Book Reviews

For The Love of Pawpaws: A Mini Manual for Growing and Caring for Pawpaws From Seed to Table Book ReviewsVABF News

For The Love of Pawpaws: A Mini Manual for Growing and Caring for Pawpaws From Seed to Table

This wonderful new book is inspiring and appetizing, practical and beautiful. About 150 pages of…

Mark Schonbeck MarkSeptember 21, 2019

The Seed Garden: The Art and Practice of Seed Saving Book ReviewsVABF News

The Seed Garden: The Art and Practice of Seed Saving

The Seed Garden: The Art and Practice of Seed Saving Edited by Lee Buttala and…

Mark Schonbeck MarkAugust 23, 2019

Book Review: The Drought Resilient Farm Book ReviewsVABF News

Book Review: The Drought Resilient Farm

Book Review: Dale Strickler: The Drought Resilient Farm, Practical Strategies for Drought Resilience on Farm…

Mark Schonbeck MarkJuly 17, 2019

Book Review: The Worm Farmer’s Handbook Book ReviewsVABF News

Book Review: The Worm Farmer’s Handbook

Rhonda Sherman: The Worm Farmer's Handbook: Mid- to Large-Scale Vermicomposting for Farms, Businesses, Municipalities, Schools…

Mark Schonbeck MarkJune 19, 2019

The Organic No-Till Farming Revolution: High Production Methods for Small-Scale Farmers Book ReviewsVABF News

The Organic No-Till Farming Revolution: High Production Methods for Small-Scale Farmers

Andrew Mefferd New Society Publishers, January 2019, $29.99   Organic No-Till has been an unachievable…

Mark Schonbeck MarkMay 16, 2019

Book Review: The Whole Okra: A Seed to Stem Celebration Book ReviewsVABF News

Book Review: The Whole Okra: A Seed to Stem Celebration

The Whole Okra: A Seed to Stem Celebration Chris Smith, Chelsea Green, June 2019 ISBN…

Mark Schonbeck MarkApril 17, 2019

Book Review: The Seed Underground: Growing a Revolution to Save Seeds Book ReviewsVABF News

Book Review: The Seed Underground: Growing a Revolution to Save Seeds

Book Review The Seed Underground: Growing a Revolution to Save Seeds Janisse Ray Chelsea Green,…

Mark Schonbeck MarkMarch 13, 2019

The New Organic Grower Book Review Book ReviewsVABF News

The New Organic Grower Book Review

The New Organic Grower: A Master's Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and…

Mark Schonbeck MarkFebruary 12, 2019

Book Review: The Organic Seed Grower: A Farmer’s Guide to Vegetable Seed Production Book ReviewsVABF News

Book Review: The Organic Seed Grower: A Farmer’s Guide to Vegetable Seed Production

by John Navazio The slower growing season has arrived, and we start to think about…

Mark Schonbeck MarkDecember 18, 2018

Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm’s Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land Book ReviewsVABF News

Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm’s Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land

Farming While Black, Leah Penniman, Chelsea Green, November 2018 ISBN 978-1-60358-761-7, 368 pages, $34.95 Full…

Mark Schonbeck MarkNovember 15, 2018

Resilient Agriculture: Cultivating Food Systems for a Changing Climate by Laura Lengnick Book ReviewsVABF News

Resilient Agriculture: Cultivating Food Systems for a Changing Climate by Laura Lengnick

Book Review, Resilient Agriculture: Cultivating Food Systems for a Changing Climate Laura Lengnick. New Society…

Mark Schonbeck MarkOctober 16, 2018

Start Your Farm: The Authoritative Guide to Becoming a Sustainable 21st Century Farmer.  Essentials for Growing and Raising Vegetables, Fruits, Livestock, Grains for Market. Book Reviews

Start Your Farm: The Authoritative Guide to Becoming a Sustainable 21st Century Farmer.  Essentials for Growing and Raising Vegetables, Fruits, Livestock, Grains for Market.

Forrest Pritchard and Ellen Polishuk The Experiment, New York. ISBN 978-1-61519-489-6 Here is a book…

Mark Schonbeck MarkSeptember 13, 2018

Book Review: The Urban Farmer: Growing Food for Profit on Leased and Borrowed Land Book Reviews

Book Review: The Urban Farmer: Growing Food for Profit on Leased and Borrowed Land

Curtis Stone New Society Publishers, 2016 The Urban Farmer is part of the movement to…

Mark Schonbeck MarkSeptember 6, 2018

Book Review: Grow a Sustainable Diet: Planning and Growing to Feed Ourselves and the Earth Book Reviews

Book Review: Grow a Sustainable Diet: Planning and Growing to Feed Ourselves and the Earth

Cindy Conner, New Society Publishers 2014.  This month's book review brings another good book by…

Mark Schonbeck MarkJuly 19, 2018

Book Review: The Tao of Vegetable Gardening: Cultivating Tomatoes, Greens, Peas, Beans, Squash, Joy and Serenity Book Reviews

Book Review: The Tao of Vegetable Gardening: Cultivating Tomatoes, Greens, Peas, Beans, Squash, Joy and Serenity

An independent and iconoclastic gardener, Carol introduces each chapter with a passage from her own…

Mark Schonbeck MarkJune 16, 2018

Book Review: The Timber Press Guide to Vegetable Gardening in the Southeast Book Reviews

Book Review: The Timber Press Guide to Vegetable Gardening in the Southeast

By Ira Wallace January 2014, 200 pages, $19.95. ISBN-13: 978-1-60469-371-3 This book is valuable firstly to…

Mark Schonbeck MarkMay 15, 2018

Book Review: Soil Sisters: A Toolkit for Women Farmers Book Reviews

Book Review: Soil Sisters: A Toolkit for Women Farmers

by Lisa Kivirist New Society Publishers, 2016, ISBN 978-0-86571-805-0. $24.95 Although women are not a minority,…

Mark Schonbeck MarkApril 16, 2018

Book Review: The Greenhouse and Hoophouse Grower’s Handbook Book Reviews

Book Review: The Greenhouse and Hoophouse Grower’s Handbook

by Andrew Mefferd Organic Vegetable Production Using Protected Culture. Chelsea Green March 2017, $34.95 ISBN 978-1-60358-637-5…

Mark Schonbeck MarkMarch 15, 2018

Book Review: The Bio-integrated Farm Book Reviews

Book Review: The Bio-integrated Farm

by Shawn Jadrnicek This book was hidden in my "to read" pile for too long!…

Mark Schonbeck MarkFebruary 14, 2018

Book Review: The Market Gardener, by Jean-Martin Fortier, New Society Publishers, 2014 Book Reviews

Book Review: The Market Gardener, by Jean-Martin Fortier, New Society Publishers, 2014

Jean-Martin Fortier is one of the rock stars of small-scale organic vegetable farming, and he…

Mark Schonbeck MarkJanuary 11, 2018