Food Farm

Our basic right to healthy food is at risk. What can we do? Written in an astute, engaging style, armed with examples from her own homesteading lifestyle, small farmer Nicole Faires' Food Confidential gives you the tools to fight the intangible battles as well as the practical ones.

How did the bananas on your breakfast cereal get to your local grocery store? Easy-to-understand text explains how food gets from farms to stores and describes the role of the community workers who make it all possible.

Join the Green Class on a school trip to the farmer'sfarm! It is a beautiful spring day, and the children ride the yellowschool bus with their teachers, Ms. Patty and Ms. Cathy. Their guide,Joe, shows them the whole farm: sheep calling "Ma! Ma!", dogs barking"Woof! Woof!", hens and a rooster...

The ways we farm and the ways we eat will determine the destiny of life on Earth. Farms and food are foundational for civilization. Right now our civilization is undergoing massive upheaval. We must build a new foundation, and that imperative task is going to take all of us. Deep Agroecology shows the way. The union of native wisdom ways with sophisticated, sustainable tools and practices can lead to the renewal and the elevation of all forms of life on Earth. Our next, necessary evolutionary step depends on spiritually intelligent, regenerative agriculture: deep agroecology.

This audiobook includes an exclusive extract of the author's next audiobook. It’s the most magical time of the year . . . Curl up with Love from the Christmas Tree Farm, the perfectly cosy festive romance from Jo Thomas, beloved and bestselling author of Escape to the French Farmhouse. Gwen...

*FROM THE #2 BESTSELLING ROMANCE AUTHOR* FORBIDDEN, SUNBURNT AND UTTERLY HIS… When Rae comes back home to the Highlands after working overseas in high-end restaurants, almost everyone she knew has moved on. As Rae tries to stop herself and the family fruit farm from falling apart, she bumps...

Angie Turner's Idaho restaurant, the County Seat, is known and loved for its fresh food. For Angie, it's also meant a fresh start. But when big agriculture comes to town - along with whispers of foul play - Angie could lose more than the farm.

No experience in farming? No problem! The Profitable Hobby Farm gives you all the tools you need to launch a thriving hobby-farm business. Based on the author's expert guidance and the motivating experiences of other small farmers, it shows you how to blend strategy, marketing, and money management in order to prosper. The Profitable Hobby Farm provides sound, friendly start-up advice on a variety of topics essential to making an initial foray into a local-foods venture. A supplemental PDF is included with this audiobook.

Half of America's two million farms made less than $300 in 2019. Between rising land costs, ever-more expensive equipment, the growing uncertainty of the climate, and few options for health care, farming today is a risky business. For many, simply staying afloat is a constant struggle. Bet the Farm chronicles this struggle through Beth Hoffman's eyes as a beginning farmer. She must contend with her father-in-law, who is reluctant to hand over control of the land. The couple also must balance the books, hoping that farming isn't a fantasy that takes every cent of their savings.

Having exited the tutorial floors, Tulland is learning a safe zone is not always safe, in the second installment of this isekai adventure series. Tulland has made his way through the first five deadly floors of the Infinite, completing each of their corresponding challenges. But that was just...

Within a decade, nearly half of all American farmland will change hands as an older generation of farmers steps aside. In their place, a groundswell of new growers will face numerous challenges, including soil degradation, insufficient income, and investors devouring farmland at a staggering pace.

One of the few voices to challenge The Guardian's George Monbiot on the future of food and farming (and the restoration of nature) is academic, farmer and author of A Small Farm Future Chris Smaje. In Saying NO to a Farm-Free Future, Smaje presents his defense of small-scale farming and a robust critique of Monbiot’s vision for an urban and industrialized future.

How a miracle treatment turned deadly and changed the course of the AIDS crisis. By the mid 1980s, AIDS hysteria was so rampant that a fearful and prejudiced public ignored stories of gay men falling ill with lesions and mouth ulcers. President Reagan avoided mentioning the disease entirely...

When author Edmund Morris left the Philadelphia business world in the early 1800s and bought a small farm in the New Jersey countryside, he was so pleased with the results of his venture that he decided to tell others how he accomplished it. His written chronicle—one of the most popular books...

*FROM THE #2 BESTSELLING ROMANCE AUTHOR* FORBIDDEN, SUNBURNT AND UTTERLY HIS… When Rae comes back home to the Highlands after working overseas in high-end restaurants, almost everyone she knew has moved on. As Rae tries to stop herself and the family fruit farm from falling apart, she bumps...

From world-renowned scientist Jane Goodall, as seen in the National Geographic documentary Jane, comes a provocative look into the ways we can positively impact the world by changing our eating habits. "One of those rare, truly great books that can change the world." —John Robbins, author of...

A warm, stress-free, and joy-filled gardening guide that helps busy people build a thriving garden in short, manageable bursts—no perfection required. Gardening doesn’t have to be overwhelming, time-consuming, or perfect to be joyful. Garden Yourself Happy is a refreshingly down-to-earth...

“Unless you make it yourself, you have no idea what you are eating and Kristin Lawless explains why. You better read this book before you put another bite of food in your or your kids mouths!” — Laurie David, Academy Award winning producer of An Inconvenient Truth and Fed Up From the voice...

With the current administration pausing funding for agricultural projects and farming support, the issues discussed in this book are more urgent and relevant than ever before. The system of agriculture needs to be reimagined. This book is the best place to begin. There’s no denying it: we...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From Erin French, owner and chef of the critically acclaimed The Lost Kitchen, comes a life-affirming memoir about survival, renewal and the pleasure of bringing joy to people through food. Erin French grew up barefoot on a farm, fell in love with food as a teenager...