Sustainable agriculture

Maximize your water harvesting potential with efficient, cost-effective earthworks In the face of drought and desertification, well-designed, water harvesting earthworks such as swales, ponds, and dams are the most effective way to channel water into productive use.

Grow better not bigger with proven low-tech, human-scale, biointensive farming methods Making a living wage farming without big capital outlay or acreages may be closer than you think.

A practical, how-to guide for farmers who want to achieve and maintain financial sustainability in their businesses When you decided to become a farmer, you also became an entrepreneur and business person.

Interpreting Soil Test Results is a practical reference enabling soil scientists, environmental scientists, environmental engineers, land holders and others involved in land management to better understand a range of soil test methods and interpret the results of these tests.

From roof to table - urban food has reached new heights.

Growing for 100 - the complete year-round guide for the small-scale market grower.

“It is bold, it is courageous, and it challenges many of our preconceptions about food, about soils, about farming, and about health.

Grow your own cut flowers and you can fill your house with the gorgeous colours and heavenly scents of your favourite blooms, knowing that they haven't travelled thousands of miles - and you can make money while you do it!

Given Half a Chance is both a snapshot of our world and a call to arms, setting out the most pressing environmental challenges that we face while making a passionate case for why we need to meet them.

In 1940 Doreen Wallace, prolific novelist, academic, social campaigner and farmer, wrote a book for Batsford on vegetable growing, as part of the publisher's iconic Home Front Handbook series.

The essential how-to book on making and using ethanol as an alternative renewable fuel.

From seed to plate - the seasons of a remarkable crop Cultivated from sea level to mountaintop, from parched deserts to sodden rain forests, from the rocky Gaspe Peninsula to the plains of Argentina, corn is the grain of the Americas.

Grow your own cut flowers and you can fill your house with the gorgeous colours and heavenly scents of your favourite blooms, knowing that they haven't travelled thousands of miles - and you can make money while you do it!

Grow better not bigger with proven low-tech, human-scale, biointensive farming methods Making a living wage farming without big capital outlay or acreages may be closer than you think.

From roof to table - urban food has reached new heights.

Soils of the world hold a key to climate solution and sustainable agriculture.

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Build healthy soil and grow better plantsRobert Pavlis, a gardener for over four decades, debunks common soil myths, explores the rhizosphere, and provides a personalized soil fertility improvement program in this three-part popular science guidebook.

The best person to design the property of your dreams is you.

“It is bold, it is courageous, and it challenges many of our preconceptions about food, about soils, about farming, and about health.

Soils of the world hold a key to climate solution and sustainable agriculture.

Growing for 100 - the complete year-round guide for the small-scale market grower.

"e;Leigh will teach you how to raise animals, butcher them, and cook and cure their meat.

';Shows us how to garden like our ancestors gardened .