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Dr. Paul Dettloff’s Complete Guide to Raising Animals Organically is a hands-on reference for anyone at any level of experience who is interested in helping ruminants achieve optimal health naturally. During the course of the author’s half-century career he has watched as the natural care of ruminants was lost to the high-tech methods of the modern industrial farm. Hormones, chemicals and manufactured feed replaced the mineral-rich pastures and natural animal care of the past. Building on his modern-day classic Alternative...

This readable, easy-to-understand handbook successfully integrates the diverse techniques and technologies of classical organic farming, Albrecht-style soil fertility balancing, Reams-method soil and plant testing and analysis, and other alternative technologies applicable to commercial-scale agriculture.

Megan Neubauer and her father Jack founded Pure Land Farm in 2012. After five years without a profit at farmers markets, they decided to convert Pure Land to a pick-your-own and quickly discovered the benefits of agritourism. By reallocating all the harvesting labor to visitors and because the produce is sold upon harvest, Megan and Jack have found they're able to spend more time on the work of growing, allowing them to produce much more food than they could pick,...

In this comprehensive guide for all breeders and keepers of sheep, Pat Coleby draws on decades of experience in natural animal husbandry to provide essential information for organic and sustainable farmers. A longtime commercial livestock farmer who takes a natural approach to husbandry, Coleby covers breeds of sheep, wool, meat and milk production, feeding requirements, poisonous plants, minerals and vitamins, herbal, homeopathic and natural remedies, and more. Originally published in Australia, this edition has been expanded significantly in the areas...

A heartwarming snapshot of the horse-and-buggy era? On the contrary -- Jeff Mcpherson reports that honor systems are making a comeback in the 21st century. Drawing on years of personal experience and interviews with dozens of fellow farmers, business owners and customers, he shows how you can make the honor system work to your advantage. Honor System Marketing tells how to adapt honor marketing to fit your own needs and capacities. Mcpherson details how to avoid common pitfalls, manage finances,...

“. . . watch with me as a grand and beautiful picture unfolds, of the interconnectedness of all things.” No endeavor engages so deeply, so personally with nature as farming, whether on a thousand acres or in the gardener’s window box. When farmers delve into nature’s mysteries they follow in the footsteps of the myriad curious natural scientists who came before. Join Athena (Teena) Tainio on a journey that illuminates the diverse wonders of the building blocks of life and...

High achievers don’t burn out because they’re weak.They burn out because they only have one strategy: push harder.If you’re driven, ambitious, and constantly striving for excellence, you’ve likely followed the classic Type A playbook—work harder, move faster, do more.Eventually that strategy stops working.Stress rises. Clarity fades. Confidence becomes fragile. The success you worked so hard to achieve starts to feel unsustainable.In Plan Be for Type A’s, TEDx speaker and human performance strategist Jamie McClean introduces a better approach: Plan Be.Instead...

A resurgence of interest in heritage poultry breeds has invigorated poultry raising on family farms and backyards across the country. These are the birds that can and should be producing for today’s marketplace – for consumers that have come to value locally bred and grown, historically significant agricultural food. This book offers valuable insight into rare, heritage and heirloom breed selection, chick raising, breeding and marketing so you can start your own fully sustainable heritage chicken flock and raise eggs...

This book demolishes the mythology on which toxic chemical agriculture has been built. Dr. Dan Skow’s teacher was the late Dr. Carey Reams, and the lessons he learned — and improved upon — are important ones. This book teaches how to measure fertility down to the atomic level and project forward bins and bushels with brix high enough to confer immunity to fungal, bacterial and insect attack — and to ward off weeds. The biological theory of ionization as applied...

En todo el mundo, la mayoría de las personas obtienen sus calorías de la agricultura “anual”: plantas que crecen rápidamente durante una temporada, producen muchas semillas y luego mueren. Todas las sociedades humanas que han dependido de cultivos anuales para obtener alimentos básicos han colapsado. La Agricultura de Restauración explica cómo podemos obtener todos los beneficios de los ecosistemas naturales y perennes y crear sistemas agrícolas que imiten la naturaleza en forma y función y al mismo tiempo satisfagan nuestras...