Green Publishing: 511 books
Raising Dough
The Complete Guide to Financing a Socially Responsible Food Business
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
More and more entrepreneurs are using food-based businesses to solve social and environmental problems - and yet the majority of them report that a lack of access to capital prevents them from launching, maintaining, or growing their ventures. Raising Dough is an unprecedented guide to the full range...
Cheddar
A Journey to the Heart of America’s Most Iconic Cheese
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
One of the oldest, most ubiquitous, and beloved cheeses in the world, the history of cheddar is a fascinating one. Over the years it has been transformed, from a painstakingly handmade wheel to a rindless, mass-produced block, to a liquefied and emulsified plastic mass untouched by human hands. The...
Rebuilding the Foodshed
How to Create Local, Sustainable, and Secure Food Systems
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
"Droves of people have turned to local food as a way to retreat from our broken industrial food system. From rural outposts to city streets, they are sowing, growing, selling, and eating food produced close to home—and they are crying out for agricultural reform. All this has made ""local...
The New Organic Grower
A Master's Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market Gardener, 2nd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1995
With more than 45,000 sold since 1989, The New Organic Grower has become a modern classic. In this newly revised and expanded edition, master grower Eliot Coleman continues to present the simplest and most sustainable ways of growing top-quality organic vegetables. Coleman updates practical information...
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...