Agriculture in Transition
Ideas such as “crop and soil weatherproofing,” the “row support system,” and the “tillage commandments,” exemplify the practicality of the soil/root maintenance program that serves as the foundation for Schriefer’s…
The Enlivened Rock Powders
The practical side of using rockdusts as fertilizers, compost enrichers, and plant growth enhancers is discussed in this exciting book from Acres U.S.A. Beginning with an explanation of the spiritual,…
Ranching Full-Time on Three Hours a Day: Real-World Validation of Holistic Systems for Stockmen
No amount of the hard, sweating work you do on the ranch – if you continue to make poor decisions – can bring you to the reality of successful ranching….
Holding The Lines: Horses, Hard Work, Love, and Potatoes
Farmer’s daughter Maureen agreed completely with her mother’s admonition: Never marry a farmer. Her marriage to a science geek with a good job meant a house on a lake and…
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…
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”…
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…
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…
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…
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…