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Author
Publisher
Shumei International Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Human development is at a crossroads. Societies around the world are searching for a balance between feeding the population, producing an affordable food supply, and being caretakers for the natural world. Not since the transition from hunting and gathering to an agrarian lifestyle has there been an imperative for a paradigm shift in agriculture to meet these challenges. Natural Agriculture is a paradigm shift from the current commercial agricultural...
85) Eat green
Publisher
AV2 by Weigl
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Describes how "green" foods can both help protect the environment and maintain a healthy body, and provides ways readers can help by reducing kitchen waste, saving water, and starting a vegetable garden.
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint [Imprint]
Pub. Date
Oct. 2011
Language
English
Description
Locavore leaders such as Alice Waters, Michael Pollan, and Barbara Kingsolver all speak of the need for sweeping changes in how we get our food. A longtime leader of this movement is Wes Jackson, who for decades has taken it upon himself to speak for the land, to speak for the soil itself. Here, he offers a manifesto toward a conceptual revolution: Jackson asks us to look to natural ecosystemsor, if one prefers, nature in generalas the measure against...
Publisher
Universal Studios Canada Inc
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
John Chester chronicles the eight-year quest he and Molly Chester went on when they traded city living for 200 acres of barren farmland in the foothills of Ventura County and a dream to harvest in harmony with nature. Through dogged perseverance and embracing the opportunity provided by nature's conflicts, the Chester's unlock and uncover a biodiverse design for living that exists far beyond their farm, its seasons, and our wildest imagination.
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Describes the dysfunctions in the current food system, from chemical runoff to inhumane treatment of animals, and presents new principles and concrete steps to restructure how food is grown, packaged, delivered, marketed, and sold.
Author
Publisher
DK
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Transform your outdoor space into a low-impact, carbon-absorbing sink with this fantastic gardening guide, packed with ideas to grow a climate-friendly garden that will help protect the planet. Keen on starting your own garden but unsure about your environmental impact? This guide will give you practical advice on which soil to use, plants that are best for absorbing carbon dioxide, low-carbon fertilizers, and cutting out single-use plastic. What's...
Author
Publisher
Stone Pier Press
Pub. Date
[2019].
Language
English
Description
"A handbook for growing a victory garden when the enemy is global warming … Written by regenerative farmer Acadia Tucker, Growing Good Food calls on us to take up regenerative gardening, also known as carbon farming, for the good of the planet. By building carbon-rich soil, even in a backyard-sized patch, we can capture greenhouse gases and mitigate climate change, all while growing nutritious food. To help us get started, and quickly, Tucker draft...
Publisher
Monde Films
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
"From the semi deciduous forest of Mexico to the farm lands and cities of North America, learn how successful beekeepers overcome challenges and develop sustainable practices to improve the quality and quantity of bee populations. This documentary offers several practical solutions. These include: utilizing the biodiversity of plants, mass plantings of protein rich flowers, Queen bee mating yards, how to fight bee parasites and diseases without chemicals...
Author
Publisher
Polyface Inc
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
The aging farmer phenomenon is new and presents both unprecedented crisis and opportunity. Opening his heart and life, Joel Salatin uses his Polyface Farm experience to encouraged multi-generational farm relationships and germinate a new generation of young farmers.
Publisher
Lily Films
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Español
Description
An in-depth investigation of the disturbing truth behind unlabeled, patented, genetically engineered foods that have quietly filled U.S. grocery store shelves for the past decade and an exploration of alternatives to large- scale industrial agriculture.
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In a time when our relationship to the natural world is ruled by the violence and greed of unbridled consumerism, Wendell Berry speaks out in these prescient essays, drawn from his fifty-year campaign on behalf of American lands and communities. The writings gathered in The World-Ending Fire are the unique product of a life spent farming the fields of rural Kentucky with mules and horses, and of the rich, intimate knowledge of the land cultivated...
Author
Publisher
Chelsea Green Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
For decades it has been nearly universal dogma among environmentalists and health advocates that cattle and beef are public enemy number one.
But is the matter really so clear cut? Hardly, argues environmental lawyer turned rancher Nicolette Hahn Niman in her new book, Defending Beef.
The public has long been led to believe that livestock, especially cattle, erode soils, pollute air and water, damage riparian areas, and decimate wildlife populations.
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