Posts tagged with: book review
John Navazio’s new book provides a detailed, step-by-step guide to saving seed on a commercial scale. One of the first points that John Navazio lays out in his recently released book on seed saving,”The Organic Seed Grower,” is an often overlooked one: “Until very recently, the growing of seed was an integral part of all…
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This excerpt is from Fred Provenza’s book Nourishment: What Animals Can Teach Us About Rediscovering Our Nutritional Wisdom (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2018) and is reprinted with permission from the publisher. Feedback from the Gut Microbiome In 1968, near the Department of Defense’s Dugway Proving Grounds in Utah, 6,400 sheep were killed instantly by aerially applied…
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The Lean Farm guru is back with another book to lean farm our vegetable growing. Book Review for The Lean Farm, Guide to Growing Vegetables By Ben Hartman This book is a follow-up to his first book, The Lean Farm, and it takes growing vegetables to a very specific and directed level. I think this…
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There’s nothing more enjoyable than spending a spring afternoon indoors reading a book while it rains outside or while you wait for the mud to dry. Memoirs export you to a different time and place and put the reader into the shoes walked by the author. The genre of memoir is very popular and…
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Winter brings us indoors and the weather provides an overdue excuse to sit down and pick up a book. But which one? This column will offer a review of the newest and best books on a particular topic of general interest to the readers of Small Farm Quarterly. Hydrofracking and the risks to our agricultural…
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