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Author
Publisher
Voyageur Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This is a comprehensive, encyclopedic guide for the small-scale family farmer, the hobby farmer, or the potential farmer. They explain the basics of farming from start to finish: from planting to harvesting and farrowing to marketing. With the authors' help, you'll learn how to grow crops, repair a fence, drive a tractor, keep livestock (from bees to cattle), and much more.
Author
Publisher
Storey Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"From Josh Volk, author of the best-selling Compact Farms, these inventive tools and step-by-step instructions for making and modifying them, help small, diversified farms simplify and streamline their operations for less wear and tear on human workers and for greater efficiency overall." -- publisher.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The family farm lies at the heart of our national identity, and yet its future is in peril. Rick Hammond grew up on a farm, and for forty years he has raised cattle and crops on his wife's fifth-generation homestead in Nebraska, in hopes of passing it on to their four children. But as the handoff nears, their small family farm--and their entire way of life--are under siege.Beyond the threat posed by rising corporate ownership of land and livestock,...
Publisher
i-5 Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Eggs, meat, milk, wool, fur, feathers, and some priceless bucolic bliss. No hobby farm is complete without critters{u2026}possibly a small herd peppering the field or a microflock flapping around the hen house or pond. A single information-packed volume with everything a hobby farmer needs to know about farm animals, this new comprehensive manual to selecting, caring for, and breeding livestock brings forth the expertise of six hobby farmers, each...
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Mini Farming describes a holistic approach to small-area farming that will show you how to produce 85 percent of an average family's food on just a quarter acre -- and earn $10,000 in cash annually while spending less than half the time that an ordinary job would require. Even if you have never been a farmer or a gardener, this book covers everything you need to know to get started.
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Pub
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Describes a holistic approach to small-area farming that shows how to produce a large amount of food on a quarter acre of land, providing tips on soil types, weed control, canning and preserving, and cooking for self-sufficiency.
Author
Publisher
words & pictures, an imprint of The Quarto Group
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Where does our food come from? What role do farms play? What's it like to be a farmer? In this charmingly illustrated book, follow a farm throughout the year to discover how the farmer grows fresh and tasty food for us to eat in a sustainable and natural way. Explore the workings of a small-scale, organic family farm and experience the rhythm of farm life. In the spring, visit the chicken coop, till the fields, and tour the farm machinery. When summer...
Author
Publisher
Avery, an Imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Forty years ago, corporate agribusiness launched a campaign to push small grain farmers to modernize or perish, or as Nixon's secretary of agriculture Earl Butz put it, "get big or get out." But 27-year-old David Oien decided to take a stand when he dropped out of grad school to return to his family's 280-acre farm, becoming the first in his conservative Montana county to plant a radically different crop: organic lentils. A cheap, healthy source of...
Author
Publisher
New Degree Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
We love The American Farmer. We trust them to grow our food, to be part of children's nursery rhymes, to provide the economic backbone of rural communities, and to embody a version of the American dream. At the same time, we know that "corporate farms" are disrupting the agrarian way of life that we so admire, and that we've got to do something to stop it. So what's our plan for saving the farms we love? In Farm (and Other F Words), Sarah K Mock dismantles...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"After years of working at the ends of the earth in human rights and development, Brent Preston and his wife were die-hard city dwellers. But when their second child arrived, the shine came off urban living. In 2003 they bought a hundred acres and a rundown farmhouse and set out to build a real farm, one that would sustain their family, nourish their community, heal their environment, and turn a profit. The New Farm is Preston's memoir of a decade...
18) The river
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Tom and Mae Garvey are struggling to keep their homestead safe from the local power authority who wants to flood their land. When Mae's former beau, Joe Wade, turns out to be in charge of the plan to acquire the property, tensions run high, climaxing in a devastating confrontation on the flooded river banks.
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