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Homeopathy for the Herd: A Farmer’s Guide to Low-Cost, Non-Toxic Veterinary Care of Cattle
Over the past 50 years, a dangerous set of technologies has crept into beef and dairy farms and ranches. Technologists have succeeded in pushing the pounds of milk that can be extracted from a cow higher and higher and throwing pounds of weight on beef cattle faster. But these advances came with a price.
The average age of dairy cow “burnout” has dropped for almost a decade. Infections are rampant. New diseases and health maladies have appeared. Drug use and vet bills have skyrocketed. The healthfulness of milk and beef has been questioned.
In this breakthrough book subtitled A Farmer’s Guide to Low-Cost, Non-Toxic Veterinary Care of Cattle, Dr. Sheaffer passes along his hard-learned knowledge – in language farmers can understand – of how to care for the herd in a healthy, holistic manner. Utilizing homeopathy – an effective, non-toxic form of medicine derived from herbs and other natural substances – as well as other healing alternatives, he will teach you to truly understand the cause behind a disease condition, and then how to treat the entire animal for that condition.
Using case studies and practical examples from both dairy and beef operations, Dr. Sheaffer covers such topics as: creating a holistic operation; organics and homeopathy; prescribing; mastitis and fertility-related problems; and the Materia Medica, keynotes and nosodes. Also includes a convenient section that lists specific conditions and remedies. Whether you’re a beginning farmer of lifelong cattleman, this hands-on guide will prove to be nothing short of a revolution for your herd.
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Food, Farming & Health
In these times of ecological peril, looming agricultural production problems, and creeping human health disaster it behooves all farmers and eaters to turn attention systems which are time-tested. And “time-tested” means millennia, not mere decades.
The several decades since the advent of chemical farming have thrown challenges to ecologies and humans as not experienced in the thousands of years prior. In this multi-authored work readers will connect the dots between the cause of modern disease in toxic farming fields and industrial food factories and gain an introductory understanding to philosophies of human diet, health and healing proven through thousands of years.
The rapid spread of chronic diseases is related to changes in our diets and changes in the way we grow food. The spread of toxics and monocultures in farming have produced nutritionally empty food loaded with poisons.
In addition, there is an invasion of industrially, chemically processed food as well as an invasion of an obsolete paradigm of science which ignores the latest in the sciences of ecology, food and health. It treats bad food as “substantially” equal to good food based on reductionist criteria which ignore processes and impacts on our health.
This book shows how health is a continuum from the soil, to the plants, to our bodies. Chemical farming is based on monocultures, which deprive us of the diversity we need for a balanced, healthy nutrition. Chemical farming depletes the soils of nutrition, producing plants that are nutritionally empty but full of toxic residues. When we eat chemically produced food we suffer from diseases related to nutrient deficiency and/or toxics.
It is impossible to overstate the importance of rice to many of the cuisines of India. In several Indian languages, the word for “rice” (annam) is the same as the word for “food.” Accordingly, we seek to better understand annam.
Understanding principles of Ayurvedic eating and healing does not have to feel foreign or odd. The brilliant essays which make up this book are certain to educate and inspire.
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The Myths of Safe Pesticides
The chemical-based conventional agriculture industry claims that the synthesized concoctions they sell as pesticides, herbicides, and insecticides are safe when used as directed, but does the scientific evidence truly support their assertions? Organic agriculturist and lecturer André Leu delves into a wealth of respected scientific journals to present the peer-reviewed evidence that proves the claims of chemical companies and pesticide regulators are not all they seem. Leu translates technical jargon into layman’s terms to break down the five most repeated myths about pesticide use: independent scientific analysis shows that pesticides are not at all as safe as industry leaders and regulatory agencies claim. The pesticide industry argues that human agriculture, and thereby the global population itself, cannot survive without using pesticides and herbicides, but Leu warns that human health is at great risk unless we break free of their toxic hold and turn to more natural methods of pest and weed regulation.
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Fertility Farming
Fertility Farming explores an approach to farming that makes minimal use of plowing, eschews chemical fertilizers and pesticides, and encourages cover cropping and manure application. Newman Turner holds that the foundation of the effectiveness of a fertile soil – and the measure of a fertile soil – is its content of organic matter, ultimately, its humus. Upon a basis of humus, nature builds a complete structure of healthy life – without need for disease control of any kind. In fact, disease treatment is unnecessary in nature, as disease is the outcome of the unbalancing or perversion of the natural order – and serves as a warning that something is wrong. The avoidance of disease is therefore the simple practice of natural law. Much more than theory, this book was written to serve as a practical guide for farmers. Newman Turner’s advice for building a productive, profitable organic farming system rings as true today as it did sixty years ago when it was written.
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The Salatin Semester: A Complete Home Study Course in Polyface-Style Diversified Farming
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 outrageous small-farming success…forever!
Don’t put off this opportunity to own this all-inclusive, no-holds-barred, home study course…whether you’re still dreaming of your entrepreneurial farming enterprise, or you’re building on the foundations you’ve already laid, this is the novice-to-guru reference you’ll turn to again and again!
Here, Joel Salatin shares decades of hard-learned lessons and advice. Learn about:
• Pastured broilers
• Pastured layers (feathernets & eggmobiles)
• Salad bar beef
• Pigaerator pork
• Irrigation & fencing
• On-farm processing
• Relationship marketing
• Multi-use infrastructure
• Ideal farm layout
• Leasing farms & adding subcontractors
Learn the practical details behind the day-to-day running of Polyface Farm.
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A Farmer’s Guide to the Bottom Line
This book is the culmination of Acres U.S.A. founder Charles Walters’ lifetime of experience, written in his honest, straight-ahead style, outlining how the small farmer-entrepreneur can find his way to a profitable bottom line. A Farmer’s Guide to the Bottom Line provides how-to information on each step from planning to implementation of business practices for the eco-friendly farm and includes examples of people who are making a living, and a profit, by demanding a fair price for their labor. Whether you are considering taking up farming as an occupation or just interested in the economics and history of farming, this book is a must-read.
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Trapped in Time: The only hope for the future lies in the past
When an adventurer is trapped in the distant past, the only person who can save him is his own granddaughter. The problem? She hasn’t been born yet.
When John Hamman found the time machine, he didn’t know what adventures it would lead him on, and he could not predict the sequence of events that would strand him in the distant past. Can he shape a future that will one day save him from his own mistakes?
Jenny Hamman was a child when her grandfather showed her the dinosaur tooth he wore on a cord around his neck. That moment set the trajectory of her life. Jenny had no idea of the dangers she would one day face. Only she can save her grandfather. Her existence and that of everyone she loves hangs in the balance.
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Jenny wasn’t sure what woke her, some instinct that death was near. Perhaps it breathed on her. Jenny opened her eyes but only saw darkness. The smell made her freeze. It was a fetid smell of rotten meat, the smell of a lion or hyena that fed on carrion.
She had covered herself with cut ferns, but she could turn her head slightly and look up where she saw patches of the stars through the trees on this moonless night. Then a shape moved above her and blotted out the stars. She heard a huffing sound, and that fetid breath blew down on her like a wind.
She drew her gun and fired up into the shadow looming above her. The flash from the muzzle of the High Power lit up the inside of its mouth like a flashbulb, as she fired the gun down its throat. All she saw was teeth. Jenny screamed, the sound lost as she pulled the trigger over and over, emptying the magazine of the gun as fast as she could. She pulled her arm back as the jaws snapped shut. In the flashes she saw a great head pull back. She kept firing, and then the slide locked back on the empty magazine.
She was engulfed in a darkness more complete than she had ever known, her night vision ruined. That void was filled with a roar. It was more than a sound. It surrounded her and shook her very core. Blindly, she grabbed for the spear that laid beside her as she slept, and crawled away through the ferns that covered the ground. Through the ringing in her ears, she heard a crashing behind her as the great head smashed through the brush where she had been, its jaws closing on her resting place. Jenny made it to her feet and took off running. She might have been safe if it hadn’t been for the tree. She hit it straight on at full speed, and all she remembered was pain.
Laying on her back, she had her spear and the empty gun was still in her hand. She felt it in the ground. It shook beneath her. The dinosaur was coming.
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To Confront Shadows : Miami DEA Mystery Series – Book Three
When DEA agent Chuck Tiles learns that someone is hunting Leeza Placek, the woman he loves, the case turns personal—and deadly. A violent attack and a staged crash reveal that Leeza’s past holds secrets someone is desperate to keep buried.As Chuck digs deeper, the investigation uncovers old loyalties, unresolved guilt, and a conspiracy that reaches closer to home than either of them expected. With Leeza’s life in danger and trust unraveling, Chuck must face the darkness head-on—armed with faith, truth, and a resolve that won’t back down.To Confront Shadows is a fast-paced Christian mystery filled with suspense, emotional stakes, and the power of faith when the truth threatens everything.
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To Confront Shadows : Miami DEA Mystery Series – Book Three
When DEA agent Chuck Tiles learns that someone is hunting Leeza Placek, the woman he loves, the case turns personal—and deadly. A violent attack and a staged crash reveal that Leeza’s past holds secrets someone is desperate to keep buried.As Chuck digs deeper, the investigation uncovers old loyalties, unresolved guilt, and a conspiracy that reaches closer to home than either of them expected. With Leeza’s life in danger and trust unraveling, Chuck must face the darkness head-on—armed with faith, truth, and a resolve that won’t back down.To Confront Shadows is a fast-paced Christian mystery filled with suspense, emotional stakes, and the power of faith when the truth threatens everything.
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The Third Estate: Secrets of the Manor
When a brilliant young pilot uncovers a deadly conspiracy, she becomes the next target in a game she never agreed to play.Sophie Allard has spent her life earning her wings at one of the military’s most elite academies. But when her estranged father dies in a mysterious explosion at their family estate, Sophie’s world shatters. The official story doesn’t add up—and the deeper she digs, the more dangerous the truth becomes.Her investigation exposes a hidden network known only as The Third Estate—a shadow organization manipulating power at the highest levels of government, industry, and defense. Now, Sophie is being hunted by the same assassin who killed an innocent woman years earlier…and by the elusive figure known as the Grey Lady, whose reach extends far beyond the battlefield.Caught between loyalty and survival, Sophie must navigate a maze of espionage, betrayal, and buried family secrets before time runs out.The Third Estate is an intelligent, high-stakes thriller packed with espionage, family intrigue, and relentless suspense.
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