Book Reviews

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

Book Review: The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms Book Reviews

Book Review: The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms

by Amy Stewart, Algonquin Books, 2004 The Earth Moved is an easy read, fascinating, amusing,…

Mark Schonbeck MarkDecember 13, 2017

Book Review: The Lean Farm Guide to Growing Vegetables: More In-Depth Lean Techniques for Efficient Organic Production Book Reviews

Book Review: The Lean Farm Guide to Growing Vegetables: More In-Depth Lean Techniques for Efficient Organic Production

Ben Hartman, Chelsea Green, $29.95, publication November 2017 When I read Ben Hartman's first book,…

Mark Schonbeck MarkNovember 16, 2017

Book Review: Weeds: In Defense of Nature’s Most Unloved Plants, by Richard Mabey. Ecco Paperbacks 2012 Book Reviews

Book Review: Weeds: In Defense of Nature’s Most Unloved Plants, by Richard Mabey. Ecco Paperbacks 2012

Reviewed by Pam Dawling, author of Sustainable Market Farming and weekly blogger on her website…

VABF AdminOctober 11, 2017

Book Review: High-Yield Vegetable Gardening: Grow More of What You Want in the Space You Have by Colin McCrate and Brad Halm, Storey Publishing, December 2015 Book Reviews

Book Review: High-Yield Vegetable Gardening: Grow More of What You Want in the Space You Have by Colin McCrate and Brad Halm, Storey Publishing, December 2015

Reviewed by Pam Dawling, author of Sustainable Market Farming and weekly blogger on her website…

VABF AdminSeptember 7, 2017

Book Review: The Lean Farm: How to Minimize Waste, Increase Efficiency, and Maximize Value and Profits with Less Work Book Reviews

Book Review: The Lean Farm: How to Minimize Waste, Increase Efficiency, and Maximize Value and Profits with Less Work

Reviewed by Pam Dawling Ben Hartman, Chelsea Green, August 2015. ISBN 978-1-60358-592-7. $29.95 When I…

VABF AdminAugust 8, 2017