Book Reviews

The Living Soil Handbook: The No-Till Grower’s Guide to Ecological Market Gardening Book Reviews

The Living Soil Handbook: The No-Till Grower’s Guide to Ecological Market Gardening

Book Review: The Living Soil Handbook: The No-Till Grower’s Guide to Ecological Market Gardening, by…

Mark Schonbeck MarkMay 24, 2021

Market Farming Success: The Business of Growing and Selling Local Food Book Reviews

Market Farming Success: The Business of Growing and Selling Local Food

Book Review: Market Farming Success: The Business of Growing and Selling Local Food Lynn Byczynski Published by…

Mark Schonbeck MarkApril 26, 2021

Greenhorns: The Next Generation of American Farmers Book Reviews

Greenhorns: The Next Generation of American Farmers

This book isn’t new but deserves much more attention. It’s a collection of short pieces…

Mark Schonbeck MarkMarch 23, 2021

Book Review: The Comic Book Guide to Growing Food: Step-by-Step Vegetable Gardening for Everyone Book Reviews

Book Review: The Comic Book Guide to Growing Food: Step-by-Step Vegetable Gardening for Everyone

Book Review: The Comic Book Guide to Growing Food: Step-by-Step Vegetable Gardening for Everyone, Joseph…

Mark Schonbeck MarkFebruary 27, 2021

Book Review: The Chinese Greenhouse: Design and Build a Low-Cost, Passive Solar Greenhouse Book Reviews

Book Review: The Chinese Greenhouse: Design and Build a Low-Cost, Passive Solar Greenhouse

Book Review: The Chinese Greenhouse: Design and Build a Low-Cost, Passive Solar Greenhouse, Dan Chiras,…

Mark Schonbeck MarkJanuary 21, 2021

The No-Till Organic Vegetable Farm: How to Start and Run a Profitable Market Garden That Builds Health in Soil, Crops, and Communities Book Reviews

The No-Till Organic Vegetable Farm: How to Start and Run a Profitable Market Garden That Builds Health in Soil, Crops, and Communities

Book Review: The No-Till Organic Vegetable Farm: How to Start and Run a Profitable Market…

Mark Schonbeck MarkDecember 21, 2020

Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement Book Reviews

Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement

This book will fill the gaps in your knowledge of Black US agricultural history, with…

Mark Schonbeck MarkNovember 22, 2020

Epic Tomatoes: How to Select and Grow the Best Varieties of All Time Book Reviews

Epic Tomatoes: How to Select and Grow the Best Varieties of All Time

This is a luscious book! The artwork makes it a feast for the eyes too!…

Mark Schonbeck MarkOctober 21, 2020

Soil Science for Gardeners Book Reviews

Soil Science for Gardeners

I recommend this book to all gardeners who have hesitated to open a soil science…

Mark Schonbeck MarkSeptember 22, 2020

Dispossession: Discrimination against African American Farmers in the Age of Civil Rights, by Pete Daniel Book ReviewsVABF News

Dispossession: Discrimination against African American Farmers in the Age of Civil Rights, by Pete Daniel

Book Review: Dispossession: Discrimination against African American Farmers in the Age of Civil Rights, by…

Mark Schonbeck MarkAugust 21, 2020

Grow Great Vegetables in Virginia Book Reviews

Grow Great Vegetables in Virginia

Book Review: Grow Great Vegetables in Virginia, by Ira Wallace Timber Press, 2020. 240 pages,…

Mark Schonbeck MarkJuly 23, 2020

No-Till Intensive Vegetable Culture Book Reviews

No-Till Intensive Vegetable Culture

Bryan O’Hara’s No-Till Intensive Vegetable Culture is the work of an expert. His bio says…

Mark Schonbeck MarkJune 26, 2020

The Earth in Her Hands: 75 Extraordinary Women Working in the World of Plants Book ReviewsVABF News

The Earth in Her Hands: 75 Extraordinary Women Working in the World of Plants

The Earth in Her Hands is a beautiful book: a book to browse, a book…

Mark Schonbeck MarkMay 22, 2020

Going Over Home: A Search for Rural Justice in an Unsettled Land, by Charles Thompson Book Reviews

Going Over Home: A Search for Rural Justice in an Unsettled Land, by Charles Thompson

This engaging book is both a farm memoir and a discussion of racial disparities, wealth…

Mark Schonbeck MarkApril 23, 2020

Whole Farm Management from Start-Up to Sustainability Book Reviews

Whole Farm Management from Start-Up to Sustainability

Book Review: Whole Farm Management from Start-Up to Sustainability, edited by Garry Stephenson et al,…

Mark Schonbeck MarkMarch 23, 2020

The Farmer’s Office: Tools, Tips and Templates to Successfully Manage a Growing Farm Business Book Reviews

The Farmer’s Office: Tools, Tips and Templates to Successfully Manage a Growing Farm Business

Book Review: The Farmer’s Office: Tools, Tips and Templates to Successfully Manage a Growing Farm…

Mark Schonbeck MarkFebruary 19, 2020

The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food and Love Book Reviews

The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food and Love

The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food and Love, by Kristin Kimball, Scribner, 2010  By Pam…

Mark Schonbeck MarkJanuary 29, 2020

Grow Your Soil! Harness the Power of Microbes to Create Your Best Garden Ever Book Reviews

Grow Your Soil! Harness the Power of Microbes to Create Your Best Garden Ever

Grow Your Soil! Harness the Power of Microbes to Create Your Best Garden Ever by…

Mark Schonbeck MarkDecember 19, 2019

Will Bonsall’s Essential Guide to Radical, Self-Reliant Gardening Book Reviews

Will Bonsall’s Essential Guide to Radical, Self-Reliant Gardening

Book Review: Will Bonsall’s Essential Guide to Radical, Self-Reliant Gardening Innovative Techniques for Growing Vegetables,…

Mark Schonbeck MarkNovember 19, 2019

The Ethical Meat Handbook for the Conscious Omnivore Book ReviewsVABF News

The Ethical Meat Handbook for the Conscious Omnivore

Book Review: The Ethical Meat Handbook for the Conscious Omnivore   Meredith Leigh has given…

Mark Schonbeck MarkOctober 17, 2019