Books

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

Fragments of Time: A Haunting Time-Slip Love Story.A young soldier swears it's 1914. She knows it's 1964. Both can't be right---can they?Jen's world is unraveling. Two years after the devastating loss of her parents and her dreams of becoming a doctor, she's stuck in an abusive marriage and can see no way out. Her life feels hopeless.Everything changes when she meets Tommy, a young soldier, at the old regimental church in Hamptonbury, who insists the year is 1914.Drawn to his...

He’s the lethal ex-soldier who snatched me off the streets to save my life. Now, I’m locked in his safehouse, bound by his rules, and burning for his touch. Naya Collins thought her biggest daily battles were jammed office printers and stretching the tight budget of her Baltimore community center. She lives to keep her neighborhood kids safe, completely unaware that the multi-million dollar charitable foundation funding her entire life's work is a front for a ruthless criminal syndicate. Then...

The man behind the helmet looks at me like he hates me. So why can't I stay away? At thirteen, I destroyed everything. At twenty-five, I saved a stranger on the edge— a stranger who makes my pulse race and my heart ache in equal measure. I should’ve known danger when I saw it. I should’ve run. Because Moth isn’t just dark and broken—he’s the boy whose life I shattered. And now he’s the only man who can save me....

Home: A Crown and Glory Lesbian Love StoryBy Zuri AmaraTwo women. One shelter. A love that feels like coming home.Ex-military and newly settled in Charlotte, Meeka Butler carries the quiet ache of loneliness and a lifetime of discipline. When she volunteers at a women’s shelter, she’s not looking for connection—just purpose. But then she meets Tavia Morrison, the shelter’s poised and passionate HR director, a woman who hides her exhaustion behind impeccable professionalism and long hours.What begins as a working...

If you could escape the life your parents chose for you, would you do it?Horse racing isn’t for nice girls like Alex. She’s been told again and again: stick to horse shows, stick to riding lessons, stick to the relative safety of the suburban equestrian center where she has been a working student since grade school.But Alex can’t shake the conviction that the Thoroughbred life is her destiny.When her unstable trainer cuts her off from horses, Alex finally has to...