, in 1976. Her thesis “Hidden Variables and Non-locality in Quantum Theory” earned her a doctorate from the department of philosophy at the University of Western Ontario. #7487 • Softcover • Cover in Progress • COMING SOON!

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The Biological Farmer, 2nd Edition GARY F. ZIMMER & LEILANI ZIMMER-DURAND

2017 Conference Speaker

Revised & expanded 2nd edition. Biological farming was around long before researchers and entrepreneurs began their search for the best “biologicals.” The biological farming system developed decades ago by Gary Zimmer doesn’t manipulate soil life or sell it; it instead creates the conditions where soil life flourishes. His system feeds soil microbes, balances soil minerals, promotes tillage with a purpose, and relies on both cover crops and diverse rotations.

Gary Zimmer and Leilani Zimmer-Durand have created a thoughtful road map for farmers looking to learn more about how their soils work, improve their current operations, build resilience against both natural and financial challenges, and leave a lasting legacy in healthy & productive soils.

The results…

• Higher yields and profits for growers • Better forage and increased productivity for dairy and beef cattle • More nutritious food for consumers • Reduced greenhouse gas emissions • More soil organic matter • Improved soil health In this greatly revised and expanded edition of the modern classic the authors take the art and science of biological agriculture to new levels.

#6438 • Softcover • 536 pages • $30.00

Advancing Biological Farming GARY F. ZIMMER & LEILANI ZIMMER-DURAND

2017 Conference Speaker

One of the leading authorities on biological farming, Zimmer is recognized for improving farming by restoring soils. Arguing that an optimally productive soil contains a balance of inorganic minerals, organic materials and living organisms, he relies less on modern improvements than on “the things we’ve learned by improving fertility in a natural, sustainable way over many years.” This book offers invaluable scientific support for committed organic farmers as well as conventional farmers who’d like to reduce chemical inputs. #7066 • Softcover • 244 pages • $25.00

The Salatin Semester

A Complete Home Study Course in Polyface-Style Diversified Farming JOEL SALATIN

WITH DANIEL SALATIN AND THE ECO-FARMERS’ FORUM; PRODUCED BY VERGE PERMACULTURE

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This amazing multimedia production conveys the Salatin family’s methods of profitable diversified farming like no other. Joel Salatin presents his farming system in professional edited, live-cut video, engaging audio, and in a detail-rich reference guide.

Polyface Farm services more than 5,000 families, 10 retail outlets, and 50 restaurants through on-farm sales and metropolitan buying clubs with salad bar beef, pastured poultry, eggmobile eggs, pigaerator pork, forage-based rabbits, pastured turkey and forestry products using relationship marketing.

This package is a veritable fount of pertinent and crucial knowledge, a unique compilation of synergistic wisdom to help you save the planet and earn a living as a farmer. The live presentations are presented in DVD video; the audio interviews with Q&A are in digital audio; and the myriad questions and answers from the resulting discussion are transcribed and edited in a detailed reference guide. Also included is a digital slideshow tour of Polyface Farm.

The end result is an amazingly extensive – and affordable – training guide to help you reinvent your farm. This beautifully produced comprehensive tutorial contains: • 18 hours of video on 12 DVDs ITOR’S PI • 6 hours of audio Q&A ED • Digital slideshow farm tour • 256-page guidebook #7413 • 12 NTSC-DVDs, data/audio disc, book • $219.00 #7413PAL • 12 PAL-DVDs, data/audio disc, book • $219.00

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In the Shadow of Green Man

Farming in the Presence of Nature

REGINALDO HASLETTMARROQUIN WITH PER ANDREASSEN

ATHENA TAINIO

“My parents couldn’t read or write, we barely had clothes to wear. All we had were stories. We listened and absorbed them, and found our own place in the narrative.”

“. . . watch with me as a grand and beautiful picture unfolds, of the interconnectedness of all things.”

And what a narrative it is. Join the wonderfully colorful and poetic Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin, or Regi, as he weaves together stories from his upbringing in revolution-torn Guatemala, the vision of a regenerative form of farming which uplifts people, and the wandering fable of the Green Man. The result is an immensely readable, enjoyable journey that informs as it entertains and enlightens.

Witnessing firsthand the human suffering caused by unjust and environmentally destructive farming practices set Regi on a path of helping people lift themselves through, of all things, tapping the natural behaviors of the lowly chicken.

With the mind of an engineer, the passion of minister, and the depth of a philosopher the author has created not only a wonderful yarn, but a book for our generation asking the questions and providing many of the answers needed by millions.

The author is the principal architect of the innovative poultrycentered regenerative agriculture model that is at the heart of Main Street Project’s work. His focus is on the development of multi-level strategies for building regenerative food and agriculture systems that deliver social, economic and ecological benefits.

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No endeavor engages so deeply, so personally with nature as farming, whether on a thousand acres or in the gardener’s window box. When farmers delve into nature’s mysteries they follow in the footsteps of the myriad curious natural scientists who came before.

Join Athena (Teena) Tainio on a journey that illuminates the diverse wonders of the building blocks of life and gain a new appreciation for the inspiring and powerful dynamics of life on our planet, our farms, Gaia.

In this deeply personal story of discovery, the author poetically relates her own understanding of Gaia, a name drawn from Greek mythology for the personification of the Earth, the ancestral mother of all life: the primal Mother Earth goddess. But no mere book of philosophy, Tainio cleverly connects the esoteric with the concrete, bridging the gap between modern-day soil chemistry and natural earth forces. She builds upon the work of her late husband, legendary agronomist Bruce Tainio, with her own understandings, creating a book sure to challenge and inspire any student of nature who has an open mind.

#7437 • Softcover • 208 pages • $20.00

#7436 • Softcover • 136 pages • $18.00

A Holistic Vet’s Prescription for a Healthy Herd RICHARD J. HOLLIDAY, D.V.M., & JIM HELFTER

Holistic veterinarian Richard “Doc” Holliday is here to share the secrets he’s learned from more than fifty years of experience in animal nutrition and health. Holliday reveals how animals are capable of selfregulating their trace mineral needs when provided with a free-choice selection of minerals. Anyone can prove the fundamental concepts of animal health by watching and learning from animals, who will share their secrets with us if we are attentive. #7365 • Softcover • 144 pages • $20.00

The Myths of Safe Pesticides ANDRÉ LEU

André Leu challenges conventional farming methods by refuting the myths that surround the use and understanding of pesticides. He exposes the dangers of these chemicals and advocates organic practices as the most viable for farming in the 21st Century. The pesticide industry argues that human agriculture, and thereby the global population itself, cannot survive without using pesticides and herbicides, but Leu warns that human health is at great risk unless we break free of their toxic hold and turn to more natural methods of pest 2017 and weed regulation. #7335 • Softcover • 168 pages • $16.95

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The Energetic Goat CARRIE EASTMAN

The Energetic Goat provides step-by-step instruction on basic applied kinesiology techniques, including common variations, as well as guidance on how to adapt other techniques to suit your personal preferences. Newcomers to alternative veterinary medicine will find the many photographs, diagrams, and sample case histories particularly useful, while veteran practitioners will discover new tricks and techniques to add to their repertoire, from the never-before-in-print human reflex point chart (used for surrogate testing) to the cross-reference chart of common goat health problems and popular treatments. #7389 • Softcover • 136 pages • $24.00

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Four-Seasons Organic Cow Care

The Farm as Ecosystem JERRY BRUNETTI

HUBERT J. KARREMAN, V.M.D.

Jerry Brunetti collects a lifetime of experiences and uncanny observations in this fascinating work on the interconnected dynamics of the farm — geology, biology, and diversity. Brunetti explores the farms as a complex ecosystem, synthesizing facts and experiences to formulate principles for holistic farm management.

#7306 • Softcover • 352 pages • $30.00

#7418 • Softcover • 256 pages • $24.00

Treating Dairy Cows Naturally HUBERT J. KARREMAN, V.M.D.

With much thought and research, Dr. Karreman describes how cows can be treated for a wide variety of problems with plant-derived and biological medicines. Covers practical aspects of biologics, botanical medicines, homeopathic remedies, acupuncture and conventional medicine. #6672 • Hardcover • 412 pages • $40.00

The Barn Guide to Treating Dairy Cows Naturally HUBERT J. KARREMAN, V.M.D.

A hands-on guide designed for quick and easy use, presenting a thorough examination of animals and then listing symptoms with many pictures of what the farmer is seeing, possible conclusions, and treatments. #7065 • Softcover • 191 pages • $40.00 SPECIAL! SAVE

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Secrets of Fertile Soils ERHARD HENNIG This stimulating book provides a highly practical window into the complex, interdependent relationships between soil, plants, animals, and human beings, including special insight into the fascinating life cycle of healthy soils and the imminent dangers we face should their existence become threatened. Poor agricultural practices are draining our soils of nutrients and microorganisms. Depletion of humus is already described as extreme in some areas.

Hennig addresses all components of the soil — microorganisms, microbes, soil nutrients, and minerals — and explores natural fertilization techniques using compost and rock dust along with their roles in humus formation.

Translated from its original German, this book will help farmers everywhere understand humus better. #7414 • Softcover • 198 pages • $24.00

Healthy Soils, Sick Soils MARGARETH SEKERA Now available in English for the first time, this popular 1943 treatise on biology and biologically correct working of soil from the pen of the famous soil scientist Prof.

Dr. Franz Sekera, carefully edited and expanded by his wife, scientist Margareth Sekera, over the years, has long been beloved by farmers and soils scientists in its original German. Starting with the basic concepts of “tilth” and “soil structure” and moving along to the symptoms of unhealthy soil and the behavior of plants on non-friable fields, Sekera investigates the complex interrelationships in the soil as well as the practical measures to preserve and improve soil tilth.

#7415 • Softcover • 160 pages • $20.00

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Acclaimed veterinarian Hubert Karreman calls on his nearly thirty years of experience in organic and holistic medicine to guide you on how to recognize, treat and prevent a year’s worth of problems with your herd. With biology and managing animals, there are no hard-and-fast rules, however, there is a rhyme and reason explaining why certain conditions are associated with each season. From pneumonia in the winter to heat stroke in the summer, this farmer-friendly book will introduce early detection techniques, prevention methods, and the most effective organic certified treatments available for livestock.

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The Anatomy of Life & Energy in Agriculture ARDEN B. ANDERSEN

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The energies in fertilizers and in the cosmos do not often move needles, but they preside over crop production. As this manual makes clear, through learning to tap and use “lifeforce energy” it is possible to develop food production practices that are both high quality and nondestructive.

Andersen’s chapters outline in detail the difference between deadly slow-kill agribusiness farming and farming as it should be.

Eco-Farm — An Acres U.S.A. Primer

#3063 • Softcover 114 pages • $18.00

The Biochar Solution ALBERT BATES

Biochar is created by burning biomass in the absence of oxygen and has the unique ability to withhold carbon from the atmosphere while simultaneously building soil fertility. Author Albert Bates analyzes our global climate and food predicament and offers techniques for the production and use of biochar and practical carbon farming — a new agricultural paradigm with a priority on ecological restoration that could turn us back into a garden planet. #7148 • Softcover • 209 pages • $17.95

The Non-Toxic Farming Handbook PHILIP A. WHEELER, PH.D. & RONALD B. WARD

This readable, easy-tounderstand handbook successfully integrates the diverse techniques and technologies of classical organic farming, Albrecht-style soil fertility balancing, Reams-method soil and plant testing and analysis, and other alternative technologies applicable to commercial-scale agriculture. #6339 • Softcover • 236 pages • $25.00

CHARLES WALTERS

The classic book on ecological agriculture, explaining everything — from the tiniest molecular building blocks to managing the soil. #122 • Softcover • 462 pages • $30.00 Share & Save! 2-4 copies $22.50 ea.; 5-9 copies $19.50 ea.; 10+ copies $18.00 ea.

Hands-On Agronomy NEAL KINSEY & CHARLES WALTERS

This is a comprehensive manual on tillage, manures, micronutrients, earthworms, soil drainage, tilth, soil structure and more. #4120 • Softcover • 391 pages • $35.00

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Weeds, Control Without Poisons CHARLES WALTERS

Specifics on a hundred weeds, why they grow and how to control them. #4005 • Softcover • 352 pages • $25.00 Share & Save! 2-4 copies $18.75 ea.; 5-9 copies $16.50 ea.; 10+ copies $15.00 ea.

Hands-On Agronomy Workshop (DVD) NEAL KINSEY

A sophisticated, easyto-live-with system of fertility management.

#6442DVD • DVD format • 80 minutes • $30.00 #6442DVDPAL • DVD-PAL format 80 Minutes • $30.00 Share & Save! 2-4 copies $22.50 ea.; 5-9 copies $19.50 ea.; 10+ copies $18.00 ea.

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Successful SmallScale Farming

The New Organic Grower

KARL SCHWENKE

ELIOT COLEMAN

Today the small-scale farmer is forced to be a master at reading the market. Learn how to do so with a relatively small amount of economic backing, all using organic methodology. #4018 • Softcover • 144 pages • $16.95

Seaweed & Plant Growth T.L. SENN, PH.D

A top-notch book on the use of seaweeds in agriculture. It is not an accident that most of the answers to biologically sound agronomy should come from the nutritional center of gravity, the ocean. Well documented, this book fills a badly-needed void in the eco-farming library, not with academic ramblings, but with highly readable, scientific facts and breathtaking case reports.

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A practical reference for small-scale farmers and gardeners alike. Sections are dedicated to the business side of running a small farm, however, much of the book focuses on growing good healthy food, either for market or your own kitchen table. #3066 • Softcover • 352 pages • $24.95

Bread from Stones JULIUS HENSEL

Anyone interested in how to grow fully mineralized, nutrient-dense food must read this book — the first work to attack Von Leibig’s salt fertilizer thesis, it stands valid today as when first written over 100 years ago. Historic reprint. #4024 • Softcover • 102 pages • $16.00

#2057 • Softcover • 181 Pages • $14.00

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Foundations of Natural Farming HAROLD WILLIS, PH.D. Join longtime ecological farming author/ researcher Harold Willis as he explains the concepts of natural farming and issues the call for cleaner forms of food and fiber production. The author details the interconnections between soil chemistry, microbial life, plants and livestock. He discusses how lessons from nature provide the road map to efficiency, effectiveness and profitability. This book does not stop at what farmers need to do to farm better, but also passes along the why of ecological agriculture. This book is certain to become a classic and one of the most heavily bookmarked volumes on a farmer’s shelf.

#6854 • Softcover • 367 pages • $30.00

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Agriculture: The Only Right Approach

The Organic Method Primer

P.H. HAINSWORTH

BARGYLA & GYLVER RATEAVER

A classic text on the basic principles of organic agriculture. There are chapters on composting, plant disease resistance, problems of conventional agricultural methods, and the nature and function of soil.

Historic reprint. #6540 • Softcover • 245 pages • $20.00

Two Percent Solutions for the Planet COURTNEY WHITE

2017 Keynote Conference Speaker

This book profiles innovative practices that soak up carbon dioxide in soils, reduce energy use, sustainably intensify food production, and increase water quality.

The “two percent” refers to: the amount of new carbon in the soil needed to reap a wide variety of ecological and economic benefits; the percentage of the nation’s population who are farmers and ranchers; and the low financial cost needed to get this vital work done. #7412 • Softcover • 240 pages • $22.50

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A cornerstone of any serious agricultural library. This classic text by a pioneer of American organic agriculture, long out of print, has been both expensive and difficult to find for many years. Acres U.S.A. has obtained a limited number of copies. #6539 • Hardcover • 688 pages • $85.00

Understanding Roots ROBERT KOURIK

This book describes how roots work their magic to improve soil nutrients; investigates the life of soil microbes and their relationship to roots; explores whether deep roots gather more unique nutrients than shallow roots; shows where to put fertilizer, compost, water, and mulch to help plants flourish and tells you why gray water increases crop yields more than fresh water. #7411 • Softcover • 225 pages • $22.50

The Biological Farmer

2017 Conference Speaker

GARY F. ZIMMER & LEILANI ZIMMER-DURAND

Completely revised, rewritten and greatly updated — now over 500 pages! Biological farming was around long before researchers and entrepreneurs began their search for the best “biologicals.” The biological farming system developed decades ago

by Gary Zimmer doesn’t manipulate soil life or sell it; it instead creates the conditions where soil life flourishes. His system feeds soil microbes, balances soil minerals, promotes tillage with a purpose, and relies on both cover crops and diverse rotations. #6438 • Softcover • 536 pages • $30.00

Advancing Biological Farming GARY F. ZIMMER & LEILANI ZIMMER-DURAND

One of the leading authorities on biological farming, Zimmer is recognized for improving farming by restoring soils. Arguing 2017 that an optimally Conference productive soil Speaker contains a balance of inorganic minerals, organic materials and living organisms, he relies less on modern improvements than on “the things we’ve learned by improving fertility in a natural, sustainable way over many years.” This book offers invaluable scientific support for committed organic farmers as well as conventional farmers who’d like to reduce chemical inputs. #7066 • Softcover • 244 pages • $25.00

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AGRONOMY | 11 Food Power from the Sea LEE FRYER & DICK SIMMONS

This book explains how we can produce our food by using seaweed and fish-based inputs rather than wasteful and unsustainable chemical fertilizers. Fryer and Simmons tell how growers can harness sea energy to extend growing seasons, increase yields, protect crops from insects and disease, and more. A classic work of eco-agriculture. #6655 • Softcover • 220 pages • $19.00

Sea Energy Agriculture MAYNARD MURRAY, M.D.

Reprinted by popular demand!

Beginning in 1938, Dr. Murray researched the crucial importance of minerals and demonstrated that plants fertilized with sea solids and animals fed sea-solid-fertilized feeds grow stronger and more resistant to disease. This book recounts the experiments and presents his astounding conclusions. Historic reprint. #6579 • Softcover • 109 pages • $16.00

Seaweed in Agriculture & Horticulture W.A. STEPHENSON

This classic work by one of the pioneers of the agricultural use of processed seaweed is a comprehensive guide to the amazing uses and properties of this aquatic plant.

Many useful tables and charts are included, and appendices include detailed recommendations for specific crops and livestock. Solid background information for any organic grower. Historic reprint. #6545 • Softcover • 241 pages • $15.00

SOIL ADVICE from Don Schriefer From the Soil Up DONALD L. SCHRIEFER

The farmer’s role is to conduct the symphony of plants and soil. In this book, learn how to coax the most out of your plants by providing the best soil and removing all yield-limiting factors. Schriefer is best known for his “systems” approach to tillage and soil fertility, which is detailed here. Managing soil aeration, water, and residue decay are covered, as well as ridge planting systems, guidelines for cultivating row crops, and managing soil fertility. Develop your own soil fertility system for longterm productivity. #6440 • Softcover • 274 pages • $24.00

Agriculture in Transition DONALD L. SCHRIEFER

Now you can tap the source of many of agriculture’s most popular progressive farming tools. Ideas now commonplace in the industry, such as “crop and soil weatherproofing,” the “row support system,” and the “tillage commandments,” exemplify the practicality of the soil/ root maintenance program that serves as the foundation for Schriefer’s highly-successful “systems approach” farming. A veteran teacher, lecturer and writer, Schriefer’s ideas are clear, straightforward and practical. #6441 • Softcover • 238 pages • $24.00

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Fertility from the Ocean Deep CHARLES WALTERS

Rediscover the forgotten legacy of an eco-ag pioneer. Maynard Murray’s idea that ocean water contains a concentrated, perfect balance of trace minerals in bioavailable form seems almost as revolutionary today as when he introduced it over 30 years ago. In this fascinating book, Charles Walters examines Murray’s career and the amazing successes that growers have experienced with his methods, as well as further developments in this technology by creative experimenters.

Walters demonstrates that sea-solids fertilizers produce stress-resistant plants and food with vastly increased nutrient levels. #6735 • Softcover • 192 pages • $20.00

The Polyface Farm (DVD) JOEL SALATIN

A comprehensive look at one of the finest working examples of an environmentally friendly family farm.

Both “how” and “why” unite in this information-rich video. #6499 • DVD format • 126 minutes • $60.00

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Joel Salatin of wisely and honestly shares the qualities necessary to embark on a farming career with plenty of inspiration. For farm entrepreneurs, the opportunities for a farm family business have never been greater. You Can Farm is a practical roadmap to encourage and guide the farmer in each of us. #6336 • Softcover • 480 pages • $30.00

The Carbon Farming Solution ERIC TOENSMEIER

Carbon farming is a suite of agricultural practices and crops that sequester carbon in the soil and in aboveground NEW biomass, which includes modifications to current cropping systems, the use of perennial crops, new approaches to animal grazing, agroforestry, and more. Toensmeier brings together these powerful strategies in one book including in-depth analysis of the available research and, where research is lacking, a discussion of what we need to understand better and the steps that can get us there. The book includes in-depth information on #7423 • Hardcover • 480 Pages • $75.00

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NEAL KINSEY & CHARLES WALTERS

The soil is more than just a substrate that anchors crops in place. An ecologically balanced soil system is essential for maintaining healthy crops.

This is a comprehensive manual on effective soil fertility management providing many onfarm examples to illustrate the various principles and how to use them. The function of micronutrients, earthworms, soil drainage, tilth, soil structure, and organic matter is explained in thorough detail. Kinsey demonstrates that working with the soil produces healthier crops with a higher yield.

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Hands-On Agronomy (DVD) NEAL KINSEY

Neal Kinsey teaches a sophisticated, easy-to-livewith system of fertility management that focuses on balance, not merely quantity of fertility elements. It works in a variety of soils and crops, both conventional and organic. In sharp contrast to the current methods only using N-P-K and pH and viewing soil only as a physical support media for plants, the basis of all his teachings are to feed the soil, and let the soil feed the plant.

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Written by agriculture technology experts Neal Kinsey and Charles Walters, HandsOn Agronomy: Understanding Soil Fertility & Fertilizer Use is an information-packed guide for soil scientists and professional farmers alike. Now in a newly revised edition, Hands-On Agronomy covers how to balance soil nutrients for maximum yield, why simple N-P-K fertilization isn’t enough, how to properly use manures, compost, tillage, and micronutrients, and much more...Hands-On Agronomy is an absolute ‘must-read’ for any professional in the field.

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An in-depth look at crop rotation, to assist growers through the maze of decisions in planning crop rotations, and show how to use crop rotation to build better soil, control pests, and develop profitable farms. #7137 • Softcover • 154 pages • $24.00

The Art of Balancing Soil Nutrients WILLIAM MCKIBBEN

A practical guide to interpreting soil test results for farmers and other stewards of the earth wanting to understand what nutrients are available to plants and learn how to more effectively grow crops, turfgrass and other plants. This book gives real-world advice about how to decipher the jungle of numbers found on soil and water test reports and shows how to comprehend what the numbers mean for your crop.

McKibben gives clear, easy-to-understand information about how to choose the most appropriate testing protool based on your specific soil type so you can develop an effective action plan and get the most out of your soil. #7115 • Softcover • 240 pages • $25.00

Organic SoilFertility & Weed Management STEVE GILMAN

Concise, practical information for small-scale farmers and market gardeners about the importance of healthy soil and how to control weeds holistically. #7080 • Softcover • 127 pages • $15.95

Crop Rotation & Cover Cropping SETH KROECK

The foundation of organic management is to create a healthy farm system that builds soil fertility and prevents the proliferation of pests, weeds and disease. Well-timed rotations between cash and cover crops can help you achieve this goal. #7095 • Softcover • 96 pages • $12.95

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AGRONOMY | 13

Dr. William Albrecht’s Vision William A. Albrecht, Ph.D., was undoubtedly the preeminent soil scientist of his time. During his long and distinguished career, Dr. Albrecht made the case for an agronomy based on healthy, balanced soil ecosystems rather than simplistic chemical inputs, even as this latter approach was being introduced as the “scientific” agriculture of the future. Time has shown the destructiveness of chemical agriculture, as more and more farmers and agronomists are turning to the genuine science of Dr. Albrecht, whose observations and precepts are as applicable today as when they were first written.

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Albrecht’s Foundation Concepts Vol. I WILLIAM A. ALBRECHT, PH.D. Nature gave up her rare secrets to Dr. Albrecht simply because he was a curious farm boy who liked logic and adventure.

Through his extensive experiments with growing plants, soils and their effect on animals, he showed that a declining soil fertility, due to a lack of organic material, major elements, and trace minerals — or a marked imbalance in these nutrients — was responsible for poor crops and in turn for pathological conditions in animals fed deficient feeds from soils.

#1007 • Softcover • 515 pages • $40.00

Soil Fertility & Animal Health Vol. II

WILLIAM A. ALBRECHT, PH.D. Albrecht was dismayed by the rapid chemicalization of farming that followed WWII. This book is a well-organized explanation of the relationship between soil fertility and animal and human health. This is a great book for those just familiarizing themselves with these concepts.

#1008 • Softcover • 192 pages • $25.00

Albrecht’s Hidden Lessons Vol. III

WILLIAM A. ALBRECHT, PH.D.

Organized in chapters dealing with specific subjects such as mycorrhiza, calcium, magnesium and soil organic matter, Albrecht also includes convincing explanations of the relationship between humans, plants and animals, and his substantiated theory and observation that declining soil fertility is responsible for poor crops, pathological conditions in animals fed deficient feeds from such soils, and poor human health. #3048 • Softcover • 411 pages • $35.00

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14 | AGRONOMY Albrecht on Calcium Vol. V

WILLIAM A. ALBRECHT, PH.D.

Readers will find an organized and convincing explanation of the relationship between calcium and soil fertility. It is not possible to discuss calcium, which Albrecht proclaims as the “King of Nutrients” without being led into the entire mosaic that Albrecht considers biologically correct farming. #7068 • Softcover • 320 pages • $30.00

Albrecht on Pastures

Albrecht’s Enduring Vision Vol. IV

WILLIAM A. ALBRECHT, PH.D. This collection presents more of Professor Albrecht’s brilliant, classic essays providing essential insights into the health of our soil. Albrecht explains how the soil-crop system works, and provides his substantiated theory and observation that the lack of major elements and trace minerals is responsible for depleted crops, weeds and poor animal health.

#4075 • Softcover • 325 pages • $30.00

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The Other Side of the Fence (DVD)

Read about Albrecht’s substantiated theory and observation that insufficient soil fertility is responsible for poor crops, weeds and thereby a poor diet for the cow in terms of her food choice and her output. An indispensable foundation for anyone interested in sustainable, ecologically responsible agriculture — more critical today than ever.

WILLIAM A. ALBRECHT, PH.D. In this 1950s-era film, Professor Albrecht’s enduring message is preserved and presented for future generations. With introductory and closing remarks by Acres U.S.A. founder Charles Walters, Albrecht explains the high cost of inadequate and imbalanced soil fertility and how that “dumb animal,” the cow, always knows which plant is the healthier. A period film, dated in style, but timeless in message. Historic video.

#7072 • Softcover • 247 pages • $25.00

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This new volume explains the logical connections among soil health, animal health and human health until it grows into a public demand for fundamental change that is as compelling as it is necessary. A commitment to restoring the natural fertility and productivity of the soil must arise as a means of restoring health to humanity. #7168 • Softcover • 336 pages • $30.00

A carefully organized and convincing explanation of the interconnection between soil, plants and animals — everything is related to everything else.

Albrecht reveals the importance of the balance equation, that it isn’t enough to have nutrient to soil connections, it is the ratio of one element to another that counts. #7078 • Softcover • 227 pages • $25.00

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JEFF MOYER

Organic No-Till Farming offers a map to an organic farming system that limits tillage, reduces labor and improves soil structure. Based on the latest research by pioneering agriculturists, this book offers new technologies and tools based on sound biological principles, making it possible to reduce and even eliminate tillage. Field-tested over many seasons, these methods make cover crops into a source of fertility as well as a tool for weed management.

Soils & Agronomy Video Seminar ARDEN ANDERSEN, D.O., PH.D.

#7069 • Softcover • 204 pages • $28.00

Science in Agriculture

Mycorrhizal Planet

ARDEN B. ANDERSEN, D.O., PH.D.

MICHAEL PHILLIPS

By ignoring the truth, agchemical enthusiasts are able to claim that pesticides and herbicides are necessary to feed the world. But science points out that low-to-mediocre crop production, weed, disease and insect pressures are all symptoms of nutritional imbalances and inadequacies in the soil. The progressive farmer who knows this and adds a measure of common sense will grow bountiful, disease- and pest-free commodities without the use of toxic chemicals. #4080 • Softcover • 376 pages • $30.00 Share & Save! 2-4 copies $22.50 ea.; 5-9 copies $20.00 ea.; 10+ copies $18.00 ea.

Mainline Farming for Century 21 DAN SKOW, D.V.M. & CHARLES WALTERS

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Growing Food in a Hotter, Drier Land GARY PAUL NABHAN

Growing Food in a Hotter, Drier Land is useful not only for farmers and permaculturists in the arid reaches of the Southwest or other desert regions. This practical book contains detailed descriptions and diagrams showing how to implement desert-adapted practices in your own backyard, orchard, or farm to mitigate the impact of these rapid changes. #7204 • Softcover • 272 pages • $29.95

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Ask the Plant CHARLES WALTERS & ESPER K. CHANDLER

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This book demolishes the mythology on which toxic chemical agriculture has been built. This book teaches how to measure fertility down to the atomic level and project forward bins and bushels with brix high enough to confer immunity to fungal, bacterial and insect attack — and to ward off weeds.

Mycorrhizae are defined as “fungi that grow in association with the roots of a plant in a NEW symbiotic relationship.”

They manage the “underground economy,” making nutrients available to plant roots, facilitating communication between plants, and even protecting plants against diseases and pest pressures.

In Mycorrhizal Planet, Phillips explores the complex science of the world beneath our feet in layman’s terms—offering insight into how to make lants and their fungal partners prosper. Beyond growers, this book will resonate with anyone who is fascinated with the unseen workings of nature and concerned about maintaining and restoring the health of our soils, our climate, and the quality of like on Earth for generations to come.

This detailed exposition of the agronomy of renowned consultant “K” Chandler offers farmers a better way to grow crops. By learning the unique language of plants and utilizing leaf and petiole testing, you can determine which fertilizers and soil-building ingredients are truly needed, when they are most needed. Instead of following the conventional model where plants are given copious amounts of soluble nitrogen fertilizers aimed to force-feed the landscape green, it is time to “Ask the Plant” and find out what our crops and soils are really telling us. #6991 • Softcover • 286 pages • $30.00

14 DVDs, WORKBO OK & MP3

This is an entire advanced soils seminar in a box, and it comes complete with a workbook that contains all the diagrams, charts and references you need to top off the experience of learning at the feet of one of agriculture’s greatest educators. By progressing through this complete education in agronomy, you will gain an understanding of the relationship between animals, plants and soil life.

Perhaps no one else integrates the lessons of Albrecht and Reams with classic organiculture as well as Andersen. A superb lecturer, Andersen explains the concepts of ecoagriculture in a way we all can understand.

Logical and orderly, the lessons he presents build on one another, resulting in a comprehensive course in agronomy. The cost of this complete set will pay for itself many times over in both knowledge and crop production, but if you are unsure, order the sampler to see for yourself. For a complete course description see www.acresusa.com.

Includes 14 DVDs, audio MP3s, and workbook.

Soils & Agronomy Video Seminar with Arden Andersen #7111 — $195.00 Sampler (with 45 Minutes of Instruction) #7112 — $5.00 Note: No returns or refunds on video/audio tapes.

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16 | AGRONOMY/SOIL LIFE & COMPOSTING The Aquaponic Farmer

#7477 • Softcover • 320 Pages • $39.99

The Organic Composting Handbook DEDE CUMMINGS

Great compost is one of the most important secrets of successful organic gardening. In this comprehensive guide you’ll learn everything you need to know about the various methods of composting and how to adapt them to your home and garden. With full-color photographs and easy-to-follow instructions, this will be a welcome addition to every organic gardener’s library. #7382 • Softcover • 240 pages • $14.95

Secrets to Great Soil ELIZABETH P. STELL

With more than 300 detailed illustrations and at-a-glance charts, Secrets to Great Soil solves your soil problems and gives techniques for year-round soil-building. #6345 • Softcover • 224 pages • $19.95

The Worm Book LOREN NANCARROW & JANET HOGAN TAYLOR

This book discusses how with a minimum of fuss, these humble soil-dwelling heroes can turn your garbage into the finest, richest compost imaginable. #6356 • Softcover • 160 pages • $11.99

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Dung beetles have always been nature’s greatest recyclers — in a way, they were the first organic farmers, but also the first casualties of industrial OR’S PI T I farming. As farmers rediscover the benefits of grass-based livestock production, dung beetles are being given a solid shot at reestablishment. Charles Walters digs deep into modern science and ancient history, for the best practical advice to resurrect the lowly dung beetle. Meet those who have dedicated years to understanding the roles, actions and value of dung beetles in bringing a grazing operation into compliance with nature’s laws, and then harvest the profits.

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The Aquaponic Farmer is the only complete pracNEW tical guide to understanding, constructing, and operating a family-farm scale commercial cold-water aquaponic system for raising trout and vegetables.

Teaming with Microbes

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ADRIAN SOUTHERN & WHELM KING

Dung Beetles

Subtitled The Organic Gardener’s Guide to the Soil Food Web, this is a useful guide to creating rich, nurturing, living soil without resorting to harmful synthetic chemicals. The book describes in straightforward, easily accessible text how organisms can be used to foster the life of soil in order to yield healthy, dynamic plants. #6816 • Hardcover • 220 pages • $24.95

#6852 • Softcover • 215 pages • $24.00

Teaming with Nutrients

The Complete Compost Gardening Guide

JEFF LOWENFELS

BARBARA PLEASANT & DEBORAH L. MARTIN

Just as he demystified the soil food web in his groundbreaking book Teaming with Microbes, in this new work Jeff Lowenfels explains the basics of plant nutrition from an organic gardener’s perspective.

The authors describe a natural six-way basic compost gardening system to achieve a compost-rich garden that requires less digging, hauling, weeding, mulching and even less plants. #6937 • Softcover • 318 pages • $19.95

#7227 • Hardcover • 250 pages • $24.95

The Secret Life of Compost

Circle of Poison (DVD)

MALCOLM BECK, WITH COMMENTARY BY CHARLES WALTERS

We don’t need to poison the earth in order to grow better food, and what is harmful to the environment often can be turned back to the soil in a beneficial way through composting — if you know how.

Here’s how. Malcolm Beck’s Garden-Ville is one of the largest commercial composting operations in the country. He shares his insight into the processes that can transform everything from lawn trimmings to sewer sludge into life-giving earth. Coupled with Beck’s practical advice are remarks from Charles Walters, founder of Acres U.S.A. #6232 • Softcover • 170 pages • $19.00

EVAN MASCAGNI & SHANNON POST

Circle of Poison exposes the shocking practice of corporate profic in the NEW toxic pesticide trade.

Once a pesticide is banned in the United States for its dangerous health and environmental effects, companies are still permitted to manufacture it for export only. This policy sends a message to the world` that American lives are more valuable, yet ironically these toxic pesticides circulate the globe and come back to the U.S. as residues on imported foor in the circle of poison. #7439 • DVD • 71 Minutes • $20.00

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SOIL LIFE & COMPOSTING | 17 The Ideal Soil MICHAEL ASTERA

The Ideal Soil is a how-to book: How to read a soil test, calculate CEC, use the information from the soil test to balance all of the minerals in the soil according to the Albrecht BCSR principles, write an exact mineral prescription for any soil, calculate just how much of which amendment to use, and even how to do all of that in compliance with USDA NOP organic rules. You will learn how to become your own soil consultant, or do it for others. The new 2015 edition has been expanded with more information on minor and trace elements and working with high pH and high calcium soils. #7055 • Softcover • Spiralbound • 175 pages • $34.95

The Ultimate Guide to Soil ANNA HESS

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Grow twice the fruits and vegetables in half the space on the farm, in the backyard, or in your window. #7476 • Softcover • 275 Pages • $16.99

The Soul of Soil GRACE GERSHUNY & JOSEPH SMILLIE

The authors describe proper management of soil organic matter and humus to achieve long-lasting soil fertility including the use of green manures, crop rotations, on-farm composting, and mineral fertilizers. Building on Albrecht and others, this is an important, easy-to-understand book for commercial-scale growers. #6174 • Softcover • 173 pages • $25.00

Compost Revolution CRYSTAL STEVENS

Take part in the longtime agricultural practice that is surging into the NEW mainstream. Learn composting tactics and overcome all the normal growing pains, from small fruit and vegetables to out-of-control weeds.

Compost correctly and instantly watch the benefits to your crops. #7484 • Softcover • COMING SOON!

Weeds and What They Tell Us This important book was written in the 1950s, yet no other book contains the overview that Dr. Pfeiffer presents here, and the message contained lives on as important now as it was over 40 years ago.

This book gives the basic principles and biology of organic composting, starting with the fundamentals. Practical pointers are given about how to determine quality, when the process is completed, and where, when and how much compost should be used. Includes recipes for compost tea and other brewed microbial cultures. #7097 • Softcover • 96 pages • $12.95

Worms at Work CRYSTAL STEVENS

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#7167 • Softcover booklet • 80 pages • $13.95

Fertilize your garden naturally with this guide to growing your plants in healthy, happy soil.

#7453 • Softcover • 106 Pages • $19.99

Weeds, Control Without Poisons CHARLES WALTERS “Low biological activity is inherent in each weed problem … Each weed is keyed to a specific environment slotted for its proliferation.”

So says Weeds, Control Without Poisons author Charles Walters. Further, calcium, magnesium, potassium and other elements in equilibrium are likely to roll back more weeds than all the available herbicides on the market. Specifics on a hundred weeds, why they grow, what soil conditions spur them on or stop them, what they say about your soil, and how to control them without the obscene presence of poisons.

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When Weeds Talk JAY L. McCAMAN

CHARLES WALTERS

#4151 • Softcover • 247 pages • $20.00

GRACE GERSHUNY

EHRENFRIED E. PFEIFFER

Fletcher Sims’ Compost Fletcher Sims, the Dean of Composters, has elevated the “art” of good composting to a “science.” This book covers the optimal conditions for converting plant and animal wastes into compost and the complexities of commercial-scale compost production, including the benefits of using this gentle fertilizer. This appealing combination of biography and technical guide was written by the founder of Acres U.S.A.

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Acres U.S.A. has long shown that weed control lies in fertility management. Every weed grows in a somewhat narrow window of allowable soil conditions. For the first time, hundreds of weeds of commercial importance are detailed in table format, along with the chemical analysis of accompanying soils. Burdock, for example, grows in soils with very high levels of iron and sulfate, very low levels of calcium and manganese. Balance the soil, lose the weed.

#6149 • Softcover • Spiralbound 141 pages • $24.00

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18 | SOIL LIFE & COMPOSTING/CROPS On-Farm Composting Handbook

Organic Mushroom Farming & Mycoremediation

ROBERT RYNK, ED.

Geared toward readers who want to grow mushrooms without the use of pesticides, Tradd Cotter takes “organic” one step further by introducing an entirely new way of thinking — one that looks at the potential to grow mushrooms on just about anything, just about anywhere, and by anyone.

A thorough overview of farm-scale composting that explains how to produce, use and market compost. Useful for farmers, waste producers, environmental regulators and public health officials. #6645 • Softcover • 186 pages • $25.00

Field Guide to On-Farm Composting

TRADD COTTER

#6644 • Softcover • Spiralbound • 118 pages • $22.00

Bokashi Composting ADAM FOOTER

Bokashi in Japanese refers to “fermented organic matter,” which functions as a quick and simple method of composting. From the urban dweller to the rural farmer, Bokashi Composting is the complete, step-by-step, do-it-yourself guide to this amazing process. This essential guide is a must-read for gardeners, homeowners, apartment dwellers, traditional composters, and anyone who wants a safe, simple, and convenient way to keep kitchen waste out of the landfill. #7336 • Softcover • 176 pages • $16.95

Mycelium Running PAUL STAMETS

In addition to a manual for healing the earth, Mycelium Running, offers instruction on the art of mushroom cultivation and tips for choosing fungi for various purposes. #6931 • Softcover • 356 pages • $35.00

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LYNN BYCZYNSKI

Take a step-by-step journey into organic flower growing, covering topics from choosing varieties, site and soil, buying and starting plants, flower types and distinctions, harvest procedures, arranging, going commercial, hardiness and marketing. #6291 • Softcover • 284 pages • $35.00

#7359 • Softcover • 400 pages • $39.95

Growing Great Garlic

MARK DOUGHERTY, ED.

This book, intended as a companion to the highly successful On-Farm Composting Handbook, was developed to assist in day-to-day compost system management.

It is spiral bound, printed on heavy paper, with a laminated cover for durability.

The Flower Farmer

RON L. ENGELAND

This book begins with an excellent overview of garlic varieties and history. Engeland is a small-scale farmer making his living growing over 200 varieties of garlic.

The major segment completely covers all aspects of the cultivation of garlic and rounds out the subject with chapters on marketing and storage of garlic.

Perfect for any grower seeking alternate, highprofit crops. A terrific hands-on guide. #4104 • Softcover • 228 pages • $16.95

Beautiful Corn ANTHONY BOUTARD

Market farmer and naturalist Anthony Boutard weaves together this unique plant’s contribution to our culture, its distinctive biology and the practical information needed to grow and enjoy it at home.

Beautiful Corn advocates a return to the nourishing whole grain that built America, in place of today’s genetically modified crops processed by industrial agriculture into synthetic sweeteners and cheap meat. Come along on this lyrical and inspiring journey through the seasons, learning about growing and using corn in the traditional way. #7178 • Softcover • 224 pages • $19.95

The Organic Grain Grower

Crop Planning for Organic Vegetable Growers

JACK LAZOR

Subtitled Small-Scale, Holistic Grain Production for the Home and Market Producer, this is the ultimate guide to growing organic grains on a small and ecological scale. The Organic Grain Grower is invaluable for both homescale and commercial producers interested in expanding their resiliency and crop diversity through growing their own grains. #7203 • Hardcover • 448 pages • $45.00

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FREDERIC THERIAULT & DANIEL BRISEBOIS

A practical handbook for organic or transitioning vegetable growers to successfully organize the complicated task of figuring out what to plant, when to plant it and how much to plant — before getting to the field. It takes planning and organization to provide a variety of vegetables week after week, and this book provides eleven manageable and logical steps to uncomplicate this task. Crop Planning will take you through the steps for setting financial goals, developing the crop plan, implementing the plan, recording the results, analyzing how the plan succeeded, and planning for the next year. From Canada. #7026 • Softcover • 136 pages • $25.00

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CROPS | 19 The Hop Grower’s Handbook

THE WORKS of Harold Willis, Ph.D.

LAURA TEN EYCK AND DIETRICH GEHRING

How to Grow Great Alfalfa HAROLD WILLIS, PH.D. Essential information for anyone whose operation depends on growing forage grasses. Learn how to establish a healthy stand. Is high potassium necessary for high quality? How can you measure forage quality? Put just one idea from this booklet to work and it will pay for itself a thousandfold.

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How to Grow Top Quality Corn

Foundations of Natural Farming

HAROLD WILLIS, PH.D.

HAROLD WILLIS, PH.D.

HAROLD WILLIS, PH.D.

Packed with knowledge that will help you grow superior examples of this profitable crop. Learn how bacteria helps your crop grow better; how to droughtproof your soil; whether herbicides and pesticides are really necessary and more. #3070 • Softcover booklet • 50 pages • $12.00

Learn which is better: hybrids or open-pollinated corn.

How important is humus to high quality crops?

Which fertilizer materials are harmful and which are beneficial? Practical handson knowledge that is hard to come by. #114 • Softcover booklet • 71 pages • $12.00

Join ecological farming author/researcher Harold Willis as he explains the concepts of natural farming and issues the call for cleaner forms of food and fiber production. The author discusses how lessons from nature provide the roadmap to efficiency, effectiveness and profitability. #6854 • Softcover • 367 pages • $30.00

This book weaves the story of their Helderberg Hop Farm with the colorful history of New York and New England hop farming, relays horticultural information about the unusual hop plant and the mysterious resins it produces that give beer a distinctively bitter flavor and includes an overview of the numerous native, heirloom, and modern varieties of hops and their purposes. #7408 • Softcover • 288 pages • $34.95

Growing Hybrid Hazelnuts PHILIP RUTTER, SUSAN WIEGREFE AND BRANDON RUTTERDAYWATER

Growing Hybrid Hazelnuts is the first comprehensive guide for farmers interested in how to get started growing hybrid hazelnuts, a crop designed from the very outset to address a host of problems with conventional modern agriculture. #7392 • Softcover • 260 pages • $39.95

The Grape Grower LON ROMBOUGH

This comprehensive book distills the broad knowledge and longtime personal experience of Lon Rombough, one of North America’s foremost authorities on viticulture.

From finding and preparing the right site for a vineyard to training, trellising, and pruning vines to growing new grapes from seeds and cuttings, this book offers thorough and accessible information on all the basics. #6607 • Softcover • 304 pages • $35.00

The Complete Book of Potatoes HIELKE DE JONG, JOSEPH B. SIECZKA, & WALTER DE JONG In this informative account of the best potatoes for North American gardens, three scholars share their expertise in growing potatoes. Writing for gardeners, farmers, and hobbyists, the authors provide practical as well as technical information about the potato plant, its origin, conventional and organic production techniques, pest management, and storage practices.

#7435 • Hardcover • 260 pages • $34.95

The Organic Backyard Vineyard TOM POWERS

Whether you have only a handful of vines or are planting an acre, author Tom Powers explains everything you need to know as he walks you through the entire organic grapegrowing process month by month for all regions of North America. #7149 • Softcover • 176 pages • $19.95 $17.95

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The Holistic Orchard

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ORCHARD ADVICE from Michael Phillips MICHAEL PHILLIPS

A holistic grower knows that producing healthy fruit is not about manipulating nature, but about supporting a balanced orchard ecosystem. The Holistic Orchard provides all the basic information needed to create and maintain a living orchard with insights into design, choosing varieties, and a step-by-step instructional calendar for the entire orchard year. Phillips explores the connections between home orcharding and permaculture, the importance of native pollinators, using understory, shade-tolerant berry bushes, and provides safe, homegrown solutions to pest and disease challenges for numerous pome fruits, stone fruits and berries. A book to inspire beginners as well as provide the deeper answers for those looking for field-tested organic approaches.

#7116 • Softcover • 432 pages • $39.95

Holistic Orcharding with Michael Phillips (DVD) MICHAEL PHILLIPS

Michael Phillips is a pioneering author and orchardist whose books include The Holistic Orchard and The Apple Grower. In this video, he leads viewers through a year in his own orchard season by season, demonstrating basic horticultural skills like grafting and pruning, but also revealing groundbreaking and field-tested strategies for growing apples and other tree fruits not just organically, but holistically. #7196 • DVD format • 300 minutes • $49.95

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The Biodynamic Orchard Book EHRENFRIED E. PFEIFFER & MICHAEL MALTAS This book brings together the best advice for cultivating fruit trees, berries, and shrubs, using biodynamic methods with the aim of harvesting healthy fruit free of pesticides. #7358 • Softcover • 112 pages • $16.95

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The author began his quest with an honest question: “How did our great-grandparents manage to grow good fruit, in the days when everyone was an organic grower, before we sprayed our trees with pesticides and fungicides?” Phillips combines the half-forgotten wisdom of a century ago with the latest scientific knowledge about pests that can plague apples and other fruit trees. Whether you are a commercial orchardist, organic farmer, backyard enthusiast or apple lover, you will enjoy this thorough guide to state-of-the-art organic orcharding. Clearly the best book now available on the topic.

#6338 • Softcover • 320 pages • $40.00 $33.99

The Backyard Orchardist

Grow a Little Fruit Tree

STELLA OTTO

ANN RALPH

Take advantage of the knowledge and tips of a master orchardist so you can fully enjoy the benefits of owning a backyard orchard.

Ideal for both small orchards and gardeners with fruit trees in a container. #4158 • Softcover • 320 pages • $24.95

Grow your own apples, figs, plums, cherries, pears, apricots, and peaches in even the smallest backyard! Expert pruner Ann Ralph reveals a simple yet revolutionary secret that keeps an ordinary fruit tree much smaller than normal. These great little trees take up less space, require less care, offer an easy harvest and make a fruitful addition to any home landscape. #7398 • Softcover • 168 pages • $16.95

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CROPS | 21 Growing Healthy Vegetable Crops BRIAN CALDWELL

An introduction to the basic concepts of working with nature to control diseases and pests of vegetable crops organically. Includes practical approaches to reducing disease, including strategies for site and soil preparation, irrigation, cover cropping, intercropping, and the use of mechanical barriers. How to design crop rotations to reduce pests and handle rescue treatments, including microbial and botanical applications are also covered. #7096 • Softcover • 95 pages • $12.95

Growing Fruit with a Smile NIKOLAY KURDYUMOV

This book shows you how to start an orchard from scratch for free with your own planting stock, prune with confidence, graft like a pro, hoodwink pests, and understand what trees want from you — and what you really want from them. Richly illustrated and packed with amazing information that is practical, thorough and fun! #7179 • Softcover • 532 pages • $29.95

The Backyard Berry Book STELLA OTTO

A hands-on guide to growing berries, brambles and vine fruit in the home garden written by the award-winning author of The Backyard Orchardist with cropby-crop growing instructions for strawberries, rhubarb, blackberries, raspberries, blueberries, lingonberries, currants and more. #6173 • Softcover • 284 pages • $17.95

Growing Organic Orchard Fruits DANNY L. BARNEY

Whether you are new to fruit farming or have already sold thousands of bushels, this book covers everything you need to know to successfully grow and market organic orchard fruits. This is an easy-to-follow blueprint for a thriving orchard and a profitable business. #7184 • Softcover • 544 pages • $24.95

The Bio-Integrated Farm SHAWN JADRNICEK & STEPHANIE JADRNICEK The Bio-Integrated Farm is a 21st-century manual for managing nature’s resources.

This groundbreaking book brings “system farming” and permaculture to a whole new level — with components serv at least seven functions (classical permaculture theory only seeks at least two functions).

With every additional function a component performs, the design becomes more advanced and saves more energy. #7424 • Softcover • 348 pages • $39.95

Neem — India’s Miraculous Healing Plant

Organic Field Crop Handbook

ELLEN NORTEN

CANADIAN ORGANIC GROWERS

An extremely powerful blood purifying agent and detoxicant, neem is also effective in the treatment of fever, malaria, skin diseases, dental problems, diabetes, tumors, arthritis and jaundice. In addition to its uses as a healing agent, neem has been receiving much attention for the ecological benefits it provides.

Find out how to harness the power of this respected ancient healer. #6465 • Softcover • 92 pages • $9.95

Homegrown Berries TIMBER PRESS

Homegrown Berries covers the entire process, from planting to picking that first luscious fruit. And it covers everything you’d want to grow: strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, blueberries, gooseberries, currants and elderberries. You’ll learn the best varieties for your region, how to fit them into your landscape (including borders and containers), and how to maintain them for peak harvest year after year. #7399 • Softcover • 224 pages • $19.95

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Organic Vegetable Production — A Complete Guide GARETH DAVIES & MARGI LENNARTSSON, EDS.

Covering all facets of organic vegetable production, including intensive methods, crop rotation, business planning and marketing, crop choice, fertility building, and weed, pest and disease management, this book is essential for those growing, considering or converting to organic vegetables. #6963 • Softcover • 350 pages • $39.00

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BOOK: Around the globe most people get their calories from “annual” agriculture — plants that grow fast for one season, produce lots of seeds, then die. Every single human society that has relied on annual crops for staple foods has collapsed. Restoration Agriculture explains how we can have all of the benefits of natural, perennial ecosystems and create agricultural systems that imitate nature in form and function while still providing for our food, building, fuel and many other needs — in your own backyard, farm or ranch.

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After taking over a mountain farm business in Austria at 19, Holzer earned the nickname “rebel farmer” for his persistence in using ecological farming or permaculture techniques. In this book he shares his knowledge of growing profitable fruit trees, cultivating mushrooms, and his success with pigs, poultry and building a kitchen garden on his doorstep. Holzer doesn’t just cover how to create a holistic farm, but also shows how to make a living from it too.

#7170 • Softcover • 344 pages • $30.00

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#7076 • Softcover • 256 pages • $29.95 $24.99

DVD: In this professionally produced video Mark Shepard takes viewers on a video tour of his Wisconsin farm and conducts a full-scale introductory presentation on his unique combination of permaculture, silvaculture, agroforestry and eco-farming. Understand biomes and how to choose appropriate crop-producing perennials for your region. See real-world examples of traditional and innovative modified keyline water management principles. Experience transitional strategies firsthand to move from annual commodity crops to perennials which benefit the entire farm ecosystem. #7307 • DVD format • 135 minutes • $30.00 #7307PAL • DVD-PAL format • $30.00 SPECIAL! SAVE

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Permaculture Design ARANYA

In this unique, fullcolor guide, experienced permaculture teacher Aranya leads you through the design process from beginning to end, using clear explanations, flowcharts and diagrams. While written for anyone with a basic grasp of permaculture, this book also has plenty to offer the more experienced designer. #7165 • Softcover • 208 pages • $24.95

Permaculture in Pots JULIET KEMP

Shows how to start growing food with whatever space is available. It doesn’t matter when you start your journey of container gardening — wherever you are in the year, open the book to that chapter, and it will tell you what you should be doing. #7303 • Softcover • 193 pages • $14.95

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PERMACULTURE | 23 Integrated Forest Gardening WAYNE WEISEMAN, DANIEL HALSEY & BRYCE RUDDOCK

Integrated Forest Gardening provides a comprehensive overview of permaculture by viewing perennial plant guilds within the broader contexts of agroforestry and other polycultures.

Large-scale farmers to backyard gardeners will learn to create and manage thriving ecosystems that are long-lasting and bountiful by any standard.

#7342 • Softcover • 320 pages • $45.00 $38.25

The Permaculture Handbook PETER BANE

Permaculture is a practical way to apply ecological design principles to make growing fruits, vegetables and livestock easier and more sustainable.

This handbook is a beautifully illustrated, step-by-step guide to garden farming as both an economic opportunity and a strategy for living well with less money. #7157 • Softcover • 480 pages • $44.95

The Resilient Farm & Homestead BEN FALK

More than just a book of tricks and techniques for regenerative site development, this book offers actual working results in living within complex farm-ecosystems based on research from the great thinkers in permaculture and presents a viable home-scale model for an intentional food-producing ecosystem in cold climates, and beyond. #7209 • Softcover • 320 pages • $40.00 $33.99

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The Vegetable Gardener’s Guide to Permaculture CHRISTOPHER SHEIN WITH JULIE THOMPSON

Permaculture teacher Christopher Shein’s straightforward, practical guide describes techniques and deciphers terminology to encourage gardening practices built on principles of caring for the planet and sharing its bounty. Gardeners who are ready to take their organic gardening to the next level are discovering the wisdom of a simple system that emphasizes the idea that by taking care of the earth, the earth takes care of you.

The Ultimate Guide to Natural Farming and Sustainable Living

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This is a hands-on guide, taking the beginner through each step of the design process, so that anyone can apply permaculture principles to his or her life. #7473 • Softcover • 330 pages • $19.99

Community-Scale Permaculture Farm

#7195 • Softcover • 268 pages • $24.95 $21.99

Farming the Woods KEN MUDGE & STEVE GABRIEL

Learn how to fill forests with food by viewing agriculture from a remarkably different perspective: that a healthy forest can be maintained while growing a wide range of food, medicinal, and other non-timber products. Forest farming combines the versatility of the forest with the productivity of the farm, making your homestead more sustainable and profitable. #7343 • Softcover • 384 pages • $39.95 $33.95

Edible Landscaping MICHAEL JUDD

This how-to manual describes the steps needed to transform your yard into an edible polyculture of fruits, herbs, mushrooms, and more. Michael Judd’s lively and engaging guide simplifies permaculture design for gardeners of any scale and will show you how to build a landscape that pleases both the eyes and taste buds! #7344 • Softcover • 144 pages • $24.95 $20.99

Let the Water Do the Work BILL ZEEDYK & VAN CLOTHIER

Using numerous illustrations and pictures, this guide explains the proper function of moving water and promotes the use of erosion and floodplains to restore rivers and creeks. #7345 • Softcover • 272 pages • $50.00 $42.50

NICOLE FAIRES

JOSH TROUGHT

The Community-Scale Permaculture Farm describes not only the history of the D Acres project, but its evolving principles and practices that are rooted in the land, its inhabitants, and the joy inherent in collective empowerment. #7397 • Softcover • 416 pages • $40.00

Water For Any Farm MARK SHEPARD

Why can some farmers survive so well through droughts? In the companion piece to Mark Shepard’s Acres U.S.A. bestseller, Restoration Agriculture, he explains simple but effective water management techniques that can apply to growers of orchards, livestock, crops or any type of living thing.

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Practical Permaculture JESSI BLOOM AND DAVE BOEHNLEIN

This book covers the basic principles of permaculture, showing the entire design process, and offers detailed information on the plants, water, waste, energy, shelter, food, animals, and structures that make up the garden. Filled with real-life examples from all over the world, this invaluable resource will help you turn your home garden into a sustainable ecosystem. #7400 • Softcover • 320 pages • $29.95

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24 | PERMACULTURE The Permaculture Transition Manual ROSS MARS

This superb book is packed with information on permaculture design principles, soil building, nutrient-dense food growing, including top plant and tree selections for all climatic zones. Content extends to rainwater harvesting and irrigation, human waste management, and strategies for rural properties and a unique focus on applying permaculture to small urban spaces. #7434 • Softcover • 288 pages • $34.95

Small-Scale Grain Raising GENE LOGSDON

First published in 1977, this book — from one of America’s most famous and prolific agricultural writers — became an almost instant classic among homestead gardeners and small farmers. Now fully updated, this second edition offers an entirely new generation of readers the best introduction to a wide range of both common and lesser-known specialty grains and related field crops, from corn, wheat and rye to buckwheat, millet, rice, spelt, flax, and even beans and sunflowers. #6972 • Softcover • 308 pages • $29.95

Gold in the Grass MARGARET LEATHERBARROW

Learn how one couple overcame the hardships of starting a farm while thinking outside the conventional agriculture box. #6543 • Softcover • 278 pages • $15.00 $8.00

Managing & Marketing for Pasture-Based Livestock Production

EDWARD RAYBURN, ED.

The first of a four-part series on pasturedbased livestock production from NRAES, this information-packed volume provides fundamental and essential information a producer needs to manage and market a goal-oriented forage-livestock system. #6872 • Softcover • 116 pages • $21.00

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The New Livestock Farmer REBECCA THISTLETHWAITE AND JIM DUNLOP

The New Livestock Farmer provides pasture-based production essentials for a wide range of animals, from common farm animals (cattle, poultry, pigs, sheep and goats) to more exotic species (bison, rabbits, elk and deer). #7393 • Softcover • 336 pages • $29.95 $24.00

The Small Scale Dairy

Temple Grandin’s Guide to Working with Farm Animals NEW

Award-winning author Temple Grandin is famous for her groundbreaking approach to decoding animal behavior. Now she extends her expert guidance to small-scale farming operations. Grandin’s fascinating explanations of how herd animals think and how to analyze their behavior will help you handle your livestock more safely and effectively.

#7447 • Softcover • 181 pages • $19.95

Forage Utilization

GIANACLIS CALDWELL

The Small-Scale Dairy includes everything you need to know in order to successfully produce nourishing, healthy, farm-fresh milk. Whether for home use, direct sale to the consumer, or sale to an artisanal cheesemaker, high-quality raw milk is a delicate, desirable product. #7315 • Softcover • 232 pages • $34.95 $29.50

Grass-Fed Cattle

for Pasture-Based Livestock Production

EDWARD RAYBURN, ED.

Is your pasture meeting its full potential? What supplements will you need to add to a forage-based diet? The collection of works by university professors and government representatives covers pasture-management tools including: permanent and temporary fencing; watering systems; lanes and feeding pads; animal-handling facilities and fly control. #6870 • Softcover • 185 pages • $27.00

Forage Production

JULIUS RUECHEL

The first book of its kind, Grass-Fed Cattle is an indispensable, authoritative reference for anyone interested in raising cattle or looking for a profitable farm venture. Author Julius Ruechel packs this handbook with everything a farmer needs to know, regardless of herd size and acreage, about how to raise, manage and market grass-fed cattle. #6826 • Softcover • 372 pages • $24.95 $21.99

ManagementIntensive Grazing

for Pasture-Based Livestock Production

EDWARD RAYBURN, ED.

This anthology of works from 20 experts covers a wide range of topics that will teach you how to get the most out of the plants that deliver nutrients to your livestock. The authorities touch on plant morphology; the ecology of plant communities; soils and fertilizers; nutrient management; the environmental impacts of grazing; and pests, weeds and diseases. #6871 • Softcover • 141 pages • $25.00

Organic Dairy Production

JIM GERRISH

The author spent over 22 years conducting beef forage systems research and has over 20 years of experience with commercial cattle and sheep production. Gerrish takes graziers step-by-step through the MIG system. #6712 • Softcover • 314 pages • $31.00

TEMPLE GRANDIN

SARAH FLACK

Healthful organic milk comes from healthy cows, which come from good livestock management practices, including access to high-quality stored forages and pastures, which in turn come from healthy soils. #6811 • Softcover • 96 pages • $12.95 $10.99

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Ranching Full-Time on 3 Hours a Day

Reproduction & Animal Health CHARLES WALTERS & GEARLD FRY

This book represents the combined experience and wisdom of two leaders in sustainable cattle production. Learn how to “read” an animal, what linear measurement is, why linear measurement selects ideal breeding stock, the nuances of bull fertility, the strengths of classic cattle breeds, the role of pastures, and the mineral diet in cattle health.

CODY HOLMES No amount of the hard, sweating work you do on the ranch — if you continue to make poor decisions — can bring you to the reality of successful ranching. Holmes has found that to be really successful, the critical factors are your decision-making and planning abilities. You too can feed more people than other ranchers, have grasslands that are more productive, and enjoy raising a family without spending all your time working.

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#6595 • Softcover • 218 pages • $24.00

Grass, the Forgiveness of Nature CHARLES WALTERS

In this wide-ranging survey of grass forages and pastureland, Charles Walters makes the case that grass is not just for cows and horses — that in fact it is the most nutritious food produced by nature, as well as the ultimate soil conditioner.

#7071 • Softcover • 187 pages • $30.00

#6806 • Softcover • 303 pages • $25.00

Newman Turner’s Classics Back in Print Newman Turner was the grandfather of modern intensive grazing.

His innovations 60 years ago are only now being rediscovered. He was an associate of such luminaries as Sir Albert Howard, Lady Eve Balfour and others.

Fertility Farming

Fertility Pastures

NEWMAN TURNER

NEWMAN TURNER

Fertility Farming explores an approach that makes minimal use of plowing, eschews chemical fertilizers and pesticides, and emphasizes soil fertility via crop rotation, composting, cover cropping and manure application. Historic reprint.

Turner details his methods of intensive pasture-based production of beef and dairy cows in a practical guide to profitable, labor-saving livestock production. He developed a system of complex “herbal ley mixtures,” or blends of pasture grasses and herbs. Historic reprint.

#6909 • Softcover • 247 pages • $30.00

#6911 • Softcover • 195 pages • $30.00

Herdsmanship NEWMAN TURNER

Turner explains that real livestock health begins with true natural farming disciplines such as composting, biodiverse pastures with deep-rooted forages, herbs, and sub-soiling, as well as the avoidance of chemical panaceas.

Historic reprint. #6910 • Softcover • 239 pages • $30.00

Cure Your Own Cattle NEWMAN TURNER

While the subject of natural veterinary care has grown and matured, Turner’s clear and simple systems and advice remind farmers of the true fundamentals that consistently work.

Historic reprint. #6912 • Softcover • 96 pages • $10.00

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Animal Production Systems for Pasture-Based Livestock Production

EDWARD RAYBURN, ED.

This is the final of a four-book series. Sixtytwo authors from various universities, government and industry collaborated, the manuscript grew to over 1,300 pages in length, was peer reviewed, and then revised. This book covers animal ecology and forage behavior, basic animal nutrition, beef, dairy, sheep, goat, and horse nutrition, and management and parasite control for pasture-based systems. #6984 • Softcover • 246 pages • $37.00

Small-Scale Livestock Farming CAROL EKARIUS

Essential reading for anyone raising livestock — or planning to — the author teaches how to create a working, profitable system that fits your own farm. Covering cattle, poultry, pigs, sheep, horses and goats, the book also includes profiles of successful operators. Don’t let the words “smallscale” scare you off, this book is targeting real farms of all sizes. The Stockman Grass Farmer called this book a “must read.” #6447 • Softcover • 192 pages • $18.95 $16.99

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26 | LIVESTOCK Essential Guide to Calving Whether you keep a singlefamily milk cow or oversee a large herd, there is much to be gained by improving your knowledge of bovine pregnancies and deliveries. #6921 • Softcover • 325 pages • $24.95 $21.99

Quality Pasture ALLAN NATION

Nation offers down-toearth, low-cost tactics to create high-energy pasture that will reduce or eliminate expensive inputs or purchased feeds. Learn to match pasture quality to livestock class for seasonal dairying, beef production, calf rearing and multi-species grazing. Punctuated by examples of real people making real profits, it details such essential topics as pasture silage making, stored forages, extending the grazing season and more. #6179 • Softcover • 288 pages • $32.50

Kick the Hay Habit JIM GERRISH

Author Jim Gerrish acknowledges that hay and haymaking have been an integral part of animal agriculture for millennia, but many livestock producers are now too busy baling hay to effectively manage their operations and make the profit they deserve. Since year-round grazing is possible, Kick the Hay Habit is written for every grazier from beginner to experienced. #6999 • Softcover • 224 pages • $27.00

Salad Bar Beef JOEL SALATIN

No Risk Ranching

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RANCHING ADVICE from Greg Judy

GREG JUDY After being forced to liquidate his herd to pay off debts, grazier Greg Judy tried a different approach — custom grazing on leased land which allowed him to pay off his farm and home loans within three years. In this useful guide, Judy shares his hard-won knowledge: finding idle land to lease; calculating the cost; writing a land lease contract; lowering risk through custom grazing; using cost/ share programs; and much more. No Risk Ranching: Custom Grazing on Leased Land was written to help others avoid the same mistakes Judy made while earning profits from grazing. #6547 • Softcover • 240 pages • $28.00

Comeback Farms GREG JUDY Continuing where No Risk Ranching ended, Comeback Farms — subtitled Rejuvenating Soils, Pastures and Profits with Livestock Grazing Management — expands on the cattle operation and includes first-hand experience with high density multi-species grazing specifically for sheep, goats and pigs. Tips are included to work with nature without costly inputs, and to let the animals be your labor force. Personal testimonial is given for revitalizing hayed out, scruffy, weedy pastures and turning them into grazing landscapes that are highly productive, profitable and grow lush grass — no matter what size herd you have. #6916 • Softcover • 278 pages • $29.00

Knowledge Rich Ranching

Pasture Profits with Stocker Cattle

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ALLAN NATION

In today’s cattle market, knowledge separates the rich from the rest — this book will give you the knowledge you need to be a more successful beef producer. #6506 • Softcover • 336 pages • $32.00

The premise of this book is that a farmer can make money year-in and year-out regardless of the price of cattle following the grazier’s art. #4189 • Softcover • 224 pages • $24.95

Keeping a Family Cow

Homeopathy for the Herd

JOANN S. GROHMAN

C. EDGAR SHEAFFER, V.M.D.

Offering creative alternatives for an industry in trouble, Joel Salatin’s “salad bar beef” program is a proven prototype for making a superb profit from a small cow herd regardless of the commodity price of calves. A complete how-to guide for entering the natural, grass-fed beef business, successfully and profitably.

Keeping a Family Cow not only has stood the test of time, but it remains the goto inspirational manual for raising a family milk cow — nearly 40 years after its first publication.

This information-packed book will help you start using homeopathic medicines for cows. Includes case studies and practical examples from both dairy and beef operations.

#6196 • Softcover • 384 pages • $30.00 $26.99

#7283 • Softcover • 296 pages • $19.95 $16.95

#6580 • Softcover • 206 pages • $24.00

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LIVESTOCK | 27 Storey’s Guide to Raising Meat Goats

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The Energetic Goat

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CARRIE EASTMAN

MAGGIE SAYER

This updated edition thoroughly explains the basics of selecting a breed, buying and raising healthy animals. There is plenty of basic healthcare information for preventing disease, addressing common ailments and breeding safely.

The Energetic Goat provides step-by-step instruction on basic applied kinesiology techniques, including common variations, as well as guidance on how to adapt other techniques to suit your personal preferences. Newcomers to alternative veterinary medicine will find the many photographs, diagrams, and sample case histories particularly useful, while veteran practitioners will discover new tricks and techniques to add to their repertoire, from the never-before-in-print human reflex point chart (used for surrogate testing) to the cross-reference chart of common goat health problems and popular treatments.

#6860 • Softcover • 344 pages • $19.95 $17.95

Storey’s Guide to Raising Sheep

#7389 • Softcover • 136 pages • $24.00

The Barn Guide to Treating Dairy Cows Naturally HUBERT J. KARREMAN, V.M.D.

A hands-on guide designed for quick and easy use.

Presents a thorough examination of animals in the barn, lists symptoms with many pictures, and shares possible conclusions and treatments that Dr. Karreman has found to work consistently during his years of work100% ing with organic cows. Introduces the fundamentals COLOR OS of organic and holistic thinking about livestock. The PHOTHO UT THROUG companion guide to Treating Dairy Cow Naturally, this BOOK! book includes a physical exam section, with nearly 100 case studies organized by symptom and valuable field-tested natural treatments.

#7065 • Softcover • 191 pages • $40.00

Treating Dairy Cows Naturally HUBERT J. KARREMAN, V.M.D.

Dr. Karreman describes how cows can be treated for a wide variety of problems with plant-derived and biological medicines. Drawing upon veterinary treatments from before synthetic pharmaceuticals, and tempering them with modern knowledge and clinical experience, Dr. Karreman bridges the world of natural treatments with life in the barn in a rational and easy-tounderstand way. In describing treatments for common dairy cow diseases, he covers practical aspects of biologics, botanical medicines, homeopathic remedies, acupuncture and conventional medicine. #6672 • Hardcover • 412 pages • $40.00

Four-Seasons Organic Cow Care

HUBERT J. KARREMAN, V.M.D.

Acclaimed veterinarian Hubert Karreman calls on his nearly thirty years of experience in organic and holistic medicine to guide you on how to recognize, treat and prevent a year’s worth of problems with your herd. With biology and managing animals, there are no hard-and-fast rules, however, there is a rhyme and reason explaining why certain conditions are associated with each season. From pneumonia in the winter to heat stroke in the summer, this farmerfriendly book will introduce early detection techniques, prevention methods, and the most effective organic certified treatments available for livestock.

PAULA SIMMONS & CAROL EKARIUS

A classic guide to smallscale sheep raising explains breed selection, lambing, feeding, housing, pasture maintenance and disease prevention and treatment and includes information to ensure the health and well-being of every sheep, whether for meat or fiber, in the flock. #7030 • Softcover • 448 pages • $19.95 $17.95

Natural Sheep Care PAT COLEBY

A comprehensive guide for all breeders of sheep, whether for wool, meat or milk. Coleby draws on decades of experience in natural animal husbandry to provide essential information for both organic and conventional farmers. This edition has been expanded significantly in the areas of breeding for finer wool and meat, land management, sheep management, and treatment of health problems. #6734 • Softcover • 232 pages • $25.00

The Keys To Herd Health (DVD) JERRY BRUNETTI

Eco-consultant and livestock feed specialist Jerry Brunetti details the keynotes essential for a successful livestock operation. #6803 • DVD format • 57 minutes • $25.00 #6803PAL • DVD format • 57 minutes • $25.00

#7418 • Softcover • 256 pages • $24.00

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28 | LIVESTOCK Paddock Shift: Changing Views on Grassland Farming

The Art and Science of Grazing SARAH FLACK

NEW

The Art and Science of Grazing will allow farmers to gain a solid understanding of the key principles of grazing management so they can both design and manage successful grazing systems.

The book’s unique approach presents information first from the perspective of pasture plants, and then from the livestock perspective — helping farmers understand both plant and animal needs before setting up a grazing system. #7429 • Softcover • 240 pages • $39.95 $35.95

The Art & Science of Shepherding MICHEL MEURET, PH.D. & FRED PROVENZA, PH.D., EDITORS

Through academic study and analysis and in-depth interviews with master shepherds, this book reveals traditional yet sophisticated shepherding methods and how the traditional moving of the animals is more fitting to many landscapes than even the most progressive rotational grazing and moveable fencing systems. #7308 • Softcover • 434 pages • $30.00

Herd Bull Fertility JAMES E. DRAYSON

Herd Bull Fertility will teach you how to recognize whether a bull is fertile even before the semen test. Generously illustrated with photographs and diagrams, this manual is a must for the cattle grower choosing a bull for his breeding program. #6582 • Softcover • 135 pages • $22.00

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ALLAN NATION

Stockman Grass Farmer’s Allan Nation’s collection of his colums give the reader a concise version of his thoughts in developing low-input grass farming. #7463 • Softcover • 171 pages • $24.99

Natural Cattle Care PAT COLEBY

Natural Cattle Care encompasses every facet of farm management, from the mineral components of the soils cattle graze over, to issues of fencing, shelter and feed regimens. Coleby presents a comprehensive analysis of farming techniques that keep the health of the animal in mind. She brings a wealth of animal husbandry experiences to bear in this analysis of the serious problems of contemporary farming practices, focusing on how poor soils lead to mineral-deficient plants and ailing farm animals. #6490 • Softcover • 224 pages • $20.00

Holistic Veterinary Care (DVD) JERRY BRUNETTI & HUBERT J. KARREMAN, V.M.D.

Strategies and tools for successful holistic herd health management — with an emphasis on natural alternatives.

#6805 • DVD format • 52 minutes • $25.00 #6805PAL • DVD format • 52 minutes • $25.00

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Land, Livestock & Life: A Grazier’s Guide to Finance ALLAN NATION

Using successful grass farmers as examples, Allan Nation explains how leasing land can add up to profits with lower risk than ownership, and can be a means for young people to get into grassland agriculture today. #7464 • Softcover • 223 pages • $34.95

Homeopathy in Organic Livestock Production GLEN DUPREE, D.V.M.

Contains a discussion of common maladies so readers can recognize symptom complexes and take logical steps toward a remedy. #6992 • Softcover • 176 pages • $20.00

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Udder Health: Large Herd Edition

Natural Horse Care PAT COLEBY

JAN HULSEN, THEO LAM, YNTE H. SCHUKKEN With a structured approach, a dairy farm can achieve and maintain first-rate udder health. Udder Health contains the building blocks for optimal organization of housing, care, and management.

It follows you, the farmer, through your daily/ weekly/monthly and annual routines, since udder health should not be regarded as separate from other activities on the farm. This edition pays extra attention to large dairy farms. After all, a systemic approach to udder health on those farms is even more important. Putting into practice set goals and signaling/monitoring problems are described extensively. This way they can be tackled systematically.

Do you know how to organize milking so that it takes the minimum time and runs smoothly and consistent with each cow? Do you know how to treat a cow with udder problems? Or how to overcome a cell count problem? In the end it’s up to you, but this book is an invaluable starting point. Its practical text, problem solving flowcharts and clear photos and illustrations make Udder Health an accessible and interesting guide for every dairy farmer. You’ll find yourself turning to Udder Health time and again. The practical advise it offers will help you improve the understanding of udder health on your farm and achieve higher. #7445 • Softcover • 64 pages • $28.00

Humane Livestock Handling TEMPLE GRANDIN & MARK DEESING

Improve your livestock operations as well as the profitability of your farm by raising healthier, more contented animals.

Alternative Treatments for Ruminant Animals PAUL DETTLOFF, D.V.M.

Drawing on 36 years of veterinary practice, Dr. Paul Dettloff presents a natural, sustainable approach to ruminant health. #6654 • Softcover • 260 pages • $28.00 Share & Save! 2-4 copies $21.00 ea.; 5-9 copies $18.50 ea.; 10+ copies $16.50 ea.

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Dirt Hog

#6492 • Softcover • 164 pages • $20.00

Natural Goat Care PAT COLEBY As natural browsers, goats have higher mineral requirements than other domestic animals, so diet is a critical element to maintaining optimal livestock health. In Natural Goat Care, consultant Pat Coleby shows how to solve health problems both with natural herbs and medicines and the ultimate cure, bringing the soil into healthy balance. #6491 • Softcover • 374 pages • $28.00

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#6933 • Softcover • 227 pages • $24.95 $21.99

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Natural Horse Care addresses a broad spectrum of comprehensive health care, detailing dozens of horse ailments, discussing their origins, and offering proven, natural treatments.

KELLY KLOBER In today’s market, range-rearing of swine provides the family farm with a key venture for diversification and cash flow — perhaps no other large animal enterprise offers as fast a turnaround on investment.

This comprehensive manual includes sections on housing and fencing, selection and breeding, herd maintenance, feeds and feeding, marketing and more.

#6844 • Softcover • 320 pages • $25.00

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Storey’s Guide to Raising Turkeys

Holistic Goat Care GIANCALIS CALDWELL

3rd Edition

Holistic Goat Care will empower even novice goat owners to confidently diagnose and treat most of the ailments that goats might experience. For the experienced goat farmer, the book offers a depth of insight and approaches to treatment not found in any other book.

DON SCHRIDER A one-stop reference for humanely raising healthy turkeys. This all-new edition of the bestselling classic includes everything you need to know to raise turkeys successfully, from selecting the right breeds to housing, feeding, breeding, health care, marketing and much more.

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#7188 • Softcover • 320 pages • $19.95 $17.95

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The RabbitRaising Problem Solver KAREN PATRY

This resource from expert Karen Patry has the answers to all your questions about raising rabbits — from housing and feeding to breeding, kindling, and health. Whether you’re raising one pet rabbit or running a commercial rabbit farm, this accessible guide is the reference you need.

Free-Range Chicken Gardens JESSI BLOOM

It’s true, you can keep chickens and have a beautiful garden, too. Fresh eggs aren’t the only benefit — chickens can help your garden grow and thrive, just as your garden does for your chickens. This handbook covers everything a gardener needs to know, including chicken-keeping basics, simple garden plans and more. #7139 • Softcover • 221 pages • $19.95 $17.95

#7346 • Softcover • 328 pages • $19.95 $17.95

Organic Livestock Handbook ANNE MACEY, ED.

GAIL DAMEROW Poultry authority Gail Damerow explains exactly how to hatch healthy baby chickens, ducklings, goslings, turkey poults, and guinea keets, addressing everything from selecting a breed and choosing the best incubator to ensuring proper set-up and sanitary conditions, understanding embryo development, and feeding and caring for newborn chicks in a brooder. #7191 • Softcover • 240 pages • $24.95 $21.99

Humane & Healthy Poultry Production KARMA GLOS

This practical guidebook explains the principles of organic livestock husbandry and includes chapters on animal welfare, nutrition and health care, and converting to organic methods.

This introduction to healthy poultry production, subtitled A Manual for Organic Growers, is directed at beginning poultry farmers and those wanting to diversify or convert to organic poultry production. A guide to the basics, this book covers the “need to know” topics.

#6456 • Softcover • 179 pages • $30.00

#7079 • Softcover • 104 pages • $12.95 $10.99

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Talking Chicken KELLY KLOBER

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JOEL SALATIN

A resurgence of interest in heritage poultry breeds has invigorated poultry raising on family farms and backyards across the country. These are the birds that can and should be producing for today’s marketplace — for consumers that have come to value locally bred and grown, historically significant agricultural food. This book offers valuable insight into rare, heritage and heirloom breed selection, chick raising, breeding and marketing so you can start your own fully sustainable heritage chicken flock and raise eggs or meat for your family or small farm business.

A proven production model is described which is capable of producing an income from a small acreage equal or superior to that of most off-farm jobs. The greatest lesson learned is that if we produce a high enough quality product, the marketplace will bend and adapt itself to meet our needs, wants and desires. #4187 • Softcover • 371 pages • $30.00 $26.99

The SmallScale Poultry Flock

#7067 • Softcover • 396 pages • $28.00

A comprehensive guide to raising allnatural poultry for the homesteader and small-scale farmer.

Ussery has a practical whole-system approach to working with chickens and other domestic fowl that is a sustainable model.

Backyard Poultry Naturally

#7088 • Softcover • 416 pages • $39.95 $33.95

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Beyond the Chicken

From housing to feeding, from selection to breeding, this book covers everything the backyard farmer needs to know about poultry husbandry — including preventative and curative herbal medicines and homeopathics. The author takes a permaculture point of view in raising poultry, creating a diverse base of plant life for the birds to choose from, all cohesively fitting into the landscape and overall farm.

Complete enough for the beginner, yet experienced poultry farmers will find the book packed with techniques and ideas found nowhere else.

KELLY KLOBER

#6452 • Softcover • 135 pages • $20.00

Storey’s Illustrated Guide to Poultry Breeds CAROL EKARIUS

Presented here, breed by breed, are more than 120 barnyard fowl ­— from chickens and turkeys to emus and pheasants. Includes stunning color photography of each breed. #6885 • Softcover • 288 pages • $24.95 $21.99

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The newfound interest in heritage breeds of chicken has created a unique opportunity for small farmers to reintroduce consumers to other types of poultry. From geese to quail to peahens to turkeys, Klober discusses the pros and cons of each and how to best fit an alternative poultry venture into your farming operation. Filled with humorous personal anecdotes and practical advice on feeding, housing, pricing and marketing, this book is a must-read for the small farmer interested in an alternative to the ever-present white egg-laying chicken or any lover of poultry.

#7309 • Softcover • 216 pages • $24.00

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32 | BEEKEEPING Keeping Bees in Horizontal Hives GEORGE DE LAYENS We cannot improve beekeeping by going farther and farther away from bees’ natural tendencies. Instead, pick the hive model that is best matched to your locale, populate it with local bees, and the results will speak for themselves.

With this wisdom, Georges de Layens reinforces his position as Europe’s foremost beekeeping authority. Originally published in 1897, Keeping Bees in Horizontal Hives boasts over 100 years of successful use, with one million hives in use even today. Keeping bees can be easier than you even imagined!

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#7443 • Softcover • 374 Pages • $39.95

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Natural Beekeeping Book & DVD ROSS CONRAD BOOK: Now revised and updated with new resources, Natural Beekeeping offers all the latest information in a book that has already proven invaluable for organic beekeepers.

The new edition offers the same holistic, sensible alternative to conventional chemical practices with a program of natural hive management, but offers new sections on a wide range of subjects: the basics of bee biology and anatomy; urban beekeeping; identifying and working with queens; parasitic mite control; and hive diseases. #6850 • Softcover • 272 pages • $34.95 $29.50

DVD: In this filmed workshop, noted Vermont beekeeper Ross Conrad flips the script on traditional approaches by proposing a program of selective breeding and natural hive management. The video presents a comprehensive survey of natural beekeeping methods and challenges, including segments filmed in the field. #7197 • DVD format • 193 minutes • $24.95 $20.99

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Top-Bar Beekeeping

The Thinking Beekeeper

LES CROWDER & HEATHER HARRELL

C. HEMENWAY

Beekeepers continue to face tremendous challenges, from pests such as varroa and tracheal mites to the mysterious but devastating phenomenon known as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). Yet in backyards and on rooftops all over the world, bees are being raised successfully in top-bar hives, without antibiotics, miticides, or other chemical inputs. In Top-Bar Beekeeping, authors Crowder and Harrell guide you through the specifics of this innovative, natural, low-stress approach to hive management.

Conventional beekeeping requires a significant investment and has a steep learning curve. The alternative? Consider beekeeping outside the box. The Thinking Beekeeper is the definitive do-it-yourself guide to natural beekeeping in top bar hives. #7239 • Softcover • 208 pages • $24.95

Toward Saving the Honeybee

#7153 • Softcover • 192 pages • $24.95 $20.99

Top-Bar Beekeeping (DVD) LES CROWDER & HEATHER HARRELL Les and Heather Harrell, authors of Top-Bar Beekeeping, discuss everything from hive management techniques to how to harvest and process honey and beeswax to the best plants to grow for the foraging bees.

The natural, low-stress methods outlined in this video are perfect for home or hobbyist beekeepers seeking to manage bees intensively and holistically. #7198 • DVD format • 50 minutes • $14.95 $12.50

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2nd Edition

GUNTHER HAUK

The first edition of this book was published in 2002, NEW four years before the term “Colony collapse disorder” was coined to describe the widespread and growing crisis of honeybee population loss. As we approach the third decade of the twenty-first century, each passing year the situation becomes more dire. #7469 • Softcover • 144 pages • $18.95

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BEEKEEPING/FARM BUSINESS & MARKETING | 33 Homegrown Honey Bees ALETHEA MORRISON

This beginner’s guide explains everything you need to know to keep bees successfully.

Spectacular photography brings the inner workings of the hive to life, while the playful text gives you the information you need to make it through your first year. #7187 • Softcover • 160 pages • $14.95 $13.25

Attracting Native Pollinators THE XERCES SOCIETY

Attracting Native Pollinators offers a complete action plan for protecting nature’s hardest working and industrious creatures and includes identification of pollinators, how to build and manage healthy habitats, advice on building nests and offers plans for pollinator gardens, meadows and other landscapes. #7108 • Softcover • 384 pages • $29.95 $26.50

Advanced Top Bar Beekeeping CHRISTY HEMENWAY

Christy Hemenway’s second book breaks new ground in the quest to shift the dominant agricultural paradigm away from chemical-laden, industrial monoculture and towards healthy, diverse local farming. See what all the buzz is about with this must-read guide for the new breed of thinking beekeeper.

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#7454 • Softcover • 161 Pages • $29.95

Keeping Bees with a Smile FEDOR LAZUTIN

An invaluable resource for beginners and professionals alike, this richly illustrated book is complete with plans for making bee-friendly, wellinsulated horizontal hives with extra-deep frames — plus other fascinating advice you won’t find anywhere else. #7301 • Softcover • 402 pages • $34.95

Fields of Farmers JOEL SALATIN

Our culture desperately needs a generational transfer of millions of farm acres facing abandonment, development, or amalgamation into ever-larger holdings.

Based on his decades of experience with interns and multigenerational partnerships at Polyface Farm, farmer and author Joel Salatin digs deep into the problems and solutions surrounding this land — and knowledge — transfer crisis. #7234 • Softcover • 304 pages • $25.00 $22.50

Build Your Own Beekeeping Equipment TONY PISANO

These step-by-step instructions show you how to build everything needed to keep bees successfully, including beehive bodies, supers, covers, hive stands, frames, feeders and more. #7293 • Softcover • 160 pages • $19.95 $17.95

Grassfed to Finish ALLAN NATION Grass-finished beef is hot — so hot that demand outpaces supply. Producers are rushing to fill the void, and in the process are harvesting beeves too early, using the wrong genetics, and grazing less-than-desirable pasture systems. Grassfed to Finish shows how to create a consistently tender, flavorful, gourmet grassfed product all year long. Gourmet grass-finished beef can earn $600-$1,000 a head or more while satisfying and creating a loyal customer base. The production and marketing strategy outlined in Grassfed to Finish will help producers create gourmetquality and reap the highest profits. #6807 • Softcover • 304 pages • $33.00

Market Farming Success LYNN BYCZYNSKI

An insider’s guide to market gardening and farming for those in the business of growing and selling food, flowers, herbs or plants. Condensing decades of growing experience from every part of the United States and Canada, the editor of Growing for Market magazine identifies key areas that usually trip up beginners and shows growers how to avoid common obstacles. This book differentiates between market gardens, market farms and vegetable farms. #7285 • Softcover • 288 pages • $29.95 $24.99

The Lean Farm BEN HARTMAN

By explaining the lean system for identifying and eliminating waste and introducing efficiency in every aspect of the farm operation, The Lean Farm makes the case that small-scale farming can be an attractive career option for young people who are interested in growing food for their community. #7407 • Softcover • 256 pages • $29.95 $26.95

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34 | FARM BUSINESS & MARKETING Soil Sisters LISA KIVIRIST

The first manual of its kind, this authoritative and comprehensive blueprint presents practical considerations from a woman’s perspective, covering everything from business planning to tool use and ergonomics to integrating children and family in farm operations. Key topics include finding your niche, farm start-up basics, grants and loans for women farmers and more. Also contains case studies, ideas and advice from over 100 successful women farmers. #7432 • Softcover • 240 pages • $24.95

Sustainable Vegetable Production from Start-Up to Market VERNON P. GRUBINGER

Explore the full range of processes for moderate-scale vegetable production using ecological practices. #6776 • Softcover • 268 pages • $38.00

Made from Scratch How to Start and Operate a Successful Organic Container Plant Business

LOUISE PLACEK

This comprehensive guide takes you step-by-step through the whole process. Chapters thoroughly cover such topics as: start-up; greenhouse options; certification/licenses/ fees; botany basics; growing container plants; making compost; disease and pest management; demonstration gardens; marketing and merchandising, and more.

#6581 • Softcover • 287 pages • $24.00

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Whole-Farm Planning

Family Friendly Farming

ELIZABETH HENDERSON & KARL NORTH

JOEL SALATIN

Learn how to assess the whole farm so that you can understand what you are managing — including people, money, and physical and mental assets; as well as how to analyze the farm ecosystem, such as the water and mineral cycles, the dynamics of the biological community, and the energy flow.

Popular author and successful farmer Joel Salatin shares his vision for an alternative to the hectic and fragmented condition of American families. Family friendly farming, he argues, offers a real solution to this critical social issue, by developing more multi-generational agrarian home-based businesses, populating the land with passionate stewards, and insuring a clean, nutritious food supply for future generations. #6500 • Softcover • 402 pages • $30.00 $26.99

#7081 • Softcover • 96 pages • $12.95 $10.99

Homemade for Sale

Farms with a Future REBECCA THISTLETHWAITE

Farms with a Future introduces readers to some of the country’s most innovative farmers who are embracing their “inner entrepreneur:” unabashedly marketing and sharing the pride they have for what they produce; building systems and finding efficiencies and cost savings so they don’t have to keep raising prices every year; shying away from huge debt loads by developing ways to build their businesses patiently over time using earned income or creative arrangements with their community of customers.

LISA KIVIRIST AND JOHN IVANKO

Homemade for Sale is the first authoritative guide to conceiving and launching your own home-based food start-up. Packed with profiles of successful cottage food entrepreneurs, this comprehensive and accessible resource covers everything you need to get cooking for your customers, creating items that by their very nature are specialized and unique. #7403 • Softcover • 240 pages • $22.95

Marketing Grassfed Products Profitably

#7173 • Softcover • 306 pages • 29.95 $24.99

CAROLYN NATION

Rebirth of the Small Family Farm BOB & BONNIE GREGSON

This is a concise, yet complete handbook for starting a successful organic farm based on the community-supported agriculture concept. Written for farmers and non-farmers alike, the book illustrates how “two middle-aged novices” made a decent living on less than two acres of land.

The model explained in the book is an updated version of the diverse market gardens/ farms found throughout recorded history.

Not just a theory book, it details specific tools, techniques and how-to information. #6288 • Softcover • 64 pages • $12.00

With a focus on ranchbased consumer marketing, the marketing principles included are universal and contain much for everyone to become better marketers in any competitive marketplace. #7075 • Softcover • 368 pages • $28.50

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Honor System Marketing

The Small Scale Cheese Business

JEFF MCPHERSON

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A heartwarming snapshot of the horse-and-buggy era? On the contrary — Jeff Mcpherson reports that honor systems are making a comeback in the 21st century. Drawing on years of personal experience and interviews with dozens of fellow farmers, business owners and customers, he shows how you can make the honor system work to your advantage. Honor System Marketing tells how to adapt honor marketing to fit your own needs and capacities. Mcpherson details how to avoid common pitfalls, manage finances, and maintain a sense of optimism.

GIANACLIS CALDWELL

There has never been a better time to be making and selling great cheese.

The number of artisan cheesemakers has doubled in recent years, and many of the industry’s newcomers are “farmstead” producers — those who work only with the milk of their own animals. #7314 • Softcover • 256 pages • $34.95 $29.50

The Market Gardener

#7070 • Softcover • 216 pages • $19.95

A Farmer’s Guide to the Bottom Line

Time Management Tips for Farmers CAROLINE OWENS

CHARLES WALTERS

The Farmer’s Office JULIA SHANKS

#6535 • Softcover • 212 pages • $24.00

RON MACHER

Learn about alternative crops and livestock, valueadded products, niche markets and more. #6463 • Softcover • 288 pages • $19.95 $17.95

Author and farmer JeanMartin Fortier shows by example how to start a market garden and make it both productive and profitable. Making a living wage farming without big capital outlay or acreages may be closer than you think. #7337 • Softcover • 224 pages • $24.95

This book is the culmination of Walters’ lifetime of experience, written in his honest, straight-ahead style, outlining how the small farmer-entrepreneur can find his way to a profitable bottom line.

Making Your Small Farm Profitable

JEAN-MARTIN FORTIER

NEW Days too short, list too long? Is being too busy taking the fun out of farming? In this book, farmers from the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture (PASA) speak from the heart about how they manage their days to reach short and long-term goals while maintaining work/ life balance. #7450 • Softcover • 136 pages • $19.95

The author distills years of teaching and business consulting with farmers into this comprehensive, accessible guide. She covers all aspects of launching, running and growing a successful farm business through effective bookkeeping and business management, providing tools to make managerial decisions, apply for a loan or other financing, and offering general business and strategy advice for growing a business. #7431 • Softcover • 288 pages • $24.95

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36 | FARM BUSINESS & MARKETING/ECO-PHILOSOPHY Your Successful Farm Business

The Organic Farmer’s Business HB & Business Advice for Organic Farmers (DVD)

JOEL SALATIN

Twenty years ago Joel Salatin wrote You Can Farm, which has launched thousands of farm entrepreneurs around the world. With NEW another 20 years of experience under his belt, bringing him to the half-century mark as a fulltime farmer, he decided to build on that foundation with a sequel, a graduate level curriculum.

RICHARD WISWALL

#7455 • Softcover • 316 pages • $30.00

Horse-Powered Farming for the 21st Century

Book: Challenging the conventional notion that there’s no real money in farming, Wiswall argues that farmers should be well-compensated and shows how to make it happen. #6956 • Softcover • 200 pages • $34.95

STEPHEN LESLIE

As the numbers of adherents to this way of NEW life grow, ecologically minded farmers in their fields are developing efficient horse-drawn systems, and equipment manufacturers in small shops all across North America and Europe are coming forth with new innovations―with working horses, mules, donkeys, and oxen at the heart of it.

BUNDLE & SAVE!

DVD: Richard Wiswall shares his story and offers detailed advice on how to make your farm production more efficient, better manage your employees and finances, and turn a profit. #7151 • DVD format • 122 minutes • $24.95

#S-6956 • DVD & Softcover • $49.95

#7458 • Hardcover • 401 pages • $45.00

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Genetic Roulette (Book) JEFFREY M. SMITH

The World According to Monsanto (Book) MARIE-MONIQUE ROBIN

This book shatters the biotech industry’s claim that genetically modified foods are safe. Sixty-five health risks of everyday foods are presented in easy-to-read, two-page spreads. One page for quick scanning (it includes bullets, illustrations and quotes) and the other for fully referenced text, describing both research studies and theoretical risks.

This is the first book devoted to telling the whole Monsanto story, from the release of PCBs early last century through the Agent Orange horror to the firm’s reinvention in the past 20 years as a “life sciences” corporation.

#6873 • Hardcover • 312 pages • $27.95 $23.75

The World According to Monsanto (DVD)

Genetic Roulette (DVD)

MARIE-MONIQUE ROBIN, DIRECTOR

#7017 • Softcover • 352 pages • $19.95

This seminal documentary provides compelling evidence to help explain the deteriorating health of Americans, especially among children, and offers a recipe for protecting ourselves and our future.

Monsanto, one of the world’s biggest agro-chemical biotech companies and undoubtedly reaching for global domination, is associated with some of the most toxic products ever sold and has a controversial past checkered with misleading reports, pressure tactics, collusion and attempted corruption.

#7174 • DVD format • 85 minutes • $19.95 $16.95

#7015 • DVD format • 109 minutes • $19.95 $16.95

JEFFREY M. SMITH, DIRECTOR

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A Beast of Muddy Brain CHARLES WALTERS

Drawing upon his own experiences of life in the 1930s, as well as a lifetime of reporting on agriculture and economics, Charles Walters has crafted a work of fiction. The tale that unfolds in this intensely gripping, often instructive, novel begins in the Dust Bowl of the 1930s and grows with its characters through war and peace. Here is the real story of what happens when public policy takes the food from the farmer, giving him very little in return. Page after page, Walters adds to the best of times the fact of rural worst of times, answering questions that are still to be asked.

Unforgiven

#6904 • Softcover • 380 pages • $24.00

All new wealth enters an economy as raw materials provided by nature. By fairly monetizing these raw materials, an economy is diverse, balanced and free of debt. This is not happening. This book addresses a crisis — an increasing wealth gap, a crumbling internal economy, family farmers driven from their land and small, privately owned businesses becoming extinct, ultimately leaving millions of Americans dependent on government handouts. In Unforgiven, Walters presents not only the causes and effects of our continuing rural and urban decay, but also a way to stop it.

Farm to Table DARRYL BENJAMIN AND LYNDON VIRKLER

All ancient and indigenous peoples insisted their knowledge of plant medicines came from the plants themselves and not through trial-and-error experimentation.

Divided into two distinct but complementary halves, “Farm” and “Table,” this book examines the roots of our contemporary industrial food system, from before the “Green Revolution” to Earl Butz. Learn of the many threats to ecology and human health that our corporatized food system poses, but also the many alternatives. The book then illuminates best practices and strategies for schools, restaurants, healthcare facilities, and other businesses to partner with local farmers and food producers.

#6779 • Softcover • 336 pages • $18.95

#7427 • Hardcover • 272 pages • $49.95 $44.95

#7025 • Softcover • 200 pages • $15.95

The Secret Teachings of Plants STEPHEN HARROD BUHNER

#7426 • Softcover • 256 pages • $29.95 $26.95

This is a primer that makes clear that the only economics that count must square well with the observed facts. Those facts say that values placed on raw materials as they enter the economic cycle govern the earned income of any economy.

Raw Materials Economics is a codification of NORM (National Organization for Raw Materials) thinking. Charts, tables and a special summary by the late Vince Rossiter make Raw Materials Economics a history of the past and a blue print for the future.

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A manifesto about farming, eating and the limits of human knowledge that presents a radical challenge to the global food systems we rely on.

During the past seven years, Sole Food Street Farms — now North America’s largest urban farm project — has transformed acres of vacant and contaminated urban land into street farms that grow artisan-quality fruits and vegetables. By providing jobs, agricultural training, and inclusion in a community of farmers and food lovers, the project has empowered dozens of individuals with limited resources who are managing addiction and chronic mental health problems.

CHARLES WALTERS

#6546 • Softcover • 416 pages • $25.00

MASANOBU FUKUOKA

MICHAEL ABLEMAN

Raw Materials Economics

CHARLES WALTERS

The One-Straw Revolution

Street Farm

#4025 • Softcover • 163 pages • $14.00

Altered Genes, Twisted Truth STEVEN DRUKER

This book tells the story of how the massive enterprise to restructure the genetic core of the world’s food supply came into being, how it advanced by consistently violating the protocols of science, and how hundreds of eminent biologists and esteemed institutions have systematically contorted the truth in order to conceal the unique risks of its products. #7387 • Softcover • 528 pages • $21.95 $19.50

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38 | ECO-PHILOSOPHY Surviving Ourselves ERIC HERM

In our intensive agricultural systems, our many ill-conceived business and political policies, this relationship has become fragmented. Through his own personal experiences, as well as the inspiring stories of others, this fourth-generation farmer relays a message of revolution and evolution that starts within ourselves. The resulting transition will help humanity adopt a more sustainable paradigm of existence. #7377 • Softcover • 200 pages • $15.95 $14.50

Son of a Farmer, Child of the Earth ERIC HERM

Son of a Farmer, Child of the Earth examines commercial agriculture’s strain on our natural resources, ecosystems, and the farmer. Eric Herm deals with the harsh economic realities and complicated legislation facing farmers, as well as the undeniable health impact of GMO crops and excessive chemicals. #7378 • Softcover • 248 pages • $16.95 $15.25

The Myths of Safe Pesticides ANDRÉ LEU

André Leu challenges conventional farming methods by refuting the myths that surround the use and understanding of pesticides.

He exposes the dangers of these chemicals and advocates organic practices as the most viable for farming in the 21st Century. #7335 • Softcover • 168 pages • $16.95 Share & Save! 2-4 copies $12.75, 5-9 copies $11.50, 10+ copies $10.00

Holy Sh#t GENE LOGSDON

Telling the inside story on manure, our greatest, yet most misunderstood, natural resource, Logsdon sounds a dire warning that if we don’t start turning manure into fertilizer to help feed a growing population, we will all be in deep (excrement). #7048 • Softcover • 272 pages • $17.50 $14.50

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THE WORKS of Joel Salatin

Folks, This Ain’t Normal JOEL SALATIN Imagine, four generations living on a farm surrounded by verdant fields; feasting on pasture-raised food freshly picked or from an over-flowing basement larder then minimally prepared in the home kitchen; working together in the barn and fields during the day and gathering around the table at night. Modern Americans don’t live like this today, but farmer Joel Salatin and his family do.

For them, this is normal. Salatin has become the voice of clean, local, healthy eating and urges people in Folks, This Ain’t Normal to take a closer look at our food: What’s in it, where is it coming from and how did it get to the table?

#7087 • Softcover • 384 pages • $16.00

Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal JOEL SALATIN

Drawing upon 40 years’ experience as an ecological farmer and marketer, Joel Salatin explains with humor and passion why Americans do not have the freedom to choose the food they purchase and eat. From child labor regulations to food inspection, bureaucrats provide themselves sole discretion over what food is available in the local marketplace. Salatin’s expert insight explains why local food is expensive and difficult to find. #6849 • Softcover • 352 pages • $23.95 $21.50

The Sheer Ecstasy of Being a Lunatic Farmer JOEL SALATIN

After 50 years of being a “lunatic” farmer, Joel Salatin has plenty of reflective and humorous stories to tell about farming and our food systems. #7018 • Softcover • 300 pages • $25.00 $22.50

ALSO AVAILABLE FROM JOEL SALATIN:

The Salatin Semester, pg. 6 You Can Farm, pg. 11 The Polyface Farm (DVD), pg. 11, 62 Salad Bar Beef, pg. 26 Pastured Poultry Profits, pg. 31 Family Friendly Farming, pg. 34 Fields of Farmers, pg. 33 The Marvelous Pigness of Pigs, pg. 39

Sowing Seeds in the Desert

A Sanctuary of Trees

MASANOBU FUKUOKA

GENE LOGSDON

Gene Logsdon pays a fascinating, practical and loving tribute to the woods, tracing the roots of his own home groves in Ohio back to the Native Americans and early European farmers, then revealing his own history and experiences living in many different regions, each linked to trees and the natural world. #7134 • Softcover • 248 pages • $19.95 $16.95

This revolutionary book presents Masanobu Fukuoka’s plan to rehabilitate the world’s deserts and achieve global food security by using natural farming, including practical solutions for feeding a growing human population and providing a deep and renewed understanding of the relationship between human beings and nature. #7199 • Softcover • 216 pages • $15.95 $13.50

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ECO-PHILOSOPHY | 39

Hemp Bound

The Marvelous Pigness of Pigs

DOUG FINE The stat sheet on hemp sounds almost too good to be true: its fibers are among the planet’s strongest, its seed oil the most nutritious, and its potential as an energy source vast and untapped. Its one downside? For nearly a century, it’s been illegal to grow industrial cannabis in the United States even though Betsy Ross wove the nation’s first flag out of hemp fabric, Thomas Jefferson composed the Declaration of Independence on it, and colonists could pay their taxes with it. But as the prohibition on hemp’s psychoactive cousin winds down, one of humanity’s longest-utilized plants is about to be reincorporated into the American economy.

Get ready for the newest billion-dollar industry.

#7312 • Softcover • 192 pages • $14.95 $12.50

MALCOLM BECK

Seeds of Deception JEFFREY M. SMITH

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This expanded edition of the classic The Garden-Ville Method includes even more practical and inspirational philosophy and techniques on soil building, planting and growing, pest control and more. Told in a modest and often humorous style, Lessons in Nature combines empirical observation with a healthy dose of common sense. Through his observations and experience, Malcolm Beck will help readers discover nature while growing delicious food, all without damaging the environment. This book can provide the beginner with all the information needed to get started using organic methods, and to experience the rewards of an organic lifestyle.

#4015 • Softcover • 333 pages • $20.00

RAYMOND D. NORTH

This is the story of debt, agency mendacity and violations of the law by land banks and the Farmers Home Administration so blatant they beggar the imagination. Everyone concerned about agriculture should read and understand the message of this book. #4016 • Softcover • 286 pages • $17.50

In his first book written for a faith audience, Salatin offers a deeply personal argument for earth stewardship, and calls for fellow Christians to join him in looking to the Bible for a foodscape in line with spiritual truth. Salatin urges Christians to rethink America’s allegiance to cheap corporate food that destroys creation in its production, impoverishes Third-World countries, and supports oligarchical interests. #7425 • Softcover • 304 pages • $25.00 $14.95

Lessons in Nature

Night Came to the Farms of the Great Plains

JOEL SALATIN

A Walk in the Sun PHILIP S. CALLAHAN, PH.D.

The author, a former executive with the leading independent laboratory testing for GM presence in foods, documents the serious health dangers of genetically modified food and explains how corporate influence and government collusion have been used to cover them up. The stories read like a thriller novel: scientists are offered bribes or threatened; evidence is stolen; data withheld or distorted; and more. #6610 • Softcover • 305 pages • $17.95 $15.25

Genetically Engineered Food — A Self-Defense Guide

This book is the ultimate answer to the mystery of Phil Callahan.

And it explains why civilization frequently engineers itself into a convulsion. For those big lessons learned in small situations on A Walk in the Sun are, in fact, bigger than life and history, and ultimately must be seen as the tuning fork Callahan invoked when he made his breakthrough discoveries. Discover with Callahan the secrets of nature.

Contains extensive new research on food companies and provides practical guidelines for consumers who wish to avoid GE foods.

#3043 • Softcover • 241 pages • $18.00

#6461 • Softcover • 240 pages • $15.95

RONNIE CUMMINS & BEN LILLISTON

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Small Farms Are Real Farms JOHN IKERD

CK

ITOR’S PI ED

Finding Good Farmland

BETH DOUGHERTY AND SHAWN DOUGHERTY

ANN LARKIN HANSEN

#7428 • Softcover • 336 pages • $34.95 $31.50

Gene Everlasting GENE LOGSDON

Gene Everlasting contains Gene Logsdon’s reflections, by turns both humorous and heartwrenching, on nature, death, and eternity, all from a contrary farmer’s perspective.

#7459 • Softcover • 178 pages • $17.95

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SEPP HOLZER

Known around the world for bringing deserted landscapes back to life using his unique methods of creating waterretention basins, Sepp Holzer offers a wealth of information for the gardener, homesteader, permaculture designer and sustainable farmer in Desert or Paradise: Restoring Endangered Landscapes Using Water Management, Including Lake and Pond Construction. This book demonstrates that the simple principles found in nature used to create Holzer’s productive systems can be applied anywhere. #7202 • Softcover • 224 pages • $29.95 $23.95

Restoring Heritage Grains

#6853 • Softcover • 249 pages • $20.00

The Independent Farmstead

This book covers everything from choosing a species of ruminant and incorporating it into a grass-based system to innovative electric fencing and watering systems, to what to do with all of the milk, meat, and, yes, manure that the self-sustaining farm produces. Learn to improve land, choose ruminants, manage fencing, process your own food, and integrate it all for success.

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Since the middle of the last century, American farm policy has taken the nation into the dead end of industrial farm production. Farming, at its core a biological process, has been transformed into an industrial process, thus demolishing the economic and cultural values upon which the nation was founded. Along the way, small farms have been ridiculed and dismissed as inconsequential — but now the seeds of a rural renaissance are being planted, not by these industrial behemoths, but by family-scale farms.

In this collection of essays, the multifaceted case for small farms is built using logic and facts.

Desert or Paradise

This practical guide contains all of the information you need to have before purchasing farmland, covering everything from the characteristics of the land and the surrounding area to government regulations, land use considerations and financing. #7180 • Softcover • 128 pages • $9.95 $8.50

The Culture, Biodiversity, Resilience and Cuisine of Ancient Wheats

ELI ROGOSA

Wheat is the most widely grown crop on our planet, yet industrial breeders have transformed this ancient staff of life into a commodity of yield and profit—witness the increase in gluten intolerance and ‘wheat belly’.

Modern wheat depends on synthetic fertilizer and herbicides that damage our health, land, water, and environment. Fortunately, heritage ‘landrace’ wheats that evolved over millennia in the organic fields of traditional farms do not need bio-chemical intervention to yield bountifully, are gluten-safe, have rich flavor and high nutrition. Yet the robust, majestic wheats that nourished our ancestors are on the verge of extinction.

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#7422 • Softcover • 265 pages • $24.95

Seed: The Untold Story (DVD) COLLECTIVE EYE FILMS

As many irreplaceable seeds near extinction, Seed NEW reveals the harrowing and heartening story of passionate seed keepers as they wage a David and Goliath battle against chemical seed companies, defending a 12,000 year food legacy. #7448DVD • 94min • $19.99

Lean Farm Guide to Growing Vegetables

BEN HARTMAN

At Clay Bottom Farm, author Ben Hartman and staff practice kaizen, or continuous improveNEW ment, cutting out more waste — of time, labor, space, money, and more — every year and aligning their organic production more tightly with customer demand. #7481 • Softcover • 272 pages • $29.95

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ECO-PHILOSOPHY/ENERGIES | 41 Nature’s Silent Music

Cows Save the Planet

PHILIP S. CALLAHAN, PH.D.

In this book, Callahan shows how “civilized” insanity is turning Ireland away from her naturally harmonious, aesthetically pleasing, sound practices. Why remove a thatched roof to replace it with galvanized tin, only to increase the heating bill? With insightful wisdom, Callahan also examines the mysterious power of round towers, “magic spots” and healers such as Biddy Early.

JUDITH D. SCHWARTZ Cows Save the Planet: And Other Improbable Ways of Restoring Soil to Heal the Earth is at once a primer on soil’s pivotal role in our ecology and economy and an antidote to those awash in despairing environmental news. Rebuilding soil is only one aspect of this important, paradigmshifting book. #7201 • Softcover • 240 pages • $17.95 $15.25

Exploring the Spectrum PHILIP S. CALLAHAN, PH.D.

It’s a fact of life that many people who love nature are turned off by the word electromagnetic. Any naturalist — amateur or professional — must have a “down to earth” understanding of the electromagnetic spectrum. The entire spectrum is covered in this book, everything from short radioactive waves used to sterilize male screw flies so the female lays sterile eggs; to the long-wave radio frequencies that penetrate the soil, control and enhance root growth and the immune system of plants and animals. #4150 • Softcover • 178 pages • $20.00

My Search for Traces of God PHILIP S. CALLAHAN, PH.D.

Callahan’s life story unfolds here along with the development of his unique blend of science, natural philosophy and spirituality.

Recounting incidents from his remarkable life and career, Dr. Callahan integrates his early scientific theories and overall religious philosophy with his more recent insights regarding low-level natural energies, the nature of space and time, and the realm of the miraculous. #6290 • Softcover • 220 pages • $18.00

#4051 • Softcover • 224 pages • $20.00

Ancient Mysteries, Modern Visions PHILIP S. CALLAHAN, PH.D.

In this book Phil Callahan details his initial discovery of the role and power of paramagnetic rocks in agriculture. By studying the lives, rituals and agriculture of ancient peoples, he has assembled a first-rate scientific explanation of previously misunderstood ancient practices. Learn how Egyptian priests levitated people, why rocks and soil were brought from one side of the Nile to the other, and how plants act as antennae.

The Enlivened Rock Powders HARVEY LISLE

The practical side of using rockdusts as fertilizers, compost enrichers and plant growth enhancers is discussed in this exciting book.

Beginning with an explanation of the spiritual, cosmic side of rocks and drawing from his extensive knowledge of biodynamic techniques and dowsing, Lisle explains how to utilize these materials in agriculture. Peppered with in-depth quotations from other writings on the forces within rocks, this is destined to be the definitive work on the subject. #6103 • Softcover • 194 pages • $15.00

#6494 • Softcover • 142 pages • $16.00

Farming and Health VANDANA SHIVA Author and social activist Vandana Shiva explains what she has learned studying the acts of harvesting the land responsibly and harvesting the soul responsibly in this stunning novel.

A keynote speaker at the 2017 Acres U.S.A. Eco-Ag. Annual New Conference in Columbus, Ohio, Shiva grew up in Dehra Dun, Acres near the foothills of the Himalayas. In 1982, she founded Title the Research Foundation for Science, Technology, and Natural Resource Policy, an organization devoted to developing sustainable methods of agriculture. The daughter of a forestry official and a farmer received a master’s degree in the philosophy of science from Guelph University, Ontario, in 1976. Her thesis “Hidden Variables and Non-locality in Quantum Theory” earned her a doctorate from the department of philosophy at the University of Western Ontario. #7487 • Softcover • Cover in Progress • COMING SOON!

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Paramagnetism

FULL SET INCLUDES

PHILIP S. CALLAHAN, PH.D. This book, subtitled Rediscovering Nature’s Secret Force of Growth, is the culmination of all of Callahan’s previous works and is his most popular book to date; it will be a classic for years to come. Considered his most important work ever, as an understanding of paramagnetism — and its practical integration into farming — can save agriculture worldwide. In this one, beautiful little book, Callahan lays out a lifetime of research into low-frequency forces in nature and his discoveries regarding the force of paramagnetism and the amazing effects it has upon soils, plants and people.

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#6158 • Softcover • 128 pages • $15.00

Radionics in Agriculture

Tuning in to Nature PHILIP S. CALLAHAN, PH.D.

ARDEN ANDERSEN, PH.D., D.O.

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CK

This 25th anniversary edition of Philip Callahan’s pioneering work, updated by the author, reveals the miraculous communication systems present in nature. Learn how plants and insects communicate through emissions in the infrared frequency range and why poisonous pesticides do not solve the real problems facing agriculture. In this breakthrough book Phil Callahan uncovers why certain insects are attracted only to certain plants, the role of pheromones work in nature and how plants under stress literally signal insects to come devour them. Classic Callahan!

#6493 • Softcover • 256 pages • $25.00

Stone Age Farming ALANNA MOORE Dowser, researcher and permaculture farmer Alanna Moore provides tips on how to produce healthy, pest-resistant food in an economical and eco-friendly way by drawing upon the ancient wisdom of the pagan Irish and infusing our modern scientific understandings of the amazing ability of magnetism to stimulate life. Rock gardening takes on a whole new meaning with these tips on how to use paramagnetic rock dust, build your own mini-tower and benefit from agricultural coils.

#6511 • Softcover • 230 pages • $25.00

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Radionics is the science of tuning in to subtle energy patterns in nature utilizing an electronic or radionic scanner. This machine, in which the operator becomes part of the tuning circuit, allows for the detection of energy patterns behind elements in agriculture and soil and plant conditions. This is controversial science on the frontier of knowledge.

This course captures an in-depth, four-day school in utilizing radionics that has been videotaped and edited into 11 discs containing 19 hours of instruction, both lecture and actual demonstration. Audio dubs (MP3 format) of the video soundtracks are included as convenient reinforcements of the lessons learned. A workbook contains charts, tables and details referred to during the presentation. A well-spoken, well-organized instructor, Dr. Andersen presents the lessons in a logical, structured manner building toward a thorough understanding of this complex subject.

If you are uncertain whether this video series is correct for you, order the low-cost sampler DVD.

#7110 • Full DVD Set (Includes 11 DVDs, MP3 & Workbook • $195.00 Note: No returns or refunds on DVDs/audio discs.

Defective items will be replaced.

#7113 • Sampler DVD (Includes 60 minutes of Instruction) • $5.00

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BIODYNAMICS | 43 Biodynamic Orchard Book EHRENFRIED E. PFEIFFER & MICHAEL MALTAS

This book brings together the best advice for cultivating fruit trees, berries, and shrubs, using biodynamic methods with the aim of harvesting healthy fruit free of pesticides. #7358 • Softcover • 112 pages • $16.95

Pfeiffer’s Introduction to Biodynamics EHRENFRIED PFEIFFER This book is a collection of three key articles by Ehrenfried Pfeiffer introducing the concepts, principles and practice of the biodynamic method.

Flowforms JOHN WILKES

Working with his remarkable invention, the flowform, Wilkes uncovered many mysteries of water. His lifetime of applied research into rhythms and water, fully revealed here for the first time, has startling implications for such topical issues as farming and irrigation, food production and processing, water treatment and recycling, and health and cosmetic products. The author includes a history of Flowform research as well as the most important, up-to-date developments in this research around the world. #6710 • Softcover • 208 pages • $40.00

A Biodynamic Manual PIERRE MASSON This fully illustrated, comprehensive manual provides the answers for anyone already practicing, or newly turning to biodynamic gardening and farming.

A Biodynamic Manual is filled with the technical aspects of biodynamic growing and also includes tips on the human qualities necessary for biodynamic agriculture to succeed. Covers all aspects of making and using biodynamic preparations and composts, managing the health of plants, weed and parasite control, issues dealing with mixed cultivation, animal care, specialized crops and planting instructions. #7146 • Softcover • 309 pages • $30.00

PLANNING YOUR FARMING YEAR

#7136 • Softcover • 80 pages • $13.95

Biodynamic Agriculture WILLY SCHILTHUIS A concise, thorough, and fully illustrated introduction to the principles and practice of biodynamic agriculture.

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#6219 • Softcover • 128 pages • $14.95

Vegetable Gardening for Organic & Biodynamic Growers JOEL MORROW

This collection of “biographies” of many garden vegetables contains detailed accounts on their climate of origin, their transformation over time, and their nutritional and therapeutic potential.

The North American Biodynamic Sowing & Planting 2018 Calendar

Stella Natura: 2018 Biodynamic Planting Guide & Calendar

MARIA & MATTHIAS THUN

SHERRY WILDFEUR, ED.

Based on 50 years of research, this, the original biodynamic sowing and planting calendar, shows the optimum days for sowing, pruning and harvesting various crops. A special section on the care of bees is included along with a handy pull-out version of the calendar.

Bringing together the work of many authors who live and practice biodynamics and sustainable living, Stella Natura offers a basic introduction to biodynamics and to astronomy, with a description of how various astronomical rhythms and events have been found to affect plant growth.

#7479 • Softcover 64 pages • $13.95

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PAGES WITH PULL-OUT CALENDAR

#7478 • Softcover • 40 pages, designed for hanging • $14.95

#7357 • Softcover • 400 pages • $35.00

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PEST CONTROL

Biodynamic Pasture Management

Preventing Deer Damage

PETER BACCHUS

CK

ITOR’S PI ED

New Zealand grazing consultant Peter Bacchus shares a lifetime of experience on applying biodynamics to pastures.

His multi-pronged approach considers balance of fertility elements, organic matter levels, soil life, and particularly soil life forces. Through biodynamic preparations and other tools he seeks to produce optimum grass quality and production for grazing animals. In this book the author applies Steiner’s directives to the particular demands on grass farming. Also covered are biodynamic methods of pest and weed control.

#7172 • Softcover • 160 pages • $20.00

A Biodynamic Farm The inventory of knowledge that is generally warehoused under the classification of biodynamic is rich and timeless, and yet very few farmers have even a nodding acquaintance with the subject. This book performs a rescue operation. A practical, how-to guide to making all of the biodynamic preparations, this book will provide what you need to put these proven techniques to work in your fields. Perhaps the best of the many biodynamic titles currently available.

#4168 • Softcover • 215 pages • $20.00

2018 Moon Sign Book NICOLE EDMAN, ED. People have timed their activities by the favorable energy of the moon for centuries — now you can, too. In addition to a guide to planting, the book lists dates to destroy weeds and pests, and has a section that explains how lunar cycles can affect both livestock and crops.

#7482 • Softcover • 302 pages • $12.99

2018 Moon Sign Datebook NICOLE EDMAN, ED. New for 2018, Llewellyn’s Moon Sign Datebook is a perfect companion to the bestselling Moon Sign Book. This datebook is the perfect resource for making the most of the natural energies of the moon.

#7483 • Spiral Bound • 192 pages • $12.99

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Simple in its format, yet packed with information of many, many ways to prevent deer damage to your commercial crops or home garden.

This book lists the plants deer like and those they avoid. Practical information from a true innovator who lives in deer country. #6329 • Softcover • 108 pages • $14.95

HUGH LOVEL

BUNDLE & SAVE!

ROBERT G. JUHRE

#S-7482 Book & Date Book $19.99

Farming with Native Beneficial Insects THE XERCES SOCIETY

This book examines the role of insects in farming by focusing on beneficial insects that promote healthy crops and inhibit the spread of unwanted pests. #7348 • Softcover • 272 pages • $24.95 $21.99

Quantum Agriculture HUGH LOVEL Hugh Lovel brings biodynamics to a place of practical application, which challenges the very essence of status quo paradigms.

Now I have a clear, practical guide to hand anyone who asks, “What is Biodynamics?” #7369 • Softcover • 216 pages • $25.00

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GREENHOUSES | 45 The Greenhouse and Hoophouse Grower’s Handbook NEW

ANDREW MEFFERD

Every year, more growers are turning to protected culture to deal with unpredictable weather and to meet out-ofseason demand for local food. Many end up spinning their wheels, wasting time and money on unprofitable crops grown in ways that don’t make the most of their precious greenhouse space. This book levels the playing field with a decision-making framework that goes beyond a list of simple do’s and don’ts. With comprehensive chapters on temperature control and crop steering, pruning and trellising, grafting, and more, Mefferd’s book is full of techniques and strategies that can help farms stay profitable, satisfy customers, and become an integral part of relocalizing our food system.

Four-Season Harvest ELIOT COLEMAN In this book, Coleman outlines a unique harvest extension system. Using simple designs for cold frames and mobile greenhouses, Coleman harvests fresh vegetables throughout the coldest winter months without heat or high-tech solar structures. This book shows how to build the needed equipment as well as how to grow different types of vegetables as the seasons progress, creating a wonderful variety of crops. #4081 • Softcover • 234 pages • $24.95 $20.99

The Year-Round Solar Greenhouse

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This book is a one-stop guide to designing and building greenhouses that harness and store energy from the sun to create naturally heated, lush growing environments even in the depths of winter, covering principles of solar greenhouse design and siting, glazing material properties and selection, controlling heat loss, ventilation, and construction methods. An in-depth section covers sustainable ways of heating the greenhouse without fossil fuels, including using thermal mass and storing heat underground with a ground to air heat exchanger.

The Forest Garden Greenhouse

#7433 • Softcover • 320 pages • $29.95

JEROME OSENTOWSKI

#7410 • Softcover • 384 pages • $34.95 $31.50

How to Grow Winter Vegetables CHARLES DOWDING

Planning harvests for winter and early spring requires a different kind of strategy than the super-abundant summer months. But it is possible to overcome the challenges of the dark winter season and still have plenty to eat. #7104 • Softcover • 192 pages • $24.95

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LINDSEY SCHILLER

#7441 • Hard/Softcover • 288 pages • $34.95

One of North America’s most accomplished permaculture designers presents a wholly new approach to a very old horticultural subject.

Different from other books on greenhouse design and management, this book advocates for an indoor agriculture using permaculture design concepts — integration, multi-functions, perennials, and polycultures — that take season extension into new and important territory. With detailed design drawings, photos, and profiles of successful greenhouse projects on all scales, this inspirational manual will considerably change the conversation about greenhouse design.

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Bioshelter Market Garden

Greenhouse Vegetable Gardening

DARRELL FREY

INGER PALMSTIERNA

Bioshelter Market Garden describes how to create a sustainable food system using examples from Three Sisters Farm, a successful year-round organic market garden and permaculture-designed farm in Pennsylvania. #7106 • Softcover • 462 pages • $34.95

How to Build Your Own Greenhouse ROGER MARSHALL

Create your own customdesigned home greenhouse and fulfill your dream of year-round gardening with this detailed book. Featuring nine complete plans for do-it-yourself gardeners to build your own greenhouse, each in a different style. #7034• Softcover • 255 pages • $24.95 $21.99

You’ll learn the basics on what to consider when buying, laying the foundations for, and decorating your greenhouse — as well as how to plan and use one. #7381 • Hardcover • 192 pages • $19.95

How to Grow Food in Your Polytunnel MARK GATTER & ANDY MCKEE

Is your hoophouse being used to its full potential? One of the most underrated tools, hoophouses have great potential to create a warm, sheltered microclimate to grow tender crops, increase yields, prolong harvesting and even produce vegetables, herbs and fruits, year-round. #7077 • Softcover • 192 pages • $19.95

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Herbal Antibiotics

Aquaponic Gardening

STEPHEN HARROD BUHNER

SYLVIA BERNSTEIN

In this indispensable reference, herbal expert Stephen Harrod Buhner explains the roots of antibiotic resistance, explores the value of herbal treatments and provides in-depth profiles of 30 valuable herbs, noting for each one its antibiotic properties, methods for collection and preparation, dosages, potential side effects, contraindications and alternatives.

#7171 • Softcover • 480 pages • $24.95 $21.99

The Cherokee Herbal

Backyard Medicine

J.T. GARRETT

JULIE BRUTON-SEAL & MATTHEW SEAL

A practical guide to the medicinal uses of over 450 plants and herbs as applied in the traditional practices of the Cherokee. Learn how healers utilize the gifts of nature for ceremonial purposes and to treat over 120 ailments. #6599 • Softcover • 288 pages • $15.00

The Chinese Medicinal Herb Farm PEG SCHAFER

ancient practitioners.

A cultivation guide for small-scale organic growers to raise highquality efficacious herbs historically used by

#7133 • Softcover • 336 pages • $34.95 $29.50

Organic Gardening the Natural No-Dig Way CHARLES DOWDING

In this manual, Dowding, who has not dug in his garden for 25 years, helps readers better understand their soil and respect and encourage life in the garden — all without digging.

Dowding’s system of slightly raised beds and composting have brought him a great bounty of quality produce — now his methods can work in your garden. #6868 • Softcover • 224 pages • $24.95

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This book looks at 120 natural healing remedies for everyday ailments like muscle tension, cough, insomnia, acne, sore throat, aches and pains — all gathered from familiar wild plants, such as plantain, raspberries, stinging nettle and red clover, and created at home. #7012 • Softcover • 224 pages • $14.95

Growing & Using Herbs Successfully BETTY E.M. JACOBS

This well-illustrated book explains in helpful, easyto-understand language how to get the best results, plus a lot more. #6628 • Softcover • 240 pages • $14.95 $13.25

The Organic Medicinal Herb Farmer JEFF CARPENTER AND MELANIE CARPENTER

The Organic Medicinal Herb Farmer will teach readers how to successfully grow and market organic medicinal Western herbs. Whether you’re trying to farm medicinal plants, culinary herbs, or at-risk native herbs exclusively or simply add herbal crops to what you’re already growing, successful small-scale herb farmers Jeff and Melanie Carpenter will guide you through the entire process — from cultivation to creating value-added products. #7394 • Softcover • 416 pages • $39.95 $34.95

Aquaponics is a revolutionary system combining plants and fish using the best of aquaculture and hydroponics. This do-it-yourself manual is tailored to the home environment. The book, full of personal experiences, tackles understanding and designing systems, the living elements — fish, plants, bacteria and worms — and tips for starting and maintaining a healthy system. Take the next step toward self-sufficiency with aquaponic gardening, raising vegetables and fish together. #7132 • Softcover • 256 pages • $29.95

Growing & Selling Fresh-Cut Herbs SANDIE SHORES

Using her experience from running her own herb business, Shores provides valuable information about creating a business plan, finding a niche for your business, financing, managing employees, building a greenhouse, packaging, and getting and maintaining accounts. #6702 • Hardcover • 457 pages • $34.95

Building Soils Naturally PHIL NAUTA

In an organic garden, plants in optimum health thrive abundantly, have harvests with amazing taste, and have the ability to fight off plant predators. When they don’t there’s often something lacking in their proper nutrition, they are missing beneficial microorganism companions, or they are short of the energy needed to reach their full nutrient-dense potential. The solution is to “start with the soil.” But healthy soil doesn’t happen just by composting, fertilizing or companion planting alone. The solution is in Building Soils Naturally, where gardeners will find a hands-on plan of how to create productive, living soil by using a practical holistic approach — crafted right in your garden. #7138 • Softcover • 303 pages • $19.95

Growing Vegetables with a Smile NIKOLAY KURDYUMOV

This book is a treasure-trove of how to garden intelligently — growing happy and productive vegetables all the while dispensing with the hard work. #7131 • Softcover • 420 pages • $24.95

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SAVING SEEDS

Seed to Seed SUZANNE ASHWORTH

CK

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Clearly the best guide to seed saving and the grassroots genetic preservation movement. This book is a complete seedsaving guide for 160 vegetable crops, with detailed information on each vegetable: classification, flower structure and pollination method, isolation distances, caging and hand-pollination techniques, and proper methods for harvesting, drying, cleaning and storing seeds. A good guidebook for beginning or advanced gardeners. This updated and expanded second edition includes information on how to start each vegetable from seed.

#6310 • Softcover • 228 pages • $24.95 $20.99

The Organic Seed Grower JOHN NAVAZIO

Whether interested in simply saving seeds for home use or working to conserve rare varieties of beloved squashes and tomatoes, this book provides a deeper understanding of the art, the science, and the joy of saving seeds. #7396 • Softcover • 350 pages • $29.95 $26.95

Everything you need to know to start your own domestic polyculture garden, including the foundations of permaculture, polyculture design, and managing perennial plants. This rich resource will teach you how to maximize limited space while growing food for your household and saving you money. #7350 • Softcover • 176 pages • $22.95 $19.50

Hot Beds JACK FIRST

This practical guide includes everything you need to know in order to use this highly productive, low-cost, year-round, eco-friendly gardening system. Straightforward explanations and diagrams show how you too can grow early vegetables without fossil-fuel energy or elaborate equipment.

Plant Breeding for the Home Gardener JOSEPH TYCHONIEVICH

Explains how to set achievable goals in your breeding program; the ins and outs of genetics; how to pick the best parent plants; how to cross-pollinate; the best techniques to use for popular vegetables and flowers; and how to harvest and store seeds.

#7176 • Hardcover • 400 pages • $49.95 $41.99

JARED ZYSTRO AND MICAELA COLLEY

ANNI KELSEY

#7290 • Softcover • 128 pages • $12.95

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 successfully producing a commercial seed crop organically.

The Seed Garden

Edible Perennial Gardening

Starting Seeds

#7194 • Softcover • 216 pages • $19.95 $17.95

BARBARA W. ELLIS

Growing plants from seeds isn’t difficult; it just takes a little knowhow. Now, gardeners of any experience level can get a jump on the growing season with this concise, straightforward guide. Expert gardener Barbara Ellis provides the basic information that you need and teaches you foolproof starting techniques for a variety of vegetables, herbs and flowers. #7186 • Softcover • 128 pages • $8.95 $7.99

Plant Spirit Gardener ALANNA MOORE

We can be shamans in our own backyards practicing “divine gardening” with the down-toearth esoteric wisdom in this book, the eighth from Australian-Irish geomancer Alanna Moore. Everything a sensitive gardener needs to do to profoundly connect with Mother Nature is here.

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#7449 • Softcover • 206 pages • $25.00

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48 | GARDENING Organic Seed Production & Saving

How to Grow World Record Tomatoes

BRIAN CONNOLLY

#7082 • Softcover • 110 pages • $12.95 $10.99

The Essential Guide to Cultivating Mushrooms

For most of his 80+ years, Charles Wilber had a mission to learn how to work with nature. In How to Grow World Record Tomatoes he tells his personal story and offers his approach to gardening. For the first time, he reveals how he grew record-breaking tomatoes and produce of every variety — with no magic involved. He just used a well thought out system that made it possible for his plants to reach their full potential. Wilber’s compost was the cornerstone along with layers of compost, alfalfa meal and mulch. The secrets are revealed here.

#6341 • Softcover • 132 pages • $14.95 Share & Save! 2-4 copies $10.95 ea.; 5-9 copies $9.95 ea.; 10+ copies $8.95 ea.

STEPHEN RUSSELL

Vegetable Gardening for Organic & Biodynamic Growers

With clear instructions and step-by-step photographs, this comprehensive guide shows how to cultivate mushrooms at home for the kitchen or small business. Both novice and advanced readers will gain a thorough knowledge of several varieties. #7340 • Softcover • 232 pages • $24.95 $21.99

Guide to Saving Seeds ROBERT GOUGH & CHERYL MOORE-GOUGH

Concise and comprehensive, this book shows how to collect, save and cultivate seeds from over 300 vegetables, herbs, flowers, fruits, trees and shrubs.

JOEL MORROW

This collection of “biographies” of many garden vegetables contains detailed accounts on their climate of origin, their transformation over time, and their nutritional and therapeutic potential. Joel Marrow’s work reinvigorates gardening by applying his holistic understanding of biodynamics to everyday vegetables. #7357 • Softcover • 400 pages • $35.00

#7105 • Softcover • 311 pages • $24.95 $21.99

Organic Fruits and Vegetables

Roses Love Garlic LOUISE RIOTTE

Companion planting is simply planning your garden to take advantage of natural friendships between plants. Lists hundreds of common and uncommon herbs and flowers, with information on how their proximity can maximize the health and yield of vegetables, berry bushes, and fruit and nut trees.

CHARLES H. WILBER

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For farmers and gardeners who want to be more selective and self-sufficient in what they grow, Connolly explains plant selection, pollination, seed storage and the genetics of hybrid varieties.

NEW

TEO GÓMEZ WITH QUICO BARRANCO

This book offers a clear picture of all that we need to know to make our small plot of land the most productive it can be. The authors present the information in a way that is cognizant to the people, plants, insects, and animals that live on the land. #7472 • Softcover • 254 pages • $19.99

#6626 • Softcover • 249 pages • $14.95 $13.25

No Dig Organic Home & Garden

Organic Backyard NEW

SARAH CHISHOLM RYDER, EDITOR

This book is intended to reach all growers of food on a small-scale, either at home, in community gardens, across urban backyards, at schools or in parks and reclaimed urban land.

#7452 • Softcover • 61 pages • $16.95

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CHARLES DOWDING & STEPHANIE HAFFERTY

Let experts teach you how no-dig organic gardening saves time and work. It requires an annual dressing of compost to help accelerate the improvement in soil structure and leads to higher fertility and less weeds.

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The Winter Harvest Handbook ELIOT COLEMAN

Takes the local-food revolution to a new level. Coleman explains how to successfully — and profitably — harvest fresh vegetables all year-round in even the coldest climates using unheated, or in some cases, minimally heated, movable plastic greenhouses.

Coleman offers clear, concise details. #6949 • Softcover • 247 pages • $29.95 $24.99

Year-Round Vegetable Production (DVD) ELIOT COLEMAN

Follow one of the pioneers of the organic farming movement on a daylong workshop on growing vegetables year-round.

Covering a wide variety of practical topics, Coleman discusses moveable and permanent structures, cold frames, vegetable varieties, fabric covers, growing tips, rodent control, marketing your crop, and much more. #7059 • DVD format • 192 minutes • $39.95 $33.95

#7465 • Softcover • 216 pages • $25.00

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GARDENING/BUILD-IT-YOURSELF/HOMESTEADING | 49 Homegrown Whole Grains

The Naturally Bug-Free Garden

SARA PITZER

A practical how-to guide that is geared toward small-scale organic gardeners. The book begins with a comprehensive chapter on getting started. It’s not easy to find information on growing grains in your backyard.

Written for modern-day homesteaders who want to learn how to reap the fresh flavor and nutritional benefits from growing grain crops.

Controlling Pest Insects Without Chemicals

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ANNA HESS

Will there be a description? it will go here.

#7474 • Softcover • 115 pages • $14.99

#6985 • Softcover • 167 pages • $14.95 $13.25

Carrots Love Tomatoes LOUISE RIOTTE

Did you know that beans and onions don’t like each other?

Or that dill will attract hornworms away from neighboring tomatoes? This book explains how companion planting — planning your garden to take advantage of vegetables and fruits that have natural friends that will encourage each other’s growth, as well as natural enemies that should be kept at a distance — can double the bounty of your garden. #6207 • Softcover • 219 pages • $14.95 $13.25

The Intelligent Gardener STEVE SOLOMAN & ERICA REINHEIMER

This practical step-by-step guide and the accompanying customizable webbased spreadsheets go beyond organic and are essential tools for any serious gardener who cares about the quality of the produce they grow. #7181 • Softcover • 336 pages • $19.95

Simple Green Pest and Disease Control NEW

BOB FLOWERDEW

A master at growing organic produce, Bob Flowerdew outlines the best natural methods, from building effective physical barriers and pest traps out of plants and recycled materials to using such natural pest predators as birds, reptiles, and even other bugs. #7475 • Hardcover • 112 pages • $14.95

Homemade Contrivances Subtitled, 1001 Labor-Saving Devices for Farm, Garden, Dairy, and Workshop, this extensive book, originally published in 1897, is full of practical, innovative ideas from an era when farmers had to make things themselves or do without.

The illustrated book covers a wide range of topics such as gate construction, selfclosing doors, portable fences, wire fence tighteners, poultry nesting boxes, feeding cribs and BLACK & a pitchfork holder. Especially for WHITE S do-it-yourselfers, this book has ILLUSTRATION THROUGHOUT ideas to help on every part of the farm. Historic reprint.

#7049 • Softcover • 640 pages • $14.95

The Mobile Poultry Slaughterhouse ALI BERLOW, FOREWORD BY TEMPLE GRANDIN

This guide was especially written for those who raise chickens, turkeys or other poultry for meat and lack easy access to a humane, local slaughterhouse. It shows you how to put together a slaughtering and processing unit that will accommodate any type of poultry and can be moved from farm to farm. #7189 • Softcover • 144 pages • $14.95 $13.25

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The Woodland Homestead BRETT MCLEOD

This manual shows you how to use your woodlands to produce everything from wine and mushrooms to firewood and livestock feed. Learn how to take stock of your woods; use axes, bow saws, chainsaws, and other key tools; create pasture and silvopasture for livestock; prune and coppice trees to make fuel, fodder, and furniture; build living fencing and shelters for animals; grow fruit trees and berries in a woodland orchard; make syrup from birch, walnut, or boxelder trees; and much more. #7409 • Softcover • 240 pages • $19.95

Shelters, Shacks & Shanties and How to Build Them D.C. BEARD

Includes instructions for dozens of worry-free shelters including a sod house for the lawn, a treetop house, over-water camps, a bog ken and much more. Historic reprint. #6400 • Softcover • 264 pages • $9.95

Electric Fencing ANN LARKIN HANSEN

This practical guide covers everything you need to know about the types of electric fencing available, how to choose the type that is right for your needs, how electric fencing works, how to put an electric fencing system together and how to use portable electric fencing for rotational grazing. Whether you need to keep livestock and horses in or keep predators out, you’ll find the information you need. #7284 • Softcover • 96 pages • $9.95 $8.50

The Naturally Clean Home KARYN SIEGEL-MAIER

Effective, nontoxic alternatives can be mixed up easily from kitchen staples — baking soda, vinegar, lemon juice, herbs and borax — plus a handful of easy-to-find essential oils. This book offers 150 all-natural recipes for nontoxic, biodegradable, and fresh- smelling cleaners for every area of the home. Simple to make, yet as effective as commercial options. #6961 • Softcover • 223 pages • $10.95 $9.50

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50 | BUILD-IT-YOURSELF/HOMESTEADING Chicken Coops

Plowing with Pigs

JUDY PANGMAN

OSCAR H. WILL III & KAREN K WILL

Just like houses, chicken coops come in all sizes and styles to meet the needs of any chicken family. In Chicken Coops: 45 Building Plans for Housing Your Flock, author Judy Pangman has combed the country identifying the top chicken coop designs, from utilitarian to high-style. The result is this ultimate collection of building plans that are sure to meet the needs of any chicken owner. #6831 • Softcover • 176 pages • $19.95 $17.95

Build a Smokehouse A STOREY COUNTRY WISDOM BULLETIN

If you want to know how to make everything from a hot smoke pit, simple smoke box or a strong, tight smokehouse, Build a Smokehouse can help. #6967 • Booklet • 32 pages • $3.95 $3.50

When Technology Fails

#7240 • Softcover • 272 pages • $24.95

Subtitled Making and Using Ethanol as a Renewal Fuel, this book focuses on small-scale ethanol production and looks at the basic equipment needs, fermentation recipes and distillation designs that are needed for those wanting to make the switch from gasoline. #7005 • Softcover • 272 pages • $26.95

ROLFE COBLEIGH

SUSAN MILLER CAVITCH

A comprehensive, illustrated guide to making over 40 specialty soaps — from exquisite stained-glass, marbled and layered soaps to soothing masseuse bars, hardworking laundry soap, and practical liquid soaps. #6562 • Softcover • 288 pages • $18.95 $16.99

Fences, Gates & Bridges and How to Build Them

RICHARD FREUDENBERGER

MATTHEW STEIN

The Soapmaker’s Companion

A practiculture way to grow nutrient-dense food, produce healthy fats, and live the good life. The Nourishing Homestead tells the story of how we can create truly satisfying, permanent, nourished relationships to the land, nature, and one another.

Alcohol Fuel

Handy Farm Devices & How to Make Them

#6529 • Softcover • 516 pages • $35.00 $29.75

BEN HEWITT AND PENNY HEWITT

#7395 • Softcover • 352 pages • $29.95 $26.95

A Manual for SelfReliance & Planetary Survival

This user-friendly and practical instructional guide and directory of resources focuses on sustainable technologies, self-reliant living and emergency survival. It includes excellent chapters on self-healing, alternative energy, first aid, water, sustainable agriculture, sustainable building, wilderness survival and emergency preparations. The author spent 15 years compiling the practical information gathered here in one convenient manual. Whether you are seeking self-reliance and a simpler life or fear the collapse of social services, this compendium of practical information for sustainable living belongs on your bookshelf.

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Fueled by a failing economy and a desire for a return to simpler times, a new wave of homesteaders is seeking the good life, and the kind of true satisfaction that can only be built, not bought. Many of these modern pioneers are cash poor, but rich in energy and creativity.

The Nourishing Homestead

A wealth of labor- and money-saving devices fill this book: spillproof chicken waterers; a portable chicken coop; a lightweight orchard ladder; a small truss bridge; an easy fence-post and stump-puller; gates that don’t sag and more. Historic reprint. #6401 • Softcover • 296 pages • $9.95

Rainwater Harvesting

ANNA HESS

This instructional guide details the best methods for building an incredible variety of these devices for all regions and weather conditions. Making use of an impressive medley of materials and designs, you are certain to find a plan that will work for your situation and the materials you have readily available. Over 300 illustrations make all the plans easy to grasp and execute.

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#6404 • Softcover • 192 pages • $14.95

Seed Libraries CINDY CONNER

Whoever controls the seeds controls the food supply. By empowering communities to preserve and protect the genetic diversity of their harvest Seed Libraries is the first step towards reclaiming our self-reliance while enhancing food security and ensuring that the future of food is healthy, vibrant, tasty and nutritious. #7402 • Softcover • 192 pages • $19.95

Amish Houses & Barns

BRAD LANCASTER

This book enables you to assess your on-site resources, gives you a diverse array of strategies to maximize their potential, and empowers you with guiding principles to create an integrated, multifunctional water-harvesting plan specific to your site and needs. Subtitled, Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain into Your Life and Landscape. #7282 • Softcover • 304 pages • $29.95 $24.99

STEPHEN SCOTT

A study of three Amish homesteads: one in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, one in Holmes County, Ohio, and one in LaGrange County, Indiana. The author NEW examines the history and cultural development of a typical Amish house and barn, one in each of the three largest Amish communities in North America. #7490 • Softcover • 175 pages • $7.95

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Syrups & Ciders

Maple on Tap RICH FINZER Get the best advice, learn shortcuts and tricks that will save you from making rookie mistakes, save you money by telling which equipment you really need, and save you valuable time during the boiling-down process, all from a Blue Ribbon-winning maple syrup producer with 20 years of experience. Age-old skills are enhanced with modern technology and shown in stepby-step instructions with beautiful color photos clearly demonstrating the process — further lifting the veil of mystery on this unique North American pursuit.

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COLOR PHOTOS

UT THROUGHO BOOK!

#7169 • Softcover • 136 pages • $15.95 Share & Save! 2-4 copies $11.95 ea.; 5-9 copies $10.50 ea.; 10+ copies $9.50 ea.

Make Your Own Soaps

The Essential Amish Cookbook LOVINA EICHER

Bestselling cookbook author and food columnist Lovina Eicher brings together the best of Amish cooking in The Essential Amish Cookbook: Everyday Recipes from Farm and Pantry. Join Eicher as she shares traditional Amish recipes along with her own kitchen tips and secrets.

NEW

#7470 • Softcover • 291 pages • $22.99

Making & Using Dried Foods PHYLLIS HOBSON Simple step-by-step instructions guide you through the process of drying and storing more than a hundred kinds of fruits, vegetables, grains, meats and herbs. Includes more than 200 delicious recipes.

The New Cider Maker’s Handbook CLAUDE JOLICOEUR

#6517 • Softcover • 192 pages • $16.95 $15.95

Written by an internationally known, award-winning cider maker with an inquiring, scientific mind, this book combines the best of traditional knowledge and techniques with up-to-date, scientifically based practices to provide today’s cider makers with all the tools they need to produce high-quality ciders. This book will appeal to both serious amateurs and professional cider makers who want to increase their knowledge, as well as to orchardists who want to grow cider apples for local or regional producers. Novices will appreciate the overview of the cider-making process, and, as they develop skills and confidence, the more in-depth technical information will serve as an invaluable reference that will be consulted again and again. #7288 • Softcover • 352 pages • $44.95 $37.99

The Sugarmaker’s Companion MICHAEL FARRELL

The comprehensive guide small- and large-scale syrup producers have been waiting for in their quest to create a profitable business model.

Documents the untapped potential of American forests and shows how sugaring can turn a substantial profit for farmers while providing tremendous enjoyment and satisfaction. Appealing to foresters, organic farmers with woodlands, homesteaders, preppers, permaculture enthusiasts, and, of course, sugarmakers, this book is applicable to a wide range of climates and regions and is sure to change the conversation around syrup production and prove invaluable for both home-scale and commercial sugarmakers alike. #7289 • Softcover • 344 pages • $39.95 $33.95

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52 | FOOD CRAFT The Art of Natural Cheesemaking

The Home Creamery KATHY FARRELL-KINGSLEY

CK

ITOR’S PI ED

Fresh and easy instruction for the home cook about how to whip up buttermilk, yogurt, cream cheese, crème fraîche, mozzarella, goat cheese and other dairy delights right in the kitchen — no specialized equipment, complicated aging or exotic ingredients needed. Here’s how to turn fresh, sweet milk and cream into cultured dairy products and soft unripened cheeses. A good basic book for butter, yogurt and soft cheesemaking. Also contains 75 recipes that use your dairy creations.

#7037 • Softcover • 213 pages • $16.95 $15.25

Preserving Food Without Freezing or Canning GARDENERS & FARMERS OF TERRE VIVANTE

Learn food preservation by root cellar, drying, lactic fermentation, oil, vinegar, salt, sugar, alcohol and more. Includes a handy table showing which foods work best with which methods.

Discover new marketing options for your farm’s produce. #6432 • Softcover • 197 pages • $25.00 $21.25

Home Cheesemaking RICKI CARROLL

This new third edition is updated and revised to reflect the increased interest in artisanal-quality cheeses and the availability of cheesemaking supplies and equipment.

Here are 85 recipes for cheeses and other dairy products that require basic cheesemaking techniques. Among the step-by-step tested recipes for cheese varieties are farmhouse cheddar, gouda, fromage blanc, queso blanco, marscarpone, ricotta and 30-minute mozaarella. Recipes for dairy products include creme fraiche, sour cream, yogurt, keifer, buttermilk and clotted cream. #4165 • Softcover • 224 pages • $16.95 $15.25

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Maple Syrup from the Sugarhouse

NEW

DAVID ASHER

The first cheesemaking book to take a political stance against Big Dairy and to criticize both standard industrial and artisanal cheesemaking practices. #7391 • Softcover • 320 pages • $34.95 $31.50

Odd Bits JENNIFER MCLAGAN

Odd Bits delves into the rich geographical, historical and spiritual roles of these unusual meats.

McLagan’s enthusiasm for her subject is contagious; she aims to restore our respect for the whole animal while developing a taste for its lesser known parts and learning how to approach them in the kitchen as confidently as we would a steak or a burger. #7355 • Hardcover • 256 pages • $35.00

LAURIE LAZZARO KNOWLTON AND KATHRYN MITTER

Fermented Vegetables

Maple syrup season is here! Kelsey and her father begin harvesting sap from sugar maple trees. Family and friends join them to help in the process of turning the sap into maple syrup. #7462 • Hardcover • 32 pages • $16.99

Mastering Artisan Cheesemaking GIANACLIS CALDWELL

A comprehensive, user-friendly guide offering a deep look at the history, science, culture and art of making artisan cheese on a small scale. #7154 • Softcover • 368 pages • $40.00 $30.00

One-Hour Cheese

KIRSTEN K. SHOCKEY & CHRISTOPHER SHOCKEY

This guide includes in-depth instruction for making kimchi, sauerkraut, and pickles and then offers more than 120 recipes, using the same basic methods, for fermenting 64 different vegetables and herbs.

You’ll discover how easy it is to make dozens of exciting dishes, including pickled Brussels sprouts, curried golden beets, carrot kraut, and pickled green coriander. The recipes are creative, delicious, and healthful, and many of them can be made in small batches — even just a single pint. #7363 • Softcover • 368 pages • 24.95 $22.50

Mennonite Community Cookbook

CLAUDIA LUCERO

This book details the processes for making your own classic cheeses at home in just an hour or less, including photographs to guide you step-by-step and recipes that showcase your homemade cheese. Claudia Lucero makes centuries of cheese-making knowledge available to anyone who aspires to prepare their own cheese.

MARRY EMMA SHOWALTER

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#7352 • Softcover • 272 pages • $14.95 $13.25

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Dr. Mary Emma Showalter rolls up nostalgia, simple cooking, and hearty dishes into one package that is sure to produce blue ribbons at the county fair. #7471 • Softcover • 526 pages • $24.99

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MIKE & NANCY BUBEL

The simple, no-cost, no-processing way to store your garden’s bounty. Knowledge of our forebears remembered and updated for the 21st century.

#6016 • Softcover • 320 pages • $14.95 $13.25

Drink the Harvest NAN K. CHASE & DENEICE C. GUEST

ITOR’S PI ED

CK

Root Cellaring — Natural Cold Storage of Fruits & Vegetables

The Artisanal Vinegar Maker’s Handbook BETTINA MALLE AND HELGE SCHMICKL

Making vinegar is an ancient craft. Mankind first harnessed the creation of vinegar, along with its preservative and medicinal qualities, more than 10,000 years ago. Nowadays, however, most guides to making your own vinegar are limited to allowing wine to ferment on its own, often with less-than-stellar results. Truly high-quality vinegar production is an art and science in itself. Austrian distillers Helge Schmickl and Bettina Malle use their experience and scientific background to provide special insight into the creation of artisanal vinegars. #7386 • Hardcover • 178 pages • $29.95 $27.95

The Artisan’s Guide to Crafting Distilled Spirits

Many fruits, vegetables and herbs can be made into delicious beverages — a great way to preserve the harvest.

Discover how to make juices, ciders, wines, meads, teas and syrups, and learn tips on growing ingredients for maximum flavor and quantity.

BETTINA MALLE AND HELGE SCHMICKL

#7339 • Softcover • 232 pages • $18.95 $16.99

#7385 • Hardcover • 149 pages • $29.95 $27.95

Sustainable Homebrewing AMELIA SLAYTON LOFTUS

This book includes everything homebrewers of all levels need to know to take an all-organic approach to crafting great beer. Covers the whys and hows of organic brewing, equipment, and organic ingredients. More than 30 irresistible recipes are included.

This book, a modern classic in its original German-language edition, has been called “the modern-day bible of craft distilling” by one of the foremost thought leaders in small-scale distilled spirit production. With ninety recipes — from classic fruit brandy to chili infusions — this book is not only for the curious beginner. Even experienced distillers will discover new approaches to this classic practice.

The Essential Oil Maker’s Handbook BETTINA MALLE AND HELGE SCHMICKL

The authors provide guidance on the harvesting, processing, and use of 130 indigenous and exotic plants as well as the necessary equipment for oil extraction. Including about 40 base recipes for personal care products — from bathing additives to facial and body care to perfume — this book provides a solid foundation for beginners and professionals. #7384 • Hardcover • 144 pages • $29.95 $27.95

#7347 • Softcover • 368 pages • $18.95 $16.99

Wild Fermentation SANDOR ELLIX KATZ

Author Sandor Katz takes readers on a whirlwind trip through the wild world of fermentation. The book is divided into chapters that focus on particular types of food, and Katz provides readers with delicious recipes that are easy to make at home, including vegetable krauts and kimchis; sourdough breads and pancakes; miso and tempeh; beers, wines and meads; yogurt and cheeses. Whether you prefer to wash down your meal with elderberry wine or Nepalese rice beer, there’s something here to satisfy any palate. #6605 • Softcover • 320 pages • $29.95 $26.95

Butchering Poultry, Rabbit, Lamb, Goat, & Pork ADAM DANFORTH

Using detailed, stepby-step photography of every stage of the process, Adam Danforth shows you exactly how to humanely slaughter and butcher chickens and other poultry, rabbits, sheep, pigs, and goats. #7318 • Softcover • 456 pages • $24.95 $21.99

Basic Butchering of Livestock & Game JOHN J. METTLER, JR., D.V.M.

This book can help you enjoy the better flavor of humanely and properly slaughtered and butchered meat. It takes the mystery out of slaughtering and butchering everything from beef and veal to venison, pork and lamb and includes 30 recipes. #813 • Softcover • 193 pages • $16.95 $15.25

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54 | FOOD CRAFT/HUMAN HEALTH

The Gourmet Butcher’s Guide to Meat (with CD) COLE WARD WITH KAREN COSHOF

CK

ITOR’S PI ED

The Gourmet Butcher’s Guide to Meat demystifies the process of getting meat to the table, and its wide scope will be welcome to those who not only wish to learn the rudiments of butchery, but also want to understand how meat animals are raised, slaughtered, and marketed in a holistic system that honors both animals and consumers.

#7316 • Hardcover • 336 pages • $49.95 $41.99

The Healthy Bones DR. LAURA KELLY AND HELEN BRYMAN KELLY

Understand the roles of individual vitamins, minerals, and enzymes in bone metabolism.

The authors then provide a framework and worksheets so readers can use the recipes and work with their doctors to create their personal nutrition plan for skeletal health.

Includes more than 100 bone-health recipes.

Readers can count on their personal nutrition plans and the Kellys’ recipes to provide food that helps calcium reach, and potentially strengthen, their bones. #7430 • Softcover • 304 pages • $24.95 $22.45

Cancer, Nutrition and Healing (DVD)

The Gourmet Butcher (DVD) COLE WARD

Vermont butcher Cole Ward hosts this instructional DVD intended for farmers, homesteaders and home cooks wanting to cut and prepare their own meat, or simply be more informed about specific cuts of meat and how to utilize them. Ward, who has been a teaching butcher for 30 years, teams up with Chef Courtney Contos to provide solid instruction about primal and gourmet cuts, recipe ideas, using butchering hand tools, and safety tips. Ideal for do-it-yourselfers wanting to bring back a culinary lost art. #7085 • DVD format • 260 minutes • $29.95

Butchering Beef ADAM DANFORTH From creating the right pre-slaughter conditions to killing, skinning, keeping cold, breaking the meat down, and creating cuts of meat you’ll recognize from the market, Danforth walks you through every step, leaving nothing to chance. This is the only guide you need to successfully, safely, and humanely slaughter and butcher your own animal. #7317 • Softcover • 352 pages • $24.95 $21.99

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The Naturopathic Way CHRISTOPHER VASEY

Illness is the direct result of the way we live — what we eat and drink. This book uses the basic principles of naturopathy and focuses on treatments that remove the toxic causes of illness. #6965 • Softcover • 144 pages • $14.95

Home Smoking & Curing KEITH ERLANDSON

Whether you want to prepare your own smoked salmon or bacon, this guides you through the entire process with clear, simple instructions and diagrams. #6721 • Hardcover • 144 pages • $18.95

JERRY BRUNETTI

In this remarkable video presentation, Jerry shares the priceless lessons and wisdom gained through his long struggle with an aggressive form of lymphoma. You’ll never look at cancer — or cancer treatments — in quite the same way after viewing Jerry Brunetti’s step-bystep plan for restoring health using fresh foods and natural, holistic, herbal treatments. You will learn about: strengthening immunity; holistic treatment protocols; health-boosting recipes; supplements and detoxification; supplemental conventional therapies; foods to eat; foods to avoid; and much more. Includes insert with references and resources. #6736 • DVD format • 85 minutes • $20.00

Ditching the Drive-Thru J. NATALIE WINCH

Ditching the Drive-Thru exposes the insidious hold the commercial food industry has taken over the fast-paced lives of the average American and the danger these processed foods and diet plans pose to our health, environment, and emotional well-being. Learn how to break free from the grind and return to a simpler relationship with food from farmers, not factories, and home-cooked meals that are created in your kitchen, not on a conveyor belt. #7388 • Softcover • 191 pages • $19.95

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Eating on the Wild Side JO ROBINSON

The first book to reveal the nutritional history of our fruits and vegetables.

Starting with the wild plants that were central to our original diet, investigative journalist Jo Robinson describes how 400 generations of farmers have unwittingly squandered a host of essential fiber, protein, vitamins, minerals and antioxidants. We can take control of our health by choosing present-day fruits and vegetables that come closest to the nutritional bounty of their wild ancestors.

Invasive Plant Medicine TIMOTHY LEE SCOTT

Shows how invasives restore natural balance and biodiversity to the environment and examines the powerful healing properties offered by 24 of the most common invasive plants growing in North America and Europe. #7214 • Softcover • 384 pages • $19.95

Primal Body, Primal Mind

Minerals for the Genetic Code

NORA T. GEDGAUDAS

CHARLES WALTERS

#7226 • Softcover • 416 pages • $16.00

Using a modern approach, here’s how to have a Paleolithic (huntergatherer) based diet that includes high-fat, moderateprotein, starch-free foods with adequate omega-3 and vitamin D intake – to live longer, healthier and happier lives. #7099 • Softcover • 416 pages • $19.95

Pottenger’s Prophecy GRAY GRAHAM, ET AL.

In this fascinating book, the connection is made between the physical, chemical and biological aspects of minerals and subatomic particles in the life process. This knowledge suggests an end to the tyranny of pharmaceuticals.

Each of the 64 sequences (or “codons”) in the Standard Genetic Chart is discussed with an overlay of the mineral involved — its absence leading to degenerative disease; its presence ensuring that health is maintained. #6808 • Softcover • 303 pages • $25.00 Share & Save! 2-4 copies $18.75, 5-9 copies $16.50, 10+ copies $15.00

The Miracle of Milk

Called the “medicine of the future,” epigenetics is a new science that investigates how the foods you eat can switch genes on or off — leading to wellness or illness.

This understanding of how our food and lifestyle choices have the ability to trigger the epigenome was first theorized by Dr. Francis M. Pottenger. Regardless of your current health status, eating to reset genes can have an effect on health, healing and longevity — instantly.

Originally published in 1923, this book touts the health benefits of milk and outlines the milk diet, which when properly prepared for and properly used, Macfadden says is capable of bringing about miraculous changes. Historic reprint.

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Devil in the Milk KEITH WOODFORD

This groundbreaking work examines the link between a protein in the milk we drink and a range of serious illnesses. It’s also about how scientific evidence and consumer choices are influenced by corporate business. #6993 • Softcover • 252 pages • $24.95 $20.99

The Heal Your Gut Cookbook HILARY BOYNTON & MARY BRACKETT

In The Heal Your Gut Cookbook readers will learn about key cooking techniques and ingredients that form the backbone of the GAPS Diet: working with stocks and broths, soaking nuts and seeds, using coconut, and culturing raw dairy. The authors offer encouraging, real-life perspectives on the life-changing improvements to the health of their families by following this challenging, but powerful, diet. This book is a must-have if you are following the GAPS Diet, considering the GAPS Diet, or simply looking to improve your digestive health and — by extension — your physical and mental well-being. #7356 • Softcover • 320 pages • $29.95 $24.99

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The Choice Is Clear DR. ALLEN E. BANIK The most readable booklet on water ever published. It gives the reasons for using distilled water for drinking and cooking. It reveals that you can consume some 450 pounds of inorganic minerals from some tap and well water in your lifetime. Learn what is really in your water and why it is important to your health and longevity. Distilled water is the answer to remove all impurities.

#917 • Softcover booklet • 48 pages • $3.50

Dr. Sellman is sounding the alarm about the deteriorating hormonal health of our daughters and the growing incidence of young women who are now being diagnosed with breast cancer. This DVD offers an invaluable, practical and enlightening guide for both parents and daughters as they learn about toxic chemicals, balancing hormones, precocious puberty and new ways to monitor health.

#6848 • DVD format • 105 minutes • $20.00

What Women Must Know to Protect Their Daughters from Breast Cancer DR. SHERRILL SELLMAN

In this book, Dr. Sellman sounds the alarm about the worsening hormonal health of our daughters, and the growing incidence of breast cancer in young women. #6810 • Softcover • 333 pages • $24.95

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La Eleccion Es Clara DR. ALLEN E. BANIK

El pequeño libro sobre el agua mas leido que se haya publicado en mucho tiempo. Este te da las razones de porqué usar agua distilada para tomar y cocinar. Y también nos revela que podemos estár consumiendo hasta 450 libras de minerals inorgánicos en toda nuestra vida cuando usamos aqua del grifo o del pozo. Aprenda realmente que hay en el agua y lo importante que es para su salud y longevidad. Agua distilida es la respuesta para remover todas las impurezas. Edicion en Español. # 917-S • Cubierta suave • 48 páginas • $3.50

What Price Vaccinations?

SIMONE DELARUE

Vaccination grievously disturbs the delicate ecological balance of the human organism. This book aims to counter the arrogance and conceit of the immunizers with methods that work with nature. #6689 • Softcover • 124 pages • $15.00

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HUMAN HEALTH | 57 Prickly Pear Cactus Medicine

Autoimmune ANNESSE BROCKLEY & KRISTIN URDIALES

RAN KNISHINSKY

Annesse became sick in 1992 and was eventually diagnosed with Lupus when it was a relatively new disease. Setting out to learn everything she could, she pulled together scientific research (with her daughter Kristin) on autoimmune diseases from around the world. She uncovered the cause when she traced every symptom back to its origin. In Autoimmune, Annesse reveals that the source is not viral, bacterial or genetic, but originates from a fundamental lack of nutrients that are essential to your body. This book divulges life-saving knowledge for autoimmune sufferers everywhere — that the cause and cure is in your food.

Healing Lyme

For hundreds of years the prickly pear cactus has been a traditional food staple and has been used for over 100 different ailments. Includes scientific studies on antiviral properties and resource section. #6691 • Softcover • 144 pages • $12.95

The Power Behind Your Eyes ROBERT-MICHAEL KAPLAN, O.D.

#7140 • Softcover • 175 pages • $27.95

Integrated Vision Therapy unites Eastern and Western medical philosophies. This holistic approach identifies the causes of vision problems and develops noninvasive, natural treatment strategies such as easyto-follow exercises and diets.

STEPHEN HARROD BUHNER

#6228 • Softcover • 192 pages • $18.95

Healing Lyme Disease Coinfections

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Lyme disease has many on alert — especially in the tick-infested eastern half of North America. And true to its sinister, stealthy nature you can have Lyme disease without the telltale bull’s eye rash and not even know it.

With a wide range of symptoms, Lyme disease, which is caused by spirochete bacteria, mimics so well that even doctors can be fooled. Healing Lyme offers hope for managing and preventing this disease, covers what to expect at the onset and the development of the stages, and includes treatment options using herbs and other supplements that support the immune system.

STEPHEN HARROD BUHNER

#7141 • Softcover • 520 pages • $24.95

Natural Treatments for Lyme Coinfections

Stephen Harrod Buhner offers a guide to the natural treatment of two of the most common and damaging coinfections of Lyme disease — Bartonella and Mycoplasma. Symptoms range from arthritis to severe brain dysfunction. #7225 • Softcover • 512 pages • $19.95

STEPHEN HARROD BUHNER Tens of thousands of people are known to be asymptomatically infected and at least ten percent will become symptomatic this year — with symptoms ranging from chronic headache and arthritis to seizures. Distilling the latest scientific research on Babesia, Ehrlichia, Anaplasma, and Lyme disease, Stephen Buhner examines the complex synergy between these infections and reveals how they can go undiagnosed or resurface after antibiotic treatment. #7406 • Softcover • 448 pages • $19.95

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58 | HUMAN HEALTH/CHILDREN The Metabolic Approach to Cancer DR. NASHA WINTERS & JESS HIGGINS KELLEY

Cancer rates have increased expoNEW nentially since the beginning of the twentieth century--now affecting almost 50 percent of the American population. Yet conventional treatment continues to rely on chemotherapy, surgery, and radiation, despite research that has repeatedly shown 95 percent of cancer cases are directly related to diet and lifestyle. The Metabolic Approach to Cancer is the first book to offer a comprehensive, nutrition-focused protocol to managing cancer. Naturopathic, integrative oncologist and cancer survivor Dr. Nasha Winters and nutrition therapist Jess Higgins Kelley identify the ten key elements of a person’s terrain — including the microbiome, the immune system, and blood sugar balance — as they relate to the cancer process, and they prescribe a heavily researched, tested, and nontoxic metabolic therapeutic approach that encompasses the ketogenic diet, fasting, specific phytonutrients, herbal treatments, and more. The Optimal Terrain Ten Protocol is a clear plan that will empower both patients and physicians to slow cancer’s endemic spread and live optimized lives. #7444 • Hardcover • 400 pages • $29.95

Organic Revolutionary GRACE GERSHUNY

Grace Gershuny weaves her personal journey through the transition of the organic movement into an organic food industry. She takes on the challenge of turning an ecological philosophy into a federal regulation — a huge effort that put a legal framework on a process that flows from seed to table. Her book is the inside story of the people and events that led to the organic market and regulation we have today.

Grace alternates her personal story with clear explanations of the rationale for the organic regulations as they were developed. She shows the difficulties of changing a holistic philosophy into a process, not product, guarantee.

It’s essential reading for anyone seeking to understand how the organic movement started small and grew into the mainstream.

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Food Plague 2nd Edition ARDEN ANDERSEN, D.O., M.S.P.H., PH.D

Food is supposed to be life giving. It is supposed to be “our daily bread.” Sadly, modern farming practice has converted food production NEW into a cesspool of poison and genetically engineered “franken-foods.” GMOs are scientifically proven to cause human suffering including cancer, bowel, liver and kidney disease, infertility, environmental pollution and resistant strains of infective microorganisms, weeds and insect pests.

From A1 milk to farm-raised fish, artificial hormones to antibiotics and pesticides in the feed, “modern farming” has created the Food Plague. Consumers informed about the real food quality vote accordingly with their dollars at the grocery store. Here lies the real power for change. We have the technology to solve all these problems and feed many times the world population. Farmers could increase yields 5 to 6 times using present day nonGMO seed and appropriate nutritional technology, without ANY of the toxic side effects while sequestering carbon/greenhouse gasses and regenerating the soil. It’s the informed consumer that will make this happen.

Put Your Heart in Your Mouth DR. NATASHA CAMPBELL-MCBRIDE, M.D. Dr. CampbellMcBride tackles the subject of CHD (Coronary Heart Disease), caused by atherosclerosis, a disease of the arterial wall that leads to narrowing and obstruction of NEW the arteries. She maintains that conventional medicine does not actually know the cause of atherosclerosis or how to cure it, and explores in this book what it is, what causes it, and how to prevent and reverse it. She dispels the myth of the Diet-Heart Hypothesis, and explains that cholesterol is not the enemy but an integral and important part of our cell membranes. #7421 • Softcover • 206 pages • $22.95

Preventing & Reversing Arthritis Naturally

#7446 • Softcover • 384 pages • $24.95

RAQUEL MARTIN & KAREN J. ROMANO, R.N., D.C.

Gut & Psychology Syndrome 2nd Edition

DR. NATASHA CAMPBELL-MCBRIDE, M.D. The experience of having a child with autism propelled Dr. Natasha CampbellMcBride to look beyond the confines of conventional medicine NEW and to become a medical pioneer.

In her revolutionary text, Gut and Psychology Syndrome: Natural Treatment for Autism, Dyspraxia, A.D.D., Dyslexia, A.D.H.D., Depression, Schizophrenia, she shares her theories on the relationship between neurological disorders and nutrition and offers a plan using the GAPS protocol, that she developed, to help readers tackle gut disorders that can significantly affect overall physical and mental health and wellness. #7420 • Softcover • 392 pages • $32.95

A comprehensive self-help program designed to prevent and reverse degenerative inflammatory diseases without drugs and their unwelcome side effects.

Designed to help the millions who suffer from chronic arthritis pain. #6598 • Softcover • 272 pages • $19.95

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Radiation Nation DANIEL T. DEBAUN AND RYAN P. DEBAUN

EMF radiation produced by modern technology such as cell phones, tablets, laptops, Wi-Fi, and smart devices is an emerging health threat, and we are all guinea pigs in a giant experiment with many unknown consequences. #7467 • Softcover • 207 pages • $17.50

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HUMAN HEALTH/CHILDREN | 59 Fibromyalgia

A Precautionary Tale

ANNESSE BROCKLEY & KRISTEN URDIALES

Brings together scientific evidence from around the world that reveals the source of fibromyalgia. Gain a thorough understanding of the entire disease process and its association with other conditions.

Discover how to address the source of fibromyalgia, and thus reverse the disease process, through a targeted diet and other natural methods.

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The High Blood Pressure Solution RICHARD D. MOORE, M.D., PH.D. High blood pressure — the “silent killer” and the number one threat to health in the United States — is entirely preventable. Dr. Moore’s safe, effective program of nutrition, weight loss and exercise can greatly diminish or even eradicate the effect of hypertension and bring the entire body chemistry into balance.

PHILIP ACKERMAN-LEIST Mals, Italy, has long been known as the breadbasket of the Tyrol. But recently the tiny town became known for something else entirely. A Precautionary Tale tells us why, introducing readers to an unlikely group of activists and a forward-thinking mayor who came together to ban pesticides in Mals by a referendum vote — making it the first place on Earth to accomplish such a feat, and a model for other towns and regions to follow. #7466 • Softcover • 207 pages • $19.95

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Poisoning Our Children The Myths of Safe Pesticides

ANDRE LEU In this tragic but informative followup to André Leu’s groundbreaking book, Myths of Safe Pesticides, the author connects the dots between the widespread use of toxic farm applications, and its affect NEW on the health of our country’s children. It’s a must read for all parents who are concerned with how their family’s food supply is grown. #7485 • Softcover • COMING SOON!

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Healing with Essential Oils

#7457 • Softcover • 200 pages • $16.95

CHUN YOUNG LEE ILLUSTRATED BY SUN YOUNG KWAK

Vivid descriptions and inviting illustrations introduce the youngest readers to many of the components that make up our Earth, such as air, water, the water cycle, seasons, and the variety of climates found on Earth. #7460 • Hardcover • 30 pages • $17.95

Fast Farm and Slow Farm MIN JEE JUNG

In this colorful, inspiring story about where food comes from, readers will learn about the NEW slow food movement and how to create a small farm garden at home. #7461 • Hardcover • 33 pages • $17.95

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Maple Syrup from the Sugarhouse

JODI STERNOFF COHEN, NTP

In this ground-breaking guide to advanced NEW essential oils, Vibrant Blue Oils founder Jodi Sternoff Cohen shares her thorough and comprehensive roadmap for using essential oils to balance the underlying causes of various health concerns, including poor sleep, stress, compromised digestion, detoxification, gut inflammation, poor circulation, and blood sugar issues.

Blue Round Earth

LAURIE LAZZARO KNOWLTON AND KATHRYN MITTER

Patrick’s Great Grass Adventure With Greg the Grass Farmer

JOEL SALATIN AND RACHEL SALATIN In his first children’s book, farmer-author Joel Salatin, and his daughter Rachel, team up on a whimsical tale about a pigeon, a farmer, and grass. Recommended for ages 4-7. #7456 • Softcover • 35 pages • $15.00

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Kelsey and her father begin harvesting sap from sugar NEW maple trees.

Family and friends join them to help in the process of turning the sap into maple syrup. #7462 • Hardcover • 32 pages • $16.99

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60 | DVDs Genetic Roulette (DVD) JEFFREY M. SMITH

Physicians and scientists have uncovered a grave trend. The same serious health problems found in lab animals, livestock and pets that have been fed GM foods are now on the rise in the U.S. population. And when people and animals stop eating genetically modified organisms (GMOs), their health improves.

This seminal documentary provides compelling evidence to help explain the deteriorating health of Americans, and offers a recipe for protecting ourselves and our future. #7174 • DVD format • 85 minutes • $19.95 $16.95

Fermentation Advice

NEAL KINSEY This fascinating video details Neal Kinsey’s most important lessons. He teaches a sophisticated, easy-to-live-with system of fertility management that focuses on balance, not merely quantity of fertility elements. It works in a variety of soils and crops, both conventional and organic. In sharp contrast to the current methods only using N-P-K and pH and viewing soil only as a physical support media for plants, the basis of all his teachings are to feed the soil, and let the soil feed the plant. #6442DVD • DVD format • 80 minutes • $30.00 #6442DVDPAL • DVD format • 80 minutes • $30.00

The most comprehensive guide to do-it-yourself home fermentation ever published.

Katz expertly contextualizes fermentation in terms of biological and cultural evolution, health and nutrition (with a little economics thrown in, too). A compendium of practical information — how the process works, parameters for safety, techniques for effective preservation, troubleshooting, and more. Simple enough for a beginner making their first crock of sauerkraut, it also offers deeper understanding for experienced practitioners — from a master class fermentation experimentalist and revivalist.

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Agronomy Advice from Neal Kinsey

Hands-On Agronomy NEAL KINSEY & CHARLES WALTERS

Hands-On Agronomy is a comprehensive manual on effective soil fertility management providing many on-farm examples to illustrate the various principles and how to use them. The function of micronutrients, earthworms, soil drainage, tilth, soil structure, and organic matter is explained in thorough detail.

Kinsey demonstrates that working with the soil produces healthier crops with a higher yield. To that end, he provides an understanding of eco-agriculture as a viable enterprise that is both naturally and commercially sustainable. This work offers advice that is both highly valuable and applicable to the farmer of any level and promotes an ecological understanding of the farm from the ground up. #4120 • Softcover • 391 pages • $30.00

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Contrary to popular belief, fermenting foods is a simple process, but it needs to be done correctly.

This popular hands-on workshop demystifies and celebrates home fermentation. Viewers will find fermentation is more than just preserving food: it’s a method of self-sufficiency, a crucial historical component to all agricultural movements, and utterly delicious. #7046 • DVD format • 110 minutes • $34.95 $29.50

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The World According to Monsanto

Business Advice for Organic Farmers (DVD)

MARIE-MONIQUE ROBIN, DIRECTOR

RICHARD WISWALL

This widely praised film shows why Monsanto has become the world’s poster child for malignant corporate influence in government and technology through exposing secret documents and first-hand accounts from victims, scientists and politicians. #7015 • DVD format • 109 minutes • $19.95 $16.95

Longtime farmer and author shares his story and offers detailed advice on how to make your farm production more efficient, better manage your employees and finances, and turn a profit. #7151 • DVD format • 122 minutes • $24.95

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Restoration Agriculture in Practice (DVD) MARK SHEPARD In this professionally produced video Mark Shepard takes viewers on a video tour of his Wisconsin farm and conducts a full-scale introductory presentation on his unique combination of permaculture, silvaculture, agroforestry and ecofarming. Understand biomes and how to choose appropriate crop-producing perennials for your region. See real-world examples of traditional and innovative modified keyline water management principles. Experience transitional strategies firsthand to move from annual commodity crops to perennials which benefit the entire farm ecosystem. #7307 • DVD format • 135 minutes • $30.00 #7307PAL • DVD-PAL format • $30.00

What Women Must Know to Protect Their Daughters from Breast Cancer

DR. SHERRILL SELLMAN Dr. Sellman is sounding the alarm about the deteriorating hormonal health of our daughters and the growing incidence of young women who are now being diagnosed with breast cancer. This DVD offers an invaluable, practical and enlightening guide for both parents and daughters as they learn about toxic chemicals, balancing your hormones, precocious puberty and new ways to monitor your health. #6848 • DVD format • 105 minutes • $20.00

Soils & Agronomy Video Seminar ARDEN ANDERSEN, D.O., PH.D. This is an entire advanced soils seminar in a box, and it comes complete with a workbook that contains all the diagrams, charts and references you need to top off the experience of learning at the feet of one of agriculture’s greatest educators. By progressing through this complete education in agronomy, you will gain 14 DVDs, an understanding of the relationship between WORKBOOK animals, plants and soil life. Perhaps no one & MP3 else integrates the lessons of Albrecht and Reams with classic organiculture as well as Andersen. A superb lecturer, Andersen explains the concepts of eco-agriculture in a way we all can understand. Logical and orderly, the lessons he presents build on one another, resulting in a comprehensive course in agronomy. The cost of this complete set will pay for itself many times over in both knowledge and crop production, but if you are unsure, order the sampler to see for yourself. For a complete course description see www.acresusa.com.

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Soils & Agronomy Video Seminar with Arden Andersen #7111 — $195.00 Sampler DVD (With 45 Minutes of Instruction) #7112 — $5.00 Note: No returns or refunds on video/audio tapes. Defective tapes will be replaced.

Holistic Orcharding with Michael Phillips (DVD) MICHAEL PHILLIPS Michael Phillips is a pioneering author and orchardist whose books include The Holistic Orchard and The Apple Grower.

In this video, he leads viewers through a year in his own orchard season by season, demonstrating basic horticultural skills like grafting and pruning, but also revealing groundbreaking and fieldtested strategies for growing apples and other tree fruits not just organically, but holistically. #7196 • DVD format • 300 minutes • $49.95

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The Other Side of the Fence (DVD)

The Polyface Farm (DVD) JOEL SALATIN

WILLIAM A. ALBRECHT

Join entrepreneur and passionate farmer Joel Salatin as he explains balance and interconnectedness on one of the finest working examples of an environmentally friendly family farm, Polyface. Hardhitting and practical, Salatin’s explanations will revolutionize your thinking about food and farming in a proactive, can-do style. Filmed in 2001.

In this 1950s-era film, Professor Albrecht’s enduring message is preserved for future generations. With introductory and closing remarks

by Acres U.S.A. founder Charles Walters, Albrecht explains the high cost of inadequate and imbalanced soil fertility. Historic video. #6289DVD • DVD format • 26 minutes • $20.00

#6499 • DVD format • 126 minutes • $60.00

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Top-Bar Beekeeping (DVD)

RADIONICS INSTRUCTION

LES CROWDER & HEATHER HARRELL

Radionics in Agriculture

Les and Heather Harrell, authors of Top-Bar Beekeeping, discuss everything from hive management techniques to how to harvest and process honey and beeswax to the best plants to grow for the foraging bees. The natural, low-stress methods outlined in this video are perfect for home or hobbyist beekeepers seeking to manage bees intensively and holistically. #7198 • DVD format • 50 minutes • $14.95 $12.50

Year-Round Vegetable Production (DVD)

ARDEN ANDERSEN, PH.D., D.O. Radionics is the science of tuning in to subtle energy patterns in nature utilizing an electronic or radionic scanner. This machine, in which the operator becomes part of the tuning circuit, allows for the detection of energy patterns behind elements in agriculture and soil and plant conditions. This is controversial science on the frontier of knowledge. This course captures an indepth, four-day school in utilizing radionics. If you are uncertain whether this video series is correct for you, order the low-cost sampler DVD.

#7059 • DVD format • 192 minutes • $39.95 $33.95

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#7113 • Sampler DVD (Includes 60 Minutes of Instruction) • $5.00

ELIOT COLEMAN

Follow one of the pioneers of the organic farming movement as Eliot Coleman presents a daylong workshop on growing vegetables year-round. Covering a wide variety of practical topics, Coleman discusses moveable and permanent structures, cold frames, vegetable varieties, fabric covers, growing tips, rodent control, marketing your crop, and much more. Includes a slide show with images from Coleman’s own farm over the years, European vegetable production examples and detailed plans of his season extending model.

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Noted Vermont beekeeper Ross Conrad flips the script on traditional approaches by proposing a program of selective breeding and natural hive management. #7197 • DVD format • 193 minutes • $24.95 $20.99

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The Keys to Herd Health JERRY BRUNETTI

Whether dairy or beef, a healthy herd begins in such keystone concepts as biodiversity on the farm, acid/alkali balance in feedstuffs, forage quality and more. In this presentation, eco-consultant and livestock feed specialist Jerry Brunetti details the keynotes essential for a successful livestock operation. A popular speaker at eco-farming events across North America, Brunetti explains the laws of nature in terms farmers can embrace, and doles out specific steps you can utilize on your farm right away — all in a convenient audio visual format that you can watch and review whenever you like.

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#6803 • DVD format • 57 minutes • $25.00 #6803PAL • DVD format • 57 minutes • $25.00

Holistic Veterinary Care JERRY BRUNETTI & HUBERT J. KARREMAN, V.M.D. Karreman and Brunetti join together to present strategies and tools for successful holistic herd health management — with an emphasis on natural alternatives for the treatment of common dairy cow problems, including reproduction, birth and lactation. This video provides a basic understanding of the power and limitations of herbs, treating the whole cow, and building an herbal medicine kit for your farm. Drawing on actual case studies examined, diagnosed and treated using holistic protocols, this video serves as a virtual hands-on course in holistic herd health that will prove invaluable to every dairy producer.

#6805 • DVD format • 52 minutes • $25.00 #6805PAL • DVD format • 52 minutes • $25.00

Cancer, Nutrition & Healing (DVD) JERRY BRUNETTI In this remarkable video presentation, Jerry shares the priceless lessons and wisdom gained through his long struggle with an aggressive form of lymphoma.

You’ll never look at cancer — or cancer treatments — in quite the same way after viewing Jerry Brunetti’s step-by-step plan for restoring health using fresh foods and natural, holistic, herbal treatments. You will learn about: strengthening immunity; holistic treatment protocols; health-boosting recipes; supplements and detoxification; supplemental conventional therapies; foods to eat; foods to avoid; and much more. Includes insert with references and resources.

#6736 • DVD format • 85 minutes • $20.00 #6736PAL • DVD format • 85 minutes • $20.00

The Gourmet Butcher (DVD) COLE WARD Vermont butcher, Cole Ward is the host of The Gourmet Butcher: From Farm to Table, an instructional DVD intended for farmers, homesteaders and home cooks wanting to cut and prepare your own meat, or simply be more informed about specific cuts of meat and how to utilize them.

Ward, who has been a teaching butcher for 30 years teams up with chef Courtney Contos to provide solid instruction about primal and gourmet cuts, recipe ideas, using butchering hand tools and safety tips.

Step-by-step butchering process for beef, pork and lamb; breaking down the carcass into primal cuts, turning these into gourmet or retail cuts, then transforming them into table-ready gourmet dishes. Ideal for do-it-yourselfers wanting to bring back a culinary lost art.

#7085 • DVD format • 260 minutes • $29.95

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64 | INDEX 2018 Moon Sign Book. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Ask the Plant. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Choice is Clear, The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

2018 Moon Sign Datebook . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Attracting Native Pollinators. . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Circle of Poison (DVD). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

2018 North American Thun Biodynamic

Autoimmune . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Comeback Farms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Calendar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Backyard Berry Book, The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Community-Scale Permaculture Farm. . . 23

2018 Stella Natura Calendar. . . . . . . . . . . 43

Backyard Medicine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Complete Book of Potatoes, The. . . . . . . . 19

Acres Tee Shirt. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Backyard Orchardist, The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Complete Compost Gardening Guide,

Acres U.S.A. Hat. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Backyard Poultry Naturally . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Advanced Top Bar Beekeeping. . . . . . . . . 33

Barn Guide to Treating Dairy Cows

The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Compost Revolution. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,17

Advancing Biological Farming . . . . . . . . 6,10

Naturally, The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,27

Agriculture in Transition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Basic Butchering of Livestock & Game. . 53

Tea. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Agriculture: The Only Right Approach. . . 10

Beast of Muddy Brain, A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Cows Save the Planet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Albrecht on Pastures Vol. VI. . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Beautiful Corn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Crop Planning for Organic Vegetable

Albrecht on Soil Balancing Vol. VII . . . . . . 14

Beyond the Chicken. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Albrecht Papers (All 8 Volumes) & DVD,

Biochar Solution. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Biodynamic Agriculture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Albrecht’s Enduring Vision Vol. IV . . . . . . . 14

Biodynamic Farm, A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Albrecht’s Foundation Concepts Vol. I. . . 13

Biodynamic Manual, A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Albrecht’s Hidden Lessons Vol. III. . . . . . . 13

Biodynamic Orchard Book, The. . . . . . 20,43

Albrecht’s on Calcium Vol. V. . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Biodynamic Pasture Management . . . . . . 44

Alcohol Fuel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Bio-Integrated Farm, The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Altered Genes, Twisted Truth . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Biological Farmer, 2nd Edition, The. . . .6,10

Alternative Treatments for Ruminant

Bioshelter Market Garden. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Animals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Amish Houses & Barns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Anatomy of Life & Energy in Agriculture, The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Ancient Mysteries, Modern Visions. . . . . . 41 Animal Production Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Apple Grower, The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Aquaponic Farmer, The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Aquaponic Gardening. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Art and Science of Grazing, The . . . . . . . . 28 Art and Science of Shepherding, The . . . 28

Blue Round Earth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Bokashi Composting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Bread from Stones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Build a Smokehouse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Build Your Own Beekeeping Equipment.33 Building Soils Naturally. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Business Advice for Organic Farmers

Compost, Vermicompost & Compost

Growers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Crop Rotation & Crop Cropping. . . . . . . . . 12 Crop Rotation on Organic Farms. . . . . . . . 12 Cure Your Own Cattle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Desert or Paradise. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Devil in the Milk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Dirt Hog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Ditching the Drive-Thru. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Drink the Harvest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Dung Beetles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Eating on the Wild Side. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Eco-Farm --- An Acres U.S.A. Primer. . . . . 9 Edible Landscaping. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Edible Perennial Gardening. . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Electric Fencing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Energetic Goat, The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,27 Enlivened Rock Powders, The . . . . . . . . . . 41

(DVD). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36,60

Essential Amish Cookbook, The . . . . . . . . 51

Butchering Beef. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Essential Guide to Calving. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Butchering Poultry, Rabbit, Lamb, Goat, &

Essential Guide to Cultivating Mushrooms,

Pork. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Art of Balancing Soil Nutrients, The. . . . . 12

Cancer, Nutrition and Healing (DVD).54,63

Essential Oil Maker’s Handbook, The. . . . 53

Art of Fermentation, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Carbon Farming Solution, The. . . . . . . . . . 11

Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal. . . . . . . . 38

Art of Natural Cheesemaking, The. . . . . . 52

Carrots Love Tomatoes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Exploring the Spectrum. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Artisanal Vinegar Maker’s Handbook,

Cherokee Herbal, The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Family Friendly Farming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Chicken Coops. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Farm as Ecosystem, The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Chinese Medicinal Herb Farm, The. . . . . . 46

Farm to Table. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Artisan’s Guide to Crafting Distilled Spirits, The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 ACRES U.S.A.

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INDEX | 65 Farmer’s Guide to the Bottom Line, A. . . 35

Gourmet Butcher (DVD), The. . . . . . . . 54,63

Holistic Goat Care. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Farmer’s Office, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Gourmet Butcher’s Guide to Meat (with

Holistic Orchard, The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Food, Farming and Health. . . . . . . . . . . . 5,41

CD), The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Farming in the Presence of Nature. . . . . . . 7

Grape Grower, The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

(DVD). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,61

Farming the Woods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Grass, the Forgiveness of Nature. . . . . . . 25

Holistic Veterinary Care (DVD). . . . . . . 28,63

Farming with Native Beneficial Insects. . 44

Grass-Fed Cattle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Holistic Vet’s Prescription for a Healthy

Farms with a Future. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Grassfed to Finish. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Fast Farm and Slow Farm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Greenhouse and Hoophouse Grower’s

Holistic Orcharding with Michael Phillips

Heard, A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Holy Sh#t. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Handbook, The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Home Cheesemaking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Them. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Greenhouse Vegetable Gardening. . . . . . 45

Home Creamery, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Fermentation Workshop (DVD) . . . . . . . . . 60

Grow a Little Fruit Tree. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Home Smoking & Curing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Fermented Vegetables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Growing & Selling Fresh-Cut Herbs. . . . . 46

Homegrown Berries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Fertility Farming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Growing & Using Herbs Successfully. . . 46

Homegrown Honey Bees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Fertility from the Ocean Deep . . . . . . . . . . 11

Growing Food in a Hotter, Drier Land . . . 15

Homegrown Whole Grains . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Fertility Pastures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Growing Fruit with a Smile . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Homemade Contrivances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Fibromyalgia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Growing Great Garlic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Homemade for Sale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Field Guide to On-Farm Composting. . . . 18

Growing Healthy Vegetables Crops. . . . . 21

Homeopathy for the Herd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Fields of Farmers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Growing Hybrid Hazelnuts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Homeopathy in Organic Livestock

Finding Good Farmland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Growing Organic Orchard Fruits. . . . . . . . 21

Production. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Fletcher Sims’ Compost. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Growing Vegetables with a Smile. . . . . . . 46

Honor System Marketing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Flower Farmer, The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Guide to Saving Seeds. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Hop Grower’s Handbook, The. . . . . . . . . . 19

Flowforms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Gut & Psychology Syndrome, 2nd

Horse-Powered Farming for the 21st

Fences, Gates & Bridges and How to Build

Folks, This Ain’t Normal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Food Plague 2nd Edition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Food Power from the Sea. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Forage Production. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Edition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Century. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Hands-On Agronomy. . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,12,60

Hot Beds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Hands-On Agronomy Workshop (DVD). . . . .

How to Build Your Own Greenhouse. . . . 45

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,12,60

How to Grow Food in Your Polytunnel. . . 45

Handy Farm Devices & How to Make

How to Grow Great Alfalfa. . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Forage Utilization. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Them. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

How to Grow Super Soybeans. . . . . . . . . . 19

Forest Garden Greenhouse, The. . . . . . . . 45

Hatching & Brooding Your Own Chicks. . 30

How to Grow Top Quality Corn. . . . . . . . . . 19

Foundations of Natural Farming . . . . . 10,19

Heal Your Gut Cookbook, The. . . . . . . . . . 55

How to Grow Winter Vegetables. . . . . . . . 45

Four-Season Harvest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Healing Lyme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

How to Grow World Record Tomatoes. . . 48

Four-Seasons Organic Cow Care. . . . . 8,27

Healing Lyme Disease Coinfections. . . . . 57

Humane & Healthy Poultry Production. . 30

Free-Range Chicken Gardens. . . . . . . . . . 30

Healing with Essential Oils. . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Humane Livestock Handling. . . . . . . . . . . . 29

From the Soil Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Healthy Bones, The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Humushpere. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,16

Gene Everlasting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Healthy Soils, Sick Soils. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Ideal Soil, The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Genetic Roulette (Book) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Hemp Bound. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

In the Shadow of Green Man. . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Genetic Roulette (DVD). . . . . . . . . . . . . 36,60

Herbal Anitbiotics, 2nd Edition. . . . . . . . . . 46

Independent Farmstead, The. . . . . . . . . . . 40

Genetically Engineered Food--A Self-

Herd Bull Fertility. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Integrated Forest Gardening. . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Herdmanship. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Intelligent Gardener, The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Defense Guide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Gold in the Grass. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

High Blood Pressure Solution, The. . . . . . 59 For personal service call 1-800-355-5313

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66 | INDEX Invasive Plant Medicine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Natural Cattle Care. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Organic No-Till Farming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Keeping a Family Cow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Natural Goat Care. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Organic Revolutionary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Keeping Bees in Horizontal Hives. . . . . . . 32

Natural Horse Care. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Organic Seed Grower, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Keeping Bees with a Smile. . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Natural Sheep Care. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Organic Seed Production & Saving. . . . . 48

Keys to Herd Health (DVD), The. . . . . 27,63

Natural Treatments for Lyme Coinfections. . 57

Organic Soil-Fertility & Weed

Kick the Hay Habit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Naturally Bug-Free Garden, The. . . . . . . . 49

Knowledge Rich Ranching . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Naturally Clean Home, The. . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

La Eleccion Es Clara. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Nature’s Silent Music. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Land, Livestock & Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Naturopathic Way, The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Lean Farm Guide to Growing Vegetables. . . 40

Neem--India’s Miraculous Healing Plant.21

Lean Farm, The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

New Cider Maker’s Handbook, The. . . . . 51

Lessons in Nature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

New Livestock Farmer, The. . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Let the Water Do the Work. . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

New Organic Grower, The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Made from Scratch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Night Came to the Farms of the Great

Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Organic Vegetable Production- A Complete Guide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Other Side of the Fence (DVD), The. . 14,62 Paddock Shift. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Paramagnetism. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Pasture Profits with Stocker Cattle. . . . . . 26 Pastured Poultry Profits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Patrick’s Great Grass Adventure. . . . . . . . 59

Mainline Farming for Century 21. . . . . . . . 15

Plains. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Permaculture Design. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Making & Using Dried Foods. . . . . . . . . . . 51

No Dig Organic Home & Garden. . . . . . . . 48

Permaculture Handbook, The. . . . . . . . . . . 23

Making Your Small Farm Profitable. . . . . . 35

No Risk Ranching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Permaculture in Pots. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Management-Intensive Grazing. . . . . . . . . 24

Non-Toxic Farming Handbook, The. . . . . . . 9

Permaculture Transition Manual, The. . . . 24

Managing & Marketing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Nourishing Homestead, The. . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Pfeiffer’s Introduction to Biodynamics. . . 43

Maple on Tap. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Odd Bits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Plant Breeding for the Home Gardener. 47

Maple Syrup from the Sugarhouse. . 52, 59

One-Hour Cheese. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Plant Spirit Gardener. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Market Farming Success. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

One-Straw Revolution, The. . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Plowing with Pigs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Market Gardener, The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

On-Farm Composting Handbook . . . . . . . 18

Poisoning Our Children . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,59

Marketing Grassfed Products Profitably.34

Organic Backyard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Polyface Farm (DVD), The. . . . . . . . . . . 11,62

Marvelous Pigness of Pigs, The. . . . . . . . . 39

Organic Backyard Vineyard, The. . . . . . . . 19

Pottenger’s Prophecy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Mastering Artisan Cheesemaking. . . . . . . 52

Organic Composting Handbook, The. . . . 16

Power Behind Your Eyes, The . . . . . . . . . . 57

Mennonite Community Cookbook. . . . . . . 52

Organic Dairy Production. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Practical Permaculture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Metabolic Approach to Cancer, The. . . . . 58

Organic Farmer’s Business Handbook, The.

Precautionary Tale, A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Minerals for the Genetic Code. . . . . . . . . . 55 Miracle of Milk, The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Mobile Poultry Slaughterhouse, The. . . . . 49 My Search for Traces of God . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Mycelium Running. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Mycorrhizal Planet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Myths of Safe Pesticides, The . . . . . . . . 7,38 Natural Beekeeping with Ross Conrad (DVD). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Natural Beekeeping:Revised and Expanded Edition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

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Preserving Food Without Freezing or Canning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Preventing & Reversing Arthritis Naturally. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Way . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Preventing Deer Damage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Organic Grain Grower, The. . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Prickly Pear Cactus Medicine. . . . . . . . . . . 57

Organic Livestock Handbook. . . . . . . . . . . 30

Primal Body, Primal Mind. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Organic Medicinal Herb Farmer, The. . . . 46

Put Your Heart in Your Mouth. . . . . . . . . . . 58

Organic Method Primer, The. . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Quality Pasture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

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Quantum Agriculture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Mycoremediation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Rabbit Raising Problem Solver, The. . . . . 30

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INDEX | 67 Radiation Nation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Small Scale Dairy, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Two Percent Solutions for the Planet. . . . 10

Radionics in Agriculture. . . . . . . . . . . . . 42,62

Small-Scale Grain Raising. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Udder Health: Large Herd Edition. . . . . . 29

Rainwater Harvesting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Small-Scale Livestock Farming. . . . . . . . . 25

Ultimate Guide to Natural Farming and

Ranching Full-Time on 3 Hours a Day. . . 25

Small-Scale Poultry Flock, The. . . . . . . . . . 31

Sustainable Living, The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Raw Materials Economics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Soapmaker’s Companion, The. . . . . . . . . . 50

Ultimate Guide to Soil, The. . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Rebirth of the Small Family Farm . . . . . . . 34

Soil Fertility & Animal Health Vol. II. . . . . . 13

Understanding Roots. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Reproduction & Animal Health. . . . . . . . . . 25

Soil Fertility & Human & Animal Health

Unforgiven. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Resilient Farm & Homestead, The. . . . . . . 23

Vol. VIII . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Restoration Agriculture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Soil Sister’s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Farming & Health. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,23

Soils & Agronomy Video Seminar. . . . 15,61

Restoration Agriculture in Practice

Son of a Farmer, Child of the Earth . . . . . 38

(DVD) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22,61

Soul of Soil, The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Restoring Heritage Grains. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Sowing Seeds in the Desert. . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Root Cellaring--Natural Cold Storage of

Starting Seeds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Vegetable Gardener’s Guide to Permaculture, The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Vegetable Gardening for Organic & Biodynamic Growers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43,48 Walk in the Sun, A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Weed and What They Tell Us. . . . . . . . . . . 17 Weeds, Control Without Poisons. . . . . . 9,17 What Price Vaccinations?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Fruits & Vegetables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Stone Age Farming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Roses Love Garlic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Storey’s Guide to Raising Meat Goats. . . 27

Salad Bar Beef. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Storey’s Guide to Raising Sheep. . . . . . . . 27

Salatin Semester, The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Storey’s Guide to Raising Turkeys. . . . . . . 30

Their Daughters from Breast Cancer

Sanctuary of Trees, The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Storey’s Illustrated Guide to Poultry

(DVD) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56,61

What Women Must Know to Protect Their Daughters from Breast Cancer. . . . . . . 56 What Women Must Know to Protect

Science in Agriculture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Breeds. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

When Technology Fails. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Sea Energy Agriculuture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Street Farm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

When Weeds Talk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Seaweed & Plant Growth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Successful Small-Scale Farming. . . . . . . . . 9

Whole-Farm Planning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Seaweed in Agriculture & Horticulture . . 11

Sugarmaker’s Companion, The . . . . . . . . . 51

Wild Fermentation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Secret Life of Compost, The. . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Surviving Ourselves. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Winter Harvest Handbook, The . . . . . . . . . 48

Secret Teachings of Plants, The. . . . . . . . . 37

Sustainable Homebrewing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Woodland Homestead, The. . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Secrets of Fertile Soils. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Sustainable Vegetable Production from

World According to Monsanto (Book),

Secrets to Great Soil. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Start-Up to Market. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Seed Garden, The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Talking Chicken. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Seed Libraries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Teaming with Microbes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36,60

Seed to Seed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Teaming with Nutrients. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Worm Book, The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Seed: The Untold Story (DVD). . . . . . . . . . 40

Temple Gradin’s Guide to Working with

Worms at Work. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Seeds of Deception. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Sepp Holzer’s Permaculture. . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Sheer Ecstasy of Being a Lunatic Farmer, The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Shelters, Shacks, & Shanties and How to

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The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 World According to Monsanto (DVD),

Year-Round Solar Greenhouse, The. . . . . 45 Year-Round Vegetable Production

Time Management Tips for Farmers. . . . . 35

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Top-Bar Beekeeping. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

You Can Farm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Top-Bar Beekeeping (DVD). . . . . . . . . 32,62

Your Successful Farm Business . . . . . . . . 36

Build Them. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

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Simple Green Pest and Disease Control.49

Toward Saving the Honeybee. . . . . . . . . . . 32

Small Farms are Real Farms. . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Treating Dairy Cows Naturally . . . . . . . . 8,27

Small Scale Cheese Business, The. . . . . . 35

Tuning in to Nature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 For personal service call 1-800-355-5313

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