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Microfarming for Profit: From Garden to Glory

by Dave DeWitt

This is a candid entrepreneur's guide on how to turn unused property into an efficient, fun, and profitable microfarm.

Hemp Bound: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Next Agricultural Revolution

by Doug Fine

The stat sheet on hemp sounds almost too good to be true: its fibers are among the planet's strongest, its seed oil the most nutritious, and its potential as an energy source vast and untapped. Its one downside?...

Market Farming Success: The Business of Growing and Selling Local Food, 2nd Editon

by Lynn Byczynski

An insider's guide to market gardening and farming for those in the business of growing and selling food, flowers, herbs, or plants.

Market Farming Success identifies the key areas that usually trip up beginners-and...

Rebuilding the Foodshed: How to Create Local, Sustainable, and Secure Food Systems

by Philip Ackerman-Leist & Deborah Madison

Droves of people have turned to local food as a way to retreat from our broken industrial food system. From rural outposts to city streets, they are sowing, growing, selling, and eating food produced close to...

The Organic Grain Grower: Small-Scale, Holistic Grain Production for the Home and Market Producer

by Jack Lazor

The ultimate guide to growing organic grains on a small and ecological scale, The Organic Grain Grower is invaluable for both home-scale and commercial producers interested in expanding their resiliency and...

Rule The Room: A Unique, Practical and Comprehensive Guide to Making a Successful Presentation

by Jason Teteak

Rule the Room is the product of Jason Teteak's twenty-year experience as a trainer and coach. His thoroughly tested advice covers every presenter's concerns, from hooking the audience immediately to entertaining...

A Vineyard Odyssey: The Organic Fight to Save Wine from the Ravages of Nature

by John Kiger

A Vineyard Odyssey is a fascinating saga of wine that takes the reader on a travelogue of the many hazards that lie along the journey from vine to bottle. John Kiger tracks the nefarious denizens of the vineyard...

Food Supply Protection and Homeland Security

by Frank R. Spellman

Addressing both direct threats to humans, including the introduction of anthrax or smallpox, and indirect threats, those introducing diseases to plants and animals, the author examines the state of our food...

High Cotton

by Gerard Helferich

This dirt-under-the-fingernails portrait of a small-time farmer follows Zack Killebrew over a single year as he struggles to defend his cotton against such timeless adversaries as weeds, insects, and drought,...

Pesticides and agriculture

by Dr Dave Watson

• Discusses the competitive strategies of the major pesticide companies
• Identifies the main forces driving the pesticides industry 
• Explains the evolution of the pesticide industry as a context for understanding...

Agrimarketing Your Agribusiness

by Laurie A. Cerny

AgriMarketing Your AgriBusiness covers all aspects of marketing and promoting farm businesses and agritourism venues. Get invaluable advice on making your basic business tools do the marketing for you. Decide...

Secrets of Building Successful Business Plan for Farm and Rural Business!

by Andrei Besedin

Starting a farm and rural business is an exciting and challenging undertaking. But a good business plan is often one of the keys to a successful business start-up. The real value of creating a business plan...

The Economy of Ireland

by John W. O'Hagan & Carol Newman

An essential book for students of economics as well as economists and policymakers.

The twelfth edition of this enduring and popular book surveys all major changes in the Irish economy in the past fifteen years,...

Around the World in Eighty Wines

by Mike Veseth

Inspired by Jules Verne’s classic adventure tale, Mike Veseth takes his readers Around the World in Eighty Wines. The journey starts in London, Phileas Fogg’s home base, and follows Fogg’s itinerary to...

Adventures with Old Vines

by Richard L. Chilton Jr.

Adventures with Old Vines offers an engaging and knowledgeable guide to demystify wine for novice enthusiasts. Richard Chilton provides detailed information about buying and storing wine, how to read a wine...

Agricultural Product Prices, Fifth Edition

by William G. Tomek & Harry M. Kaiser

Published continuously since 1972, Agricultural Product Prices has become the standard textbook and reference work for students in agricultural and applied economics, buyers and sellers of commodities, and policymakers,...

Land of Plenty

by Charlie Pye-Smith

A charming travelogue exploring the little-understood world of British agriculture

From the Ground to the Grocery! Popular Healthy Foods, Fun Farming for Kids - Children's Agriculture Books

by Baby Professor

Farming is fun, especially if you’re growing the most popular and healthy foods you see in the grocery. But where do these produce come from? And how are they grown? Learn the basics of farming in this cool...

Where Our Food Comes from - Children's Agriculture Books

by Baby Professor

These days, food comes out frozen. Factories create processed meals and moms will just need to put them together or put them in the microwave. But where does food come? This is an interesting book that will...

The Many Animals That Live on a Farm - Children's Agriculture Books

by Baby Professor

Have you ever been to a farm? It is home to many plants and animals. In this book, you will be introduced to the different animals that live on a farm. Can you name each of them? Do you know how they sound like?...