Summary: "India is at the leading edge of agricultural technologies. However, the truth for Indian farmers is nothing like the shiny biotech promise. Modern industrial agriculture, with its reliance on pesticides, fungicides and herbicides, has destroyed topsoil. Water tables have dropped, biotech seeds are failing and farmer suicides are at an all-time high. There is a solution: Peter Proctor is New...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ONEMichigan State University
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 630 MICFalk, Ben
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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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 630 MICSummary: Fresh celebrates the farmers, thinkers and business people across America who are re-inventing our food system. Forging healthier, sustainable alternatives, they offer a practical vision for a future of our food and our planet. Among others, Fresh features urban farmer and activist Will Allen, sustainable farmer and entrepreneur Joel Salatin, and supermarket owner David Ball.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ripple Effect Productions 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FRELee, Andrew W.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Good Earth Publications 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.5 LEEForeman, Patricia L. (Patricia Louise)
Summary: City Chicks is a remarkable trend-setting book for poultry lovers and urban agriculturists. It combines hands-on, real-life experience to bring you one of the most complete authorative books on micro-flock management.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Good Earth Publications 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.5 FORSummary: Documents the trend of unlabeled genetically-modified foods which have become increasingly prevalent in grocery stores. Unravels the complex web of market and political forces that are changing the nature of what we eat. Explores organic and sustainable agriculture as alternatives to large-scale industrial agriculture.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arts Alliance America 2007
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Summary: "Permaculture expert and popular YouTube Homesteader Justin Rhodes shares the skills and the delights of becoming a part of your own food story in this inspiring and accessible and beautiful four-color invitation to a more abundant, healthy, and connected life. Have you ever wanted to experiment with growing your own food but didn't think you had the space, the time, or the knowledge? Justin...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Worthy 2022