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American Hemp Farmer: Adventures and Misadventures in the Cannabis Trade

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A must-read for anyone in the cannabis industry. Covers all aspects from soil and seed, to planting, growing and maintaining, through markets and product diversification. Funny and informative. read more

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The Apple Grower: A Guide for the Organic Orchardist

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The book you need to grow apples organically. This revised and expanded version includes apple-growing basics, as well as the latest research and strategies for successful organic orchards. read more

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The Apple Lover’s Cookbook: The Classic Guide to Cooking and Eating Apples

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This thorough and well-researched book features loads of educational tidbits and tips. Includes descriptions for 59 varieties with notes on taste, texture and suggested uses. Great for cooks. read more

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Apples and the Art of Detection: Tracking Down, Identifying and Preserving Rare Apples

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Brilliantly framed as a detective story, this book is a must for anyone interested in apples and the old-timey experts behind the scenes. Filled with photographs and beautiful illustrations. read more

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The Apples of New England

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A well-written, and brief but dense guide for exploring and rediscovering apple heritage, with descriptions of 162 varieties of historic or commercial importance to New England. A pleasure to read! read more

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The Beginner’s Guide to Growing Cannabis and Making Your Own Healing Remedies

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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 the world of... read more

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A Beginner’s Guide to Recognizing Trees of the Northeast

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This guide forgoes a full taxonomy of each species in favor of highlighting a few unique traits that single out each one. Features plenty of color photos of each detail to help you ID your trees. read more

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Big Book of Cider Making

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Outlines a spectrum of tools and methods to suit both the casual dabbler and the fastidious fermentista. Features a solid groundwork of basic recipes and techniques for hard or soft cider. read more

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Black Earth Wisdom: Soulful Conversations with Black Environmentalists

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A poignant and galvanizing collection of essays and conversations with respected Black leaders, brilliantly woven together by Leah Penniman of Soul Fire Farm, author of Farming While Black. read more

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Botany in a Day: The Patterns Method of Plant Identification

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An approachable botany textbook and herbal field guide to North American plants with colorful illustrations on nearly every page. Regularly updated by the author since its release in 1996. read more

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Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties: The Gardener’s and Farmer’s Guide to Plant Breeding and Seed Saving

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Molecular geneticist turned seed breeder Carol Deppe knows seeds and shares information available nowhere else. Learn the subtleties of selection, how to design variety trials, and much more. read more

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Cass Turnbull’s Guide to Pruning: What, When, Where & How to Prune for a More Beautiful Garden

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Filled with clear how-to and how-not-to instructions, along with useful illustrations and laugh-out-loud humor, Turnbull walks through the basics and delves into specifics for more than 150 plants. read more

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Climate: A New Story

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A gift to a world disoriented by ecological collapse and haunted by the question of what to do, Eisenstein’s book gets to the heart of the predicament of how to heal our planetary wounds. read more

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Cold-Hardy Fruits and Nuts: 50 Easy-to-Grow Plants for the Organic Home Garden or Landscape

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From first-hand experience and extensive research Levy and Serrano have identified and profiled a host of easy-to-grow cold-hardy edible fruits and nuts that are great for home gardens. read more

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The Complete Guide to Restoring Your Soil

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A soil science book for everyone! Filled with farmer anecdotes, insightful reference charts, and illustrations, this book is both engrossing and practical for anyone who works with soil. read more

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Crop Planning for Organic Vegetable Growers

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Full of tools to plan for success before your first seed hits the soil. If I’d had this book when I started farming, I would have avoided many mistakes! read more

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The Cut Flower Handbook: Select, Plant, Grow, and Harvest Gorgeous Blooms

This book is for anyone who wants to grow cutflowers, whether your arrangements are for pleasure, for profit, or both! read more

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The Ecological Farm: A Minimalist No-Till , No-Spray, Selective-Weeding, Grow-Your-Own-Fertilizer System for Organic Agriculture

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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... read more

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The Elderberry Book: Forage, Cultivate, Prepare, Preserve

Highlights reasons to plant an elderberry bush and how to do it successfully. He walks us through a history of the plant, its cultivation and propagation, and its many uses in food, tools and toys. read more

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Farmers of Forty Centuries: Organic Farming in China, Korea, and Japan

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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... read more

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Farming for the Long Haul: Resilience and the Lost Art of Agricultural Inventiveness

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Emphasizing a revitalized historical overview of what worked (and still does) for past cultures throughout the world to inspire us as we reinvigorate our sustainability for the future. read more

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Fedco Guide to Sowing, Storing & Saving Garden Seeds

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by Fedco catalog crew, 12 pages, plus 4 blank pages for notes. 5�x7�, printed on cardstock. The handiest dandiest seed info booklet you ever did... read more

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Fermented Vegetables, 10th Anniversary Edition

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by Kirsten K. Shockey and Christopher Shockey, 440 pages, 8x9, softcover. Since it was first published in 2014, this book has become a trusted... read more

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The Forager Chef’s Book of Flora: Recipes and Techniques for Edible Plants from Garden, Field, and Forest

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A cookbook for avid foragers and gardeners looking to infuse their kitchens with creativity. With clear instructions, gorgeous photos, and inspiration well beyond the usual soup-or-salad suggestions. read more

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The Fruit Forager’s Companion: Ferments, Desserts, Main Dishes, and More from Your Neighborhood and Beyond

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All-in-one field guide, history lesson, memoir and cookbook, with familiar edibles alongside lesser known ones. Beautiful photos and rich sidebars feature relevant musings and entertaining commentary. read more

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A Gardener’s Guide to Botany: The Biology Behind the Plants You Love, How They Grow, and What They Need

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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... read more

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Grow More Food: A Vegetable Gardener’s Guide to Getting the Biggest Harvest Possible from a Space of Any Size

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Practical information for every skill level is jam packed into the timeframe between planning a garden and storing away the results. Good pictures and line drawings illuminate the content. read more

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Grow Your Own Mushrooms: A Beginner’s Guide

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by Tavis Lynch, 112 pages, 7²⁄₅x9, softcover. A basic step-by-step guide to home-scale mushroom cultivation. Lynch presents methods for growing... read more

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Growing Garden Seeds: A Manual for Gardeners and Small Farmers

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If you are new to seed saving, this little manual by the founder of Johnny’s covers all the basics and is the best place to start. First published in 1976, it is a classic. read more

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Growing Great Garlic

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The definitive guide to growing garlic. He covers varietal differences and history, and provides in-depth cultural information on growing, harvesting, storing and marketing garlic. read more

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Growing Plant Medicine, Volume One

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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... read more

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Growing Trees from Seed: A Practical Guide to Growing Native Trees, Vines and Shrubs

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With this book you will learn how and when to collect seeds from your favorite native trees and shrubs, how to process them, store them and sow them to grow your own legacy of trees. read more

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Happy Pigs Taste Better: A Complete Guide to Organic and Humane Pasture-Based Pork Production

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The ins and outs of everything from feed sources, housing/bedding options and fencing styles, to marketing, record keeping and staying sane. All necessary details of humane and organic swine farming. read more

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Hardy Apples: Growing Apples in Cold Climates

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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... read more

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Hardy Roses: The Essential Guide for High Latitudes and Altitudes

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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... read more

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The Healing Garden: Herbs for Health and Wellness

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Covers gathering plants, drying them, and making simple household medicine: teas, tinctures, and more. A distillation of many years of herbal relationships, documented with beautiful pictures. read more

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Herbal Revolution: 65+ Recipes for Teas, Elixirs, Tinctures, Syrups, Foods + Body Products That Heal

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A foundational approach to herbal preparations and medicine making, and a must-read for anyone interested in incorporating medicinal herbs into daily life via an assortment of delicious recipes! read more

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The Holistic Orchard: Tree Fruits and Berries the Biological Way

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Covers a wide range of crops, while addressing orchard design, dynamics and horticulture in unparalleled detail. Pruning, planting, companion planting, spraying, not spraying—it's all here! read more

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How to Move Like a Gardener: Planting and Preparing Medicines from Plants

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Soule unlocks the mysteries of biodynamics as no one ever has before. Her gardening is spiritual practice, mindful rhythms in harmony with all living souls. read more

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Lawns into Meadows: Growing a Regenerative Landscape

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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... read more

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The Lean Micro-Farm: How to Get Small, Embrace Local , Live Better, and Work Less

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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... read more

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The Living Soil Handbook: The No-Till Grower’s Guide to Ecological Market Gardening

A standout among the many no-till books. Frost provides a deep look into the living nature of soil while broadening our practical understanding of how to grow crops in a regenerative way. read more

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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... read more

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Moving Heavy Things

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With humorous line drawings and simple precepts and instructions, Adkins finds ways to move any heavy thing by employing ingenuity, simple tools (i.e. wedges, jacks, levers, line) and often a friend. read more

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Mycorrhizal Planet: How Symbiotic Fungi Work with Roots to Support Plant Health and Build Soil Fertility

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With plenty of scientific detail and practical knowledge about a variety of regenerative practices, Phillips reveals how mycorrhizal fungi are deeply embedded in healthy soils and plant physiology. read more

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The Nature of Oaks: The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees

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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... read more

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The New Organic Grower: 30th Anniversary Edition

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A fully revised and updated 30th anniversary edition of this classic reference book. With new chapters on ley farming and growing flowers, as well as detailed color photos throughout the book. read more

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The No-Till Organic Vegetable Farm: How to Start and Run a Profitable Market Garden That Builds Health in Soil, Crops and Communities

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A holistic approach emphasizing efficiency and solvency, but also quality of life. Breathe life into your growing endeavors and make your garden a more joyful place for all. read more

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The Northeast Native Plant Primer: 235 Plants for an Earth-Friendly Garden

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Lorimer profiles 235 native plants, describing their growing needs and habits, wildlife value and native habitat, with gorgeous color photos to emphasize the unique beauty of each species. read more

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Perilous Bounty: The Looming Collapse of American Farming and How We Can Prevent It

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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... read more