Acres U S A : 70 books
The Secret Life of Compost
A Guide to Static-Pile Composting - Lawn, Garden, Feedlot or Farm
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1997
We don’t need to poison the earth in order to grow better food, and what is harmful to the environment when improperly disposed of often can be turned back to the soil in a beneficial way through composting — if you know how. Here’s how. Malcolm Beck’s Garden-Ville is one of the largest commercial...
Homeopathy for the Herd
A Farmer's Guide to Low-Cost, Non-Toxic Veterinary Care of Cattle
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
Subtitled A Farmer’s Guide to Low-Cost, Non-Toxic Veterinary Cattle Care, this new information-packed book by Acres U.S.A.’s Natural Vet will tell you what you need to know to get started in the use of homeopathic medicines with cows. Using case studies and practical examples from both dairy...
Rebirth of the Small Family Farm
A Handbook for Starting a Successful Organic Farm Based on the Community Supported Agriculture Concept
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004
This is a concise, yet complete handbook for starting a successful organic farm based on the community-supported agriculture concept. Written for farmers and non-farmers alike, the book illustrates how “two middle-aged novices” made a decent living on less than two acres of land. The model explained...
Farming in the Presence of Nature
A farmer (and gardener's) guide to understanding Gaia
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
“. . . watch with me as a grand and beautiful picture unfolds, of the interconnectedness of all things.”
No endeavor engages so deeply, so personally with nature as farming, whether on a thousand acres or in the gardener’s window box. When farmers delve into nature’s mysteries...
by Julius Hensel
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1991
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1991
This book was the first work to attack Von Liebig’s salt fertilizer thesis, and it stands as valid today as when first written over 100 years ago. Translated from the German writings of Julius Hensel, the book was designed to introduce the people of the U.S. to the idea that plants require healthy...
Healthy Soils, Sick Soils
Understanding the Nature of Humus and How It Functions in Farming Systems
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Now available in English for the first time, this popular 1943 treatise on biology and biologically correct working of soil from the pen of the famous soil scientist Prof. Dr. Franz Sekera, carefully edited and expanded by his wife, scientist Margareth Sekera, over the years, has long been beloved...
The Miracle of Milk
How to Use the Milk Diet Scientifically at Home
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
"Milk is the greatest of all diet cures," writes Macfadden in the first line of his book. He continues with "It will undoubtedly give you more life while you live and it may add many years to your life." Originally published in 1923, this book touts the health benefits of milk...
Restoration Agriculture
Real-World Permaculture for Farmers
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Around the globe most people get their calories from annual agriculture - plants that grow fast for one season, produce lots of seeds, then die. Every single human society that has relied on annual crops for staple foods has collapsed. Restoration Agriculture explains how we can have all...
Food Power from the Sea
The Seaweed Story
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
Subtitled The Seaweed Story, this book by one of the great minds of eco-agriculture explains how we can produce our food by using seaweed and fish-based inputs rather than wasteful and unsustainable chemical fertilizers. Fryer and Simmons tell how growers can harness the sea's energy to extend...
Tuning in to Nature
Infrared Radiation and the Insect Communication System
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1975
Learn how plants and insects communicate through emissions in the infrared frequency range and why poisonous pesticides do not solve the real problems facing agriculture. In this breakthrough book Phil Callahan uncovers why certain insects are attracted only to certain plants, the role of pheromones work in nature, and how plants under stress literally signal insects to come devour them.
by Alanna Moore
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Stone Age Farming delves into the world of subtle earth energies and explains how they can be harnessed for improved plant growth. The result of eight years' research, this book by dowser, researcher and permaculture farmer Alanna Moore provides tips on how to produce healthy, luscious and pest-resistant...
by Pat Coleby
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
In this comprehensive guide for all breeders of sheep, whether for wool, meat or milk Coleby draws on decades of experience in natural animal husbandry to provide essential information for both organic and conventional farmers. The original edition has been expanded significantly in the areas of breeding...
How to Grow Super Soybeans
A Biological Farmer's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1989
Do you know how to grow super soybeans? Learn how bacteria helps your crop grow better. Learn how to drought-proof your soil. Learn whether herbicides and pesticides are really necessary, and what place hydrogen peroxide has on your farm. Learn how to increase your profits. What you have here is 50 pages of real dynamite.
by William Albrecht, Charles Walters
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
In volume 5 readers will find a carefully organized and convincing explanation of the relationship between calcium and soil fertility. It is not possible to discuss calcium, which Albrecht proclaims as the “King of Nutrients” without being led into the entire mosaic that Albrecht considers biologically correct farming.