Download or read book A Small Farm Future written by Chris Smaje and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-21 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A modern classic of the new agrarianism "Chris Smaje...shows that the choice is clear. Either we have a small farm future, or we face collapse and extinction."—Vandana Shiva "Every young person should read this book."—Richard Heinberg In a groundbreaking debut, farmer and social scientist Chris Smaje argues that organizing society around small-scale farming offers the soundest, sanest and most reasonable response to climate change and other crises of civilisation—and will yield humanity’s best chance at survival. Drawing on a vast range of sources from across a multitude of disciplines, A Small Farm Future analyses the complex forces that make societal change inevitable; explains how low-carbon, locally self-reliant agrarian communities can empower us to successfully confront these changes head on; and explores the pathways for delivering this vision politically. Challenging both conventional wisdom and utopian blueprints, A Small Farm Future offers rigorous original analysis of wicked problems and hidden opportunities in a way that illuminates the path toward functional local economies, effective self-provisioning, agricultural diversity and a shared earth. Perfect for readers of both Wendell Berry and Thomas Piketty, A Small Farm Future is a refreshing, new outlook on a way forward for society—and a vital resource for activists, students, policy makers, and anyone looking to enact change.
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Download or read book Storey s Guide to Raising Chickens written by Gail Damerow and published by Storey Publishing. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expert advice on selecting breeds, caring for chicks, producing eggs, raising broilers, feeding, troubleshooting, and much more.
Download or read book Farming While Black written by Leah Penniman and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2018 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Farming While Black is the first comprehensive "how to" guide for aspiring African-heritage growers to reclaim their dignity as agriculturists and for all farmers to understand the distinct, technical contributions of African-heritage people to sustainable agriculture. At Soul Fire Farm, author Leah Penniman co-created the Black and Latino Farmers Immersion (BLFI) program as a container for new farmers to share growing skills in a culturally relevant and supportive environment led by people of color. Farming While Black organizes and expands upon the curriculum of the BLFI to provide readers with a concise guide to all aspects of small-scale farming, from business planning to preserving the harvest. Throughout the chapters Penniman uplifts the wisdom of the African diasporic farmers and activists whose work informs the techniques described--from whole farm planning, soil fertility, seed selection, and agroecology, to using whole foods in culturally appropriate recipes, sharing stories of ancestors, and tools for healing from the trauma associated with slavery and economic exploitation on the land. Woven throughout the book is the story of Soul Fire Farm, a national leader in the food justice movement." --
Download or read book Kentucky Stock Farm written by Andrew G. Leonard and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Handbook of Job Descriptions in Rural Activities Suitable for the Employment of Blind Persons written by United States. Federal Security Agency. Office of Vocational Rehabilitation and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Farming for Us All written by Michael Mayerfeld Bell and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2024-02-20 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate change. Habitat loss. Soil erosion. Groundwater depletion. Toxins in our food. Inhumane treatment of farm animals. Increasing farm worker exploitation. Hunger and malnutrition in the midst of plenty. What will it take for farmers in the United States to embrace sustainable practices? Michael Mayerfeld Bell’s Farming for Us All first tackled this question twenty years ago, providing crucial insight into how the structure of US agriculture created this situation and exploring, by contrast, the practices of farmers who are working together to radically change how they think, learn, and grow. This updated edition of his now-classic work reflects on the lessons learned over the past two decades. Constrained by an oppressive nexus of markets, regulations, subsidies, and technology, farmers find themselves undermining their own economic and social security as well as the security of the land. Bell turns to Practical Farmers of Iowa (PFI), that state’s largest sustainable-agriculture group. He traces how PFI creates an agriculture that engages others—farmers, researchers, officials, and consumers—in a common conversation about what agriculture could look like. Through dialogue, PFI members crossbreed knowledge, discovering pragmatic solutions to help crops grow in ways that sustain families, communities, societies, economies, and environments. Farming for Us All makes the case that for sustainable farming to flourish, new social relations are as important to cultivate as new crops. This book is necessary—and hopeful—reading for anyone concerned about the present and future of food and farming.
Download or read book The Bill Rawlings Legacy written by Larry Kaiser and published by . This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bill Rawlings Legacy examines the footprint of a rare, true, nearly extinct man of the earth, an Indiana farmer who replaces all his divots, who heals the scars he inflicts in the good earth, who subordinates-just a little-his mission to feed humanity now to the mission of insuring our earth can feed humanity forever. The Bill Rawlings Legacy reveals evidence of his direct ancestors farming in Maryland 100 years before America became a nation and follows the clan as it migrates west. The story of Bill Rawlings is a testament to the farmer's lifelong task, often several lives long, because at its essence the farmer's task is enmeshed in and inseparable from the great ageless and communal tasks of states and nations.Read about Bill Rawlings' leadership in soil and water conservation in Hendricks County, Indiana, and then read a notice that a community meeting is to convene somewhere, anywhere, and you will find that you no longer doubt that real work can be done in such meetings, that small and large wonders may be fashioned there about which historians will be proud to chronicle in another ten generations down America's country road.The book is 6 by 9 inches, 289 black and white pages, contains photographs and an index.The Bill Rawlings Legacy is the Fourth Book of the Legacy Tree Books Indiana Biography Project.
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Download or read book Air Emissions from Animal Feeding Operations written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2003-04-07 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Air Emissions from Animal Feeding Operations: Current Knowledge, Future Needs discusses the need for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to implement a new method for estimating the amount of ammonia, nitrous oxide, methane, and other pollutants emitted from livestock and poultry farms, and for determining how these emissions are dispersed in the atmosphere. The committee calls for the EPA and the U.S. Department of Agriculture to establish a joint council to coordinate and oversee short - and long-term research to estimate emissions from animal feeding operations accurately and to develop mitigation strategies. Their recommendation was for the joint council to focus its efforts first on those pollutants that pose the greatest risk to the environment and public health.
Download or read book Index catalogue of Medical and Veterinary Zoology written by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry. Zoological Division and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Index catalogue of Medical and Veterinary Zoology Authors written by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
