Chelsea Green Publishing: 239 books
The Holistic Orchard
Tree Fruits and Berries the Biological Way
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
Many people want to grow fruit on a small scale but lack the insight to be successful orchardists. Growing tree fruits and berries is something virtually anyone with space and passionate desire can do - given wise guidance and a personal commitment to observe the teachings of the trees. A holistic...
Crop Rotation and Cover Cropping
Soil Resiliency and Health on the Organic Farm
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
Part of the NOFA guides. This volume covers:
Historical roots of cover-crop techniques
Thinking beyond this season's cash crop (disease and pest reduction, weed suppression, cash vs. cover crops)
What is a good rotation? (mapping the farm, grouping crops, sample groupings)
The economics of rotations...
by Robert Kourik
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2005
First published in 1986, this classic is back in print by popular demand. It is the authoritative text on edible landscaping, featuring a step-by-step guide to designing a productive environment using vegetables, fruits, flowers, and herbs for a combination of ornamental and culinary purposes.
It...
Wind Power
Renewable Energy for Home, Farm, and Business, 2nd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2004
In the wake of mass blackouts and energy crises, wind power remains a largely untapped resource of renewable energy. It is a booming worldwide industry whose technology, under the collective wing of aficionados like author Paul Gipe, is coming of age. Wind Power guides us through the emergent, sometimes...
Marijuana is Safer
So Why Are We Driving People to Drink? 2nd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
In 2012, voters in Colorado shocked the political establishment by making the use of marijuana legal for anyone in the state twenty-one years of age or older. In the wake of that unprecedented victory, nationally recognized marijuana-policy experts Steve Fox, Paul Armentano, and Mason Tvert revisit...
Diary of an Eco-Outlaw
An Unreasonable Woman Breaks the Law for Mother Earth
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
Diane Wilson is an activist, shrimper, and all around hell-raiser whose first book, An Unreasonable Woman, told of her battle to save her bay in Seadrift, Texas. Back then, she was an accidental activist who worked with whistleblowers, organized protests, and eventually sunk her own boat to stop the...
Humane and Healthy Poultry Production
A Manual for Organic Growers
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
Part of the NOFA guides. Includes information on:
Organic poultry basics
Establishing the facilities (housing and equipment, choosing and using litter, outdoor access, brooding, grazing and pasturing)
Purchasing and brooding chicks
Organic feed and supplements
Poultry health care in the organic...
Restoring Heritage Grains
The Culture, Biodiversity, Resilience, and Cuisine of Ancient Wheats
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Including recipes for baking with Einkorn
Wheat is the most widely grown crop on our planet, yet industrial breeders have transformed this ancient staff of life into a commodity of yield and profit—witness the increase in gluten intolerance and 'wheat belly’. Modern wheat depends on synthetic...
Small-Scale Grain Raising
An Organic Guide to Growing, Processing, and Using Nutritious Whole Grains for Home Gardeners and Local Farmers, 2nd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2009
First published in 1977, this book—from one of America’s most famous and prolific agricultural writers—became an almost instant classic among homestead gardeners and small farmers. Now fully updated and available once more, Small-Scale Grain Raising offers a entirely new generation of readers...
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Food Rights
The Escalating Battle over Who Decides What We Eat
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
"Do Americans have the right to privately obtain the foods of our choice from farmers, neighbors, and local producers, in the same way our grandparents and great grandparents used to do?Yes, say a growing number of people increasingly afraid that the mass-produced food sold at supermarkets is...
Spell of the Tiger
The Man-Eaters of Sundarbans
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2009
From the author of The Soul of an Octopus and bestselling memoir The Good Good Pig, a book that earned Sy Montgomery her status as one of the most celebrated wildlife writers of our time, Spell of the Tiger brings readers to the Sundarbans, a vast tangle of mangrove swamp and tidal delta that lies...
Walking on Lava
Selected Works for Uncivilised Times
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
The Dark Mountain Project began with a manifesto published in 2009 by two English writers—Dougald Hine and Paul Kingsnorth—who felt that literature was not responding honestly to the crises of our time.
In a world in which the climate is being altered by human activities; in which global...
by Derrick Jensen
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Derrick Jensen takes no prisoners in The Culture of Make Believe, his brilliant and eagerly awaited follow-up to his powerful and lyrical A Language Older Than Words. What begins as an exploration of the lines of thought and experience that run between the massive lynchings in early twentieth-century...
Matter and Desire
An Erotic Ecology
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
Nautilus Award Gold Medal Winner, Ecology & Environment
In Matter and Desire, internationally renowned biologist and philosopher Andreas Weber rewrites ecology as a tender practice of forging relationships, of yearning for connections, and of expressing these desires through our bodies....