Farming Philosophy at BACK 40 BOOKS

Slow Money

Tue, 5 Jun 2012 00:54:31 GMT

Slow Money by Woody Tasch. This is the path towards a financial system that serves people and place as much at it serves industry sectors and markets. To discover this path, and to begin to walk down it, is the mission of Slow Money.We must bring money back down to earth. Inquiries into the nature of slow money presents the path for bringing money back down to earth, philosophically, strategically and pragmatically, and with an entrepreneurial spirit that is informed by decades of work by the thousands of CEOs, investors, grant-makers, food producers and consumers who are seeding the restorative economy.

Item #: 9781603580069

Holy Shit

Mon, 4 Jun 2012 23:15:31 GMT

Gene Logsdon does not mince words. This fresh, fascinating, and entertaining look at an earthy, but absolutely crucial, subject, is a small gem and is destined to become a classic of our agricultural literature.Holy Shit: Managing Manure To Save Mankind by Gene Logsdon

Item #: 9781603582513

Small Farms are Real Farms

Tue, 5 Jun 2012 21:55:31 GMT

Small Farms are Real Farms, Sustaining People through Agriculture by John Ikerd. Farming, at its core a biological process, has been transformed into an industrial process. The seeds of a rural renaissance are now being planted, not by these industrial behemoths, but by family-scale farms.In this collection of essays by one of America's most eloquent and influential proponents of sustainable agriculture, the multifaceted case for small farms is built using logic and facts. Discover anew the complexity and beauty that is the small farm and learn of the many benefits small farms give to individuals, the environment, the economy and society.

Item #: 9781601730060

You Can Farm

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 23:59:31 GMT

AUTHOR: Joel Salatin. The Entrepreneur's Guide to Start & Succeed in a Farming Enterprise. Brought to you by the same author who brought you Polyface Farm, you may now make your dreams of making a living on the family farm come true.Have you ever desired, deep within your soul, to make a comfortable full-time living from a family farm? Too often people dare not even vocalize this desire because it seems absurd. It's like thinking the unthinkable. But for farm entrepreneurs, the opportunities have never been greater. Chapters include: Envisioning Your Future, Examining Your Ideas, Embarking on Your Adventure, Evolving Your Model , Establishing Your Market

Item #: 9780963810922

Family Friendly Farming

Mon, 21 May 2012 20:47:31 GMT

Read Joel Salatin's formula for re-inventing farming.A Multi-generational Home-Based Business Testament.

Item #: 9780963810939

Non-Toxic Farming Handbook

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 23:59:31 GMT

Represents the future of farmingThis is a powerful book by two of the best people at work in the field. Farmers are discovering that the toxic methods taught over the past 50 years do not work. Teaches farmers, growers and serious gardeners how to farm without dangerous chemicals.

Item #: 9780911311563

Scratching the Woodchuck

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 23:59:31 GMT

Scratching the Woodchuck by David KlineThe author, an Amish dairy farmer and acclaimed writer and naturalist, is an alert observer of the natural world and it's creatures. You'll feel as though David was walking with you along the fence rows of the farm where he has lived for more than 50 years as he holds you spellbound with tales of everyday life tuned to the sights and voices of the natural world. A delightful book illustrated with pen and ink drawings.

Item #: 9780820321547

Polyface Farm DVD, Joel Salatin

Fri, 15 Jun 2012 22:46:31 GMT

Polyface Farm DVD, Joel Salatin's farm is one of the world's finest examples of an environmentally friendly family farm. Now you can take a year-long, two hour video tour as Joel and family give you a personal tour of the operation and enterprises.Polyface Farm DVD, Joel Salatin's farm is one of the world's finest examples of an environmentally friendly family farm. Now you can take a year-long, two hour video tour as Joel and family give you a personal tour of the operation and enterprises. The Polyface Farm DVD was filmed over an entire year on the farm. Join entrepreneur and passionate farmer Joel as he explains balance and interconnectedness of the landscape, community, plants, and animals. Hard hitting and practical, Joel's explanations will revolutionize your thinking about food and farming in a pro-active, can-do style. both the "how" and the "why" are discussed in this information backed DVD. In-depth descriptions of the poultry, beef, hog, rabbit and forest enterprises at the farm will stir your imagination.

Item #: 37101069243

Farmers of Forty Centuries

Mon, 4 Jun 2012 22:02:31 GMT

Farmers of Forty Centuries by F. H. King. Organic Farming in China, Korea, and Japan. A fascinating study of waste-free methods of cultivation that has worked for more than 40,000 years.Farmers of Forty Centuries by F. H. King. For more than 40,000 years, Asian farmers worked the same fields repeatedly without sapping the land's fertility and without applying artificial fertilizer!

Item #: 9780486436098

Buffalo for the Broken Heart

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 23:59:31 GMT

Buffalo for the Broken Heart. A story about restoring life to a Black Hills Ranch.Buffalo for the Broken Hear. A fascinating read! This is a bold, brave and beautifully written book that should be required reading for every cattleman and beef-eater in America.

Item #: 9780375761393

Logsdon Collection (2 books)

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 23:59:31 GMT

Logsdon CollectionThis is a set of two books, The Contrary Farmer and Living at Nature's Pace by Gene Logsdon.

Item #: VP025

Return to Pleasant Valley

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 23:59:31 GMT

Return to Pleasant Valley Louis BromfieldRevisit the "Golden Age" of American Agriculture. Return to Pleasant Valley is a compilation of short stories, essays and quotes from the father of modern-day sustainable agriculture. It also includes a work by Bromfield's youngest daughter Ellen Bromfield Geld, a Brazilian cattle rancher. This is Bromfield at his best, crusty, opinionated and outspoken. Many of these works have been out of print for decades and are sure to captivate the hearts and spark the minds of a new generation of country folks.

Item #: 9780929332062

Kline Collection (2 books)

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 23:59:31 GMT

Kline CollectionTwo great books by David Kline the Amish dairy farmer and nationally known naturalist. David's first book Great Possessions: An Amish Farmer's Journal and Scratching the Woodchuck make up this set.

Item #: VP024

Living at Nature's Pace

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 23:59:31 GMT

Author: Gene LogsdonGene reminds us that healthy, economical agriculture must work "at Nature's pace" rather than trying to impose industrial order and time frames on the natural world.

Item #: 9781890132569

Great Possessions

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 23:59:31 GMT

Great Possessions by Amish dairy farmer David KlineAmish dairy farmer David Kline pays homage to this longstanding intimacy in essays that celebrate the splendid and mysterious order governing the plant and animal life on his Ohio farm. These essays go beyond the genre of natural history, and thus greatly increase their value, by showing us also a kind of life in which delight in the wild creatures is ordinary.

Item #: 9781888683226

All Flesh Is Grass

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 23:59:31 GMT

All Flesh Is Grass. The Pleasures and Promises of Pasture Farming brought to you from the Contrary Farmer, Gene Logsdon, this book will assist you in providing your family and the market with healthy food while ensuring a good living for the family farmer.All Flesh Is Grass. Gene Logsdon, the Contrary Farmer, offers practical ways to farm that ensures a livelihood for the family farmer, takes care of the land, treats animals with respect and provides fresh, healthy food for all.

Item #: 9780804010696

Contrary Farmer

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 23:59:31 GMT

The Contrary Farmer by Gene LogsdonContrary Farmer. Combines the virtues of a manual for the practicing farmer with eloquent meditations in praise of work and pleasure. The book gives its readers tools and tenets, but also hilarious stories and beautiful evocations of the Ohio countryside Logsdon knows as his place in the universe.

Item #: 9780930031749

Writings of a Deliberate Agrarian

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 23:59:31 GMT

Deliberate Agrarian by Herrick Kimball.Writings of a Deliberate Agrarian: One Man's Ruminatioins About Faith, Family, and Livin' the Good Life.

Item #: 9780972656474

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

Mon, 4 Jun 2012 19:09:31 GMT

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver. "As the U.S. population made an unprecedented mad dash for the Sun Belt, one carload of us paddles against the tide, heading for the Promised Land where water falls from the sky and green stuff grows all around.""This is a story of a year in which we made every attempt to feed ourselves animals and vegetables whose provenance we really knew ... and of how our family was changed by our first year of deliberately eating food produced from the same place where we worked, went to school, loved our neighbors, drank the water, and breathed the air"

Item #: 9780060852559

Ecoagriculture

Mon, 4 Jun 2012 23:18:31 GMT

Ecagriculture- A book on how to produce the food we need while protecting and improving world's biodiversity. A compelling manifesto for the ecological renewal of the world's farming systemsEcoagriculture is the pathway towards an evergreen revolution designed to increase farm productivity in perpetuity without ecological or social harm.

Item #: 9781559636452

Crisis & Opportunity

Tue, 5 Jun 2012 01:01:31 GMT

Crisis & Opportunity by John Ikerd, outlines the consequences of agricultural industrialization, then details the methods that can restore economic viability, ecological soundness, and social responsibility.Crisis & Opportunity. Sustainability in American Agriculture: one of the most eloquent and influential proponents of sustainable agriculture explains what this means. These engaging essays describe what sustainable agriculture is, why it began, and how it can succeed

Item #: 9780803211421

Family Farming

Mon, 4 Jun 2012 23:18:31 GMT

Family Farming. Americans decry the decline of family farming. The alternative policies discussed in this book could yet save the family farm, and the ways and means of saving it are argued here with special urgency.Family Farming. The prevailing sentiment is that family farms should survive for important social, ethical, and economic reasons. But will they? It challenges the assumption that bigger is better, critiques the technological basis of modern agriculture, and calls for farming practices that are ethical, economical, and ecologically sound.

Item #: 9780803217485

Amish Farm Economics DVD

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 19:51:31 GMT

Amish Farm Economics DVD. Presentation by Randy James, author of Why Cows Learn Dutch. Filmed at the American Small Farm Center at the 2005 Farm Science Review, London, Ohio.

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Amish Farm Economics DVD. Presentation by Randy James, author of Why Cows Learn Dutch. Filmed at the American Small Farm Center at the 2005 Farm Science Review, London, Ohio.

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Item #: PVPD-1001

Family Friendly Farming DVD: How to Keep Your Kids on the Farm

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 22:04:31 GMT

Family Friendly Farming: How to Keep Your Kids on the Farm DVD by Joel Salatin. Most farms and family businesses lose continuity because parent and
child never cultivated rewarding emotional and economic relationships.

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Family Friendly Farming:: How to Keep Your Kids on the Farm DVD. It also includes structuring and scaling the farm to make room for the next generation.

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Item #: PVPD-4001

Farmer Pirates & Dancing Cows

Mon, 18 Jun 2012 22:41:31 GMT

Farmer Pirates & Dancing Cows by Lynn Miller. From humor-filled stories of a life of farming to incisive examinations of food safety and supply, from magical moments of the re-enchantment of agriculture to the benches we would use for the sharpening of our tools.Farmer Pirates & Dancing Cows. A book of essays from the editor and publisher of the international agrarian quarterly Small Farmer's Journal.

Item #: 9781885210166