Resources

BOOKS

ANIMALS / PASTURE:

• Beekeeping, Bonney
• Grass Productivity, Voisin
• Grasses, Brown
• Greener Pastures…, Murphy
• Homeopathic Treatment of Cattle, George McCloud
• Pastured Poultry Profits, Salatin
• Raising Poultry, Mercia
• Raising Sheep the Modern Way, Simmons
• Salad Bar Beef, Salatin
• Sheep Raisers Manual, Knuesi
• Small Scale Sheepk Keeping, Hunt
• The Man Who Listens to Horses, Roberts
• Training Workhorses, Training Teamsters, Miller
• Why Grassfed is Best, Robinson
• Work Horse Handbook, Miller

APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY:

• Micro-Hydropower Sourcebook, NRECA International Foundation
• Solar Living Sourcebook, Real Goods

BIODYNAMICS:

• Agriculture, Rudolph Steiner
• A Biodynamic Farm, Lovel
• Biodynamic Agriculture, Willy Schilthuis
• “Biodynamic Farming practice”, Wistinghausen and Sattler
• “Biodynamic Sprays”, Koepf
• “Compost preps and Sprays”, Pfeiffer
• Culture and Horticulture, Storl
• “Handbook on Composting and the Biodynamic Preps”, Corrin
• Kimberton Calendar
• Spiritual Foundations for the Renewal of Agriculture, Steiner
• “Stella Natura”, Calender from Biodynamic Farming and Gardening Association
• The Biodynamic Farm, Herbert Koepf

COVERCROPPING

• The Northeast Cover Crop Handbook, Marianne Sarrantonio Rodale Institute
• Managing Cover Crops for Profitability, Sustainable Ag Network

CSA:

• CSA Farm Network, vol. 1&2, Gilman
• Sharing the Harvest: a guide to community supported agriculture, Elizabeth Henderson

EQUIPMENT:

• Horsedrawn Plows and Plowing, Miller
• The Handcart Handbook, Tresemer
• The Scythe Book, Tresemer
• Steel in the Field, Bowman
• Crop and Vegetable Farming or Gardening, Technical
• Botany for Gardeners, Brian Capon
• Garden Primer, Damrosch
• Knott’s Handbook for Vegetable Growers, Maynard & Hochmuth
• Rodales All New Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening, Rodale Press
• Small Scale Grain Raising, Logsdon
• Sustainable Vegetable Production from Start Up to Market, Vernon Grubinger
• The Biological Farmer, Zimmer
• The Gardenville Method, Beck
• The Natural Way of Farming, Fukuoka
• The New Organic Grower, Coleman

FARMING OR GARDENING, GENERAL:

• An Agricultural Testament, Albert Howard
• The Albrecht Papers, William Albrecht, ACRES USA
• Changes in the Land, Cronin
• Conversations with Farmers, Finding Sustainable Agriculture, SARE project on Maine farms
• Culture and Horticulture, Storl
• Elements of Sustainable Agriculture, SARE project on Maine farms
• Encyclopedia of Country Living, Emery
• Exploring the Small Farm Dream, New England Small Farm Institute
• Farmers of Forty Centuries: Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan, F.H. King
• Farmland Transfer and Protection in New England, New England Small Farm Institute
• Farms of Tomorrow Revisited, Groh
• Five Acres and Independence, Kains
• Gift of Good Land, Berry
• H.R.M., Alan Savory
• Introduction to Permaculture, Mollison
• Natural Capitalism, Hawkins/Lovings
• On Good Land, Ableman
• Out of the Earth, Daniel Hillel
• Regenerating Agriculture, Pretty
• Successful Small Scale Farming, Schwenke
• The Contrary Farmer, Logsdon
• Organic Gardening Down South, Neal
• The Organic Farmer’s Business Handbook, Wiswall
• The Organic Farming Manual, Hansen
• The On-Farm Mentor’s Guide, NESFI
• The New Farmers Market, Corum et al.
• The Real Dirt, Miranda Smith
• The Soul of Soil, Gershuny & Smillie
• Slow Gardening, Rushing
• The Soil & Health, Albert Howard
• Unsettling of America, Wendell Berry (as well as anything else he has written)
• Water for Every farm, P.A. Yeomans

FOOD – HANDLING, STORAGE:

• Putting Food By, Greene et al.
• Root Cellaring, Bubel
• Small Scale Postharvest Handling Practices, Kitinoja and Kader
• Stocking Up, Hupping and the Rodale Staff

FOOD – RECIPIES, NUTRITION:

• Greene on Greens, Greene
• Healing with Whole Foods, Pitchford
• Laurel’s Kitchen, Robertson et al.
• Joy of Cooking, Rombauer, Rombauer Becker, and Becker
• Nourishing Traditions, Fallon
• Recipies From America’s Small Farms, Hayes and Stein
• The Eco-Foods Guide, Barstow
• Conscious Food, Sustainable Growing & Spiritual Eating, Ewing
• The Grassfed Gourmet Cookbook, Hayes
• The Moosewook Cookbook, Katzen
• The Simply Grande Gardening Cookbook, Pollard

GREENHOUSE:

• Secrets of Plant Propogation, Hill
• Solviva, Edey
• The Solar Greenhouse Book, McCullagh

HERBS:

• A Modern Herbal, Grieve
• A Woman’s Book of Herbs, Soule
• Green Pharmacy, Griggs

POLITICS:

• Biopiracy, Shiva
• Stolen Harvest, Shiva

SEASON EXTENSION:

• Four Season Harvest, Coleman
• Winter Harvest Manual, Coleman

SEED SAVING:

• Breed your own Vegetable Varieties, Deppe
• “Restoring our Seed” packet, see also their website, growseed.org
• Seed to Seed, Ashworth

SOILS AND COMPOST:

• Building Soils for Better Crops, Magdoff and van Es
• Compost: What it is, How it’s made, What it does, Koepf
• DIRT The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth, William Bryant Logan
• Easy Compost, Hanson
• Start With The Soil, Gershuny
• The Complete Book of Composting, Rodale
• The Living Soil Balfour
• The Nature and Properties of Soils, Nyle C. Brady

SPECIFIC CROPS:

• A Garlic Testament, Stanley Crawford
• Growing Great Garlic, Engeland
• Herbal Renaissance, Foster
• Medicinal Herbs, Sturdivant and Blakely
• Specialty Cut Flowers, Alan Armitage
• The Apple Grower, Phillips
• The Back Yard Berry Book, Otto
• The Flower Farmer, Byczynski
• The Organic Apple Grower, Michael Philly’s
• The Potential of Herbs as a Cash Crop, Miller

WEED, PEST, & DISEASE CONTROL:

• Diseases & Pests of Vegetable Crops in Canada, Howard, Garland, & Seaman, Edaphos Paul Sachs
• Identifying Diseases of Vegetables, MacNab et al.
• Rodale’s Color Handbook of Garden Insects, Anna Carr
• The Organic Gardeners Handbook of Natural Insect and Disease Control, Ellis and Bradey
• Vegetable Farmers and their Weed Control Machines, produced by Vern Grubinger, UVM Extension and Mary Jane Else, UMass extension
• Weeds and What they Tell, Pfeiffer
• Weeds of the Northeast, Uva et al.