Book Review: Near Woods: A Year in an Allegheny Forest
By Kevin Patrick Reviewed by Mary A. Nelen If you’ve wandered beyond your own backyard, you’ll be at least glancingly familiar with the...
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EDITH COUCHMAN
Jan 54 min read
Book Review: A Small Farm Future: Making the Case for a Society Built around Local Economies, Self-provisioning, Agricultural Diversity and a Shared Earth.
By Chris Smaje’s Reviewed by Edith Couchman Here’s a book for those who believe that E. F. Schumacher’s credo ‘Small is Beautiful’ is a...
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Alberto del Castillo Troncoso
Oct 3, 20234 min read
More than a Wall/Mas que un Muro: Photographs and Oral Histories by David Bacon
reviewed by Alberto del Castillo Troncoso From the Afterword: A journey through images By Alberto del Castillo Troncoso. The book is...
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Jason Detzel
Aug 7, 20235 min read
Grass-Fed Beef for a Post-Pandemic World:
How Regenerative Grazing Can Restore Soils and Stabilize the Climate Written by Ridge Shinn and Lynne Pledge Reviewed by Jason Detzel The...
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Bec Sloan
Aug 7, 20234 min read
Hoofprints on the Land
Reviewed by Bec Sloane Written by Ilse Köhler-Rollefson “Documenting traditional knowledge does not really preserve it - it needs to be...
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Angela Highsmith
Mar 29, 20233 min read
Cold-Hardy Fruits and Nuts 50 Easy-to-Grow Plants for the Home Garden or Landscape
By Allyson Levy and Scott Serrano Chelsea Green Publishing, 2022 Reviewed by Angela Highsmith As a student of permaculture living in the...
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Chris Travis
Mar 29, 20233 min read
Our Wild Farming Life
By Lynn Cassells and Sandra Baer Reviewed by Chris Travis Our Wild Farming Life by Lynn Cassells and Sandra Baer is a great choice for...
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Elizabeth Gabriel
Mar 29, 20233 min read
Growing Figs in Cold Climates
Author Lee Reich New Society Publishers, 115 pages, $24.99 https://www.leereich.com/books Reviewed by Elizabeth Gabriel I’ve known Lee’s...
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Tracy Frisch
Mar 29, 20235 min read
The Healthy Vegetable Garden:
A natural, chemical-free approach to soil, biodiversity and managing pests and diseases.
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Jon Magee
Mar 28, 20235 min read
Important but overlooked history of the southern Black farmers...
Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement, by White, Monica M. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina...
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April Jones
Mar 28, 20232 min read
“the legacy begins in the soil”
The legacy begins with the soil
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Stephen Shafer
Mar 28, 20234 min read
This splendid book combines botany...
The Forgiveness of Nature: the Story of Grass, by author Graham Harvey. Reviewed by Stephen Shafer, TNF Summer 2022 This splendid book...
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Rema Boscov
Mar 28, 20233 min read
Future is the keyword for this book...
Farming For Our Future: The Science, Law, and Policy of Climate-Neutral Agriculture, authors: Peter H. Lehner and Nathan A. Rosenberg...
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