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2013 Titles:

Paradise Lot
By Eric Toensmeier
Publication Date: January 25, 2013

Natural Beekeeping, Revised Edition
By Ross Conrad
Publication Date: February 26, 2013

The New Horse-Powered Farm
By Stephen Leslie
Publication Date: March 5, 2013

Good Morning, Beautiful Business
By Judy Wicks

Growing Food in a Hotter, Drier Land
By Gary Nabhan
Publication Date: May 29, 2013

The Organic Grain Grower
By Jack Lazor
Publication Date: August 9, 2013

Marijuana is Safer, Updated and Expanded Edition
By Steve Fox, Paul Armentano, and Mason Tvert
Publication Date: September 1, 2013

The New Cider Maker's Handbook
By Claude Jolicoeur
Publication Date: October 1, 2013

The Zero Waste Solution
By Paul Connett

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From the Wood-Fired Oven
By Richard Miscovich

Market Farming Success, Revised Edition
By Lynn Byczynski

The Year of the Bat
By Don Mitchell

Keeping a Family Cow, Revised and Updated Edition
By Joann S. Grohman
Publication Date: November 1, 2013

The Sugarmaker's Companion
By Michael Farrell

Out on a Limb
By Benjamin Kilham

The Gourmet Butcher
By Cole Ward and Karen Coshof

Net Zero Now:
By William Maclay

Paradise Lot:
Two Plant Geeks, One-Tenth of an Acre, and the
Making of an Edible Garden Oasis in the City

By Eric Toensmeier, with Jonathan Bates

Book Description
When Eric Toensmeier and Jonathan Bates moved into a duplex
in a run-down part of Holyoke, Massachusetts, the tenth-of-an-
acre lot was barren ground and bad soil, peppered with broken
pieces of concrete, asphalt, and brick. The two friends got to
work designing what would become not just another urban
farm, but a permaculture paradise replete with perennial
broccoli, paw paws, bananas, and moringa - all told, more than
two hundred low-maintenance edible plants in an innovative
food forest on a small city lot. The garden - intended to function
like a natural ecosystem with the plants themselves providing
most of the gardens needs for fertility, pest control, and weed
suppressionalso features an edible water garden, a year-round
unheated greenhouse, tropical crops, urban poultry, and even
silkworms.
In telling the story of Paradise Lot, Toensmeier explains the
principles and practices of permaculture, the choice of exotic and
unusual food plants, the techniques of design and cultivation, and,
of course, the adventures, mistakes, and do-overs in the process.
Packed full of detailed, useful information about designing a
highly productive permaculture garden, Paradise Lot is also a
funny and charming story of two single guys, both plant nerds,
with a wild plan: to realize the garden of their dreams and meet
women to share it with. Amazingly, on both counts, they succeed.

Author Bio
Eric Toensmeier has studied and practiced permaculture since
1990. He is the author of Perennial Vegetables and coauthor of
Edible Forest Gardens with Dave Jacke. Toensmeier has
worked as a small-farm trainer at the New England Small Farm
Institute, has managed the Tierra de Oportunidades new-farmer
program of Nuestras Raices, and is a graduate and former
faculty member of the Institute for Social Ecology in Plainfield,
Vermont. Toensmeiers writing, consulting, and teaching
business is based at www.perennialsolutions.org, where he posts
his latest articles and videos. He lives in Holyoke,
Massachusetts.
Jonathan Bates owns Food Forest Farm Permaculture
Nursery (permaculturenursery.com), a nursery specializing in
educational services and useful/edible plant sales. Hes been
studying, creating, and working with rural and urban gardens in
the Connecticut River Valley for over a decade. He cofounded
and is a board member of the Apios Institute, is a teacher at the
Yestermorrow Design/Build School, and is a farmer with
Nuestras Raices, Inc. He lives in Holyoke, Massachusetts.

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PARADI SE LOT
ERI C TOENSMEI ER
THE MAKING OF AN EDIBLE
GARDEN OASIS IN THE CITY
WI TH CONTRI BUTI ONS FROM JONATHAN BATES
TWO PLANT GEEKS, ONE-TENTH OF AN ACRE
and
Natural Beekeeping, Revised Edition:
Organic Approaches to Modern Apiculture

By Ross Conrad
Foreword by Gary Nabhan

Book Description
Today's beekeepers face unprecedented challenges, a fact that is
now front-page news with the spread of "colony collapse
disorder." Newly introduced pests like varroa and tracheal mites
have made chemical treatment of hives standard practice, but
pest resistance is building, which in turn creates demand for
new and even more toxic chemicals. In fact, there is evidence
that chemical treatments are making matters worse.
It's time for a new approach. Now revised and updated
with new resources and including full-color photos throughout,
Natural Beekeeping offers all the latest information in a book
that has already proven invaluable for organic beekeepers. The
new edition offers the same holistic, sensible alternative to
conventional chemical practices with a program of natural hive
management, but offers new sections on a wide range of
subjects, including
* The basics of bee biology and anatomy;
* Urban beekeeping;
* Identifying and working with queens;
* Parasitic mite control; and
* Hive diseases.
Also, a completely new chapter on marketing provides
valuable advice for anyone who intends to sell a wide range of
hive products. Whether you are a novice looking to get started
with bees, an experienced apiculturist looking for ideas to
develop an integrated pest-management approach, or someone
who wants to sell honey at a premium price, this is the book
you've been waiting for.

Author Bio
Ross Conrad learned his craft from the late Charles Mraz, world-
renowned beekeeper and founder of Champlain Valley Apiaries
in Vermont. Former president of the Vermont Beekeepers
Association, Conrad is a regular contributor to Bee Culture - The
Magazine of American Beekeeping. Ross has led bee related
presentations and taught organic beekeeping workshops and
classes throughout North America for many years. His small
beekeeping business, Dancing Bee Gardens, supplies friends,
neighbors, and local stores with honey and candles, among other
bee-related products, and provides bees for Vermont apple
pollination in spring.

Publication Date: February 26,
2013
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Good Morning, Beautiful Business:
The Unexpected Journey of an Activist
Entrepreneur and Local-Economy Pioneer

By Judy Wicks

Book Description
It's not often that someone stumbles into entrepreneurship and
ends up reviving a community and starting a national economic-
reform movement. But thats what happened when, in 1983,
Judy Wicks founded the White Dog Cafe. After helping to save
her block from demolition, Judy grew what began as a tiny
muffin shop into a 200-seat restaurantone of the first to
feature local, organic, and humane food. The restaurant
blossomed into a regional hub for community, and a national
powerhouse for modeling socially responsible business.
Good Morning, Beautiful Business is a memoir about the
evolution of an entrepreneur who would not only change her
neighborhood, but would also change her worldhelping
communities far and wide create local living economies that
value people and place as much as commerce and that make
communities not just interesting, diverse, and prosperous, but
also resilient.
Wicks recounts a girlhood coming of age in the sixties, a
stint working in an Alaska Eskimo village in the seventies, her
experience cofounding the first Free People store, her accidental
entry into the world of restauranteering, the emergence of the
celebrated White Dog Cafe;, and her eventual role as an
international leader and speaker in the local-living-economies
movement. Her memoir traces the roots of her career -
exploring what it takes to marry social change and commerce,
and do business differently. Passionate, fun, and inspirational,
Good Morning, Beautiful Business explores the way women,
and men, can follow both mind and heart, do whats right, and
do well by doing good.

Author Bio
An international leader and speaker in the local-living-
economies movement, Judy Wicks is former owner of the White
Dog Cafe, acclaimed for its socially and environmentally
responsible business practices. She is also cofounder of the
nationwide Business Alliance for Local Living Economies
(BALLE), as well as founder of the Sustainable Business
Network of Greater Philadelphia and Fair Food - both incubated
at the White Dog Caf Foundation and supported by the
restaurant's profits.
Her work has earned numerous awards, including the James
Beard Foundation Humanitarian of the Year Award, the
International Association of Culinary Professionals
Humanitarian Award and the Women Chefs and Restaurateurs
Lifetime Achievement Award.

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The New Horse-Powered Farm:
Tools and Systems for the Small-Scale, Sustainable
Market Grower

By Stephen Leslie
Foreword by Lynn Miller

Book Description
In an era when fuel is a primary concern, draft horses are seen by
many as the solution to small-scale, resilient farming with a closed-
loop system. Horses bring farmers back to the roots of what it
means to work the land and present a viable model for a small farm
that lasts, while offering enjoyment for the whole family. This is the
first book of its kind, offering wisdom and techniques for using
horse power on the small farm or homestead, from longtime horse
farmer Stephen Leslie.
The New Horse-Powered Farm sets the stage for incorporating
draft power on the farm by presenting tips on getting started with
horses, care of the work horse, different horse-training systems, and
the merits of different draft breeds. The novice teamster is
introduced to the basic tools of horse-drawn tillage and cultivation
used for profitable horse-powered farming, with a spotlight on
whole-farm management, as well as information on haying with
horses, raising small grains, managing the woodlot, farm education,
agritourism, and more.
Incorporated throughout are profiles of more than a half-dozen
farms that epitomize some exciting new trends in agriculture and
highlight the new and old horse-drawn equipment used for profitable
market gardening, including contributions directly from the farmers
about what works and what doesn't. The novice teamster is introduced
to the specifics of horse-drawn tillage and cultivation of the market
garden, and using horses in the woodland. Recent studies on the
economics of horse-powered market gardening and a comparison
between horse-, human-, and tractor-powered systems have been
included to help round out the picture. The resources section lists
contact info for teamster schools, books, draft-animal publications,
annual events, equipment manufacturers, parts and repairs, and more.
A must-have for any farmer, homesteader, or teamster seeking to
work with draft power in a closed-loop farming system.

Author Bios
Stephen Leslie brings a broad spectrum of life experience to his
writing. He studied fine arts at the Museum School in Boston,
Massachusetts. He lived the life of a Benedictine monk for seven
years with the Brothers of the Weston Priory in Vermont. After
leaving the monastery in 1992, he worked for three years as an
apprentice at the Hawthorne Valley Biodynamic Farm in upstate
New York. Since then, in partnership with his wife, Kerry Gawalt,
he has made his living farming and gardening with draft horses.
Currently, Stephen and Kerry and their daughter, Maeve, manage
Cedar Mountain Farm at the Cobb Hill Ecovillage in Hartland, VT.
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TOOLS AND SYSTEMS FOR THE SMALL-SCALE
SUSTAINABLE MARKET GROWER
STEPHEN LESLIE
Foreword by Lynn Miller
The New
Honsc-Powcnco
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Growing Food in a Hotter, Drier Land:
Lessons from Desert Farmers on Adapting to Climate
Uncertainty

By Gary Nabhan
Foreword by Bill McKibben

Book Description
Because climatic uncertainty has now become "the new normal,"
many farmers, gardeners and orchard-keepers in North America are
desperately seeking ways to adapt their food production to become
more resilient in the face of such "global weirding."
In Growing Food in a Hotter, Drier Land, Nabhan, one of the
worlds experts on the agricultural traditions of arid lands, draws
from the knowledge of traditional farmers in the Gobi Desert, the
Arabian Peninsula, the Sahara Desert, and Andalusia, as well as the
Sonoran, Chihuahuan, and Painted deserts of North America to offer
time-tried strategies, including: building greater moisture-holding
capacity and nutrients in soils; protecting fields from damaging
winds, drought, and floods; reducing heat stress on crops and
livestock; harvesting water from uplands to use in rain gardens and
terraces filled with perennial crops; selecting fruits, nuts, succulents,
and herbaceous perennials that are best suited to warmer, drier
climates; and, keeping pollinators in pace and in place with arid-
adapted crop plants.
This practical book is replete with detailed descriptions and
diagrams showing how to implement desert-adapted practices in
your own backyard, orchard, or farm to mitigate the impact of these
rapid changes. It also includes colorful parables from the field that
exemplify how desert farmers think about increasing the carrying
capacity and resilience of the lands and waters they steward. This
unique book is useful not only for farmers and permaculturists in the
arid reaches of the Southwest or other desert regions. Its techniques
and prophetic vision for achieving food security in the face of
climate change may well need to be implemented across most of
North America over the next half-century, and are already
applicable in most of the semiarid West, Great Plains, and
Southwest and adjacent regions of Mexico.

Author Bios
Gary Nabhan is the W.K. Kellogg Endowed Chair in Sustainable
Food Systems at the University of AZ, as well as the permaculture
designer and orchard-keeper of Almuniya de los Zopilotes
Experimental Farm (Patagonia, AZ). Widely acknowledged as a
pioneer in the local-food movement and seed conservation, Nabhan
was honored by Utne Reader in 2011 as one of twelve people
making the world a better place to live. A recipient of a MacArthur
Genius Award, his twenty-four books have been translated into six
languages. He lives in southern AZ.

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The Organic Grain Grower:
Small-Scale, Holistic Grain Production for the
Home and Market Producer

By Jack Lazor
Foreword by Eliot Coleman

Book Description
The ultimate guide to growing organic grains on a small and
ecological scale, The Organic Grain Grower is invaluable for
both home-scale and commercial producers interested in
expanding their resiliency and crop diversity through growing
their own grains. Longtime farmer and organic pioneer Jack
Lazor covers how to grow and store wheat, barley, oats, corn,
dry beans, soybeans, pulse crops, oilseeds, grasses, nutrient-
dense forages, and lesser-known cereals. In addition to detailed
cultivation and processing information, Lazor argues the
importance of integrating grains on the organic farm (not to
mention for the local-food system) for reasons of biodiversity
and whole farm management. Including extensive information
on: the history of grain growing and consumption in North
America; the twenty-first century and the birth of the local-food
movement; considering your farm's scale and climate;
understanding soil fertility and structure; planting your crop; the
growing and ripening process; the grain harvest; preparing grain
for sale, storage, or end use; seed breeding and saving;
machinery, infrastructure, and processing; grinding grains for
livestock rations and sample rations for dairy cows, pigs, and
chickens; processing grains for human consumption; additional
resources and information for new grain farmers, and more . . .
Beginners will learn how to grow enough wheat for a year's
supply of bread flour for their homestead, and farmers will learn
how to become part of a grain co-op, working alongside artisan
bakers and mills. Never before has there been a guide to growing
organic grains applicable both for the home-scale and
professional farming scale. This will be a classic for decades to
come and a crucial addition to any farmer's, homesteader's,
gardener's, agronomist's, or seed-saver's library.

Author Bio
Jack Lazor is co-owner of Butterworks Farm in Westfield, VT,
with his wife, Anne, and cofounder of the Northern Grain
Grower's Association. Jack has been growing organic grains in
the mountains of Vermont's Northeast Kingdom since 1975 and
is considered a leader in the movement for growing grains in
cold climates. Lazor grows grains both for human consumption
and for feed for their herd of Jersey cows, including corn, oats,
barley, soybeans, legumes, alfalfa, and oilseeds, such as flax
and sunflower. Butterworks Farm also produces organic Jersey
milk yogurt, buttermilk, sweet cream, cheddar cheese, and grain
products. He is the recipient of many agricultural awards.

Publication Date: August 19, 2013
Page Count: 448
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Marijuana Is Safer, Updated and
Expanded Edition:
So Why Are We Driving People to Drink?

By Steve Fox, Paul Armentano, and Mason Tvert
Foreword by Norm Stamper

Book Description
In 2012, voters in Colorado shocked the political establishment by making
the use of marijuana legal for anyone in the state twenty-one years of age
or older. In the wake of that unprecedented victory, nationally recognized
marijuana-policy experts Steve Fox, Paul Armentano, and Mason Tvert
revisit the Marijuana Is Safer message that contributed to the campaigns
success - as the first edition of this book predicted it would in 2009. In this
updated and revised edition, the authors include a new chapter on the
victory in Colorado and updates on a growing mountain of research that
supports their position.
Through an objective examination of marijuana and alcohol, and the
laws and social practices that steer people toward the latter, the authors
pose a simple yet rarely considered question: Why do we punish adults
who make the rational, safer choice to use marijuana instead of alcohol?
For those unfamiliar with marijuana, Marijuana Is Safer provides an
introduction to the cannabis plant and its effects on the user, and debunks
some of the government's most frequently cited marijuana myths.

Author Bios
Steve Fox is the national policy director for the Marijuana Policy Project
(MPP), the nations largest organization dedicated to reforming marijuana
laws. In this role, he oversees MPPs ballot-initiative work and its federal
lobbying efforts. He also serves as the director of government relations for
the National Cannabis Industry Association. Fox cofounded Safer
Alternative for Enjoyable Recreation (SAFER) in 2005 and has helped
guide its operations since its inception. He is a graduate of Tufts University
and Boston College Law School and currently lives in Maryland with his
wife and two daughters.
Paul Armentano is the deputy director of NORML (National
Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws) and the NORML
Foundation. He also serves on the faculty of Oaksterdam University in
Oakland, California. A recognized national expert in marijuana policy,
health, and pharmacology, he has spoken at dozens of national conferences
and legal seminars and has testified before state legislatures and federal
agencies. His writing has appeared in over 750 publications, including over
a dozen textbooks and anthologies. Armentano is the 2008 recipient of the
Project Censored Real News Award for Outstanding Investigative
Journalism. He currently lives in California with his wife and son.
Mason Tvert is the director of communications for the Marijuana
Policy Project and a cofounder of and former executive director of SAFER.
He codirected the campaign in support of the successful 2012 ballot
initiative to regulate marijuana like alcohol in Colorado. The Denver Post
named him Colorados Top Thinker of 2012 in the category of politics
and government, and he was recognized as 2012 Freedom Fighter of the
Year by High Times magazine. He currently resides in Denver.

Pages: 256
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The New Cider Makers Handbook:
A Comprehensive Guide for Craft Producers

By Claude Jolicoeur

Book Description
All around the world, the publics taste for fermented cider has been
growing more rapidly than at any time in the past 150 years. At its
best, cider is a pure, healthy beverage that reflects both the skill of
the cider maker and the quality of the fruit thats used to make it.
And with the growing interest in locally grown and artisan foods,
many new cideries are springing up all over North America -- often
started up by passionate amateurs who want to take their craft cider
to the next level as small-scale craft producers.
To make the very best cider whether for yourself, your
family and friends, or for market you first need a deep
understanding of the processes involved and the art and science
behind them. Fortunately, The New Cider Makers Handbook is
here to help. Author Claude Jolicoeur is a well-known and award-
winning amateur cider maker with an inquiring, scientific mind. His
book combines the best of traditional knowledge and techniques
with the best modern practices to provide todays enthusiasts all
they need to produce high-quality ciders. From deep,
comprehensive information on all aspects of fermentation to advice
on the best apples to grow or source for cider to instructions on how
to build your own grater mill or cider press the authors
experience and enthusiasm shine through.
Novices will appreciate the overview of the cider-making
process thats presented in Part I. But as they develop their skills
and confidence, the more in-depth and technical parts of the book
will serve as an invaluable reference that will be consulted again
and again.

Author Bio
A mechanical engineer by profession, Claude Jolicoeur first
developed his passion for apples and cider after acquiring a piece of
land on which there were four rows of old abandoned apple trees.
He started making cider in 1988 using a no-compromise
approach, stubbornly searching for the highest possible quality.
Since then, his ciders have earned many awards and medals at
competitions, including the prestigious Great Lakes Cider and Perry
Competition (GLINT).
Claude actively participates in discussions on forums like the
Cider Digest, and is regularly invited as a guest speaker to festivals
and events such as Cider Days in Massachusetts and the Common
Ground Country Fair in Maine. He lives in Quebec City.

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The Zero Waste Solution:
Untrashing the Planet One Community at a Time

How cities and towns around the world are saying no to
incinerators and wasteful product design, and yes to radical
recycling, reuse entrepreneurs, and the jobs they create

By Paul Connett

Book Description
Scientist-turned-activist Paul Connett, a leading international figure in
decades-long battles to fight pollution, has championed efforts to curtail
over-consumption and keep industrial toxins out of our air, drinking water,
and bodies. But hes best known around the world for leading efforts to
help communities deal with their waste in sustainable waysin other
words, to eliminate and reuse waste rather than burn it or stow it away in
landfills.
In The Zero Waste Solution, Connett profiles the most successful
zero-waste initiatives around the world, showing activists, planners, and
entrepreneurs how to re-envision their communitys waste-handling
processby consuming less, turning organic waste into compost,
recycling, reusing other waste, demanding nonwasteful product design,
and creating jobs and bringing community members together in the
process. It also gives detailed information on how communities can battle
incineration projects that, even at their best, emit dangerous particles into
the atmosphere.
Waste is something we all make every day but often pay little
attention to. Thats changing, and model programs in California, Italy, and
elsewhere around the globe show the many different ways a community
can strive for, and achieve, zero-waste status. This is an important toolkit
for anyone interested in creating sustainable communities, generating
secure local jobs, and keeping toxic alternatives at bay.

Author Bio
Dr. Paul Connett, author of The Case Against Fluoride, is the director of
the Fluoride Action Network (FAN) and the executive director of its parent
body, the American Environmental Health Studies Project (AEHSP). He
has spoken and given more than 2,000 presentations in forty-nine states
and sixty countries on the issue of waste management. He holds a
bachelors degree from the University of Cambridge and a PhD in
chemistry from Dartmouth College and is a retired professor of
environmental chemistry and toxicology at St. Lawrence University. He
lives in Binghamton, New York.


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The Year of the Bat:
Adventures in Echolocation

An exquisitely written story of place

By Don Mitchell

Book Description
When Middlebury writing professor Don Mitchell was approached by a
biologist with the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department about tracking
endangered Indiana bats on his 150-acre farm in Vermonts picturesque
Champlain Valley, Mitchells relationship with batsand with
governmentcould be characterized as distrustful, at best.
But the flying rats, as Mitchell initially thinks of them, launched him
on a series of improvements to his land that would provide a more
welcoming habitat for the batsand a modest tax break for himself and his
family. Whether persuading his neighbors to join him on a silent
meditation, pulling invasive garlic mustard out of the ground by hand,
navigating the tacit ground rules of buying an ATV off Craigslist, or
leaving just enough honeysuckle to give government inspectors "something
to find," Mitchells tale is as profound as it is funnya journey that
changes Mitchells relationship with Chiropotera, the land, and, ultimately,
his understanding of his own past.
Ruminating on the nature of authority, the purview of the state, and
the value of inhabiting ones nicheMitchell reveals much about our inner
and outer landscape, in this perfectly paced and skilled story of place.

Author Bio
Don Mitchell is a novelist, essayist and sometime screenwriter whose most
recent books are The Nature Notebooks (a novel) and a guidebook to
Vermont in the Fodors/Compass American series. Hes also the architect
and builder of over a dozen low-cost, energy-efficient structures on
Treleven Farm, and a shepherd with thirty-five years experience managing
a flock of sheep there. One of his current interests is forest management
with the goal of enhancing habitat for endangered bats.
From 1984 to 2009 Don taught courses at Middlebury College,
primarily in creative writingespecially narrative fiction and writing for
filmand environmental literature. Now he devotes most of his time to
projects designed to enhance the farm and support the vision of Treleven,
Inc.

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From the Wood-Fired Oven:
New and Traditional Techniques for Cooking and
Baking with Fire

By Richard Miscovich

Book Description
In the past twenty years, interest in wood-fired ovens has increased
dramatically in the U.S. and abroad, but most books focus on how to bake
bread or pizza in an oven. From the Wood-Fired Oven offers many more
techniques for home and artisan bakersfrom baking bread and making
pizza to recipes on how to get as much use as possible out of a single oven
firing, from the first live-fire roasting to drying wood for the next fire.
From the Wood-Fired Oven offers a new take on traditional
techniques for professional bakers, but is simple enough to inspire any
nonprofessional baking enthusiast. Leading baker and instructor Richard
Miscovich wants people to use their ovens to fulfill the goal of maximum
heat utilization. Readers will find methods and techniques for cooking and
baking in a wood-fired oven in the order of the appropriate temperature
window. What comes firstpizza, or pastry? Roasted vegetables or a
braised pork loin? Clarified butter or beef jerky? In addition to an
extensive section of delicious formulas for many types of bread, readers
will find chapters on pizza, pastry, and meats, plus techniques for grilling,
steaming, braising, frying, dehydrating, and infusing. Appendices include
oven-design recommendations, a sample oven temperature log, Richard's
baker's percentages, proper care of a sourdough starter, and more. . . .
From the Wood Fired Oven is more than a cookbook; it reminds the
reader of how a wood-fired oven (and fire, by extension) draws people
together and bestows a sense of comfort and fellowship, very real human
needs, especially in uncertain times. Indeed, cooking and baking from a
wood-fired oven is a basic part of a resilient lifestyle, and a perfect
example of valuable traditional skills being put to use in modern times.

Author Bio
Richard Miscovich began baking European hearth breads in 1996 after
graduating in the first class taught at the San Francisco Baking Institute.
During that same trip, he visited Alan Scott and was introduced to the Scott
brick oven designjust as interest in artisan baking and wood-fired ovens
dramatically increased. He and his wife, Stephanie, immediately began
construction of a wood-fired oven at their home in coastal North Carolina,
and opened an organic micro-bakery, One Acre Garden and Bakery,
specializing in organic artisan hearth breads.
Currently, Richard is assistant professor and chair of bread curriculum
development for the International Baking and Pastry Institute at Johnson &
Wales University in Providence, Rhode Island. In addition to teaching
culinary students, Richard is also a popular instructor for home bakers and
brick oven hobbyists, and is a regular guest at venues around the country
where he teaches artisan bread-baking techniques, wood-fired baking, and
oven-building classes. In 2007, Richard organized and helped teach the
first three-day wood-fired oven class track to be offered at The Bread
Bakers Guild of Americas biannual educational conference, Camp Bread.
He served two terms on the Board of The Bread Bakers Guild of America.

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Market Farming Success, Revised
Edition:
The Business of Growing and Selling Local Food

By Lynn Byczynski

Book Description
An insider's guide to market gardening and farming for those in the
business of growing and selling food, flowers, herbs, or plants.
Market Farming Success identifies the key areas that usually trip up
beginnersand shows how to avoid those obstacles. This book will help
the aspiring or beginning farmer advance quickly and confidently through
the inevitable learning curve of starting a new business.
Written by the editor of Growing for Market, a respected trade journal
for market farmers, Market Farming Success condenses decades of
growing experience from every part of the United States and Canada. It
focuses on the factors that are common to market gardeners everywhere
and offers professional advice that includes:
--How much you'll need to spend to start a market farming business
--How much you can expect to earn
--Which crops bring in the most moneyand whether you should grow
them
--The essential tools and equipment you will need
--The best places to sell your products
--How to keep records to maximize profits and minimize taxes
--Tricks of the trade that will make you more efficient in the greenhouse,
field, and market
This new Chelsea Green edition of a 2006 classic is greatly updated and
expanded, and includes full-color photos, charts and graphs, plus many
inspiring and instructive profiles of successful market farming pioneers.

Author Bio
Lynn Byczynski is the editor and publisher of Growing for Market, a
monthly newsletter for market gardeners and farmers published since 1992.
She is the author of The Flower Farmer: An Organic Grower's Guide to
Raising and Selling Cut Flowers (Chelsea Green, 2007), and The Hoophouse
Handbook. She is the owner of Wild Onion Farm in Lawrence, Kansas,
where she grows cut flowers commercially with her husband and two
children.

Pages: 288
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Keeping a Family Cow, Revised and
Updated Edition:
The Complete Guide for Home-Scale, Holistic Dairy
Producers

By Joann S. Grohman
Foreword by Jack Lazor

Book Description
The cow is the most productive, efficient creature on earth. She will give
you fresh milk, cream, butter, and cheese, build human health and
happiness, and even turn a profit for homesteaders and small farmers who
seek to offer her bounty to the local market or neighborhood. She will
provide rich manure for your garden or land, and will enrich the quality of
your life as you benefit from the resources of the natural world. Quite
simply, the family that keeps a cow is a healthy family.
Originally published in the early 1970s as The Cow Economy and
reprinted many times over, Keeping a Family Cow has launched thousands
of holistic small-scale dairy farmers and families raising healthy cows in
accordance with their true nature. Now revised and updated to incorporate
new information on the raw milk debate, the conversation about A1 vs. A2
milk, fully grassfed dairies, more practical advice for everyday chores, and
updated procedures for cow emergencies.
Keeping a Family Cow has not only stood the test of time, it still
remains the go-to inspirational manual for raising a family milk cow nearly
forty years after its first publication. Joann Grohman has a lifetime of
practical experience that has been bound into this one volume and
presented in the spirit of fun and learning.

Author Bio
Home food production has been Joann Grohmans lifelong enthusiasm.
She started milking cows in 1975 and can no longer imagine life without
one. She declares that health and happiness cant be teased apart and that
your dairy cow supports both. Joann finds that the prevailing beliefs about
farming and nutritionwhich cant be teased apart eitherhave been
generated by people who have never gotten their hands dirty. Very little of
what they teach would survive a year on the farm. Real farming and real
food leave you feeling there is a tomorrow. In the morning your cow will
be waiting.

Pages: 296
Size: 6 X 9
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The Sugarmakers Companion:
And Integrated Approach to Producing Syrup from
Maple, Birch, and Walnut Trees

With information on sugarbush management, the economics of
sugaring, and marketing strategies to ensure a profitable
enterprise

By Michael Farrell

Book Description
The Sugarmakers Companion is the first guide of its kind addressing the
small- and large-scale syrup producer seeking to make a profitable
business from maple, birch, and walnut sap. This comprehensive work
incorporates valuable information on ecological forest management, value-
added products, and the most up-to-date techniques on sap collection and
processing. It is, most importantly, a guide to an integrated sugaring
operation, interconnected to the whole-farm system, woodland, and
community. Farrell documents the untapped potential of American forests
and shows how sugaring can turn a substantial profit for farmers while
providing tremendous enjoyment and satisfaction.
Michael Farrell, sugarmaker and director of the Uihlein Forest at
Cornell University, offers information on setting up and maintaining a
viable sugaring business by incorporating the wisdom of traditional
sugarmaking with the value of modern technology (such as reverse-
osmosis machines and vacuum tubing). He gives a balanced view of the
industry while offering a realistic picture of how modern technology can
be beneficial, from both an economic and an environmental perspective.
Within these pages, readers will find if syrup production is right for them
(and on what scale), determine how to find trees for tapping, learn the
essentials of sap collection, the art and science of sugarmaking, and how to
build community through syrup production.
Applicable for a wide range of climates and regions, this book is sure
to change the conversation around syrup production and prove invaluable
for both home-scale and commercial sugarmakers alike.

Author Bio
Michael Farrell serves as the director of Cornell Universitys Uihlein
Forest, a maple syrup research and extension field station in Lake Placid,
NY. There he taps approximately 5,000 maples, 600 birch trees, and a
couple dozen black walnut and butternut trees every year. He has authored
more than fifty articles on maple syrup production and forest management
and often presents to maple producer and landowner
organizations. Michael earned his bachelors in economics from Hamilton
College, his masters in forestry from SUNY-ESF, and his PhD in natural
resources from Cornell University.

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Out on a Limb:
What Black Bears Taught Me about Intelligence and
Intuition

By Benjamin Kilham

Book Description
In Out on a Limb, Ben Kilham invites us into the world he has come to
know best: the world of black bears. For decades, he has studied wild
populations in northern New Hampshire and he has followed the lives of
the orphans who were brought to him as infants and who he raised and
introduced to the wild. Along the way, Kilham has made some remarkable
discoveries: an organ that helps bears decipher the smells and tastes in their
world; the way unrelated females cooperate in times of food shortages or
surpluses; and the code of conduct that keeps the bears' world orderly. He
also shares his rare glimpses of bear justice - showing just how they
enforce their rules, define their boundaries, and, when necessary, deliver
punishment.
Could these cooperative behaviors, he asks, mimic behavior that
existed in the animal that became human? In watching bears, do we see
our earliest forms of communications unfold? Though Kilham's findings
have interested bear researchers worldwide, his field technique is age-old:
daily observation. And his insight into the way bears communicate is likely
aided by his own ability to think in pictures, a gift of the dyslexia that kept
him out of the academic-paper-writing world of modern science. Kilham
delivers in Out on a Limb not just a fascinating glimpse at the inner world
of bears, but also a passionate case for science - and education in general--
to open its doors to different ways of learning and researching, doors that
could lead to far broader realms of discovery.

Author Bio
Ben Kilham has been researching and living with black bears for many
years. He has become an expert in this field, and is invited to lecture all
over the US and internationally. He wrote Among the Bears, Raising
Orphan Cubs in the Wild (Henry Holt, 2002) which was also published in
Germany, Slovakia, and The Czech Republic. Ben and his work with black
bears has been featured in five internationally televised documentaries and
he have appeared on The Today Show, Good Morning America, ABC
Nightly News, ABC Nightly News International, The OReilly Factor, Fox
News Daytime Edition, Inside Edition, The David Letterman Show, NBC
Nightline, CBS Coast to Coast, Canadian Broadcasting Company Nightly
News, and various others. In addition to television interviews, he has been
interviewed for over forty nationally broadcast radio shows including
National Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio. He lives in
Lyme, New Hampshire.

Publication Date: November 11,
2013
Pages: 296
Size: 6 X 9
Art Program:
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Rights Held: World English

The Gourmet Butcher:
Learning to Cut Your Own Meat and Much More

By Cole Ward and Karen Coshof

Book Description
Vermont-based master butcher Cole Ward delivers a comprehensive guide
to whole-animal butchery that goes beyond conventional do-it-yourself
books and takes readers inside the world of truly sustainable meat
production. The Gourmet Butcher demystifies the process of getting meat
to the table, and its wide scope will be welcome to those who not only wish
to learn the rudiments of butchery, but also want to understand how meat
animals are raised, slaughtered, and marketed in a holistic system that
honors both animals and consumers.
Written in Coles unique voice of humor and simplicity, the book
celebrates the traditional art of culinary butchery, introducing readers to
stand-out butchers in America and Europe as well as a diverse group of
farmers committed to raising the very best animals with respect.
The many methods of raising and finishing meat animals are clearly
and thoroughly explained and compared, and sensitive issues like hormone
and antibiotic use in meat production are assessed. Readers will learn all
the terminology associated with meat and butchery, as well as the
complexities of meat grading, carcass yield, marbling scores, and issues
with inspection.
History buffs will delight in the chapter that traces the roots of
butchery from pre-history to modern times, and meat shoppers will
welcome Coles description of what goes on behind the scenes at meat
markets large and small. And, of course, new or aspiring butchers will find
well-illustrated chapters on cutting up a side of beef, a side of pork, and a
whole lamb in more detail than is offered in any other book on the subject.
Sure to be the ultimate resource on the subject of gourmet butchery, this
book will change the conversation and help bring back a traditional art that
is in jeopardy, but increasingly important in the local-food and ecological-
agriculture movement.

Author Bio
Cole Ward grew up in the tiny Vermont town of Sheldon Springs. At the
age of fourteen he began working part-time for a local butcher, washing
meat trays and stuffing sausages for 20cents a hour. At fifteen, he became
an apprentice meat cutter at the local IGA, and in very few years was a
master butcher specializing in whole-animal culinary butchery. In his early
twenties, wanderlust took him out west to a job at LaFrieda Prime Meats at
Los Angeless celebrated farmers market. The famous butcher shop was
next to CBS studios, and Wards celebrity clients soon included Billy
Crystal, Bernadette Peters, Perry Como, Edith Head, and Raymond Burr.
In 1982, Cole returned to Vermont, where most of his large family
lives. Now Cole mixes hands-on butchering with teaching; his
encyclopedic knowledge of the meat sector makes him a sought-after
lecturer and seminar leader at culinary academies, colleges, and
agricultural and sustainable-living conferences. With the publication of this
book, he is sharing the knowledge acquired over forty-five years of
butchering. He is convinced that the more people know about where their
meat comes from, the more control they will have over their own and their
familys health.

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Net Zero Now:
The Design and Construction of Carbon-Neutral
Homes and Buildings for a Low-Energy Future

By William Maclay

Book Description
In a nation where traditional buildings use roughly 40 percent of the total
fossil energy, the interest in net-zero building is growing enormously -
among both designers interested in addressing climate change and
consumers interested in energy efficiency and long-term
savings. Designers and builders will find a wealth of state-of-the-art
information on such considerations as air, moisture, and vapor barriers,
embodied energy, residential and commercial net-zero standards,
monitoring and commissioning, insulation options, and costs. This
comprehensive overview is accompanied by several case studies, including
residences, municipal buildings, educational facilities, and business
projects.
Geared toward professionals exploring net-zero design, but also
suitable for nonprofessionals seeking ideas and strategies on net-zero
options that are beautiful and self-powered, Net Zero Now includes
information on how to hire a net-zero architect or a high-performance
design team.

Author Bio
Bill Maclay, founder and president of Maclay Architects in
Waitsfield VT, pursued architecture as a career in order to make the world
a better place. He has been a lecturer and educator at colleges, universities,
and conferences focused on environmental design. He is also past president
of the Vermont Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), and
has served on the Board of Directors of the Vermont Businesses for Social
Responsibility and the Yestermorrow Design/Build School, among other
organizations. Maclay and his firm have long been involved in research on
all aspects of environmental design, including sustainable design, indoor
air quality, building science, material selection, and related issues, building
science, material selection, and related issues, environmental design -
including sustainable design, indoor air quality, building science, material
selection, and related issues. and energy-conserving projects have been
exhibited and published internationally.
Maclay committed to using renewable energy to create a non fossil-
fuel-based future in 1970. He developed, designed, and built one of the
first renewable communities in the US, and his innovative renewable and
energy-conserving projects have been exhibited and published
internationally. Maclays projects range from single-family residences to
multifamily residential, commercial, and institutional projects. He has a
BA from Williams College and a master of architecture from the
University of Pennsylvania. Maclay Architects is located in Waitsfield,
VT.

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Featured Backlist Titles
Wild Fermentation
By Sandor Ellix Katz
Publication Date: July 1, 2004

Thinking in Systems
By Donella Meadows
Publication Date: December 20, 2008

The End of Money and the Future of Civilization
By Thomas Greco
Publication Date: April 29, 2009

Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money
By Woody Tasch

When Disaster Strikes
By Matthew Stein

2052: A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years
By Jorgen Randers

Mastering Artisan Cheesemaking
By Gianaclis Caldwell

Top-Bar Beekeeping: Organic Practices for Honeybee Health
By Heather Harrell and Les Crower

Lynn Margulis
By Dorion Sagan

Reinventing Fire: Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era
By Amory Lovins and Rocky Mountain Institute

Nuclear Roulette
By Gar Smith

Organic Seed Grower
By John Navazio
Publication Date: December 3, 2012
Wild Fermentation:
The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-Culture
Foods

By Sandor Katz
Foreword by Sally Fallon

Over 100,000 copies sold domestically!

Book Description
Bread. Cheese. Wine. Beer. Coffee. Chocolate. Most people
consume fermented foods and drinks every day. For thousands of
years, humans have enjoyed the distinctive flavors and nutrition
resulting from the transformative power of microscopic bacteria and
fungi. Wild Fermentation: The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-
Culture Foods is the first cookbook to widely explore the culinary
magic of fermentation.
"Fermentation has been an important journey of discovery for
me," writes author Sandor Ellix Katz. "I invite you to join me along
this effervescent path, well trodden for thousands of years yet
largely forgotten in our time and place, bypassed by the
superhighway of industrial food production."
The flavors of fermentation are compelling and complex, quite
literally alive. This book takes readers on a whirlwind trip through
the wide world of fermentation, providing readers with basic and
delicious recipes-some familiar, others exotic-that are easy to make
at home.
The book covers vegetable ferments such as sauerkraut,
kimchi, and sour pickles; bean ferments including miso, tempeh,
dosas, and idli; dairy ferments including yogurt, kefir, and basic
cheesemaking (as well as vegan alternatives); sourdough bread-
making; other grain fermentations from Cherokee, African,
Japanese, and Russian traditions; extremely simple wine- and beer-
making (as well as cider-, mead-, and champagne-making)
techniques; and vinegar-making. With nearly 100 recipes, this is the
most comprehensive and wide-ranging fermentation cookbook ever
published.

Author Bio
Sandor Ellix Katz is a self-taught fermentation experimentalist. He
wrote Wild Fermentation: The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-
Culture Foodswhich Newsweek called "the fermenting bible"in
order to share the fermentation wisdom he had learned, and
demystify home fermentation. Since the book's publication in 2004,
Katz has taught hundreds of fermentation workshops across North
America and beyond, taking on a role he describes as a
"fermentation revivalist."

Publication Date: July 1, 2004
Page Count: 208
Size: 7 X 10
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press kit:
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Thinking in Systems:
A Primer

By Donella Meadows

Book Description
In the years following her role as the lead author of the international
bestseller, Limits to Growththe first book to show the
consequences of unchecked growth on a finite planet Donella
Meadows remained a pioneer of environmental and social analysis
until her untimely death in 2001.
Meadows newly released manuscript, Thinking in Systems, is
a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem solving on
scales ranging from the personal to the global. Some of the biggest
problems facing the worldwar, hunger, poverty, and
environmental degradationare essentially system failures. They
cannot be solved by fixing one piece in isolation from the others,
because even seemingly minor details have enormous power to
undermine the best efforts of too-narrow thinking.
While readers will learn the conceptual tools and methods of
systems thinking, the heart of the book is grander than
methodology. Donella Meadows was known as much for nurturing
positive outcomes as she was for delving into the science behind
global dilemmas. She reminds readers to pay attention to what is
important, not just what is quantifiable, to stay humble, and to stay a
learner. In a world growing ever more complicated, crowded, and
interdependent, Thinking in Systems helps readers avoid confusion
and helplessness, the first step toward finding proactive and
effective solutions.

Author Bio
A woman whose pioneering work in the 1970s still makes front-
page news, Donella Meadows was a scientist, author, teacher, and
farmer widely considered ahead of her time. She was one of the
world's foremost systems analysts and lead author of the influential
Limits to Growththe 1972 book on global trends in population,
economics, and the environment that was translated into 28
languages and became an international bestseller. That book
launched a worldwide debate on the earth's capacity to withstand
constant human development and expansion. Twenty years later,
she and co-authors Dennis Meadows and Jorgen Randers reported
on their follow-up study in Beyond the Limits and a final revision of
their research, Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update, was
published in 2004.
To many, Meadows is most remembered for her weekly,
nationally syndicated column, "The Global Citizen," which ran for
16 years and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. She was the
founder of the Sustainability Institute, cofounder of the International
Network of Resource Information Centers (INRIC, also called the
Balaton Group), and a generally recognized leader in getting people
at all levels of society, government, and business to think
differently, understand systems, and strive for sustainability.

Publication Date: December 20,
2008
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dependencies, Canada
(Earthscan)
Korean (Ecos Library Publisher)
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Publishing Company)

The End of Money and the Future of
Civilization

By Thomas Greco, Jr.

Book Description
The End of Money and the Future of Civilization demystifies the
subjects of money, banking, and finance by tracing historical
landmarks and important evolutionary shifts that have changed the
essential nature of money. Grecos masterful work lays out the
problems and then looks to the future for a next stage in moneys
evolution that can liberate us as individuals and communities from
the current grip of centralized and politicized money power. Greco
provides specific design proposals and exchange-system
architectures for local, regional, national, and global financial
systems. He offers strategies for their implementation and outlines
actions grassroots organizations, businesses, and governments will
need to take to achieve success.
Ultimately, The End of Money and the Future of Civilization
provides the necessary understanding for entrepreneurs, activists,
and civic leadersto implement approaches toward monetary
liberation. These approaches would empower communities, preserve
democratic institutions, and begin to build economies that are
sustainable, democratic, and insulated from the financial crises that
plague the dominant monetary system.

Author Bio
Thomas H. Greco, Jr. is the director of the Community Information
Resource Center, which he founded in 1992. CIRC is a nonprofit
consulting organization and networking hub dedicated to economic
equity, social justice, and community improvement, specializing in
community currency and mutual credit design, development, and
implementation. He is a former engineer and professor of business
administration. Tom's previous books include New Money for
Healthy Communities and Money and Debt: A Solution to the
Global Crisis For more information on re-creating money systems,
visit another webpage of Tom's, Reinventing Money. For more
information on Tom, please visit his website.

Publication Date: April 29, 2009
Page Count: 272
Size: 6 X 9
Art Program:
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Tables, Diagrams
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Publishing)
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Press)

Inquiries into the Nature of Slow
Money:
Investing as if Food, Farms, and Fertility
Mattered

By Woody Tasch
Foreword by Carlo Petrini

Book Description
Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money presents an essential
new strategy for investing in local food systems and introduces
a group of fiduciary activists who are exploring what should
come after industrial finance and industrial agriculture. Theirs is
a vision for investing that puts soil fertility into return-on-
investment calculations and serves people and place as much at
it serves industry sectors and markets.
Leading the charge is Woody Taschwhose decades of
work as a venture capitalist, foundation treasurer, and
entrepreneur now shed new light on a truer, more beautiful,
more prudent kind of fiduciary responsibility. He offers an
alternative vision to the dusty old industrial concepts of the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries when dollars, and the
businesses they financed, lost their connection to place; slow
money, on the other hand, is firmly rooted in the new economic,
social, and environmental realities of the 21st century.
Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money is a call to action
for designing capital markets built around not extraction and
consumption but preservation and restoration.
Author Bio
Woody Tasch is president of the newly formed NGO Slow
Money and Chairman Emeritus of Investor's Circle, a nonprofit
network of angel investors, venture capitalists, foundations, and
family offices that, since 1992, has facilitated the flow of $130
million to 200 early-stage companies and venture funds
dedicated to sustainability. He lives in northern New Mexico.
For information about Slow Money please visit
www.slowmoney.org.

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When Disaster Strikes:
A Comprehensive Guide for Emergency
Planning and Crisis Survival

By Matthew Stein
Foreword by James Wesley Rawles

Book Description
Disasters often strike without warning and leave a trail of
destruction in their wake. Yet armed with the right tools and
information, survivors can fend for themselves and get through
even the toughest circumstances. Matthew Stein's When Disaster
Strikes provides a thorough, practical guide for how to prepare for
and react in many of life's most unpredictable scenarios.
In this disaster-preparedness manual, he outlines the materials
you'll needfrom food and water, to shelter and energy, to first-
aid and survival skillsto help you safely live through the worst.
When Disaster Strikes covers how to find and store food, water,
and clothing, as well as the basics of installing back-up power and
lights. Youll learn how to gather and sterilize water, build a fire,
treat injuries in an emergency, and use alternative medical
sources when conventional ones are unavailable.
Stein instructs you on the smartest responses to natural
disasterssuch as fires, earthquakes, hurricanes and floodshow
to keep warm during winter storms, even how to protect yourself
from attack or other dangerous situations. With this
comprehensive guide in hand, you can be sure to respond quickly,
correctly, and confidently when a crisis threatens.

Author Bio
An engineer, author, and building contractor, Matthew Stein has
built hurricane-resistant, energy-efficient, and environmentally
friendly homes and designed consumer water-filtration devices,
commercial water-filtration systems, and automated assembly
machinery among other things. He currently resides with his
wife, Josie, in the High Sierra Mountains near Lake Tahoe,
California. His websites are at www.stein-design.com and
www.whentechfails.com.

Publication Date: October 31,
2011
Page Count: 400
Size: 6 X 9
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2052:
A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years
By Jorgen Randers

Book Description
Forty years ago, The Limits to Growth study addressed the grand
question of how humans would adapt to the physical limitations
of planet Earth. It predicted that during the first half of the 21st
century the ongoing growth in the human ecological footprint
would stopeither through catastrophic overshoot and
collapseor through well-managed peak and decline.
So, where are we now? And what does our future look like?
In the book 2052, Jorgen Randers, one of the co-authors of Limits
to Growth, issues a progress report and makes a forecast for the
next forty years. To do this, he asked dozens of experts to weigh
in with their best predictions on how our economies, energy
supplies, natural resources, climate, food, fisheries, militaries,
political divisions, cities, psyches, and more will take shape in the
coming decades. He then synthesized those scenarios into a
global forecast of life as we will most likely know it in the years
ahead.
The good news: we will see impressive advances in resource
efficiency, and an increasing focus on human well being rather
than on per capita income growth. But this change might not
come as we expect. Future growth in population and GDP, for
instance, will be constrained in surprising waysby rapid
fertility decline as result of increased urbanization, productivity
decline as a result of social unrest, and continuing poverty among
the poorest 2 billion world citizens. Runaway global warming,
too, is likely.
So, how do we prepare for the years ahead? With heart, fact,
and wisdom, Randers guides us along a realistic path into the
future and discusses what readers can do to ensure a better life for
themselves and their children during the increasing turmoil of the
next forty years.

Author Bio
Jorgen Randers is professor of climate strategy at the BI
Norwegian Business School, where he works on climate issues
and scenario analysis. He was previously president of BI and
deputy director general of WWF International (World Wildlife
Fund) in Switzerland. He lectures internationally on sustainable
development and especially climate, and is a nonexecutive
member of a number of corporate boards. He sits on the
sustainability councils of British Telecom in the UK and the Dow
Chemical Company in the United States. In 2006 he chaired the
cabinet-appointed Commission on Low Greenhouse Gas
Emissions, which reported on how Norway can cut its climate gas
emissions by two-thirds by 2050. Randers has written numerous
books and scientific papers, and was coauthor of The Limits to
Growth in 1972, Beyond the Limits in 1992, and Limits to
Growth: The 30-Year Update in 2004.

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Publications, Inc.)
Korean (KPI Publishing
Group)
Simplified Chinese (Yilin
Press, Ltd)

Mastering Artisan Cheesemaking:
The Ultimate Guide for Home-Scale and Market
Producers

By Gianaclis Caldwell
Foreword by Ricki Carroll

Book Description
This comprehensive and user-friendly guide thoroughly explains the
art and science that allow milk to be transformed into epicurean
masterpieces. Caldwell offers a deep look at the history, science,
culture, and art of making artisan cheese on a small scale, and
includes detailed information on equipment and setting up a home-
scale operation. A large part of the book includes extensive process-
based recipes dictating not only the hard numbers, but also the
concepts behind each style of cheese and everything you want to
know about affinage (aging), and using oils, brushes, waxes,
infusions, and other creative aging and flavoring techniques. Also
included are beautiful photographs, profiles of other cheesemakers,
and in-depth appendices for quick reference in the preparation and
aging room. Mastering Artisan Cheesemaking will also prove an
invaluable resource for those with, or thinking of starting, a small-
scale creamery.
Let Gianaclis Caldwell be your mentor, guide, and cheering
section as you follow the pathway to a mastery of cheesemaking. For
the avid home hobbyist, to the serious commercial artisan, Mastering
Artisan Cheesemaking is an irreplaceable resource.

Author Bio
In her first book, The Farmstead Creamery Advisor (Chelsea Green,
2010), Gianaclis presented would-be farmer-cheesemakers with a
thorough guide to building and running a small, on-farm cheese
business. Gianaclis has been teaching all levels of cheesemaking for
years, as well as speaking and teaching about the business of
farmstead cheese, both at her familys licensed cheese dairy, Pholia
Farm, and other venues, including the American Dairy Goat
Association annual convention, the American Cheese Society
Conference, and the "Mother Earth News" Fairs.
Gianaclis aged, raw-milk cheeses have been recognized and
applauded by Americas foremost authorities on cheese. Pholia
Farm cheeses have been included in many major books on artisan
cheese, the latest being Max McCalmans "Mastering Cheese", in
which her Elk Mountain cheese is included in a short list of rock
stars of the 21st century. Her Hillis Peak cheese was the centerfold
cheese in the Winter 2010 issue of Culture Magazine. She was one
of the spotlighted cheesemakers in a recent publication
Cheesemaking by Hobby Farms magazine for their Popular Kitchen
Series.

Publication Date: September 7,
2012
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MASTERING ARTISAN
CHEESEMAKING
The Ultimate Guide for Home-Scale and Market Producers
GIANACLIS CALDWELL
Foreword by Ri cki Carrol l
Top-bar Beekeeping:
Organic Practices for Honeybee Health
Natural hive management for honey, beeswax, and
pollination
By Heather Harrell and Les Crowder

Book Description
In recent years beekeepers have had to face tremendous challenges,
from pests such as varroa and tracheal mites and from the mysterious
but even more devastating phenomenon known as Colony Collapse
Disorder (CCD). Yet in backyards and on rooftops all over the world,
bees are being raised successfully, even without antibiotics, miticides,
or other chemical inputs.
More and more organically minded beekeepers are now using
topbar hives, in which the shape of the interior resembles a hollow
log. Long lasting and completely biodegradable, a topbar hive made
of untreated wood allows bees to build comb naturally rather than
simply filling prefabricated foundation frames in a typical box hive
with added supers.
Topbar hives yield slightly less honey but produce more
beeswax than a typical Langstroth box hive. Regular hive inspection
and the removal of old combs helps to keep bees healthier and
naturally disease-free.
Topbar Beekeeping provides complete information on hive
management and other aspects of using these innovative hives. All
home and hobbyist beekeepers who have the time and interest in
keeping bees intensively should consider the natural, low-stress
methods outlined in this book. It will also appeal to home orchardists,
gardeners, and permaculture practitioners who look to bees for
pollination as well as honey or beeswax.

Author Bios
Les Crowder has devoted his entire adult life to the study and care of
honeybees. He has been a leader in his community, having served as
New Mexicos honeybee inspector and president of the New Mexico
Beekeepers Association. He is an avid storyteller and has spoken
annually at the NM Organic Farm Conference for over fifteen years.
Les is also a certified teacher and enjoys teaching children Spanish
and science.
Heather Harrell moved to New Mexico in 1996 from her home
state of Vermont to pursue her masters degree in Eastern Classics.
Her love of nature soon had her pursuing a life as an organic farmer,
focusing on flowers, then medicinal herbs. Over time, and through her
work with honeybees, she has moved her focus to the study of
multiuse permaculture plantings, which support a diverse network of
interrelationships in the natural world.

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Lynn Margulis:
The Life and Legacy of a Scientific Rebel

By Dorion Sagan

Book Description
Tireless, controversial, and hugely inspirational to those who knew
her or encountered her work, Lynn Margulis was a scientist whose
intellectual energy and interests knew no bounds. Best known for
her work on the origins of eukaryotic cells, the Gaia hypothesis, and
symbiogenesis as a driving force in evolution, her work has forever
changed the way we understand life on Earth.
When Margulis passed away in 2011, she left behind a
groundbreaking scientific legacy that spanned decades. In this
collection, Dorion Sagan, Margulis son and longtime collaborator,
gathers together the voices of friends and colleagues to remark on
her life and legacy, in essays that cover her early collaboration with
James Lovelock, her fearless face-off with Richard Dawkins during
the so-called Battle of Balliol at Oxford, the intrepid application
of her scientific mind to the insistence that 9/11 was a false-flag
operation, her affinity for Emily Dickinson, and more.
Margulis was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in
1983, received the prestigious National Medal of Science in 1999,
and her papers are permanently archived at the Library of Congress.
Less than a month before her untimely death, Margulis was named
one of the twenty most influential scientists alive one of only two
women on this list, which include such scientists as Stephen
Hawking, James Watson, and Jane Goodall.

Author Bios
Dorion Sagan is author of numerous articles and twenty-three books
translated into eleven languages, including "Notes from the Holocene:
A Brief History of the Future" and "Into the Cool", coauthored with
Eric D. Schneider. His writings have appeared in The New York
Times, The New York Times Book Review, Wired, Skeptical
Inquirer, Pabular, Smithsonian, Ecologist, CoEvolution Quarterly,
The Times Higher Education, Omni, Natural History, The Sciences,
Cabinet, and Tricycle.

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The Life and Legacy of a S C I E NT I F I C R E B E L
E DI T E D BY DORI ON SAGAN
Reinventing Fire:
Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era
By Amory Lovins and Rocky Mountain Institute

A wise, detailed, and comprehensive blueprint.
President Bill Clinton

Book Description
Oil and coal have built our civilization, created our wealth, and
enriched the lives of billions. Yet their rising costs to our security,
economy, health, and environment now outweigh their benefits.
Moreover, that long-awaited energy tipping pointwhere alternatives
work better than oil and coal and compete purely on costis no
longer decades in the future. It is here and now. And it is the fulcrum
of economic transformation.
A global clean energy race has emerged with astounding speed.
The ability to operate without fossil fuels will define winners and
losers in businessand among nations.
Now, in Reinventing Fire, Amory Lovins and Rocky Mountain
Institute offer a new vision to revitalize business models and win the
clean energy racenot forced by public policy but led by business for
enduring profit. Grounded in 30 years practical experience, this
ground-breaking, peer-reviewed analysis integrates market-based
solutions across transportation, buildings, industry, and electricity. It
maps pathways and competitive strategies for a 158%-bigger 2050
U.S. economy that needs no oil, no coal, no nuclear energy, one-third
less natural gas, and no new inventions. Reinventing Fire charts a
pragmatic course that makes sense and makes money.

Author Bio
Amory Lovins is among the worlds leading experts on energy and its
links with economy, security, development, and environment. He has
advised the energy and other industries for four decades, as well as
the U.S. departments of energy and defense. His work in more than
fifty countries has been recognized by the Alternative Nobel,
Zayed, Blue Planet, Volvo, Onassis, Nissan, Shingo, and Mitchell
Prizes, the Benjamin Franklin and Happold Medals, MacArthur and
Ashoka Fellowships, eleven honorary doctorates, and the Heinz,
Lindbergh, Time Hero for the Planet, National Design, and World
Technology Awards. An honorary U.S. architect, Swedish
engineering academician, and former Oxford don, he has taught at
nine universities. Among his thirty previous books are Small Is
Profitable, Winning the Oil Endgame, and the coauthored business
classic Natural Capitalism. Lovins was named one of Times 100
most influential people in the world and Foreign Policys 100 top
global thinkers. He is cofounder, chairman, and chief scientist of
Rocky Mountain Institute.

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2011
Page Count: 352
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Nuclear Roulette:
The Truth about the Most Dangerous Energy Source
on Earth

By Gar Smith
Foreword by Jerry Mander and Ernest Callenbach

Book Description
Nuclear power is not clean, cheap, or safe. With Three Mile Island,
Chernobyl, and Fukushima, the nuclear industrys record of
catastrophic failures now averages one major disaster every decade.
After three US-designed plants exploded in Japan, many countries
moved to abandon reactors for renewables. In the United States,
however, powerful corporations and a compliant government still
defend nuclear powerwhile promising billion-dollar bailouts to
operators.
Each new disaster demonstrates that the nuclear industry and
governments lie to avoid panic and preserve the myth of safe, clean
nuclear power. Tokyo and Washington both covered up Fukushimas
radiation risks andwhen confronted with damning evidencesimply
raised the levels of acceptable risk to match the greater levels of
exposure.
Nuclear Roulette dismantles the core arguments behind the
nuclear-industrial complex's Nuclear Renaissance. While some
critiques are familiarnuclear power is too costly, too dangerous, and
too unstableothers are surprising: Nuclear Roulette exposes historic
links to nuclear weapons, impacts on Indigenous lands and lives, and
the ways in which the Nuclear Regulatory Commission too often takes
its lead from industry, rewriting rules to keep failing plants in
compliance. Nuclear Roulette cites NRC records showing how
corporations routinely defer maintenance and lists resulting near-
misses in the US, which average more than one per month. As nuclear
engineers have long observed: nuclear energy can be cheap and it can
be safe. But it cant be both.
Nuclear Roulette chronicles the problems of aging reactors,
uncovers the costly challenge of decommissioning, explores the
industrys greatest seismic risksnot on Californias quake-prone
coast but in the Midwest and Southeastand explains how solar flares
could black out power grids, causing the worlds 400-plus reactors to
self-destruct.
Nuclear Roulette concludes with a roundup of proven and pending
energy solutions that can replace nuclear technology with a Renewable
Renaissance.

Author Bio
Gar Smith is editor emeritus of Earth Island Journal, a Project
Censored award-winning investigative journalist, and cofounder of
Environmentalists Against War. He has covered revolutions in Central
America and has engaged in environmental campaigns on three
continents.

Publication Date: November 1,
2012
Pages: 320
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Organic Seed Grower:
A Farmers Guide to Vegetable Seed Production

By John Navazio

Book Description
The Organic Seed Grower is a comprehensive manual for the serious
vegetable grower who is interested in growing high-quality seeds
using organic farming practices. It is written for both serious home
seed savers and diversified small-scale farmers who want to learn the
necessary steps involved in successfully producing a commercial seed
crop organically.
This book can serve as a bridge to lead skilled gardeners, who
are already saving their own seed, into the idea of growing seed
commercially. And for diversified vegetable farmers who are growing
a seed crop for sale for the first time, it will provide details on many
of the tricks of the trade that are used by professional seed growers.
This manual will help the budding seed farmer to become more
knowledgeable, efficient, and effective in producing a commercially
viable seed crop.
With the strong demand for certified organic produce, many
regional seed companies are increasingly seeking out dedicated seed
growers to ensure a reliable source of organically grown seeds for their
farmer and gardener customers. This trend represents a great business
opportunity for small-scale commercial growers who wish to raise and
sell vegetable seeds as a profitable part of their diversified small-farm
operation. Written by well-known plant breeder and organic seed
expert John Navazio, The Organic Seed Grower is the most up-to-date
and useful guide to best practices in this exciting and important field.

Author Bio
John Navazio is the Senior Scientist for the Organic Seed Alliance and
a Plant Breeding and Seed Specialist for Washington State University
Extension. He trains farmers, university students, and others in organic
seed production and on the fundamentals of on-farm plant breeding.
His own breeding work has resulted in a number of new vegetable
varieties with improved quality, flavor, and texture, as well as a greater
ability to scavenge nutrients, compete with weeds, and resist heat and
drought. John develops participatory breeding projects with farmers
across North America to improve crop germplasm for regional seed
independence.

Publication Date: December 3,
2012
Pages: 408
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