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Author: Richard Rhodes
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 1997-11-28
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780803289659
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes the challenges and rewards faced by modern farms in the Midwest, and looks at the seasonal milestones of rural life
Author: Curtis Allen Stone
Publisher: New Society Publishers
Published: 2015-12-14
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 1771421916
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThere are twenty million acres of lawns in North America. In their current form, these unproductive expanses of grass represent a significant financial and environmental cost. However, viewed through a different lens, they can also be seen as a tremendous source of opportunity. Access to land is a major barrier for many people who want to enter the agricultural sector, and urban and suburban yards have huge potential for would-be farmers wanting to become part of this growing movement. The Urban Farmer is a comprehensive, hands-on, practical manual to help you learn the techniques and business strategies you need to make a good living growing high-yield, high-value crops right in your own backyard (or someone else's). Major benefits include: Low capital investment and overhead costs Reduced need for expensive infrastructure Easy access to markets Growing food in the city means that fresh crops may travel only a few blocks from field to table, making this innovative approach the next logical step in the local food movement. Based on a scalable, easily reproduced business model, The Urban Farmer is your complete guide to minimizing risk and maximizing profit by using intensive production in small leased or borrowed spaces. Curtis Stone is the owner/operator of Green City Acres, a commercial urban farm growing vegetables for farmers markets, restaurants, and retail outlets. During his slower months, Curtis works as a public speaker, teacher, and consultant, sharing his story to inspire a new generation of farmers.
Author: Leon F. Hesser
Publisher: Leon Hesser
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9781930754904
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Man Who Fed the World provides a loving and respectful portrait of one of America's greatest heroes. Nobel Peace Prize recipient for averting hunger and famine, Dr. Norman Borlang is credited with saving hundreds of millions of lives from starvation-more than any other person in history? Loved by millions around the world, Dr. Borlang is recognized as one of the most influential men of the twentieth century.
Author: Kristin Kimball
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2011-04-12
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1416551611
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDocuments the first year spent by the Harvard-graduate author with her new husband on their sustainable farm in the Adirondacks, describing how she withdrew from big-city life to be married in their barn loft, the difficult obstacles they faced attempting to provide a whole diet for one hundred locals, and the rewards of a physical-labor lifestyle.
Author: Beth Hoffman
Publisher: Island Press
Published: 2021-10-05
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 1642831603
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Eloquent and detailed...precise and well-thought-out...Read her book — and listen.” — Jane Smiley, The Washington Post. Beth Hoffman was living the good life: she had a successful career as a journalist and professor, a comfortable home in San Francisco, and plenty of close friends and family. Yet in her late 40s, she and her husband decided to leave the big city and move to his family ranch in Iowa—all for the dream of becoming a farmer, to put into practice everything she had learned over decades of reporting on food and agriculture. There was just one problem: money. Half of America's two million farms made less than $300 in 2019. Between rising land costs, ever-more expensive equipment, the growing uncertainty of the climate, and few options for health care, farming today is a risky business. For many, simply staying afloat is a constant struggle. Bet the Farm chronicles this struggle through Beth’s eyes as a beginning farmer. She must contend with her father-in-law, who is reluctant to hand over control of the land. Growing oats is good for the environment but ends up being very bad for the wallet. And finding somewhere, in the midst of COVID-19, to slaughter grass-finished beef is a nightmare. The couple also must balance the books, hoping that farming isn’t a romantic fantasy that takes every cent of their savings. Even with a decent nest egg and access to land, making ends meet at times seems impossible. And Beth knows full well that she is among the privileged. If Beth can’t make it, how can farmers who confront racism, lack access to land, or don’t have other jobs to fall back on? Bet the Farm is a first-hand account of the perils of farming today and a personal exploration of more just and sustainable ways of producing food.
Author: Creartive Notebooks
Publisher:
Published: 2019-05-27
Total Pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9781070399386
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLovely lined paper note-book & individual accessory for creative people, pupils, students and teachers. Unique & personalized gift idea for your friend, for proud cattle, chicken, corn, crop or dirt farmers, ranchers, agriculturers. Empty little book for men, women & children, farming teams who love humor, funny sayings & quotes, their occupation, job, hobby. Funny journal for your husband, wife, dad, mom, daughter, son, sister, brother, uncle, aunt, a farmer's daughter or son, boy, girl, farmhouse lover who likes his/her market, farm, ranch. Cool birthday, mothers, fathers day or christmas present. Special success dairy. Cover with awesome "best farmer ever" saying, quote. Perfect to write in for journaling, your notes, mindset, inspirational quotes, thoughts, feelings, ideas, successes or objectives. College ruled, 110 pages. Notebook, Notizbuch, Calepin, Cuaderno, Taccuino.
Author: Richard L. Bushman
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2018-05-22
Total Pages: 391
ISBN-13: 0300235208
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn illuminating study of America’s agricultural society during the Colonial, Revolutionary, and Founding eras In the eighteenth century, three†‘quarters of Americans made their living from farms. This authoritative history explores the lives, cultures, and societies of America’s farmers from colonial times through the founding of the nation. Noted historian Richard Bushman explains how all farmers sought to provision themselves while still actively engaged in trade, making both subsistence and commerce vital to farm economies of all sizes. The book describes the tragic effects on the native population of farmers’ efforts to provide farms for their children and examines how climate created the divide between the free North and the slave South. Bushman also traces midcentury rural violence back to the century’s population explosion. An engaging work of historical scholarship, the book draws on a wealth of diaries, letters, and other writings—including the farm papers of Thomas Jefferson and George Washington—to open a window on the men, women, and children who worked the land in early America.
Author: Forrest Pritchard
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2013-05-21
Total Pages: 341
ISBN-13: 0762794380
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith humor and pathos, Forrest Pritchard recounts his ambitious and often hilarious endeavors to save his family’s seventh-generation farm in the Shenandoah Valley. Through many a trial and error, he not only saves Smith Meadows from insolvency but turns it into a leading light in the sustainable, grass-fed, organic farm-to-market community. There is nothing young Farmer Pritchard won’t try. Whether he’s selling firewood and straw, raising free-range chickens and hogs, or acquiring a flock of Barbados Blackbelly sheep, his learning curve is steep and always entertaining. Pritchard’s world crackles with colorful local characters—farm hands, butchers, market managers, customers, fellow vendors, pet goats, policemen—bringing the story to warm, communal life. His most important ally, however, is his renegade father, who initially questions his son's career choice and eschews organic foods for the generic kinds that wreak havoc on his health. Soon after his father’s death, the farm becomes a recognized success and Pritchard must make a vital decision: to continue serving the local community or answer the exploding demand for his wares with lucrative Internet sales and shipping deals. More than a charming story of honest food cultivation and farmers’ markets, Gaining Ground tugs on the heartstrings, reconnecting us to the land and the many lives that feed us.
Author: Mark Shepard
Publisher: Acres U.S.A., Incorporated
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781601730350
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAround the globe most people get their calories from "annual" agriculture - plants that grow fast for one season, produce lots of seeds, then die. Every single human society that has relied on annual crops for staple foods has collapsed. Restoration Agriculture explains how we can have all of the benefits of natural, perennial ecosystems and create agricultural systems that imitate nature in form and function while still providing for our food, building, fuel and many other needs - in your own backyard, farm or ranch. This book, based on real-world practices, presents an alternative to the agriculture system of eradication and offers exciting hope for our future.
Author: Creartive Notebooks
Publisher:
Published: 2019-05-26
Total Pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9781070387420
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLovely lined paper note-book & individual accessory for creative people, pupils, students and teachers. Unique & personalized gift idea for your friend, for proud cattle, chicken, corn, crop or dirt farmers, farmerettes, ranchers, agriculturers. Empty little book for men, women & children, farming teams who love humor, funny sayings & quotes, their occupation, job, hobby. Funny journal for your husband, wife, dad, mom, daughter, son, sister, brother, uncle, aunt, a farmer's daughter or son, boy, girl, farmhouse lover who likes his/her market, farm, ranch. Cool birthday, mothers, fathers day or christmas present. Special success dairy with great cover and "best farmer ever" saying, quote. Perfect to write in for journaling, your notes, mindset, inspirational quotes, thoughts, feelings, ideas, successes or objectives. College ruled, 110 pages. Notebook, Notizbuch, Calepin, Cuaderno, Taccuino.
