Forty years ago, "Limits to Growth" addressed the grand question of how humans would adapt to the physical limitations of planet Earth. So, where are we now? In the book "2052," a professor of climate strategy issues a progress report and makes a forecast for the next 40 years.
Authoritative and easy-to-understand, Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties: The Gardener's and Farmer's Guide to Plant Breeding and Seed Saving is the only guide to plant breeding and seed saving for the serious home gardener and the small-scale farmer or commercial grower.
The story of oil is one of hubris, fortune, betrayal, and destruction. It is the story of a resource that has been undeniably central to the creation of our modern culture, and ever-present during the darkest exploits of empire the world over
A Handmade Life carries Coperthwaite's ongoing experiments with hand tools, hand-grown and gathered food, and handmade shelter, clothing, and furnishings out into the world to challenge and inspire.
Originally published in 2010 under the title The farmstead creamery advisor.
The Grain-Free, Sugar-Free, Dairy-Free Family Cookbook offers a new system to preparing food and approaching the kitchen that gets kids involved in cooking.
Enables readers to recognize and interpret visible behavioral activities, such as courtship rituals, territorial marking, aggression, and care of young.
This book takes a fascinating look at mushrooms - their natural history, uses and abuses, pleasures and dangers - and makes a splendid introduction to fungi and our human fascination with them.
Farming for the Long Haul is about building a viable small farm economy that can withstand the economic, political, and climatic shock waves that the twenty-first century portends.
Three astounding women scientists have in recent years penetrated the jungles of Africa and Borneo to observe, nurture, and defend... Læs mere