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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (P.S.)
by Barbara Kingsolver and Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver  
Powells.com Staff Pick After 25 years in the Arizona desert, in 2004, Kentucky-bred Barbara Kingsolver moved back to the Appalachians, to a Virginia farm just hours from her childhood home. Family called. "Returning," she explains in Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, "would allow my...
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Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front
by Joel Salatin Publisher Comments 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...
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Five Acres and Independence
by Maurice Grenville Kains Publisher Comments Great back-to-the-land classic explains basics of self-sufficient farming. The one book to get. 95 illus....
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Neotropical Companion : an Introduction To the Animals, Plants and Ecosystems of the New World Tropics, Revised and Expanded (2ND 97 Edition)
by John Kricher Publisher Comments A Neotropical Companion is an extraordinarily readable introduction to the American tropics, the lands of Central and South America, their remarkable rainforests and other ecosystems, and the creatures that live there. It is the most comprehensive one...
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Still Life with Chickens: Starting Over in a House by the Sea
by Catherin Goldhammer Publisher Comments In this beautifully written and frequently funny memoir, Catherine Goldhammer, newly separated, along with her twelve-year-old daughter, starts life anew in a cottage by the sea, in a rustic town where live bait is sold from vending machines. Partly to...
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The Gift of Good Land: Further Essays Cultural & Agricultural
by Wendell Berry Publisher Comments In the twenty-four essays of this collection, Well Berry stresses the carefully modulated harmonics of indivisibility in culture and agriculture, the interdepence, the wholeness, the oneness, of man, animals, the land, the weather, and the family. To...
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The $64 Tomato: How One Man Nearly Lost His Sanity, Spent a Fortune, and Endured an Existential Crisis in the Quest for the Perfect Ga
by William Alexander Publisher Comments Bill Alexander had no idea that his simple dream of having a vegetable garden and small orchard in his backyard would lead him into life-and-death battles with groundhogs, webworms, weeds, and weather; midnight expeditions in the dead of winter to dig up...
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The Soil and Health: A Study of Organic Agriculture (Culture of the Land)
by Sir Albert Howard Publisher Comments During his years as a scientist working for the British government in India, Sir Albert Howard conceived of and refined the principles of organic agriculture. Howard’s The Soil and Health became a seminal and inspirational text in the organic...
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Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens
by Gail Damerow Publisher Comments Expert advice on selecting breeds, caring for chicks, producing eggs, raising broilers, feeding, troubleshooting, and much more....
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Raising Milk Goats Successfully
by Gail Luttmann Synopsis Experienced homestaeder Gail Luttmann covers goat selection, feeding, pasture, breeding and reproduction, milk and cheese--everything you need to know!...
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Unsettling of America : Cultural and Agriculture (77 Edition)
by Wendell Berry Publisher Comments Since its publication by Sierra Club Books in 1977, The Unsettling of America has been recognized as a classic of American letters. In it, Wendell Berry argues that good farming is a cultural development and spiritual discipline. Today’s...
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Sharing the Harvest: A Citizen's Guide to Community Supported Agriculture, Revised and Expanded
by Elizabeth Henderson and Robyn Van En and Joan Dye Gussow Publisher Comments In Sharing the Harvest, the authors lay out the basic tenets of CSA, provide useful information for both farmers and consumers on starting and running a successful community farm project, and describe hundreds of useful strategies that have worked (or...
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Meat Market: Animals, Ethics, & Money
by Erik Marcus Publisher Comments Meat Market elevates the debate over animal agriculture. Erik Marcus exposes and clears away the exaggerated claims and counterclaims put forth by the meat industry and its opponents. In the process, Marcus presents a thorough examination of animal...
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Eat Here : Reclaiming Homegrown Pleasures in a Global Supermarket (04 Edition)
by Brian Halweil Publisher Comments Eating locally is a growing movement that is good for your health—but even better for the planet. Everyone everywhere depends increasingly on long-distance food. Since 1961 the tonnage of food shipped between nations has grown fourfold. In the...
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Epitaph for a Peach: Four Seasons on My Family Farm
by David Mas Masumoto Publisher Comments As pleasurable as a perfect peach, Epitaph for a Peach tells the passionate story of one farmer's attempt to rescue one of the last truly sweet and juicy fruits from becoming obsolete in a world that increasingly values commerciality over quality. The...
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The Self-Reliant Homestead
by Charles A. Sanders Synopsis A hands-on text for country living, this book contains detailed advice on everything from selecting a piece of land to raising livestock, from making wine from home-grown fruits to making fences strong and durable. Here is abundant advice from a real...
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How to Raise Chickens: Everything You Need to Know
by Christine Heinrichs Publisher Comments Whether you want to raise 5 chickens or 50, whether you have a 40-foot city lot or a 40-acre farm, the expert advice in this hands-on guidebook makes it easy for you to get started raising a healthy flock. Whichever comes first for you, the chicken or...
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Conserving Plant Genetic Diversity in Protected Areas
by Jose Maria (edt) Iriodo Publisher Comments Conservation in protected areas has focused on preserving biodiversity of ecosystems and species, whereas conserving the genetic diversity contained within species has historically often been ignored. However, maintaining genetic diversity is fundamental...
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The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine
by Robert Conquest Publisher Comments The Harvest of Sorrow is the first full history of one of the most horrendous human and social tragedies of our century. As Robert Conquest shows in heart-rending detail, Stalin's plan to collectivize Soviet agriculture amounted to an unparalleled...
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Robbing the Bees: A Biography of Honey. The Sweet Liquid Gold That Seduced the World
by Holley Bishop Publisher Comments Honey has been waiting almost ten million years for a good biography. Bees have been making this prized food -- for centuries the world's only sweetener -- for millennia, but we humans started recording our fascination with it only in the past few...
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