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Author | : Brent Preston |
Publisher | : Abrams |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2018-03-27 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1683353021 |
This “must-read” memoir of human-scale agriculture offers an insider’s view of today’s food system by a leading voice in sustainable farming (Daniel Boulud). After years of working at the ends of the earth in human rights and development, Brent Preston and his wife were die-hard city dwellers. But when their second child arrived, the shine came off urban living. In 2003 they bought a hundred acres and a rundown farmhouse, determined to build a farm that would sustain their family, nourish their community, heal their environment—and turn a profit. The New Farm is Preston’s memoir of a decade of toil and perseverance. Farming is a complex and precarious business, and they made plenty of mistakes along the way. But as they learned how to grow food, and to succeed at the business of farming, they also found that a small, sustainable, organic farm could be an engine for change, a path to a more just and sustainable food system. Today, The New Farm supplies top restaurants, supports community food banks, hosts events with leading chefs, and grows extraordinary produce. Told with humor and heart, The New Farm is a joy, a passionate book by an important new voice.
Author | : Novella Carpenter |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781594202216 |
Chronicles the adventures of a woman who turned a vacant lot in downtown Oakland into a thriving urban farm, complete with chickens, turkey, bees, and pigs.
Author | : United States. Industrial Commission |
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Total Pages | : 1580 |
Release | : 1901 |
Genre | : United States |
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Author | : Young folks library |
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Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : Vocational guidance |
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Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 1911 |
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Author | : Canada. Parliament. House of Commons |
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Total Pages | : 1182 |
Release | : 1891 |
Genre | : Canada |
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Author | : Richard Perkins (Farmer) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Farms, Small |
ISBN | : 9789198340204 |
"Making Small Farms Work follows the first seasons setting up what has quickly become one of Europe's flagship farm scale Permaculture and regenerative agriculture sites. From a rural situation, nestled in the heart of Scandinavia, Ridgedale is a dedicated high-quality local food producer engaged in educating the next generation of agrarians with the design and management strategies to create farms for the future."--Page 4 of cover.
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Banking and Currency Committee |
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Total Pages | : 1150 |
Release | : 1948 |
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Author | : Forrest Pritchard |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 341 |
Release | : 2013-05-21 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0762794380 |
With humor and pathos, Forrest Pritchard recounts his ambitious and often hilarious endeavors to save his family’s seventh-generation farm in the Shenandoah Valley. Through many a trial and error, he not only saves Smith Meadows from insolvency but turns it into a leading light in the sustainable, grass-fed, organic farm-to-market community. There is nothing young Farmer Pritchard won’t try. Whether he’s selling firewood and straw, raising free-range chickens and hogs, or acquiring a flock of Barbados Blackbelly sheep, his learning curve is steep and always entertaining. Pritchard’s world crackles with colorful local characters—farm hands, butchers, market managers, customers, fellow vendors, pet goats, policemen—bringing the story to warm, communal life. His most important ally, however, is his renegade father, who initially questions his son's career choice and eschews organic foods for the generic kinds that wreak havoc on his health. Soon after his father’s death, the farm becomes a recognized success and Pritchard must make a vital decision: to continue serving the local community or answer the exploding demand for his wares with lucrative Internet sales and shipping deals. More than a charming story of honest food cultivation and farmers’ markets, Gaining Ground tugs on the heartstrings, reconnecting us to the land and the many lives that feed us.
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Total Pages | : 776 |
Release | : 1875 |
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