by Doug Fine, 309 pages, 6x9, softcover. A must-read for anyone considering—or already knee-deep into—the cannabis industry. Fine covers the...
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by Michael Phillips, 2nd edition, 320 pages, 8x10, softcover. The book you need to grow apples organically. Research aimed at reducing the use of...
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by Amy Traverso, 336 pages, 8¼x10½, hardcover. Come fall, when the weather turns crisp and my cravings shift from vibrant refreshing summer...
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by John Bunker, 407 pages, 8½x11, softcover. I’ve been listening to John Bunker talk about apples for as long as I can remember. The old varieties...
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by Russell Steven Powell, 214 pages, 7¼x7¼, hardcover. Apples were planted in New England as far back as 1604 when the French explorer Pierre du...
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by Tammi Sweet, 144 pages, 7x9, softcover. Practical, clear and wasting not a word, this guide is a perfect tool for anyone new to world of...
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by Mark Mikolas, 208 pages, 6x9, softcover. If you’ve ever felt stumped by tree ID, Mikolas wants you to know it’s not your fault and he’s here to...
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by Christopher Shockey and Kirsten K. Shockey, 336 pages, 8x9, softcover. This fermentation power couple is finally getting boozy. As in their...
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by Leah Penniman, 352 pages, 6⅓x9½, hardcover. “The Queen Mothers of Kroboland, Ghana, admonished their Black American students in disbelief, ‘Is...
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by Joan Morgan, 304 pages, 8x10, hardcover.
In our pursuit at Fedco Trees to track down, identify, and propagate the oldest surviving pear trees,
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6th edition, by Thomas J Elpel, 235 pages, 8½x11, softcover. I love this book, from a small press out of Pony, MT. Besides the dictionary and...
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2nd edition by Carol Deppe, 384 pages, 8½x11, softcover. “Why Save Seeds? Saving seeds is fun. Cleaning the seed, holding the clean seed in your...
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by Cass Turnbull, 365 pages, 7¼x9, softcover. I’m the kind of tree gardener who feels that one pruning book is not enough. Each one has something...
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by Charles Eisenstein, 320 pages, 6x9, softcover. A gift to a world disoriented by ecological collapse and haunted by the question of what to do,...
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by Allyson Levy and Scott Serrano, 384 pages, 7x10, softcover. Levy and Serrano began filling their upstate New York land with chosen plants in...
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by Dale Strickler, 352 pages, 8x10, softcover. It’s hard to find books that cover soil science and stewardship in a way that engages laypeople....
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by Eric Fisher, 256 pages, 7x8, softcover. Finally! A guidebook on compost teas that goes well beyond the bubbler. Drawing on a variety of...
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by Frédéric Theriault and Daniel Brisebois, 136 pages, 7½x9, softcover. If I’d had this book when I started farming, I would have avoided many...
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by Helen Atthowe, 384 pages, 8x10, softcover. If you’ve been following the various threads in “ecological” or “holistic” growing that have...
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by John Moody, 114 pages, 7½x9, softcover. The elderberry and humans have been together for a long time. This shrub shows up in ancient texts and...
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by Merlin Sheldrake, 353 pages, 5x8, paperback. Want something to take your mind off a virus? Try a fungus! This winter, as we stay closer to...
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by Stephen Russell, 232 pages, 7x9, softcover. Who knew that a roll of toilet paper could grow your supper? If you want to know how, read this...
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by FH King, 441 pages, 5½x8½, softcover. In the early 1900s, former USDA official FH King traveled through China, Korea, and Japan to document how...
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by Michael Foley, 265 pages, 5½x8½, softcover. “This is a book about farming today with an eye to an uncertain future.” So begins the author as he...
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by the Fedco catalog crew, 48 pages, 10¾x8¼, newsprint (printed one-sided so no bleed-through). Fedco catalogs are famous for black-and-white...
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Whimsical and beautiful black-and-white art is a hallmark of Fedco’s unique style, our way of counterbalancing the glossy, airbrushed color photos...
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by Kirsten K. Shockey and Christopher Shockey, 376 pages, 8x9, softcover. With more than 140 recipes that excite and intrigue, this book is...
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by Suzanne Simard, 368 pages, 6½x9½, paperback. Simard has an all-too-rare gift not just for looking closely, but for seeing closely and for...
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by Alan Bergo, 288 pages, 7x10, hardcover. This is a cookbook for avid foragers and gardeners looking to infuse their kitchens with creativity....
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by Sara Bir, 400 pages, 7x10, softcover. Written by a poetic comical professional chef who knows her stuff, this book is bold, smart, witty and so...
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by Scott Zona, 256 pages, 8x10, hardcover. Ever wondered what’s happening when your plant suffers transplant shock? Or what causes variegation in...
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by Colin McCrate and Brad Halm, 303 pages, 8½x 103/4, softcover. This book’s subtitle initially raised my hackles as being part of the American...
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by Robert Johnston, Jr., 32 pages, 5½x8½, softcover. If you are new to seed saving, this little manual by the founder of Johnny’s covers all the...
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by Ron L. Engeland, 213 pages, 6x9, softcover. Garlic is the world’s second most important allium crop. Whether garlic is your passion, or just...
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by Philip Rutter, Susan Wiegrefe, and Brandon Rutter-Daywater, 260 pages, 7x10, softcover.
Growing Hybrid Hazelnuts is the first comprehensive
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by Richo Cech, illustrated by Sena Cech, 354 pages, 8x10, softcover. Every spring, for inspiration and practical reminders for the new growing...
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by Henry Kock, et al., 288 pages, 8½x11, hardcover. While there are countless volumes on growing annual vegetables and flowers, guides to growing...
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by Alice Percy, 272 pages, 7½x9½, softcover. Make no mistake. The correlation in the title is not a romantic one. And it could have been chosen...
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by Bob Osborne, 288 pages, 8x10, hardcover. Two of our favorite apple authors are the practicable Michael Phillips and the encyclopedic Dan...
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3rd edition, by Bob Osborne, 208 pages, 8x10, softcover. More often than not, when I recommend a rose bush to a customer who is looking for a...
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by Deb Soule, 223 pages, 7⅔x9, softcover. Maine herbalist Deb Soule has always been a favorite of Fedco customers. Twenty-nine years ago, we were...
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3rd edition, by Dr. Sharol Marie Tilgner, 472 pages, 7x9, softcover. What better time than a pandemic to assemble your home apothecary? In this...
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Herbal Revolution: 65+ Recipes for Teas, Elixers, Tinctures, Syrups, Foods + Body Products That Heal
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by Kathi Langelier, 192 pages, 7¾x9, softcover. From award-winning Maine herbalist and farmer Kathi Langelier comes this must-read for anyone...
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by Michael Phillips, 414 pages, 8x10, softcover. Written by the renowned New Hampshire-based orchardist and author of The Apple Grower, this book...
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by Barbara Pleasant, 328 pages. 8x10, softcover. For your veggies, fruits and culinary herbs, don’t you wish you had a guidebook full of growing...
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by Stephen Leslie, 416 pages, 8x10, hardcover. Now is a time of exciting new developments for live animal power. As the numbers of adherents to...
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by Deb Soule, 244 pages, 6¾x9¾, softcover. “As you cultivate the garden, the garden is cultivating you, both inwardly and outwardly. Gardeners are...
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by Sam Thayer, 480 pages, 6x9, softcover. Sam Thayer’s foraging books are in a league of their own. No other gives such insightful accounts of...
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2nd edition, by Owen Wormser, 185 pages, 7x9, softcover. Written by a landscape designer with deep Maine roots and Northeast know-how, Lawns into...
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by Ben Hartman, 272 pages, 7x10, softcover. I have spent a majority of my career working to optimize processes and eliminate waste by applying...
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by Jesse Frost, 304 pages, 7x10, softcover. There are now many books about no-till vegetable culture, but Frost’s stands out by going deeper into...
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by Eric Sloane, 89 pages, 8½x11, softcover. A self-described weather junkie, I’ve tried to read meteorologies for the layperson and absorbed...
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Miso, Tempeh, Natto & Other Tasty Ferments: A Step-by-Step Guide to Fermenting Grains and Beans
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by Kirsten K. Shockey and Christopher Shockey, 408 pages, 8x10, softcover. It turns out there’s more to fermented grains than beer, and more to...
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by Jan Adkins, 48 pages, 10¼x6¾, softcover. Years ago, I received a copy of this little book as a gift from my dear friend Carol Bryan, who...
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by Michael Phillips, 256 pages, 8x10, hardcover. “Investing in species diversity begins underground,” says the orchard revolutionary. He’s...
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by Douglas W. Tallamy, 200 pages, 6x9, hardcover. All life occurs in a web, seen and unseen. This book about oaks makes that web visible in a...
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by Eliot Coleman, 304 pages, 8x10, softcover. As a teenager, I was always listening to Pearl Jam’s Ten, and as a new farmer I was always reading ...
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by Daniel Mays, 240 pages, 8x10, softcover. As more gardeners and farmers warm up to the idea of reducing or eliminating tillage, a few farms in...
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by Uli Lorimer, 252 pages, 8x9, softcover. Who better to teach us about gardening with natives than the director of horticulture at Native Plant...
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by Tom Philpott, 246 pages, 9½x6 ½, hardcover. The bounty in our supermarkets is destroying our soil and water while poisoning workers on which...
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by Stephen Harrod Buhner, 564 pages, 6x9, softcover. John Muir said “When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest...
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by Jessica Wallister, 224 pages, 8x9, softcover. The book begins with an introduction to evidence-based companion planting and what it can do for...
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by Robert Shetterly, 128 pages, 8½x11¼, hardcover. In 2002 Robert Shetterly started painting portraits in response to the impending war in Iraq....
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by Allison Carrol Duffy and the Partners at Pomona’s Universal Pectin®, 176 pages, 7½x9¼, softcover. We won’t get in the habit of offering a book...
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5th edition, by Janet Greene, Ruth Hertzberg and Beatrice Vaughn, 464 pages, 5⅓x8, softcover. The pandemic has inspired scores of new gardeners,...
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by Eric and Joy McEwen, 272 pages, 7x10, softcover. There’s no denying that raising bees is hard these days. Our pollinators are suffering from...
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Revised edition by Devon A. Mihesuah, 350 pages, 5½x8½, softcover. In this revised edition, award-winning author and citizen of Choctaw nation...
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by Nigel Palmer, 208 pages, 6x9, softcover. Science nerds, rejoice: this book dives deep into the chemical and biological workings of your garden...
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by Carol Deppe, 384 pages, 7½x9½, softcover. First published twelve years ago, the book’s subtitle was prescient. We all now know that climate...
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by Mike and Nancy Bubel, 2nd edition, 297 pages, 6x9, softcover. A good root cellar provides a “direct, earthy and deeply satisfying connection...
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by Rosemary Gladstar, 224 pages, 7¼x9, softcover. “One of the greatest benefits of herbal medicine is that it gives us the ability to become more...
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by Sherri Mitchell, 256 pages, 5½x8½, softcover. Every word counts in this broad yet concise book, and you’ll want to savor it through the winter...
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by Samuel Thayer, 736 pages, 6⅓x9¾, softcover. My wife and I do a lot of wild foraging, and Thayer’s three previous compendiums have always come...
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by Sandor Ellix Katz, 352 pages, 7x10, hardcover. A balm for wanderlust at a time when travel seems risky (pandemic) and indulgent (burning fossil...
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by Kaci Rae Christopher, 320 pages, 8x10, softcover. My family kept a large vegetable garden when I was a child, and some of my earliest memories...
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by Judy Burris and Wayne Richards, 144 pages, 8x10, softcover. We picked out this book for our younger readers and were pleasantly surprised to...
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by Suzanne Ashworth, 2nd edition, 240 pages, 8½x11, softcover. Considered the classic reference with detailed instructions on seed saving...
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by Chris Smaje, 320 pages. 6x9, softcover. After outlining a set of ten dire challenges we can no longer ignore, Chris Smaje centers agriculture...
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The Small-Scale Poultry Flock: An All-Natural Approach to Raising and Breeding Chickens and Other Fowl for Home and Market Growers Revised...
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by William Bryant Logan, 384 pages, 6½x9½, hardcover. “Once…no place could prosper without its inhabitants knowing how to cut their trees so they...
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edited by Sherry Wildfeuer, 40 pages, 9x12, softcover. “Inspiration and practical advice for gardeners and professional growers.” Contains lunar...
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by Robert Kourik, 486 pages, 8½x11, softcover. Don’t fear the thickness of this tome—it’s saving you from reading a 3-foot-tall stack of papers,...
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The Tao of Vegetable Gardening: Cultivating Tomatoes, Greens, Peas, Beans, Squash, Joy and Serenity
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by Carol Deppe, 288 pages, 7½x9½, softcover. Armed with her scientific expertise (PhD in genetics from Harvard), her acute sense of observation,...
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by Jeff Jepson, 166 pages, 6x9, softcover. Timberrr! Crrack! Is there a more satisfying sound than that made by a newly felled tree landing...
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by Stephanie Seneff, 272 pages (including 58 pages of indices and notes), 6x9, hardcover. Glyphosate is a difficult word to say, let alone to...
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by Akiva Silver, 274 pages, 6x9, softcover. I’m not sure if this book would be with the gardening books or on the self-help shelf in a bookstore....
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by Robert Kourik, 225 pages, 8½x11, softcover. Soil yearns for roots. In fact, plant roots define soil and, to a great extent, control the soil...
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by Jennifer Jewell, 392 pages, 6x9, hardcover. Organized by a year in the life of a seed, Jewell weaves in her personal story of observing seeds...
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by David Deardorff and Kathryn Wadsworth, 192 pages, 7½x9½, softcover. The only book dedicated to a single species in the widely popular “What’s...
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by Tammi Sweet, 272 pages, 6x9, softcover. This book has something for both the cannabis-naive and the cannabis-savvy. Whether you want to make a...
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by Pascal Bauder, 294 pages, 7x10, paperback. Just when we thought there couldn’t be one more book of any value written on the fermentation of...
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by Will Bonsall, 400 pages, 8x10, softcover. As a former apprentice of Will’s, I assumed his book would be a nostalgic journey but not especially...
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by Lindsey Schiller with Marc Plinke, 307 pages, 7¼x8¾, softcover. Is it worth the coal burned to generate the electricity to grow a tomato in...
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by Nicolette Perry and Elaine Perry, 243 pages, 7x9, softcover. Published in the UK as Botanical Brain Balms. We all know that the brain and...
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