Ken Midkiff

Wendell Berry

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Maryland

How Corporate Farming Has Endangered America's Food Supply

Sierra Club Director Ken Midkiff delves into the murky world of American meatproduction.

The Meat You Eat

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Dan Barber

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

New York

Field Notes on the Future of Food

"Not since Michael Pollan has such a powerful storyteller emerged to reform American food." --The Washington Post

Today's optimistic farm-to-table food culture has a dark secret: the local food movement has failed to change how we eat. It has also offered a false promise for the future of food. In his visionary New York Times-bestselling book, chef Dan Barber, recently showcased on Netflix's Chef's Table, offers a radical new way of thinking about food that will heal the land and taste good, too. Looking to the detrimental cooking of our past, and the misguided dining of our present, Barber points to a future "third plate": a new form of American eating where good farming and good food intersect. Barber's The Third Plate charts a bright path forward for eaters and chefs alike, daring everyone to imagine a future for our national cuisine that is as sustainable as it is delicious.

The Third Plate

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A Novel of Farming Life

"Part morality play and part personal recollection, The Last of the Husbandmen is both a lighthearted look at the past and a profound comment about the present state of farming life. It is a novel that captures the spirit of those we have chosen to work the land they love."--BOOK JACKET.

The Last of the Husbandmen

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Ken Tate

Good Old Days Remembers

Real-life stories will take you back to the time when families stood shoulder to shoulder, working against Depression, dearth and drought to build a better life together.

Working on the Farm

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Kentucky

An Adventure into the Heart of America’s Family Farms

Harvest

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Adorable & colorful! #hardcover #boardbook #animals #farming #kids #toddlers #childrens #preschool #nonfiction

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Missouri

Baby Einstein 

Baby MacDonald on the Farm 

There's gold to be dug in backyard gardens! But to turn dirt into dough, amateur farmers need some business tips. In the face of rising food prices and food poisoning scares, people want locally grown food, giving small gardeners the chance to turn a profita healthy, green (not to mention good-for-you) profit. In this practical, step-by-step guide, you will learn how to:
Sell overstock to local restaurants
Participate in farmer's markets
Grow cut flowers to sell
Package your produce attractively
Keep honey bees, chickens, and other alternative produce
Packed full of gardening, marketing, and selling tips and tricks, this book shows you how to develop your own small plots of land (less than an acre) into a money-making resource. A good garden is full of greenbacks!

How to Mske $10,000 a Year From Your Backyard Garden 

Pay Dirt

Debra A. Miller

Each anthology is composed of a wide spectrum of primary sources written by many of the foremost authorities in their respective fields. This unique approach provides students with a concise view of divergent opinions on each topic. Extensive book and periodical bibliographies and a list of organizations to contact are also included.

Texas

Current Controversies 

Factory farms produce 99.9 percent of chickens, 95 percent of pigs, and 78 percent of cattle sold in the United States. This book contains essays that offer a variety of perspectives on the issue of factory farming, debating whether factory farming is economically beneficial, ethical, or harmful to human health or the environment, and considering the future of the industry.

Factory Farming

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This book is a clean copy with a good spine and binding. The contents and Graphics are in good condition. There is minimal wear inside. There is slight wear on the hardback cover. Will ship within hours after your order is received. Thanks for stopping by and please stay safe.

A regional stock- taking

Northwest Harvest

#paperback #fiction #horses #kids #childrens #farming #beginnerchapterbook #elementary #gradeschool #bigapplebarn 

Big Apple Barn

Happy Go Lucky, a school pony, is quickly learning his way around Big Apple Barn and when he discovers that every rider is different, he plans to find the perfect rider for him.

Happy's Big Plan

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Dust Jacket has damage, inside front cover there is sticker removal damage. The actual book is in pristine condition. 

Michigan

A collection of the rediscovered writings of Laura Ingalls Wilder.

Little House in the Ozarks

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Barbara Kingsolver

Steven L. Hopp

Camille Kingsolver

Pennsylvania

A Year of Food Life

Author Barbara Kingsolver and her family abandoned the industrial-food pipeline to live a rural life—vowing that, for one year, they’d only buy food raised in their own neighborhood, grow it themselves, or learn to live without it. Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle is an enthralling narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat.

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

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Mara Hvistendahl

Indiana

A True Story of China, the FBI, and Industrial Espionage

A riveting true story of industrial espionage in which a Chinese-born scientist is pursued by the U.S. government for trying to steal trade secrets, by a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction. In September 2011, sheriff’s deputies in Iowa encountered three ethnic Chinese men near a field where a farmer was growing corn seed under contract with Monsanto. What began as a simple trespassing inquiry mushroomed into a two-year FBI operation in which investigators bugged the men’s rental cars, used a warrant intended for foreign terrorists and spies, and flew surveillance planes over corn country—all in the name of protecting trade secrets of corporate giants Monsanto and DuPont Pioneer. In The Scientist and the Spy, Hvistendahl gives a gripping account of this unusually far-reaching investigation, which pitted a veteran FBI special agent against Florida resident Robert Mo, who after his academic career foundered took a questionable job with the Chinese agricultural company DBN—and became a pawn in a global rivalry. Industrial espionage by Chinese companies lies beneath the United States’ recent trade war with China, and it is one of the top counterintelligence targets of the FBI. But a decade of efforts to stem the problem have been largely ineffective. Through previously unreleased FBI files and her reporting from across the United States and China, Hvistendahl describes a long history of shoddy counterintelligence on China, much of it tinged with racism, and questions the role that corporate influence plays in trade secrets theft cases brought by the U.S. government. The Scientist and the Spy is both an important exploration of the issues at stake and a compelling, involving read.

The Scientist and the Spy

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Traci DePree

Ex-library book in good condition. Has library stickers on the front cover and spine as well as the library stamp on the second page. ￼

Lake Emily #1

Weaving together the strong threads of family and friends in a pattern of grace, forgiveness, and kindness, A Can of Peas invites readers into a place where every day brings a new story and neighbors are more than just people who live down the road. Sometimes funny and often poignant, these vignettes will draw both men and women into the reassuring rhythms of life as it ought to be–and as it still is in the heart of America.

After the death of his grandfather, Peter Morgan and his new bride, Mae, face a life-changing decision: should they embrace the career-chasing ambitions of their family and friends in St. Paul or accept the absurd challenge of saving the family farm in the Minnesota countryside?

Enticed by the romance of a simple, quiet life, the Morgans set out to follow in the footsteps of Peter’s grandparents. Soon, Peter is farming around the clock, barely one step ahead of failure as Mae struggles to find her place in Peter’s life and in the community. Will the strain of saving the farm tear their marriage apart? Was it a mistake to dream?

A Can of Peas

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Georgia

Funny little book with charismatic character! Like new condition except a few tiny blemishes along cover edges. #paperback #travel #kids #farming #children #fiction #elementary #juvenilefiction #funny #learning

When I First Came to this Land

Scott Chaskey

Alabama

Seasons on an Organic Farm

In the tradition of Michael Pollan, Joan Gussow, and Verlyn Klinkenborg's The Rural Life, This Common Ground is an inspirational evocation of a life lived close to the earth, written by the head farmer at one of the country's first community-supported farms. By reflecting on four seasons of activity at his beloved Quail Hill Farm in eastern Long Island, Scott Chaskey offers stirring insight into the connections between land and the human family. Whether writing about the voice of a small wren nesting in the lemon balm or a meadow of oats, millet, and peas rising to silver and green after a fresh rain, this poet-farmer's contagious sense of wonder brings us back to our bond with the soil.

This Common Ground

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Jenna Woginrich

Discovering the Pleasures of a Handmade Life

Starting off as a young, single woman with a desk job and a city apartment, Woginrich set out to build a more self-sufficient lifestyle by learning homesteading skills. This is the story of her joyful, dramatic, and sometimes sorrowful journey toward self-reliance.

Made from Scratch

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Mild wear, see photos. First Collier Books edition. 1993

Loyal Blood is forced to abandon his Vermont farm when he commits the most terrible of crimes. So begins an American odyssey stretching from New England to California. On his journeys, Loyal mines gold, prospects for uranium, grows beans, ranches, traps and hunts for fossils.

Postcards

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1976 edition. Bottom of spine a bit worn. Yellowing of edges of pages due to age.

Ohio

The Grapes of Wrath

Colorado

TRACTOR POWER - John Deere

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Nebraska

Fun facts about farm history

Kristin Kimball

A Memoir of Farming, Food, and Love

Documents the first year spent by the Harvard-graduate author with her new husband on their sustainable farm in the Adirondacks, describing how she withdrew from big-city life to be married in their barn loft, the difficult obstacles they faced attempting to provide a whole diet for one hundred locals, and the rewards of a physical-labor lifestyle.

The Dirty Life

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#paperback #nonfiction #farming #farmtotable #food #foodknowledge 

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