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Eco-agriculture is sweeping the country as the answer for worsening soils, rising input costs, and deteriorating food quality. Learn from the masters with these offerings.
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Eco-Agriculture:

The Organic Farming Manual
The know-how to prepare beginning farmers for organic food production or experienced farmers making the transition from traditional farming techniques.

Ask The Plant
After more than seven decades of our soils being mined and depleted of their organic matter and minerals, it is time to

4 Newman Turner Classics
Four book set including Fertility Farming, Herdsmanship, Fertility Pastures and Cure Your Own Cattle.

A Biodynamic Farm
Mechanics & practical explanation, how to make BD preps.

Agriculture in Transition
Systems approach to plant, soil management..

Bread From Stones
Land fertilization & physical regeneration.

Cure Your Own Cattle
While the subject of natural veterinary care has grown and matured, Turner's clear and simple systems and advice remind farmers of the true fundamentals that consistently work.

Dung Beetles
Charles Walters digs deep into modern science, ancient history, traditiional folklore and the best practical advice to resurrect the lowly dung beetle.

Eco-Farm
Complete education in soils, crops, weeds, insects.

Fertility Farming
The foundation of the effectiveness of nature's husbandry is a fertile soil- and the measure of a fertile soil is its content of organic matter.

Fertility from the Ocean Deep
Natures' Perfect Nutrient Blend for the Farm

Fertility Pastures
In this book, Turner details his methods of intensive pasture-based production of beef and dairy cows in a practical guide to profitable, labor-saving livestock production.

Fletcher Sims' Compost
Biography & commercial-scale production.

Food Power from the Sea
How to use seaweed and fish-based inputs rather than chemical fertilizers.

Foundations of Natural Farming
The author discusses the current problems in agriculture and suggests how lessons from nature provide the roadmap to efficiency, effectiveness and profitability. This book is certain to become a classic of clean farming!

From the Soil Up
Develop, manage a soil fertility system.

Grass, the Forgiveness of Nature
Explores the miracle of grass, pastures and grassland farming.

Hands-On Agronomy (book)
Comprehensive manual on soil management.

Hands-On Agronomy DVD
Feeding & balancing your soil.

Hands-On Agronomy PAL DVD
Feeding & balancing your soil.

Hands-On Agronomy PAL VHS
Feeding & balancing your soil.

Herdsmanship
Turner explains that livestock illness is a result of bad farming practices and that real livestock health begins with true natural farming disciplines.

Mainline Farming For Century 21
Reams' biological theory of ionization applied to agriculture.

Radionics in Agriculture Sampler Video
Sample of instruction offered in the Radionics Seminar.

Radionics in Agriculture Seminar
Video instruction on use of radionic scanner in agriculture.

Radionics in Agriculture Seminar PAL VHS
Video (PAL) instruction on use of radionic scanner in agriculture.

Rebirth of the Small Family Farm
Complete handbook for starting a CSA.

Science In Agriculture
Advanced methods for sustainable farming.

Sea Energy Agriculture
Importance of trace elements from the sea for plants and animals.

Soil Fertility & Animal Health
How soil fertility links to animal & human health.

Soil, Grass & Cancer (book)
Illustrates link between human & animal health & soil balance.

Soils & Agronomy Sampler VHS
Sample of instruction presented in Soils & Agronomy Seminar.

Soils & Agronomy Seminar
Video school for the biological farmer.

Soils & Agronomy Seminar PAL VHS
Video (PAL) school for the biological farmer.

The Anatomy of Life & Energy In Agriculture
Biochemical, biophysical approach to farm success.

The Biological Farmer
Guide to sustainable, profitable farming system.

The Non-Toxic Farming Handbook
Diverse alternative technologies such as Albrecht, Reams.

The Other Side of the Fence DVD
Overview of Albrecht's work. DVD format for U.S.

The Other Side of the Fence PAL DVD
Overview of Albrecht's work. PAL DVD format for Europe & Australia.

The Other Side of the Fence PAL VHS
Overview of Albrecht's work. PAL video format for Europe & Australia.

The Secret Life of Compost
How & why's of composting — lawns, gardens, feedlots & farm.

Treating Dairy Cows Naturally (book)
Dr. Karreman lays out a total strategy for assessing and preventing cattle disease, derived from years of working with organically and conventionally managed dairy herds.

Weeds — Control Without Poisons
Specifics on a hundred weeds.

Agriculture The Only Right Approach
Soil & its relationship with life-sustaining crops.

Alcohol Can Be A Gas
This is the most comprehensive text on alcohol production and use ever written.

All Flesh Is Grass
The pleasures and promises of pasture farming.

Ancient Agriculture
Ancient Agriculture is the first English translation of the book that carried traditional farming techniques from the Old World of Europe to the New World of the Americas.

Anyone Can Build a Whizbang Chicken Scalder
Complete instructions for plucking chickens.

Bees
Lectures describe beehive activity and wisdom.

Biodynamic Growing Guide
A colorful, interactive but detailed big picture of this restorative path of agriculture.

Building Soils for Better Crops
All the basics on soil and crop management.

Common Weeds of the United States
Identification guide, no information on control.

Earth, Plant & Compost
The book presents an overview of compost principles followed by sections on composting in the home-garden and farm composting.

Environmental Care & Share
Reference for toxic chemical risks.


The Organic Farming Manual

Farmers of Forty Centuries
View of intensive cultivation that wastes nothing, conserves resources.

Field Guide to On-Farm Composting
An easy to use field guide.

Fields That Dream
A Journey to the Roots of Our Food

Gaining Ground
Making a successful transition to organic farming

Gold in the Grass
Rehabilitation of a farm utilizing green manures.

Growing Green
If you want to make a real difference producing decent food on your own small but significant portion of the world, this book will tell you most of what you need to know.

Healthy Crops: A New Agricultural Revolution
Recommended by Dr. Arden Andersen, this book reminds us that there are genuine alternatives to the chemical agriculture treadmill.

Hive Management
A seasonal guide for beekeepers

Holistic Management
A process for stewardship decision-making.

Holistic Management Handbook
This book is designed as a practical companion for people who actually manage land and others who want to know what responsibility for land really means. Most of all, however, it is written for the ranchers and farmers who make a living from the earth.

Holy Cows and Hog Heaven
The food buyers guide to farm friendly food.

Holy Cows and Hog Heaven (CASE)
The food buyers guide to farm friendly food.

Honeybee Lessons From An Accidental Beekeeper
Practical beekeeping information, plus recipes for foods, drink, and personal care.

How Soils Work
A study into the God-plane mutualism of soils and crops.

Living on an Acre
A practical guide to the self-reliant life.

Making Your Small Farm Profitable
Small farm management, developing new markets.

Manage Insects on Your Farm
Ecological pest management that promotes the use of good bugs.

Management-Intensive Grazing
The grassroots of grass farming.

Micro Eco-Farming
Restore the planet and produce unheard-of amounts of healthy products.

Natural Beekeeping
Natural Beekeeping flips the script on traditional approaches by proposing a program of selective breeding and natural hive management.

Natural Farming (Cho Global)
Natural Farmingis an agricultural methodology promoting protection of environment and life.

Nutrition Rules!
Guidelines from the master consultants.

Organic Farming: Everything You Need to Know
For every farmer who has ever wished to grow chemical-free vegetables or raise healthy livestock on their own acreage, this book will help you fulfull your dreams.

Organic Small Farming
Organic farming methods utilized on Pucketty Farm in 1950s.

Organic Soil Conditioning
Documented research on humic, fulvic, microbial balance.

Organic Vegetable Production: A Complete Guide
A detailed, practical guide to temperate organic vegetable growing with examples from a range of farming systems.

Real Medicine Real Health
Good nutrition comes back to agriculture and way our foods are grown.

Roots Demystified
A rare combination of firsthand observation research, humor, and the author's practicality make for a refreshingly original look at roots.

Seaweed & Plant Growth
Use of seaweeds in agriculture.

Seaweed in Agriculture & Horticulture
Seaweed meal & liquid extract as fertilizer.

Seaweed: A User's Guide
Understand & learn to utilize seaweeds.

Secrets of the Soil
Innovative, nontraditional, & spiritual agriculture methods.

Secrets to Great Soil
Guide to composting, mulching, fertile soil.

Successful Small-Scale Farming
Realities of making a living from the land organically.

Teaming With Microbes
A useful guide to creating rich, nurturing, living soil.

Texas Range and Pastures
Insights of a veteran grazier.

The Backyard Beekeeper
The Backyard Beekeeper makes the time-honored and complex tradition of beekeeping an enjoyable and accessible backyard pastime that will appeal to gardeners, crafters and cooks everywhere.

The Farmer's Earthworm Handbook
All aspects of earthworm management.

The Gardener's A-Z Guide to Growing Organic Food
Vegetables, herbs, fruits, and nuts.

The New Organic Grower (book)
Small-scale farmers & gardeners reference.

The Organic Method Primer
Covers all aspects of organic gardening without fluff.

The Polyface Farm DVD
Profiles all aspects of the Salatins' Polyface farm.

The Rodale Book of Composting
Home composting process start to finish.

The Soul of the Soil
Soil management for long-term productivity.

The Transition Document
Subtitled, Toward a Biologically Resilient Agriculture, with insightful discussion on the research and discoveries of innovative people who have shaped the course of biologically resilient agriculture over the last 30 years.

Traditional Feeding of Farm Animals
The classic treatise - now back in print.

Viking in the Wheatfield
A Danish Scientist’s struggle to preserve the world’s harvest of wheat.

Weeds and What They Tell
Properties of the more common weeds.

Weeds and Why They Grow
Soil composition of weeds detailed in charts.

You Can Farm
Entrepreneur's guide to family farm business.











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