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The Backyard Homestead Guide to Growing Organic Food, By Tanya Denckla Cobb
Reviewed by Chris Travis Storey Publishers, 2024, 328pp, $24.99 A must-have for all gardeners, Tanya Denckla Cobb's The Backyard...
Chris Travis
Sep 222 min read
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The Garlic Companion: Recipes, crafts, preservation techniques, and simple ways to grow your own, by Kristin Graves
Reviewed by Hannah Shafer This book review comes to you from my living room couch, where I’m currently nestled in my coziest fleece, tea...
Hannah Shafer
Sep 223 min read
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Flower Farming for Profit by Lennie Larkin
Reviewed by Casey Merkle Chelsea Green Publishers, 2024, 228pp, $45.00 If there were ever a perfect time to take the leap and start your...
Casey Merkle
Sep 222 min read
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The Absolute Beginner's Guide to Raising Backyard Turkeys, by Stacy Benjamin
Reviewed by Jeremy Donnelly Storey Publishing, 2025, 152pp, $18.99 In recent years, the movement towards sustainable living and...
Jeremy Donnelly
Sep 223 min read
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Cannabis Farming: How to Grow, Harvest, and Process Organic Field-Grown CannabisÂ
By Adam Davidoff and Ryan Power Storey Publishers, 2025. 224pp, $29.99 Reviewed by April Jones This book offers strategies to help a...
April Jones
Mar 182 min read
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The Whole Okra: A Seed to Stem Celebration, by Chris Smith
Chelsea Green Publishing, 2019. 272pp. $22.79 Reviewed by Jeremy Donnelly Chris Smith’s The Whole Okra  arrives like a refreshing burst...
Jeremy Donnelly
Mar 183 min read
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The Organic Medicinal Herb Farmer Revised Edition by Jeff Carpenter with Melanie Carpenter
Reviewed by Lindsay Kazarick The Organic Medicinal Herb Farmer is an authoritative guide for cultivating and commercializing medicinal...
Lindsay Kazarick
Feb 42 min read
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Book Review: Near Woods: A Year in an Allegheny Forest
By Kevin Patrick Reviewed by Mary A. Nelen If you’ve wandered beyond your own backyard, you’ll be at least glancingly familiar with the...
Mary A Nelen
Jan 5, 20244 min read
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Book Review: A Small Farm Future: Making the Case for a Society Built around Local Economies, Self-provisioning, Agricultural Diversity and a Shared Earth.
By Chris Smaje’s Reviewed by Edith Couchman Here’s a book for those who believe that E. F. Schumacher’s credo ‘Small is Beautiful’ is a...
EDITH COUCHMAN
Jan 5, 20244 min read
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This splendid book combines botany...
The Forgiveness of Nature: the Story of Grass, by author Graham Harvey. Reviewed by Stephen Shafer, TNF Summer 2022 This splendid book...
Stephen Shafer
Mar 28, 20234 min read
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