Beyond the Harvest
Beyond the Harvest

Author: Barrett Williams

Publisher: Barrett Williams

Published: 2024-06-30

Total Pages: 71

ISBN-13:

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Unlock the ancient art of fermentation and discover a world bursting with flavor, health benefits, and sustainability with "Beyond the Harvest." This comprehensive guide takes you on an extraordinary journey through the time-honored tradition of fermenting foods, transforming simple produce into delightful, tangy, and nutritious masterpieces. Start your adventure with "Introduction to Fermentation," where you'll gain a deep understanding of the science behind this magical process. Learn how fermentation can be a game-changer for your health by enhancing nutrients and boosting probiotics. In "Preparing Your Produce for Fermentation," selecting and prepping your vegetables becomes second nature, setting the foundation for perfect ferments. Equip your kitchen with the essential tools you’ll need to succeed. Dive into "Brining Basics," mastering the core of fermentation with impeccable brine recipes and precise salt level management. Once armed with these skills, turn to "Fermenting Vegetables" and create crowd-pleasers like sauerkraut, kimchi, pickles, garlic, and onions. But why stop at vegetables? "Fermenting Fruits" opens a treasure chest of possibilities. Explore the unique flavors of fermented berries, apples, pears, and even citrus fruits. Elevate your fermenting game with "Advanced Fermentation Techniques," learn about starter cultures, wild yeasts, and the fine art of temperature control. "Savor Peace of Mind" with "Safety and Troubleshooting," ensuring your ferments are always safe and delicious. Learn about short-term and long-term storage in "Storing Your Fermented Goods," preserving both flavor and texture. Make fermented foods a staple of your diet with creative recipes in "Incorporating Fermented Foods into Daily Meals." Understand the profound health benefits in the dedicated chapter, and garner inspiration from fermentation practices around the globe in "Cultural Fermentation Practices." Adapt and overcome challenges with "Fermentation in Different Climates," and embrace eco-friendly practices in "Sustainable Fermentation." Share your passion in "Community and Fermentation," building networks and running workshops. Finish your journey by exploring the "Future of Fermentation in Subsistence Farming," and expand your skills to innovate and ensure food security. Step beyond the ordinary and embrace the extraordinary world of fermentation with "Beyond the Harvest." Your journey to a healthier, tastier, and more sustainable lifestyle starts here.

American Harvest
American Harvest

Author: Marie Mutsuki Mockett

Publisher: Graywolf Press

Published: 2020-04-07

Total Pages: 445

ISBN-13: 1644451166

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An epic story of the American wheat harvest, the politics of food, and the culture of the Great Plains For over one hundred years, the Mockett family has owned a seven-thousand-acre wheat farm in the panhandle of Nebraska, where Marie Mutsuki Mockett’s father was raised. Mockett, who grew up in bohemian Carmel, California, with her father and her Japanese mother, knew little about farming when she inherited this land. Her father had all but forsworn it. In American Harvest, Mockett accompanies a group of evangelical Christian wheat harvesters through the heartland at the invitation of Eric Wolgemuth, the conservative farmer who has cut her family’s fields for decades. As Mockett follows Wolgemuth’s crew on the trail of ripening wheat from Texas to Idaho, they contemplate what Wolgemuth refers to as “the divide,” inadvertently peeling back layers of the American story to expose its contradictions and unhealed wounds. She joins the crew in the fields, attends church, and struggles to adapt to the rhythms of rural life, all the while continually reminded of her own status as a person who signals “not white,” but who people she encounters can’t quite categorize. American Harvest is an extraordinary evocation of the land and a thoughtful exploration of ingrained beliefs, from evangelical skepticism of evolution to cosmopolitan assumptions about food production and farming. With exquisite lyricism and humanity, this astonishing book attempts to reconcile competing versions of our national story.

Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond
Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond

Author: Brad Lancaster

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780977246434

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« "Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1' is the first book in a three-volume guide that teaches you how to conceptualize, design, and implement sustainable water-harvesting systems for your home, landscape, and community. The lessons in this volume will enable you to assess your on-site resources, give you a diverse array of strategies to maximize their potential, and empower you with guiding principles to create an integrated, multi-functional water-harvesting plan specific to your site and needs. »--

Beyond the Toxic Harvest
Beyond the Toxic Harvest

Author: Eve Hillary

Publisher:

Published: 2013-02-01

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780980662931

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Eve Hillary was transplanted as a teenager, from her native America, to Australia, and in a few short years, she was catapulted from her career in healthcare into a glamorous career as a fashion model. But it was her marriage to Bill, a successful businessman and yachtsman that launched her into the glittering social set of the international yacht racing fraternity. For a while, they enjoyed an affluent lifestyle that included multiple homes, a yacht and an outback cattle ranch the size of a small country. After Bill relocated the family to the outback property, he was often away on business trips, leaving Eve alone at the isolated homestead with their two children. There, she discovered the dark and dangerous side of the outback when she had to protect her children from armed intruders -- but when she and her sons were poisoned, their lives began to unravel. To save her family, Eve had to sacrifice almost everything and undertake a complete personal transformation. Against all odds, she took on the medical and regulatory establishment and then went on to help spearhead the wellness movement. Her true story carries a powerful message about environmental health, safe consumer choices, and shows how to achieve wellness and maintain balance in a toxic world.

Chasing the Harvest
Chasing the Harvest

Author: Gabriel Thompson

Publisher: Verso Books

Published: 2017-05-16

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1786632209

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Lives from an invisible community—the migrant farmworkers of the United States The Grapes of Wrath brought national attention to the condition of California’s migrant farmworkers in the 1930s. Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers’ grape and lettuce boycotts captured the imagination of the United States in the 1960s and ’70s. Yet today, the stories of the more than 800,000 men, women, and children working in California’s fields—one third of the nation’s agricultural work force—are rarely heard, despite the persistence of wage theft, dangerous working conditions, and uncertain futures. This book of oral histories makes the reality of farm work visible in accounts of hardship, bravery, solidarity, and creativity in California’s fields, as real people struggle to win new opportunities for future generations. Among the narrators: Maricruz, a single mother fired from a packing plant after filing a sexual assault complaint against her supervisor. Roberto, a vineyard laborer in the scorching Coachella Valley who became an advocate for more humane working conditions after his teenage son almost died of heatstroke. Oscar, an elementary school teacher in Salinas who wants to free his students from a life in the fields, the fate that once awaited him as a child.

The New Harvest
The New Harvest

Author: Calestous Juma

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 355

ISBN-13: 0190237236

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African agriculture is currently at a crossroads, at which persistent food shortages are compounded by threats from climate change. But, as this book argues, Africa can feed itself in a generation and can help contribute to global food security. To achieve this Africa has to define agriculture as a force in economic growth by advancing scientific and technological research, investing in infrastructure, fostering higher technical training, and creating regional markets.

We Are Each Other's Harvest
We Are Each Other's Harvest

Author: Natalie Baszile

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2021-04-06

Total Pages: 529

ISBN-13: 0063139898

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A WALL STREET JOURNAL FAVORITE FOOD BOOK OF THE EAR From the author of Queen Sugar—now a critically acclaimed series on OWN directed by Ava Duvernay—comes a beautiful exploration and celebration of black farming in America. In this impressive anthology, Natalie Baszile brings together essays, poems, photographs, quotes, conversations, and first-person stories to examine black people’s connection to the American land from Emancipation to today. In the 1920s, there were over one million black farmers; today there are just 45,000. Baszile explores this crisis, through the farmers’ personal experiences. In their own words, middle aged and elderly black farmers explain why they continue to farm despite systemic discrimination and land loss. The "Returning Generation"—young farmers, who are building upon the legacy of their ancestors, talk about the challenges they face as they seek to redress issues of food justice, food sovereignty, and reparations. These farmers are joined by other influential voices, including noted historians Analena Hope Hassberg and Pete Daniel, and award-winning author Clyde W. Ford, who considers the arrival of Africans to American shores; and James Beard Award-winning writers and Michael Twitty, reflects on black culinary tradition and its African roots. Poetry and inspirational quotes are woven into these diverse narratives, adding richness and texture, as well as stunning four-color photographs from photographers Alison Gootee and Malcom Williams, and Baszile’s personal collection. As Baszile reveals, black farming informs crucial aspects of American culture—the family, the way our national identity is bound up with the land, the pull of memory, the healing power of food, and race relations. She reminds us that the land, well-earned and fiercely protected, transcends history and signifies a home that can be tended, tilled, and passed to succeeding generations with pride. We Are Each Other’s Harvest elevates the voices and stories of black farmers and people of color, celebrating their perseverance and resilience, while spotlighting the challenges they continue to face. Luminous and eye-opening, this eclectic collection helps people and communities of color today reimagine what it means to be dedicated to the soil.

Harvest
Harvest

Author: Jim Crace

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Published: 2013-02-14

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 1447242270

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Winner of the 2015 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Winner of the 2014 James Tait Black Prize Shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize Shortlisted for the 2013 Goldsmiths Prize Shortlisted for the 2014 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction As late summer steals in and the final pearls of barley are gleaned, a village comes under threat. A trio of outsiders - two men and a dangerously magnetic woman - arrives on the woodland borders triggering a series of events that will see Walter Thirsk's village unmade in just seven days: the harvest blackened by smoke and fear, cruel punishment meted out to the innocent, and allegations of witchcraft. But something even darker is at the heart of Walter's story, and he will be the only man left to tell it . . .

Beyond the Fields
Beyond the Fields

Author: Randy Shaw

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 0520268040

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Much has been written about Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers' heyday in the 1960s and '70s, but the story of their profound, ongoing influence on 21st century social justice movements has until now been left untold. This book unearths this legacy.

Beneath a Harvest Sky
Beneath a Harvest Sky

Author: Tracie Peterson

Publisher: Bethany House

Published: 2003-06

Total Pages: 381

ISBN-13: 0764225197

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The man Rainy loves is involved in an investigation of missing Hopi Indian artifacts, and all the evidence points to Rainy.