Marzluff, John M.
Summary: An ornithologist's personal look at farming practices that finds practical solutions for sustainable food production compatible with bird and wildlife conservation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2020
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Summary: "What makes a garden good? For Chris McLaughlin, it's about growing the healthiest, most scrumptious fruits and veggies possible, but it's also about giving back. How can your little patch of Earth become a sanctuary for threatened wildlife, sequester carbon, and nurture native plants?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Island Press 2023
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Summary: "A definitive twenty-first century permaculture manual for human flourishing in an age of disconnection, disease, and decline. Drawing from twenty years of experience as a land designer and site developer, in The Resilient Farm and Homestead, Revised and Expanded Edition author Ben Falk describes how he has transformed a degraded hillside in the frigid climate of Vermont into a thriving Garden...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea Green Publishing 2024
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Summary: ""Ben Hartman is a true innovator for the small farm."-Curtis Stone, author of The Urban Farmer It's time to think big about small farms. Award-winning author and "green leader" (Grist) Ben Hartman shares practical how-to tips, personal stories, and surprising examples of cutting-edge farmers and innovators around the world to show us how. In the early 1970s, US Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea Green Publishing 2023
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Summary: Suggests different ways of being eco-conscious with food, including using gray water in the garden, knowing where a product comes from to find its environmental impact, and tips on saving energy in the kitchen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Heinemann Library 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 641.01 GREKelley, Margot Anne
Summary: "Ever wonder if there's a better way to live, work, and eat? You're not alone. Here is the story of five back-to-the-land movements, from 1840 to present day, when large numbers of utopian-minded people in the United States took action to establish small-scale farming as an alternative to mainstream agriculture. Then and now, it's the story of people striving to live freely and fight injustice,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Godine 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 334 KELMontgomery, David R.
Summary: "Are you really what you eat? David R. Montgomery and Anne Biklae take us far beyond the well-worn adage to deliver a new truth : the roots of good health start on farms. What Your Food Ate marshals evidence from recent and forgotten science to illustratehow the health of the soil ripples through to that of crops, livestock, and ultimately us. The long-running partnerships through which crops...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. 2022