Reviewed by Erika Guay  How does one make a farm last through several generations? Not just that the farm is successfully passed from one generation to another, but how can families find harmony together, be happy to work together, while ensuring lasting foundations? Mike C. Young is one of the lucky few in the 4th generation, with the 5th generation ready to take on the task. This book is his manifesto, his secret recipe, the code that has led his family to success. Young us

Reviewed by Lindsay Kazarick I picked up Heart of the Hive expecting a solid primer on bee biology, but Hilary Kearney surprised me with something far more intimate — a love letter, really, to the buzzing communities just beyond our backyards. As someone who’s spent countless hours marveling at pollinator gardens and swapping stories with Appalachian beekeepers, I immediately connected with Kearney’s voice: warm, curious, and deeply knowledgeable. She opens by reminding us t

Reviewed by Richard Robinson Carrots Love Tomatoes  was first published in 1975, coincidentally, the same year I had my first garden. I believe the campus biology department had a copy, but I only glanced at it then, and it left little impression, other than the memorable title, and that marigolds, which I didn’t grow, were good for…um…something. The book is now 50 years old. I’ve been a casual farmer for much of that time, and a serious one for the past 15 years, without eve

Reviewed by Chris Travis Storey Publishers, 2024, 328pp, $24.99 A must-have for all gardeners, Tanya Denckla Cobb's The Backyard...

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...

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...

Reviewed by Jeremy Donnelly Storey Publishing, 2025, 152pp, $18.99 In recent years, the movement towards sustainable living and...

By Adam Davidoff and Ryan Power Storey Publishers, 2025. 224pp, $29.99 Reviewed by April Jones This book offers strategies to help a...

Chelsea Green Publishing, 2019. 272pp. $22.79 Reviewed by Jeremy Donnelly Chris Smith’s The Whole Okra  arrives like a refreshing burst...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kazarick  The Organic Medicinal Herb Farmer is an authoritative guide for cultivating and commercializing medicinal...

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...

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...

The Forgiveness of Nature: the Story of Grass, by author Graham Harvey. Reviewed by Stephen Shafer, TNF Summer 2022 This splendid book...