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
- 4 min
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...
Alberto del Castillo Troncoso
- 4 min
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...
Jason Detzel
- 5 min
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...
Bec Sloan
- 4 min
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...
Angela Highsmith
- 3 min
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...
Chris Travis
- 3 min
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...
Elizabeth Gabriel
- 3 min
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...
Tracy Frisch
- 5 min
The Healthy Vegetable Garden:
A natural, chemical-free approach to soil, biodiversity and managing pests and diseases.
Jon Magee
- 5 min
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...
April Jones
- 2 min
“the legacy begins in the soil”
The legacy begins with the soil
Stephen Shafer
- 4 min
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...
Rema Boscov
- 3 min
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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