Books
Farms with a FutureWhat is a farm with a future? What will make it sustainable and resilient? And what key qualities and skills does a farmer need in today’s climate to be successful? Rebecca Thistlethwaite addresses these and other crucial questions in this must-read book for anyone aspiring to get into small to mid-scale market farming, or who wants to make their existing farm more dynamic, profitable, and, above all, sustainable.
Retail Price $29.95 Sale Price: $19.47 — 35% OFF! Adobe Homes for All Climates
Simple, Affordable, and Earthquake-Resistant Natural Building Techniques
Retail Price: $34.95 Sale Price: $22.72 The Big Tree at George and Charlotte's House
by Tomm Stanley Paperback Original Price: $11.95 Sale Price: $5.98 — 50% OFF! Tomm Stanley entertains and educates adults and children alike about trees and their interactions with the environment |
Fermentation Set by Sandor Ellix KatzThis set combines Sandor Ellix Katz's two classic books on fermentation with a DVD of one of his popular fermentation workshops.
Hardcover, Paperback, and DVD Retail Price: $99.90 Sale Price: $64.94 — 35% OFF! The Natural Building Companion: A Comprehensive Guide to Integrative Design and Construction
Walks builders through planning and construction, offering step-by-step instructions on siting, choosing materials, planning for heat and moisture, developing an integrative design, plastering, budgeting, and much more.
Retail Price: $59.95 Sale Price: $38.97 The War on Bugs
by Will Allen Paperback Original Price: $35.00 Sale Price: $15.00 — 57% OFF! Will Allen’s War on Bugs reveals how advertisers, editors, scientists, large scale farmers, government agencies, and even Dr. Seuss, colluded to convince farmers to use deadly chemicals, hormones, and genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in an effort to pad their wallets and control the American farm enterprise. |
The Straw Bale House
Build a house with superior seismic stability, fire resistance, and thermal insulation, using an annually renewable resource, for half the cost of a comparable conventional home.
Retail Price: $30.00 Sale Price: $19.50! Stone House, Revised and Expanded
by Tomm Stanley Paperback Original Price: $34.95 Sale Price: $17.48 — 50% OFF! Stone House contains all the hard knowledge, helpful tips, and fresh ideas you'll need to successfully build a stone home of your own. Tomm Stanley, an international business consultant, active ecologist, and all around handyman—who decided to go for his dream of building his own house—leads you through the entire process. Using a lighthearted narrative approach, Tomm describes the trials and tribulations that accompanied the wonderful successes he experienced as a first-time self-builder creating his own house of stone. |
Seed to Seed
by Suzanne Ashworth Paperback Original Price: $24.95 Sale Price: $18.71 — 25% OFF! Seed to Seed is a complete seed-saving guide that describes specific techniques for saving the seeds of 160 different vegetables. This book contains detailed information about each vegetable, including its botanical classification, flower structure and means of pollination, required population size, isolation distance, techniques for caging or hand-pollination, and also the proper methods for harvesting, drying, cleaning, and storing the seeds. Honeycomb Kids
by Anna Campbell Big Picture Parenting for a Changing World and to Change the World! Paperback On Sale: $11.67! Honeycomb Kids is a parenting book for the 21st Century. Including more than 300 practical ideas and activities, it comes with two priceless benefits: not only does it help you prepare your children for an uncertain tomorrow, it also helps you shift to a better family life for today |
Slow Gardening
by Felder Rushing Paperback Original Price: $29.95 Sale Price: $22.46 — 25% OFF! Doing something slowly means savoring what you do. However, in just a few generations, we've gone from eating mostly home-cooked food and gardening with mostly local resources to a fast-food culture and cookie-cutter "mow-and-blow" landscapes filled with unproductive and high-maintenance plants from afar. Sure, we've shed a lot of the menial labor it takes to put both food on the table and flowers in the garden, but at what cost to the Earth, and our own bodies? The Sheer Ecstasy of Being a Lunatic Farmer
by Joel Salatin Paperback Original Price: $25.00 Sale Price: $18.75 — 25% OFF! Foodies and environmentally-minded folks often struggle to understand and articulate the fundamental differences between the farming and food systems they endorse and those promoted by Monsanto and friends. With visceral stories and humor from his own half-century as a lunatic farmer, Salatin contrasts the differences on many levels: practical, spiritual, social, economic, ecological, political, and nutritional. |
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