The Natural Farmer

Book Reviews

Jason Detzel

Grass-Fed Beef for a Post-Pandemic World:

How Regenerative Grazing Can Restore Soils and Stabilize the Climate Written by Ridge Shinn and Lynne Pledge Reviewed by Jason Detzel The...

Bec Sloan

Hoofprints on the Land

Reviewed by Bec Sloane Written by Ilse Köhler-Rollefson “Documenting traditional knowledge does not really preserve it - it needs to be...

Angela Highsmith

Cold-Hardy Fruits and Nuts 50 Easy-to-Grow Plants for the Home Garden or Landscape

By Allyson Levy and Scott Serrano Chelsea Green Publishing, 2022 Reviewed by Angela Highsmith As a student of permaculture living in the...

Chris Travis

Our Wild Farming Life

By Lynn Cassells and Sandra Baer Reviewed by Chris Travis Our Wild Farming Life by Lynn Cassells and Sandra Baer is a great choice for...

Elizabeth Gabriel

Growing Figs in Cold Climates

Author Lee Reich New Society Publishers, 115 pages, $24.99 https://www.leereich.com/books Reviewed by Elizabeth Gabriel I’ve known Lee’s...

Tracy Frisch

The Healthy Vegetable Garden:

A natural, chemical-free approach to soil, biodiversity and managing pests and diseases.

Jon Magee

Important but overlooked history of the southern Black farmers...

Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement, by White, Monica M. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina...

April Jones

“the legacy begins in the soil”

The legacy begins with the soil

Stephen Shafer

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...

Rema Boscov

Future is the keyword for this book...

Farming For Our Future: The Science, Law, and Policy of Climate-Neutral Agriculture, authors: Peter H. Lehner and Nathan A. Rosenberg...