This is an invaluable book with practical advice on all aspects of planning and maintaining a healthy orchard
Shepard shares his practical knowledge and hard-won wisdom gleaned from years of experience growing up on a farm in central Massachusetts and later transforming a barren overgrazed landscape in western Wisconsin into a richly productive polyculture
he has been making house visits to the local Mio/Fairview Amish communities and has been visiting the local Ossineke area Amish for the last four years
It is now out in a Revised Edition
and conservation programs—as well as how crucial public policies are changing
Grain By Grain: A Quest to Revive Ancient Wheat, Rural Jobs, and Healthy Food author_Julie Bruton-Seal & Matthew Seal This is an invaluable bookWhen Bob Quinn was a kid, a stranger at a county fair gave him a few kernels of an unusual grain. Little did he know, that grain would change his life. Years later, after finishing a Ph. D. in plant biochemistry and returning to his familys farm in Montana, Bob started experimenting with organic wheat. In the beginning, his concern wasnt health or the environment; he just wanted to make a decent living and some chance encounters led him to organics.