BOOKS & CALENDARS
532BECOMING A BIODYNAMIC FARMER OR GARDENER(Written and compiled by Malcolm and Susan Gardner)This handbook is a valuable resource not only for new or prospective trainees, but for everyone engaged in sustainable farming who works with such persons. The main chapters are titled: “Surveying your training options”; “Developing your own curriculum”; “Arranging an internship or apprenticeship”; and “Making the most of your training.” The chapters are supplemented by nine appendices that include detailed descriptions and contact information for over fifty training programs, ranging from seasonal apprenticeships to multi-year college-style courses, throughout North America and abroad; an extensive checklist of skills for charting training progress; sample work and learning contracts; advice for managing and resolving conflicts; farm safety and health tips; and much, much more. 95 pages. 531BEYOND BIOTECHNOLOGY(Craig Holdrege and Steve Talbott)Quote from Michael Pollan: "Craig Holdrege's and Steve Talbott's analysis of genetic engineering is the smartest, most original, and most compelling I have seen anywhere, in journalism or academia." In this book the authors evaluate current genetic science, exploring the potential uses of genetic engineering in agriculture and medicine, as well as the potential dangers, and help distinguish myth from fact. The authors also provide insight to some of the ethical questions around genetic engineering, like labeling, and offer a refreshing, whole-organism view, in contrast to the often over-simplistic reductionist one seen so often in today's science.. Highly recommended. 262 pages. 545FARMER JOHN'S COOKBOOK(FARMER JOHN PETERSON AND ANGELIC ORGANICS)Subtitled "The Real Dirt on Vegetables" (From the same CSA farm featured in the 2005 documentary "The Real Dirt on Farmer John"). This is the cookbook you've all been waiting for - 225 savory recipes grouped by season and by vegetable, with some great introductory articles about biodynamics and nutrition, as well as some history about Angelic Organics - including some great photos. Also includes a helpful, concise guide to storing vegetables (short-term), some lovely diagrams of all the different veggies, and a chart of when these veggies are available on the farm (in a northern climate). 360 pages. Soft cover. 533FROM ASPARAGUS TO ZUCCHININEW!RECIPE BOOK Compiled by the Madison area CSA coalition (MACSAC). An indispensable, nationally renowned resource for people who want to make the most of local and seasonal produce. These recipes were created by growers, farm members, home cooks, and chefs passionate about fresh food and seasonal cooking. 228 pages. Soft cover. 534GARDEN SEED INVENTORY(6th Edition)An outstanding resource for gardeners who want to work with open-pollinated varieties of vegetables. Also shown are the varieties which have been dropped from commercial availability in the United States. A monumental work of the SEED SAVERS EXCHANGE. We could not do our work at Turtle Tree Seed without it! 503 pages. Soft cover. 536GARDENING FOR LIFE THE BIODYNAMIC WAY(by Maria Thun)A practical introduction to a new art of gardening, sowing, planting and harvesting. A beautifully illustrated, comprehensive guide to biodynamic gardening. This book should be on every gardener's bookshelf. You will want to use it every day. Worth every penny. 128 pages. Soft cover; full color foldout. 538ORGANIC SEED PRODUCTION AND SAVING(Bryan Connolly)One of the many manuals published by NOFA about organic farming practices. This concise guidebook to growing seed in the Northeast is easy to read and use. Within this slim volume is all of the information you might need to get started saving seed. Starting off with a good discussion of why open-pollinated varieties are beneficial, continuing with basic plant biology, specific crop types, and finishing up with some information about Northeast seed organizations, this book is filled with useful tips for the home and market grower. 112 pages. Soft cover. 506PERFORMANCE IN THE GARDENNEW!(Alan Chadwick
Alan Chadwick)"When I first entered the garden at UC Santa Cruz, I encountered Alan Chadwick striding down the path with his wild cloud of graying hair thrown directly back from his forehead. He stopped and with piercing gaze asked, "Well, how are you?" I saw that this was no ordinary question. Having just come from my university classes I was, in fact, distraught about the shocking discrepancy between intellectual idealism and the terrible reality of suffering in the world. I mumbled something about being "not very well." And mirthfully, Alan said, "perhaps you'd like to Do something" Then as we began to divide decorative dahlia crowns for replanting, he led me into a whole fabulous world of the cultural history and horticultural techniques that we humans have with this most beautiful plant being.
For anyone wanting to DO something in this world, these lectures and parables from Alan are a tremendous gift which can open the door to awareness and encounter of the deep healing joy in and love for creation that alone can be the inspiration and motivation for reentering and recreating the Garden
." Stephen Decater, Live Power Community Farm, Covelo, CA 540SEED TO SEED(New Edition by Suzanne Ashworth)General information and crop by crop instructions for the seed saver with specific techniques for 160 vegetables. Thorough and well researched. The best general guide for home seed savers. Soft cover. 544STELLA NATURA CALENDAR 2010(Edited by Sherry Wildfeuer)Inspiration and practical advice for gardeners and farmers in working with cosmic rhythms. 40 page booklet folds out into a 12X18 in. wall calendar giving daily/monthly charts of the full range of planetary rhythms, with guidance in using their influences in gardening, and articles on interesting and relevant subjects for each month. 505THE BIODYNAMIC YEARNEW!(Maria Thun)Maria Thun, Biodynamic researcher for over 50 years, brings us her hundred best gardening tips. Organized by season, there are also recipes, stories and practical advice for gardeners. Full of beautiful photos, diagrams, and results from some of the tests Maria Thun has carried out. An inspiring guide for home gardeners interested in Biodynamics. Makes a great gift. 548THE WOODCHUCK'S GUIDE TO GARDENING(by Ron Krupp)From germinating seeds in spring to saving seeds in fall this book lends spirit and substance to the world of northern gardening and reconnects us to the cycle of the year through anecdotes, history, poetry, wit, politics, and down to earth organic/biodynamic gardening tips. Includes: foraging for wild plants, planting by the stars, putting foods by and gardening with children. 230 pages. Soft cover. DVD
504DVD: THE REAL DIRT ON FARMER JOHNNEW!The story of the struggles of Mid-western farming life, and the power overcoming prejudices, creating a life full of art and working together. Farmer John invites us into his story, and allows us to feel the pain of losing one’s land, the interwoven struggle for farm and personal survival, and a way towards renewal through community, art and talking to your neighbors. Beautiful, touching, funny and hopeful. DVD 82 minutes 
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