Books

Dr. Paul Dettloff’s Complete Guide to Raising Animals Organically is a hands-on reference for anyone at any level of experience who is interested in helping ruminants achieve optimal health naturally. During the course of the author’s half-century career he has watched as the natural care of ruminants was lost to the high-tech methods of the modern industrial farm. Hormones, chemicals and manufactured feed replaced the mineral-rich pastures and natural animal care of the past. Building on his modern-day classic Alternative...

This comprehensive guide takes you step-by-step through the whole process of how to start and operate a successful organic plant growing business using containers. Chapters thoroughly cover such topics as: start-up, greenhouse options, certification/licenses/fees, botany basics, growing container plants, making compost, disease and pest management, demonstration gardens, marketing and merchandising, dealing with employees, and safety. Appendices include example activity logs and forms, instructions for making a soil-texture analysis, and even tips for creating a simple employee handbook. An extensive list...

“My parents couldn’t read or write, we barely had clothes to wear. All we had were stories. We listened and absorbed them, and found our own place in the narrative.” And what a narrative it is. Join the wonderfully colorful and poetic Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin, or Regi, as he weaves together stories from his upbringing in revolution-torn Guatemala, the vision of a regenerative form of farming which uplifts people, and the wandering fable of the Green Man. The result is an...

This booklet is packed with knowledge that will help you grow superior examples of this profitable crop. You will learn: how bacteria helps your crop grow better; how to drought-proof your soil; whether herbicides and pesticides are really necessary; and what place hydrogen peroxide has on your farm. This slender volume can lead soybean producers to fat profits!

If you feel stretched thin, constantly juggling high expectations and rising demands, you’re not alone.Today’s professional world rewards productivity and resilience, but rarely teaches you how to build them sustainably. This book offers a clear, compassionate path to regain control of your time, your energy, and your well-being.In these pages, you will learn how toBreak free from chronic stress patterns and prevent burnoutStrengthen your emotional intelligence so you can navigate tough interactions with clarityBuild daily practices that restore balance, focus,...

Join longtime ecological farming author/researcher Harold Willis as he explains the foundation concepts of natural farming and issues the call for cleaner forms of food and fiber production. In this single volume, the author details the interconnections between soil chemistry, microbial life, plants and livestock. He discusses the current problems in agriculture and suggests how lessons from nature provide the roadmap to efficiency, effectiveness and profitability. This book does not stop at providing recipes of what farmers need to do...

If adulthood feels heavier than it should, this is why.The Adult Manual is not a guide to self-optimisation, reinvention, or getting ahead. Itis a calm, precise explanation of why so many capable adults feel permanentlystretched, quietly anxious, and unsure why life feels harder than promised.No one ever explains the systems you are expected to live inside. Money is treatedas a moral test instead of a structure. Health becomes extreme rather thansustainable. Work rewards burnout and calls it ambition. Relationships blur...

"If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. If you teach a man to fish, you'll feed him for the rest of his life."Learn for yourself the basics of personal finance. Through skills like: budgeting, saving, investing, tax filing, and more, bring your dreams to life with this effortless read.

Some books chase spotlight. This one was built for the quiet.The Record of What It Cost is a curated archive of unsent letters from love, labor, and consequence. Not a memoir. Not fiction in disguise. A record. A witness. An offering for the nights when the world is loud and your silence is louder.Omari Vale writes like someone keeping receipts in the dark. These letters move through desire and fallout, family math and inherited absence, faith that flickers, survival that...

Our human custodianship of the planet is not going well. According to Scientific American, we have only sixty years of farming seasons left because we have degraded soils through industrial agriculture and the overuse of chemicals. The World Wildlife Fund says we have wiped out 60 percent of all mammals, birds, fish, and reptiles since 1970. Chemical destruction of biological processes poisons our soils, our air, and our water. The mishandling of waste is a lost opportunity to repair much...