Genres : Non Fiction

As modern farming and ranching evolve away from mass consolidation and industrialization, a new strategy is rapidly emerging: regenerative agriculture. These new systems being implemented across the globe require a shift in the mindset of the land manager and operator, away from being primarily reliant on external inputs such as fertilizers and pesticides, and toward dependence on knowledge, measurement and management. In this first-of-its-kind book, André Leu invites everyone to start moving a positive, regenerative direction where our actions support...

Join longtime ecological farming author/researcher Harold Willis as he explains the foundation concepts of natural farming and issues the call for cleaner forms of food and fiber production. In this single volume, the author details the interconnections between soil chemistry, microbial life, plants and livestock. He discusses the current problems in agriculture and suggests how lessons from nature provide the roadmap to efficiency, effectiveness and profitability. This book does not stop at providing recipes of what farmers need to do...

Ask the Plant, based on the agronomy of K. Chandler, offers farmers and growers a better way to grow plants that involves reading the unique language of plants, utilizing leaf and petiole testing, and in turn knowing how to produce a better crop using only the fertilizers and soil-building ingredients that are truly needed, when they are most needed. Instead of following the decades-old conventional model where plants are given copious amounts of soluble nitrogen fertilizers aimed to force-feed the...

What is the most important plant in the world? In terms of nutritive content, function within the ecosystem, and even medicinal properties, the answer to this question may very well be grass. In this wide-ranging survey of grass forages and pastureland, Charles Walters makes the case that grass is not just for cows and horses — that in fact it is the most nutritious food produced by nature, as well as the ultimate soil conditioner. You will learn from traditional...

Roller/Crimper No-Till is an expanded update of the groundbreaking work Organic No-Till Farming. This book presents farmers — organic and conventional — with a proven system that limits tillage, reduces labor, cuts toxic inputs and improves soil structure. Based on the latest research by pioneering agriculturists, this book arms you with new technologies and tools based on sound biological principles, making it possible to reduce and even eliminate tillage. Jeff Moyer’s clear and comprehensive guided tour of non-toxic, roller/crimper-based no-till...

This book represents the combined experience and wisdom of two leaders in sustainable cattle production. Gearld Fry offers a lifetime of practical experience seasoned by study and observation. Charles Walters draws on his own observations as well as interviews with thousands of eco-farmers and consultants over the past four decades. The result is an insightful book that is practical in the extreme, yet eminently readable. In this book you will learn: how to “read” an animal, what linear measurement is,...

This book is the culmination of all of Callahan's previous works and will certainly be his most popular book to date and a classic for years to come. Quite frankly, the author considers this his most important work ever, as he believes an understanding of paramagnetism — and its practical integration into farming — can save agriculture worldwide. In this one, beautiful little book, Callahan lays out a lifetime of research into low-frequency forces in nature and his discoveries regarding...

My husband and I were sitting in the Woolworths Café after my diagnosis, sharing a chicken mayo sandwich, when he said something that made me realize we'd been married for all these years while speaking completely different languages.My husband is neurotypical and leaves cupboards open, I have ADHD and slam them shut—this is our love story. After my late diagnosis at 50, our 25-year marriage finally made sense: the GPS fights that felt like war, crying over "lost" suitcases circling...

What if the distance between where you are and where you want to be begins with three simple words: Pray. Plan. Proceed.In Pray Plan Proceed, Samina Muqarab shares a deeply personal and empowering journey from a small village beneath the mountains of the Hindu Kush to leadership, entrepreneurship, and a life built through faith, education, resilience, and purpose.Raised in modest circumstances, Samina learned early that prayer was more than ritual—it was preparation. Through cultural barriers, immigration, reinvention, and adversity, she...

Beliefs run your life. They decide what you notice, what you ignore, what feels possible, and what you call reality. In 7 Beliefs, TOM (The Oldest Man), makes the case that most people are not short on effort, they are trapped by beliefs installed long before they could choose for themselves.This book is written to pull you out of distraction and back into meaning. It starts with a blunt diagnosis: when your attention, time, and energy are drained by boredom...