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Books, Audio and Video
Agricuture Books, Audio and Video
Education is an extremely important part of farming and gardening. Here you will find our range of sustainable farming and organic gardening books and DVD's on all aspects of agriculture. We specialize in selling books from Acres-USA which educate farmers about sustainable agriculture practices and are often written by people with years of hands on experience using eco-friendly farming practices
The Worm Book by Loren Nancarrow
Complete guide to gardening and composting with worms. This book describes using natural methods to maintain a worm bin, trouble shoot problems, and keep away unwanted visitors, such as ants or flies.
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$12.99
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Fletcher Sims' Compost by Charles Walters
Covers the optimal conditions for converting plant and animal wastes into compost by balancing the correct ratio of raw materials, using the correct microorganisms and moisture content, proper pile or windrow construction.
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$14.99
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Carrots Love Tomatoes - Louise Riotte
Deals with flower and vegetable interplanting, plants to keep apart or plant together for best growth, plants that deter garden pests and diseases, and suggested plantings to suppress weeds.
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$14.99
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Steel in the Field - Edited by Greg Bowman
Weeds are considered the number one problem for farmers, but luckily this book shows how modern implements and techniques can control weeds while reducing or eliminating harmful herbicides.
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$17.99
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The Secret Life of Compost by Malcom Beck with Charles Walters
Malcolm Beck’s Garden-Ville is one of the largest commercial composting operations in the country. He shares his insight into the processes of decay that can transform everything from lawn trimmings to sewer sludge into life-giving earth.
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$18.99
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Managing Cover Crops Profitably - Third Edition
This book explains why cover crops work and gives all the information needed to work cover crops into any farming operation.
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$18.99
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Fruits and Berries For the Home Garden - Lewis Hill
Advise you on selecting fruit cultivars, as well as provide advice on how to fertilize, control pests naturally, improve the soil, plant, prune and perform general maintenance.
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$18.99
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Making Plant Medicine - Richo Cech
This is a modern medicine making book and formulary with its roots in original herbalism written for every medicinal herb gardener to cultivate the full potential of the plant-gardener relationship.
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$18.99
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Building a Sustainable Business
Developed by the Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture Innovative farmers and ranchers know that alternative crops and value-added products give them an edge in the marketplace, and that effective planning is crucial to long-term profitability.
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$19.99
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Cover Cropping In Vineyards - University of California
Based on extensive research, this book details technical and theoretical information on how cover crops affect vineyards and promote ecological stability. Much of the information is also applicable to other crops also.
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$19.99
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Country Wisdom and Know How - Storey Publishing
This book compiles a collection of knowledge from hundreds of Country Wisdom Bulletins. The book is Organized by general topic including animals, cooking, crafts, gardening, health and well-being, and home.
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$19.99
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The Keys to Herd Health DVD by Jerry Brunetti
In this video, eco consultant and livestock feed specialist Jerry Brunetti details the keynote essential for a successful livestock operation. A sixteen page booklet with graphs, tables and data is included with the purchase of this DVD.
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$19.99
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The Other Side of the Fence DVD by William A. Albrecht, Ph.D.
Professor William A. Albrecht’s enduring message preserved and presented for future generations. In this 1950s-era film, with introductory and closing remarks by Acres U.S.A. founder Charles Walters
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$19.99
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A Biodynamic Farm by Hugh Lovel
This book is perhaps the best of the many biodynamic titles currently available. A practical, how to guide to making all of the biodynamic preparations, this book will provide what you need to put these proven techniques to work in your fields.
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$19.99
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Pruning Made Easy - Lewis Hill
This book offers gardeners a visual guide to how and when to prune everything, including flowers, trees and houseplants.
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$19.99
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Small Farms Are Real Farms by John Ikerd
In this collection of essays by one of America’s most eloquent and influential proponents of sustainable agriculture, the multifaceted case for small farms is built using logic and facts.
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$19.99
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Lessons in Nature by Malcolm Beck
Includes even more practical and inspirational philosophy and techniques on soil building, planting and growing, pest control and more. This book can provide the beginner with all the information needed to get started using organic methods.
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$19.99
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Building Soils For Better Crops
Explains how soil management boosts fertility and yields while reducing environmental impacts and pest pressures. Ecological soil management works with, rather than against, the built-in strengths of your plant and soil system
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$19.99
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Landscaping with Fruit - Lee Reich
This is an in depth look at transforming your property with the use of different fruits, bringing a more colorful, and healthy, landscape to anyone.
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$19.99
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Mainline Farming For Century 21 by Skow and Walters
Dan Skow and Charles Walters have taken the complex biological theory of ionization and made it accessible to all. This manual will lead growers to increased yields and more fertile acres, all without toxic, synthetic chemicals.
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$19.99
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Cancer, Nutrition & Healing DVD by Jerry Brunetti
You'll never look at cancer or cancer treatments in quite the same way after viewing Jerry Brunetti's step-by-step plan for restoring health using fresh foods and natural, holistic, herbal treatments.
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$19.99
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Starting and Running Your Own Small Farm Business - Aubrey
Seasoned farmer Sarah Beth Aubrey has discovered the secrets to starting and running a successful and profitable small farm business and will teach you the secrets she has found inside.
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$19.99
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Chicken Coops: 45 Building Plans for Housing Your Flock
Whether you're keeping one hen in a small backyard or 1000 hens in a large free-range pasture, you will find the perfect housing plan in this comprehensive handbook.
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$19.99
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The Organic Gardeners Handbook of Natural Insect & Disease Contr
This is an innovative problem solving guide with literally hundreds of non chemical pest and disease control methods.
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$21.99
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Rodale's New Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening
Provides detailed, hands-on tips for essential growing techniques, pest and disease problems, garden and landscape design, etc. in a well-illustrated, encyclopedic format.
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$21.99
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The Gardener's A-Z Guide to Growing Organic Food
Seed germination temperatures and timeframes including first and last seed-starting dates, planting depths, soil and water needs, spacing, plant height and breadth, pests, and diseases.
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$22.99
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Greenhouse Gardener's Companion - Shane Smith
Detailed information on construction, heating options, greenhouse gadgets and orchid culture. 250 illustrations plus instructive photos and charts make comprehension of ideas easy.
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$22.99
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From the Soil Up by Donald L. Schriefer
The farmers role is to conduct the symphony of plants and soil. In this book you will learn how to coax the most out of your plants by providing the best soil and removing all yield-limiting factors.
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$23.99
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Agriculture in Transition by Donald L. Schriefer
Ideas such as crop and soil weatherproofing, the row support system, and the tillage commandments, exemplify the practicality Schriefers highly successful systems approach to farming.
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$23.99
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A Farmer's Guide to the Bottom Line by Charles Walters
The book provides how-to information on each step from planning to implementation of business practices for the eco-friendly farm and includes examples of people who are making a fair profit for their labor.
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$23.99
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Keeping Food Fresh
Traditional but little-known French artisan methods and recipes of food preservation that keep more flavor and nutritional content, are less costly, and use less energy.
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$24.99
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Holistic Veterinary Care DVD by Brunetti and Karreman
Dr. Hubert J. Karreman, author of the compendium Treating Dairy Cows Naturally, is joined by renowned animal nutrition expert Jerry Brunetti to present an overview of the strategies and tools available for successful holistic herd health management.
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$24.99
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Seed to Seed - Suzanne Ashworth
Expanded 2nd edition complete seed-saving guide describes specific techniques for 160 vegetables, including botanical classifications, flower structure, and pollination.
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$24.99
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Food Not Lawns - H.C. Flores
Food Not Lawns is a practical guide for farmsteaders and city dwellers alike on building fertile soil, promoting biodiversity, and increasing natural habitat in their own paradise gardens.
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$24.99
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Weeds - Control Without Poisons by Charles Walters
Specifics on a hundred weeds, why they grow, what soil conditions spur them on or stop them, what they say about your soil, and how to control them without the obscene presence of poisons.
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$24.99
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Unforgiven by Charles Walters
All new wealth enters an economy as raw materials provided by Nature. Fair monetizing these raw materials makes an economy diverse, balanced, and free of debt. Walters shows the causes of rural and urban decay and a way to stop it.
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$24.99
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Dirt Hog by Kelly Klober
In todays market, perhaps no other large animal enterprise offers as fast a turnaround on investment as range rearing of swine provides for the family farm as a key venture for diversification and cash flow.
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$24.99
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The Vegetable Gardener's Bible - Edward C. Smith
Utilizing wide rows, organic methods, raised beds and deep soil, The Vegetable Gardener's Bible provides step-by-step techniques to create a bountiful garden.
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$24.99
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The Biological Farmer (Gary Zimmer)
Biological farmers work with nature, feeding soil life, balancing soil minerals and tilling soils with a purpose. This practical how-to guide elucidates their methods and will help you make farming fun and profitable.
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$24.99
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The New Organic Grower
In a straightforward, personal style, this master grower describes for the small farmer and serious organic gardener, the production and marketing techniques which have brought him successes.
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$24.99
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Grass, the Forgiveness of Nature by Charles Walters
In terms of nutritive content, function within the ecosystem, and even medicinal properties what is the most important plant in the world? The answer to this question may very well be grass.
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$24.99
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Four Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables From Your Garden All Yea
North American gardeners can successfully use the sun to raise a wide variety of winter vegetables in backyard cold frames and plastic covered tunnel greenhouses without extra heat.
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$24.99
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Teaming With Microbes: A Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web
This book describes how the soil food web operates and how you can create and cultivate beneficial soil organisms to grow healthy, vigorous plants without resorting to chemicals.
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$25.99
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Adding Biology For Soil and Hydroponic Systems - Elaine Ingham
This book focuses on adding biology derived from high quality actively aerated compost tea. Provides basic information on how to add microbial life to enhance your plant growing system.
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$27.99
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The Home Orchard: Growing Your Own Deciduous Fruit and Nut Trees
The Home Orchard offers a comprehensive look into standard at home growing methods, as well as some innovative practices that enthusiasts have developed in recent years.
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$28.99
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Hands-On Agronomy (book) by Neal Kinsey and Charles Walters
This is a comprehensive manual on soil management. The “whats and whys” of micronutrients, earthworms, soil drainage, tilth, soil structure and organic matter are explained in detail.
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$29.99
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Soil, Grass and Cancer by Andre Voisin
With a volume of meticulously researched information, Voisin issues a call to agricultural scientists, veterinarians, dietitians and intelligent farmers to acknowledge their responsibilities to public health.
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$29.99
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Gaia's Garden -Toby Hemenway
Permaculture is a verbal marriage of "permanent" and "agriculture." Australian Bill Mollison pioneered its development. Here the principles of permaculture are applied to the home garden.
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$29.99
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Fertility Pastures by Newman Turner
In Fertility Pastures, Turner details his methods of intensive pasture-based production of beef and dairy cows in a practical guide to profitable, labor-saving livestock production.
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$29.99
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Science In Agriculture by Arden Andersen
Science in Agriculture is a concise recap of the main schools of thought that make up eco-agriculture, all clearly explained. Gain a working knowledge of chemistry, physics, and plant biology as applied to agriculture.
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$29.99
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Last Updated: Saturday, 04 September 2010 02:31
