Acres U S A : 70 books
by William McKibben
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
A practical guide to interpreting soil test results for farmers and other stewards of the earth wanting to understand what nutrients are available to plants and learn how to more effectively grow crops, turfgrass and other plants. This book, written by an experienced soil consultant, gives real-world...
Secrets of Fertile Soils
Humus As the Guardian of the Fundamentals of Natural Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
This stimulating book provides a highly practical window into the complex, interdependent relationships between soil, plants, animals, and human beings, including special insight into the fascinating life cycle of healthy soils and the imminent dangers we face should their existence become threatened....
by Pat Coleby
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2001
Goats thrive on fully organic natural care. As natural browsers, they have higher mineral requirements than other domestic animals, so diet is a critical element to maintaining optimal livestock health. In Natural Goat Care, consultant Pat Coleby shows how to solve health problems both with natural...
by Rich Finzer
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
From author Rich Finzer, a Blue Ribbon-winning maple syrup producer with 20 years of experience, get the best advice and learn shortcuts and tricks that will save you from making rookie mistakes, save you money by telling which equipment you really need and save you valuable time during the boiling-down...
Biodynamic Pasture Management
Balancing Life, Fertility and Energy
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
New Zealand grazing consultant Peter Bacchus shares a lifetime of experience on applying biodynamics to pastures. His multi-pronged approach to managing pastures considers balance of fertility elements, organic matter levels, soil life, and particularly soil life forces. Using biodynamic preparations...
by Kelly Klober
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
A resurgence of interest in heritage poultry breeds has invigorated poultry raising on family farms and backyards across the country. These are the birds that can and should be producing for today’s marketplace – for consumers that have come to value locally bred and grown, historically significant...
Preventing Deer Damage
High-Tech, Low-Tech and Natural Controls
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Simple in its format, yet packed with information of many, many ways to prevent deer damage to your commercial crops or home garden. Explains how to use fencing and other barriers and visual and scent repellents. Also lists plants deer like and those they don’t like. Practical information from a true innovator who lives in deer country.
Minerals for the Genetic Code
An Exposition and Analysis of the Dr. Olree Standard Genetic Periodic Chart and the Physical, Chemical and Biological Connection
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Dr. Richard Olree believes that the key to the biological role of all trace minerals has been available to science for decades, but nobody realized it. Will his Standard Genetic Code Chart prove to be the Rosetta Stone of trace nutrients? Through sequencing the amino acids in the process of constructing...
by Charles Walters
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Weeds, Control Without Poisons demonstrates the necessity in agriculture today for a more holistic, eco-centered perspective. The author explains what 50 years of deadly chemicals have already done to our soil and our bodies, demonstrating that this process does not work in any long-term commonsense...
by Jeff Moyer
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Organic No-Till Farming offers a map to an organic farming system that limits tillage, reduces labor, and improves soil structure. Based on the latest research by pioneering agriculturists, this book offers new technologies and tools based on sound biological principles, making it possible to...
by William Albrecht, Charles Walters
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
This collection of essays reveals a carefully organized and convincing explanation by Albrecht about the interconnection between soil, plants and animals – that everything is related to everything else. In these papers Albrecht reveals the importance of the balance equation, that it isn’t enough...
Paramagnetism
Rediscovering Nature's Secret Force of Growth
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1995
This book is the culmination of all of Callahan’s previous works and will certainly be his most popular book to date and a classic for years to come. Quite frankly, the author considers this his most important work ever, as he believes an understanding of paramagnetism — and its practical integration...
by Pat Coleby
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2001
Natural Cattle Care encompasses every facet of farm management, from the mineral components of the soils cattle graze over, to issues of fencing, shelter and feed regimens. How you farm determines the health of your livestock. Natural Cattle Care is a comprehensive analysis of farming...
Beyond the Chicken
A Guide to Alternative Poultry Species for the Small Farm
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
In this book, author and lifelong poultry keeper Kelly Klober turns his attention to alternative poultry ventures. The newfound interest in heritage breeds of chicken has created a unique opportunity for small farmers to reintroduce consumers to other types of poultry. Ducks, pigeons, and guinea were...