Books

If you’re looking for an honest, straightforward, no-holds-barred book about the challenges of building a successful farming business, then Farming Without Losing Your Hat is the book for you. Author Paul Dorrance shares from his own real-world experiences, taking a practical-only approach, focusing on the less-glamorous but essential parts of farming and ranching successfully today. Specifically, you will learn how to: - build a unique brand and company voice; - grow a loyal audience to sell to; - navigate the...

This book explains how we can produce our food by using seaweed and fish-based inputs rather than wasteful and unsustainable chemical fertilizers. Fryer and Simmons tell how growers can harness energy from the sea to extend growing seasons, increase yields, protect crops from insects and disease, and more. A timeless classic work of eco-agriculture. The knowledge contained on the pages of this book will be of value not only to farmers and gardeners, but to every food consumer as well.

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...

What happens when trailblazing urban agro-ecologists Rob and Michelle Avis of Verge Permaculture host superstar “lunatic farmer” Joel Salatin for a three-day, three-workshop weekend…then expand and enhance that recorded wisdom in a three-month online intensive? You get an encyclopedic compendium of small-farming entrepreneurial know-how! And now we’ve gathered up and distilled every mind-bending morsel of Joel’s mob-stocking sagacity from those online events, and captured it all in one encyclopedic extravaganza of integrated agro-education… …to inspire, inform, and incite you to...

One drop of her perfume can drive a vampire mad. And she's just bottled an entire collection. The most powerful vampires in New York want what she's created. One of them wants her. Aria Holt is days away from the launch of her life. Her luxury perfume line is exquisite, her branding is perfect, and the rare antique glass bottles she sourced from France are unlike anything the industry has ever seen. But when strange, menacing figures begin appearing in...

The grumpy hockey star who broke my heart doesn't know he fathered my child. Now I’m his boss. Awkward. The NHL sent Dane Brandt back to Evergreen Falls to rehab his image while the media records his every move. We both had no idea he'd be serving those hours under me in my beloved community center. Or that the curious ten-year-old boy asking endless questions is his son. I told myself I didn't need the golden boy who left me....

A New York English professor must study the clues to clear herself of murder charges in this "entertaining" cozy mystery series debut (Booklist).A small college on the banks of the Hudson River in the Bronx, St. Thomas is safely away from the chaos of Manhattan and supposed to be tranquil, bucolic, and serene. Unfortunately, English professor Alison Bergeron has found it to be anything but. Recently divorced from a fellow professor and even more recently without a car—it was stolen—she...

Rafe Hamilton was taught to be a stone-cold killer by his vampire maker, Genesis. Turned in nineteenth-century New York by a vampire who believed humans existed to be hunted and always killed, Rafe spent years taking blood without remorse—until one death became impossible to forget. And a voice in his head kept getting louder. He fled to New Orleans with a question no vampire had ever taught him to ask: Did he truly need to kill to survive? A powerful...

90 Days to IPO Riches––if they can just figure out what to do with the body!A fast, fun, and twisty ride through the underbelly of Silicon Valley—where fortunes are made overnight, and everyone is chasing their cut.Mario Kennedy yearns to be part of tech’s in-crowd. But with an unfair rap sheet and a job slinging pizzas, he’s stuck on the outside. When MenuAi—a startup in which he holds advisory shares—announces it’s going public, he finally gets his shot. That is,...

Now available in English for the first time, this popular 1943 treatise on biology and biologically correct working of soil from the pen of the famous soil scientist Prof. Dr. Franz Sekera, carefully edited and expanded by his wife, scientist Margareth Sekera, over the years, has long been beloved by farmers and soils scientists in its original German. Starting with the basic concepts of tilth and soil structure and moving along to the symptoms of unhealthy soil and the behavior...