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Fall 2014

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Fall 2014

Trading in Hot Air: Free Markets and Magical Thinking on the Frontiers of the New Carbon Economy

Mark Schapiro September 2014

Organic Mushroom Farming and Mycoremediation:

Simple to Advanced and Experimental Techniques for Indoor and Outdoor Cultivation Tradd Cotter

September 2014

The Heal Your Gut Cookbook: Nutrient Dense Recipes for Intestinal Health

Hilary Boynton and Mary G. Brackett September 2014

Farming the Woods:

An Integrated Permaculture Approach to Growing Food and Medicinals in Temperate Forests Ken Mudge and Steve Gabriel

September 2014

The Wild Wisdom of Weeds: 13 Plants for Human Survival

Katrina Blair October 2014

An Unlikely Vineyard:

The Education of a Winegrower and the Quest for Terroir Deirdre Heekin October 2014

One-Straw Revolutionary:

The Philosophy and Work of Masanobu Fukuoka Larry Korn

November 2014

Defending Beef: The Manifesto of an Environmental Lawyer Turned Cattle Rancher

Nicolette Niman Hahn October 2014

The Tao of Gardening:

Cultivating Vegetables, Joy, and Serenity Carol Deppe

November 2014

Gardens Without Borders Will Bonsall

December 2014

Growing Hybrid Hazelnuts: The New Resilient Crop for a Changing Climate

Philip Rutter, Susan Wiegrefe, Brandon Rutter-Daywater December 2014

Spring 2014

Integrated Forest Gardening: The Complete Guide to Polycultures and Plant Guilds in Permaculture Systems

Wayne Weiseman, Dan Halsey, and Bryce Ruddock August 1, 2014

The New Net Zero:

Leading-Edge Design and Construction of Homes and Buildings for a Renewable Energy Future Bill Maclay

June 24, 2014

Grass, Soil, Hope: A Journey Through Carbon Country

Courtney White June 10, 2014

Extracted:

How the Quest for Mineral Wealth Is Plundering the Planet Ugo Bardi

May 12, 2014

Let Water Do the Work: Induced Meandering, an Evolving Method for Restoring Incised Channels

Bill Zeedyk and Van Clothier May 5, 2014

Hemp Bound:

Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Next Agricultural Revolution Doug Fine

April 20, 2014

The Small-Scale Dairy: The Complete Guide to Milk Production for the Home and Market

Gianaclis Caldwell October 16, 2012

The Small-Scale Cheese Business:

The Complete Guide to Running a Successful Farmstead Creamery Gianaclis Caldwell September 23, 2013

Gene Everlasting:

A Contrary Farmer’s Thoughts on Living Forever Gene Logsdon

February 14, 2014

Featured Backlist Titles

Paradise Lot: Two Plant Geeks, One Tenth of an Acre and The Making of an Edible Garden Oasis in the City

Eric Toensmeier and Jonathan Bates

Good Morning Beautiful Business: The Unexpected Journey of an Activist Entrepreneur and Local-Economy Pioneer

Judy Wicks

Marijuana is Safer, Updated and Expanded Edition: So Why Are We Driving People to Drink?

Steve Fox, Paul Armentano, and Mason Tvert

The Zero Waste Solution: Untrashing the Planet One Community at a Time

Paul Connett

2052: A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years Jorgen Randers

Reinventing Fire:

Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era Amory Lovins and Rocky Mountain Institute

Gaia’s Garden, Second Edition:

A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture Toby Hemenway

Thinking in Systems:

A Primer Donella Meadows

Wild Fermentation:

The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-Culture Foods Sandor Ellix Katz

Trading in Hot Air: Free Markets and Magical Thinkings on the Frontiers of the New Carbon Economy By Mark Schapiro Book Description As the world moves toward making more and more polluters pay to emit carbon, a financial mystery unfolds: What are the costs? Who has the responsibility to pay for them? Who do you pay? How do you pay? And what are the potential impacts?

These are the questions veteran journalist Mark Schapiro attempts to answer has he illuminates the struggle to pinpoint carbon’s true costs and allocate them fairly—all while bumping up against the vagaries of the free market, the lobbying power of corporations, the political maneuverings of countries, and the tolerance of everyday consumers buying a cup of coffee, a tank of gas, or an airplane ticket.

Along the way, Schapiro tracks the cost of carbon through the drought-ridden farmland of California, where higher temperatures are driving up the price of the food we eat, the prices farmers pay for crop insurance, and the impact on taxpayers. Through the jungles of Brazil, where foreign polluters pay to keep trees standing—as offsets to absorb CO2—at a fraction of the cost they are worth to the struggling communities around them, who entertain logging or other uses. Through the world's greatest manufacturing center, asking who should pay for the pollution generated there—the Chinese who operate the factories, or the Westerners who consume the goods they produce? Through the skies, where recent efforts to put a price tag on the carbon left by airplanes in the no-man's land of the atmosphere created what amounted to a quiet but powerful global trade war. Through the carbon-trading capital of Europe, where economists try to establish a price for a bizarre new commodity—a ton of carbon that will not be emitted—literally selling the air in an effort to curtail emissions. And finally, through the high-tech crime world the new carbon markets have inspired, and the emerging nations that—as they amp up manufacturing, put more cars on their streets, and up their consumption—teeter on the brink of this wild, new carbon economy.

For almost two decades, the primary topic of global climate negotiations has been to find a way to pay for the costs of carbon, slow greenhouse gas emissions, and stimulate a shift away fossil fuels in order to shrink the earth’s carbon footprint. The key tool to date—the international carbon trade—has floundered in a sea of questions deftly explored by Schapiro, and in the turmoil of a global recession. As we approach the next climate negotiations in 2015, will nations stick to business as usual? Or will the world come to terms with the real price for carbon, and figure out a sensible way to pay for it? Author Bio Journalist Mark Schapiro explores the intersection of the environment, economics, and political power, most recently as a correspondent at the Center for Investigative Reporting. His work has been published in Harpers, The Atlantic, Yale 360 and other publications. He has reported stories for the PBS newsmagazine Frontline/World, NOW with Bill Moyers, and public radio's Marketplace, and is the author of Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What’s at Stake for American Power.

Publication Date: September 8, 2014 Pages: 240 Size: 6 X 9 Art Program: N/A Rights Held: World English

Organic Mushroom Farming and Mycoremediation: Simple to Advanced and Experimental Techniques for Indoor and Outdoor Cultivation With innovative new methods for urban and off-grid growing, making mushroom-infused beers, morel cultivation, and more By Tradd Cotter Book Description What would it take to grow mushrooms in space? How can mushroom cultivation help us manage, or at least make use of, invasive species such as kudzu and water hyacinth and thereby reduce dependence on herbicides? Is it possible to develop a low-cost and easy-to-implement mushroom growing kit that would provide high-quality edible protein and bioremediation in the wake of a natural disaster?

For more than twenty years, mycology expert Tradd Cotter has been pondering these questions and conducting trials in search of the answers. In Organic Mushroom Farming and Mycoremediation, Cotter not only offers readers an in-depth exploration of best organic mushroom cultivation practices; he shares the results of his groundbreaking research and offers myriad ways to apply your cultivation skills and further incorporate mushrooms into your life—whether your goal is to help your community clean up industrial pollution or simply settle down at the end of the day with a cold Reishi-infused homebrew ale.

The book first guides readers through an in-depth exploration of indoor and outdoor cultivation. Covered skills range from integrating wood chip beds spawned with king stropharia into your garden and building a “trenched raft” of hardwood logs plugged with shiitake spawn to producing oysters indoors on spent coffee grounds in a 4x4 space or on pasteurized sawdust in vertical plastic columns. For those who aspire to the self-sufficiency gained by generating and expanding spawn rather than purchasing it, Cotter offers in depth coverage of lab techniques, including low-cost alternatives that make use of existing infrastructure and materials.

Readers will discover information on making tinctures, powders, and mushroom-infused honey; making an anti-bacterial mushroom cutting board; and growing mushrooms on your old denim jeans. Geared towards readers who want to grow mushrooms without the use of pesticides, Cotter takes “organic” one step further by introducing an entirely new way of thinking—one which looks at the potential to grow mushrooms on just about anything, just about anywhere, and by anyone. Author Bio Tradd Cotter has been tissue-culturing, collecting native fungi in the Southeast, and cultivating both commercially and experimentally for more than twenty years. He founded Mushroom Mountain in 1996 to explore applications for mushrooms in various industries and currently maintains over fifty species of fungi for food production, bioremediation, and natural pesticides. anywhere in the world. Cotter lives with his wife, Olga, and their daughter in Liberty, South Carolina.

Publication Date: September 16, 2014 Pages: 400 Size: 8 x 10 Art Program: Full Color Throughout Rights Held: World

The Heal Your Gut Cookbook: Nutrient Dense Recipes for Intestinal Health Based on the Gut and Psychology Syndrome (GAPS) Diet, as developed by Natasha Campbell-McBride By Hilary Boynton and Mary G. Brackett Foreword by Natasha Campbell-McBride Book Description “All disease begins in the gut,” Hippocrates instructed more than two thousand years ago. Today, more people than ever are struggling with gut-related chronic disease. In this visually stunning cookbook, GAPS Diet experts Hilary Boynton and Mary G. Brackett offer more than 200 straightforward, nutrient-dense, and appealing recipes designed to heal your gut and thereby manage the illnesses that stem from it.

Developed by pioneering British MD, Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride, Gut and Psychology Syndrome (GAPS) refers to disorders, including ADD/ADHD, autism, addictions, depression, and obsessive-compulsive disorder, stemming from, or exacerbated by leaky gut and dysbiosis. Gut and Physiology Syndrome (also GAPS) likewise refers to chronic gut-related physical conditions, including celiac disease, rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes type one, and Crohn’s disease, as well as asthma, eczema, allergies, thyroid disorders, and more. Dr. Campbell-McBride designed the GAPS Diet to restore the balance between beneficial and pathogenic intestinal bacteria and seal the gut through the elimination of grains, processed foods, and refined sugars and the carefully sequenced reintroduction of nutrient-dense foods, including bone broths, raw cultured dairy, certain fermented vegetables, organic pastured eggs, organ meats, and more.

From basic bone broth and broth-based soups such as Maitake Mushroom Immune Boosting soup in the first stage of the GAPS Intro diet to Roasted Pork Sausage with Red Onion and Butternut Squash, Marinated Cod Fish Tacos with Coconut Flour Tortillas, and—for the adventurous—Chicken Livers wrapped in Bacon during the full GAPS Diet, readers will discover a great deal of flexibility within this restrictive diet for delicious home-cooked and even kid-friendly meals. Readers will find recipes for salads, fish, poultry, meat, organ meats, vegetables, ferments, snacks, and even desserts, as well as sauces, dressings, and marinades.

An evolution of the Specific Carbohydrate Diet, GAPS will appeal to followers of the Paleo Diet, who are still struggling for optimum health. Heal Your Gut! is a must have if you are following the GAPS diet, considering the GAPS diet, or simply looking to improve your digestive health and—by extension—your physical and mental well-being.

Publication Date: September 2014 Pages: 246 Size: 7 x 10 Art Program: Full Color Throughout Rights Held: World

Farming the Woods: An Integrated Permaculture Approach to Growing Food and Medicinals in Temperate Forests By Ken Mudge and Steve Gabriel Book Description In the eyes of many people, the practices of forestry and farming are at odds because in the modern world, agriculture involves open fields, straight rows, and machinery to grow crops, while forestry is primarily reserved for timber and firewood harvesting. Farming the Woods invites a remarkably different perspective; that a healthy forest can be maintained while growing a wide range of food, medicinal, and other non-timber products. While this concept of “forest farming” may seem like an obscure practice, the long view indicates that much of humanity lived and sustained itself from tree-based systems in the past; only recently have people traded the forest for the field. The good news is that this is not an either-or scenario; forest farms can be most productive in the places the plow is not; on steep slopes, and in shallow soils. It is an invaluable practice to integrate into any farm or homestead, especially as the need for unique value-added products and supplemental income becomes more and more important for farmers.

Many already know that our daily indulgences taken for granted like coffee, chocolate, and many tropical fruits, all originate in forest ecosystems. But few know that such abundance is also available in the cool temperate forests of North America. Farming the Woods is the first in-depth guide for farmers and gardeners who have access to an established woodland and are looking for productive ways to manage it. Authors Ken Mudge and Steve Gabrial describe this process as “productive conservation”, guided by the processes and relationships found in natural forest ecosystems.

Farming the Woods covers in detail how to cultivate, harvest, and market high value non-timber forest crops such as American ginseng, shiitake mushrooms, ramps (wild leeks), maple syrup, fruit and nut trees, ornamental ferns, and others. Comprehensive information is also offered on historical perspectives of forest farming; mimicking the forest in a changing climate; cultivation of medicinal crops; creating a forest nursery; harvesting and utilizing wood products; the role of animals in the forest farm; and how to design and manage your forest farm once it's set up. This book is a must-read for farmers and gardeners interested in incorporating aspects of agroforestry, permaculture, forest gardening, and sustainable woodlot management into the concept of a whole farm organism. Author Bios Ken Mudge has been involved in agroforestry research, teaching and extension for over 20 years. His research has focused on non-timber forest products including nitrogen fixing trees, American ginseng, forest cultivated mushrooms and others. He teaches courses Practicum in Forest Farming, Plant Propagation, and Grafting.

In addition to Steve’s role at Cornell as Extension Program Aide, he is also Program Director of the Finger Lakes Permaculture Institute and owner of a farm exploring agroforestry practices. He has a blog (www.agroforestrysolutions.com) and has worked as a writer for several newspapers.

Publication Date: September 9, 2014 Pages: 400 Size: 8 X 10 Art Program: Full Color Throughout Rights Held: World

The Wild Wisdom of Weeds: 13 Plants for Human Survival By Katrina Blair Book Description The Wild Wisdom of Weeds is the only book on foraging and edible weeds to focus on the 13 weeds found all over the world, each of which represents a complete food source and extensive medical pharmacy and first aid kit. More than just a field guide to wild edibles, it is a global plan for human survival.

When Katrina Blair was eleven she had a life changing experience where wild plants spoke to her, beckoning her to become a champion of their cause. Since then she has spent months on end taking walkabouts in the wild, eating nothing but what she forages, and has become a wild foods advocate, community activist, gardener, and chef, teaching and presenting internationally about foraging and the healthful lifestyle it promotes.

Katrina Blair’s philosophy in The Wild Wisdom of Weeds is sobering, realistic, and ultimately optimistic. If we can open our eyes to see the wisdom found in these weeds right under our noses, instead of trying to eradicate an “invasive”, we will achieve true food security. The Wild Wisdom of Weeds is about healing ourselves both in body and in spirit, in an age where technology, commodity agriculture, and processed foods dictate the terms of our intelligence. But if we can become familiar with these 13 edible survival weeds found all over the world, we will never go hungry, and we will become closer to our own wild human instincts—all the while enjoying the freshest, wildest, and most nutritious food there is. For free!

The thirteen plants found growing in every region across the world are: Dandelion, Mallow, Purslane, Plantain, Thistle, Amaranth, Dock, Mustard, Grass, Chickweed, Clover, Lambsquarter, and Knotweed. These special plants contribute to the regeneration of the earth while supporting the survival of our human species; they grow everywhere where human civilizations exist, from the hottest deserts to the Arctic Circle, following the path of human disturbance. Indeed, the more humans disturb the earth and put our food supply at risk, the more these 13 plants proliferate. It’s a survival plan for the ages.

Including over 100 unique recipes, Katrina Blair teaches us how to prepare these wild plants from root to seed, from soups, salads, slaws, crackers, pestos, seed breads and seed butters, cereals, green powders, sauerkrauts, smoothies, and milks; to first aid recipes like tinctures, teas, salves and soothers; and self care/beauty products like shampoo, mouthwash, toothpaste (and brush), face masks, and a lot more. Whether readers are based at home or traveling, this book aims to empower individuals to maintain a state of optimal health with minimal cost and effort. Author Bio Katrina Blair began studying wild plants in her teens when she camped out alone for a summer with the intention of eating primarily wild foods. In 1997 she completed a MA from John F Kennedy University in Orinda, CA in Holistic Health Education. She is also the author of a self-published cookbook Local Wild Life: Turtle Lake Refuge’s Recipes for Living Deep (2009).

Publication Date: November 1, 2014 Pages: 368 Size: 7 X 10 Art Program: Full Color Throughout Rights Held: World

An Unlikely Vineyard: The Education of a Winegrower and the Quest for Terrior By Deirdre Heekin Book Description Is it possible to capture landscape in a bottle? To express the essence of place—the geology, geography, climate, and soil—as well as the skill of the winegrower? That’s exactly what Deirdre Heekin and her husband set out to do on their tiny, eight-acre hillside farm in south-central Vermont. Challenged by cold winters, wet summers, and other factors, they set about to grow not only a vineyard, but an orchard of heirloom apples, pears, and plums, as well as gardens filled with vegetables, herbs, roses, and wildflowers destined for their own table and for the kitchen of their small restaurant. They wanted to create, or rediscover, a sense of place, and to grow food naturally, using the philosophy and techniques of organics, permaculture, and biodynamic farming. Having traveled and lived in France and Italy, and finding so much respect for place-based traditions, they were sure it would be possible to recreate that lifestyle, and to explore “the notion that life can be lived in both work and play, in a way that offers an honest sustenance.”

An Unlikely Vineyard tells the story of their farm and its evolution, from overgrown fields to a fertile, productive, and beautiful landscape that melds with its natural environment. But the book is much more than that. It also presents, through the example of their farming journey and winegrowing endeavors, an impressive amount of information on how to think about almost every aspect of gardening: from composting to trellising; from cider and perry making to old garden roses; from pruning (or not) to dealing naturally with pests and diseases. Accompanied throughout by lush photos, this gentle narrative will appeal to anyone who loves food, farms, and living well. Author Bio Deirdre Heekin is the author of An Unlikely Vineyard. She is the proprietor and wine director of Osteria Pane e Salute, an acclaimed restaurant and wine bar in Woodstock, Vermont. Heekin and her husband and head chef Caleb Barber are the authors of In Late Winter We Ate Pears (Chelsea Green, 2009), and she is also the author of Libation: A Bitter Alchemy (Chelsea Green, 2009) and Pane e Salute (Invisible Cities Press, 2002). Heekin and her husband live on a small farm in Vermont, where they grown both the vegetables for their restaurant and natural wines and ciders for their la garagista label.

Publication Date: October 30, 2014 Pages: 368 Size: 7 X 10 Art Program: Full Color Throughout Rights Held: World

One-Straw Revolutionary: The Philosophy and Work of Masanobu Fukuoka By Larry Korn Book Description One-Straw Revolutionary represents the first commentary on the work of the late Japanese farmer and philosopher Masanobu Fukuoka (1913-2008), widely considered natural farming’s most influential practitioner. Mr. Fukuoka is perhaps most known for his bestselling book The One-Straw Revolution (1978), a manifesto about the importance of no-till agriculture, which was at the time of publication a radical challenge to the global systems that supply the world’s food, and still inspires readers today. Larry Korn, who was apprenticing with Mr. Fukuoka in Japan at the time, translated the manuscript and brought it to the United States, knowing it would change the conversation about food forever. The One-Straw Revolution was edited by Korn and Wendell Berry, was an immediate international success, and established Mr. Fukuoka as a leading voice in the fight against conventional industrial agriculture. In this new book, through his own personal narrative, Larry Korn distills his experience of more than 35 years of study with Mr. Fukuoka, living and working on his farm on Shikoku Island, traveling with Mr. Fukuoka to the United States on two six-week visits, and translating and editing his books, The One-Straw Revolution and more recently, Sowing Seeds in the Desert.

One-Straw Revolutionary is the first book to ever look deeply at natural farming and intimately discuss the philosophy and work of Mr. Fukuoka. In addition to giving his personal thoughts about natural farming, Korn broadens the discussion by pointing out natural farming’s kinship with the ways of indigenous cultures and traditional Japanese farming. At the same time, he clearly distinguishes natural farming from other forms of agriculture including scientific and organic agriculture, and permaculture. Korn also clarifies commonly-held misconceptions about natural farming in ways Western readers can readily understand. He also explains how natural farming can be practically used in areas other than agriculture, including personal growth and development.

The book follows the author on his travels from one back-to-the-land commune to another in the countryside of 1970s Japan, a journey that eventually led him to Mr. Fukuoka’s natural farm. Korn’s description of his time there, as well as traveling with Mr. Fukuoka during his visits to the United States, offers a rare, inside look at Mr. Fukuoka’s general demeanor and good-natured personality. Readers will delight in this very personal look at one of the world’s leading agricultural thinkers.

Author Bio Larry Korn is an American who lived and worked on the farm of Masanobu Fukuoka for more than two years in the early 1970s. He is translator and editor of the English language edition of Mr. Fukuoka’s, The One-Straw Revolution, and editor of his later book, Sowing Seeds in the Desert. Korn accompanied Mr. Fukuoka on his visits to the United States in 1979 and 1986. He studied Asian History, Soil Science, and Plant Nutrition at the University of California, Berkeley, and has worked in wholesale and retail plant nurseries, as a soil scientist for the California Department of Forestry, and as a residential landscape contractor in the San Francisco Bay Area. Korn has taught many courses about permaculture, natural farming, and local food production throughout the United States. He currently lives in Ashland, Oregon.

Publication Date: November 3, 2014 Pages: 224 Size: 5 1/2 X 8 1/2 Art Program: Color/B&W Throughout Rights Held: World

Defending Beef: The Manifesto of an Environmental Lawyer Turned Cattle Rancher By Nicolette Niman Hahn Book Description For decades it has been nearly universal dogma among environmentalists that livestock—goats, sheep, and others, but especially cattle—are Public Enemy Number One. They erode soils, pollute air and water, damage riparian areas, and decimate wildlife populations. The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization bolstered the credibility of this notion with its 2007 report that declared livestock to be the single largest contributor to human-generated climate-change emissions.

But is the matter really so clear cut? Hardly. In her new book, Defending Beef, environmental lawyer turned rancher Nicolette Hahn Niman argues that cattle are not inherently bad for the Earth. The impact of grazing can be either negative or positive, depending on how livestock are managed. In fact, with proper oversight livestock can actually play an essential role in maintaining grassland ecosystems by performing the same functions as the natural herbivores that once roamed and grazed there. Grounded in empirical scientific data, Defending Beef builds the most comprehensive and convincing argument to date that cattle could actually serve as the Earth’s greatest environmental benefactors by helping to build carbon-sequestering soils and prevent desertification.

Defending Beef is simultaneously a book about big issues and ideas and the personal tale of the author, who starts out as a skeptical vegetarian and eventually becomes involved with sustainable ranching. She shows how dispersed, grass-based, smaller-scale farms can and should become the basis for American food production. And while no single book could definitively answer the thorny question of how to feed the Earth’s growing population, Defending Beef makes the case that, whatever the world’s future food system looks like, livestock can and must be part of the solution. Author Bio Nicolette Hahn Niman is the author of Defending Beef. She previously served as senior attorney for the Waterkeeper Alliance, running their campaign to reform the concentrated production of livestock and poultry. In recent years she has gained a national reputation as an advocate for sustainable food production and improved farm animal welfare. She is the author of Righteous Porkchop (HarperCollins, 2009) and has written for numerous publications, including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Huffington Post, and The Atlantic online. She lives on a ranch in Bolinas, California, with her husband, Bill Niman, and their two sons, Miles and Nicholas.

Publication Date: November 4, 2014 Pages: 240 Size: 6 X 9 Art Program: Color/B&W Throughout Rights Held: World English

The Tao of Gardening: Cultivating Vegetables, Joy, and Serenity By Carol Deppe Book Description The Tao of Gardening explores the practical methods as well as the deeper essence of gardening. In her latest book, groundbreaking garden writer Carol Deppe (The Resilient Gardener, Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties) focuses on some of the most popular home garden vegetables—tomatoes, green beans, peas, and leafy greens—and through them illustrates the key principles and practices that gardeners need to know to successfully plant and grow just about any food crop.

Deppe’s work has long been inspired and informed by the philosophy and wisdom of Tao Te Ching, the 2,500-year-old work attributed to Chinese sage Lao Tzu and the most translated book in the world after the Bible. The Tao of Gardening is organized into chapters that echo fundamental Taoist concepts: Balance, Flexibility, Honoring the Essential Nature (your own and that of your plants), Effortless Effort, Non-Doing, and even Non-Knowing. Yet the book also offers a wealth of specific and valuable garden advice on topics as diverse as:

• The Eat-All Greens Garden, a labor- and space-efficient way to provide all the greens a family can eat, freeze, and dry—all on a tiny piece of land suitable for small-scale and urban gardeners. • The growing problem of late blight and the future of heirloom tomatoes—and what gardeners can do to avoid problems, and even create new resistant varieties. • Establishing a Do-It-Yourself Seed Bank, including information on preparing seeds for long-term storage and how to “dehybridize” hybrids. • 24 good places to not plant a tree, and 37 good reasons for not planting various vegetables.

Designed for gardeners of all levels, from beginners to experienced growers, The Tao of Gardening provides a unique frame of reference: a window to the world of nature, in the garden and in ourselves. Author Bio Oregon plant breeder Carol Deppe, author of The Tao of Gardening, holds a PhD in biology from Harvard University and specializes in developing public-domain crops for organic growing conditions, sustainable agriculture, and human survival for the next thousand years. Carol is author of The Resilient Gardener: Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times (Chelsea Green, 2010), Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties 2nd ed. (Chelsea Green, 2000), Tao Te Ching: A Window to the Tao through the Words of Lao Tzu (Fertile Valley Publishing, 2010), and Taoist Stories (Fertile Valley Publishing, 2014). Visit www.caroldeppe.com for articles and further adventures.

Publication Date: October 1, 2014 Pages: 432 Size: 8 X 10 Art Program: Full Color Throughout Rights Held: World English

Gardens Without Borders By Will Bonsall Book Description “Society does not generally expect its farmers to be visionaries.” Perhaps not, but long-time Maine farmer and homesteader Will Bonsall does possess a unique clarity of vision that extends all the way from the finer points of soil fertility and seed saving to exploring how we can transform civilization and make our world a better, more resilient place.

In Gardens without Borders, Bonsall maintains that to achieve real wealth we first need to understand the economy of the land, to realize that things which might make sense economically don’t always make sense ecologically, and vice versa. The marketplace distorts our values, and our modern dependence on petroleum in particular presents a serious barrier to creating a truly sustainable agriculture.

For him the solution is, first and foremost, greater self-reliance, especially in the areas of food and energy. By avoiding any off-farm inputs (fertilizers, minerals, and animal manures), Bonsall has learned how to practice a purely veganic, or plant-based agriculture—not from a strictly moralistic or philosophical perspective, but because it makes good business sense: Spend less instead of making more.

What this means in practical terms is that Bonsall draws upon the fertility of on-farm plant materials: compost, green manures, perennial grasses, and forest products like leaves and ramial wood chips. And he grows and harvests a diversity of crops from both cultivated and perennial crops: vegetables, grains, pulses, oilseeds, fruits and nuts—even uncommon but useful permaculture plants like groundnut (Apios).

In a friendly, almost conversational way, Bonsall imparts a wealth of knowledge drawn from his more than forty years of farming experience. “My goal,” he writes, “is not to feed the world, but to feed myself and let others feed themselves. If we all did that, it might be a good beginning.” Author Bio Will Bonsall is the author of Gardens without Borders. He has worn many hats before and since going “back to the land,” including prospector, draftsman, gravedigger, hobo, musician, logger, and artist, among others; however, he considers subsistence farming to be the only true career he ever had. He is the director of the Scatterseed Project, which he founded to help preserve our endangered crop plant diversity. His first book, Through the Eyes of a Stranger (Xlibris, 2010), is an eco-novel set in a sustainable society of the future. Will lives and farms in Industry, Maine, with his wife Molly Thorkildsen and two sons.

Publication Date: October 1, 2014 Pages: 432 Size: 8 X 10 Art Program: Full Color Throughout Rights Held: World

Growing Hybrid Hazelnuts: The New Resilient Crop for a Changing Climate By Philip Rutter, Susan Wiegrefe, and Brandon Rutter-Daywater Book Description Civilization is facing global threats like never before: Climate instability. Food insecurity. The endangered family farm. Water pollution and scarcity. Mass extinction. Transforming agricultural land into more secure, climate-stabilizing, water-filtering, wildlife-harboring farms would be positively transformative. There IS a way under development to do this in many temperate climates--hybrid hazelnuts.

Growing Hybrid Hazelnuts is the first comprehensive guide for farmers interested in how to get started growing hybrid hazelnuts, a crop that has been designed from the very outset to address a host of problems with conventional modern agriculture. Once hybrid hazelnuts are established, no plowing or even cultivation is necessary. No water runs off the fields because infiltration rates are dramatically improved, regardless of soil type. Tilling should not be necessary in moderately wet soils, and no fertilizer escapes into groundwater, because the crop has extensive permanent root systems, at work 365 days a year. No soil is lost to wind or rain; in fact this crop builds soil, and wildlife finds cover and food in hazelnuts all year. Economically speaking, hazelnuts have a large, existing, and unsatisfied world market, not to mention their processing potential is even greater than soybeans. They are, without a doubt, the ecological crop of the future. The first and only guide of its kind, Growing Hybrid Hazelnuts will appeal to small-scale and commercial farmers, both ones already familiar with concepts of perennial agriculture, and those interested in converting from conventional practices.

Author Bios Philip Rutter is the chief scientist, founder, and CEO of Badgersett Research Farm; Founding President of The American Chestnut Foundation; and Past President of the Northern Nut Growers Association. He is an Evolutionary Ecologist, with a Masters and “ABD” (All But Dissertaion of PhD) in Zoology, with a minor in Animal Behavior.

Dr. Susan Wiegrefe is Badgersett’s Research Associate. She has a PhD in Plant Breeding and Plant Genetics and taught Plant Propagation and Nursery Management for four years at the University of Wisconsin – River Falls. Co-incorporator and past president of the North American branch of The Maple Society.

Dr. Brandon Rutter-Daywater grew up on Badgersett Farm, eating some dirt but very few hazelnuts–they were all for seed! Dedicated to the long-term viability of the human race, and therefore our concomitant living things, his formal training is primarily in engineering and biologically inspired robotics.

Publication Date: December 8, 2014 Pages: 280 Size: 7 X 10 Art Program: Full Color Throughout Rights Held: World

Spring 2014

Integrated Forest Gardening: The Complete Guide to Polycultures and Plant Guilds in Permaculture Systems

Wayne Weiseman, Dan Halsey, and Bryce Ruddock August 1, 2014

The New Net Zero:

Leading-Edge Design and Construction of Homes and Buildings for a Renewable Energy Future Bill Maclay

June 24, 2014

Grass, Soil, Hope: A Journey Through Carbon Country

Courtney White June 10, 2014

Extracted:

How the Quest for Mineral Wealth Is Plundering the Planet Ugo Bardi

May 12, 2014

Let Water Do the Work: Induced Meandering, an Evolving Method for Restoring Incised Channels

Bill Zeedyk and Van Clothier May 5, 2014

Hemp Bound:

Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Next Agricultural Revolution Doug Fine

April 20, 2014

The Small-Scale Dairy: The Complete Guide to Milk Production for the Home and Market

Gianaclis Caldwell October 16, 2012

The Small-Scale Cheese Business:

The Complete Guide to Running a Successful Farmstead Creamery Gianaclis Caldwell September 23, 2013

Gene Everlasting:

A Contrary Farmer’s Thoughts on Living Forever Gene Logsdon

February 14, 2014

Integrated Forest Gardening: The Complete Guide to Polycultures and Plant Guilds in Permaculture Systems By Wayne Weiseman, Dan Halsey, and Bryce Ruddock Book Description Permaculture is a movement that is coming into its own, and the concept of creating plant guilds in permaculture is at the forefront of every farmer’s and gardener’s practice. One of the essential practices of permaculture is to develop perennial agricultural systems that thrive over several decades without expensive and harmful inputs: perennial plant guilds, food forests, agroforestry, and mixed animal and woody species polycultures.

The massive degradation of conventional agriculture and the environmental havoc it creates has never been as all pervasive in terms of scale, so it has become a global necessity to further the understanding of a comprehensive design and planning system such as permaculture that works with nature, not against it. The guild concept often used is one of a “functional relationship” between plants—beneficial groupings of plants that share functions in order to bring health and stability to a plant regime and create an abundant yield for our utilization.

This book is the first, and most comprehensive, guide about plant guilds ever written, and covers in detail both what guilds are and how to design and construct them, complete with extensive color photography and design illustrations. Included is information on:

• What we can observe about natural plant guilds in the wild and the importance of observation; • Detailed research on the structure of plant guilds, and a portrait of an oak tree (a guild unto itself); • Animal interactions with plant guilds; • Steps to guild design, construction, and dynamics: from assessment to design to implementation; • Fifteen detailed plant guilds, five each from the three authors based on their unique perspectives; • Guild project management: budgets, implementation, management, and maintenance. Author Bios Wayne Weiseman is certified by The Permaculture Institute of Australia and the Worldwide Permaculture Network as an instructor of the Permaculture Design Certificate Course.

Daniel Halsey is a certified permaculture designer and teacher for the Permaculture Research Institute. Daniel graduated from the University of Minnesota with a Bachelor of Science degree in Temperate Climate Polyculture Design has a Masters of Professional Studies degree in Horticulture.

Bryce Ruddock is certified as an instructor of Permaculture teaching by the Permaculture Institute USA, and Cascadia Permaculture Institute since 2010.

Publication Date: August 1, 2014 Pages: 416 Size: 8 X 10 Art Program: Full Color Throughout Rights Held: World

The New Net Zero: Leading-Edge Design and Construction of Homes and Buildings for a Renewable Energy Future

By Bill Maclay

Book Description The new threshold for green building is not just low energy, it’s net-zero energy. In The New Net Zero, sustainable architect Bill Maclay charts the path for designers and builders interested in exploring green design’s new frontier - net-zero-energy structures that produce as much energy as they consume and are carbon neutral.

In a nation where traditional buildings use roughly 40 percent of the total fossil energy, the interest in net-zero building is growing enormously—among both designers interested in addressing climate change and consumers interested in energy efficiency and long-term savings. Maclay, an award-winning net-zero designer whose buildings have achieved high-performance goals at affordable costs, makes the case for a net-zero future; explains net-zero building metrics, integrated design practices, and renewable energy options; and shares his lessons learned on net-zero team-building.

Designers and builders will find a wealth of state-of-the-art information on such considerations as air, water, and vapor barriers; embodied energy; residential and commercial net-zero standards; monitoring and commissioning; insulation options; costs; and more.

The comprehensive overview is accompanied by several case studies, which include institutional buildings, commercial projects, and residences. Both new building and renovation projects are covered in detail.

Geared toward professionals exploring net-zero design, but also suitable for nonprofessionals seeking ideas and strategies on net-zero options that are beautiful and renewably powered.

Author Bio Bill Maclay, founder and president of Maclay Architects, has been a lecturer and educator at colleges, universities, and conferences focused on environmental design. He is also past president of the Vermont Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), and has served on the board of directors of the Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility and the Yestermorrow Design/Build School, among other organizations.

Maclay and his firm have long been involved in research on all aspects of environmental design, including sustainable design, indoor air quality, building science, material selection, and related issues. Maclay committed to using renewable energy to create a non-fossil-fuel-based future in 1970. He developed, designed, and built one of the first renewable communities in the US, and his innovative renewable and energy-conserving projects have been exhibited and published internationally. Maclay Architects’ projects range from single-family residences to multifamily residential, commercial, and institutional projects.

Maclay has a BA from Williams College and a master of architecture from the University of Pennsylvania.

Maclay Architects is located in Waitsfield, Vermont.

Publication Date: June 24, 2014 Page Count: 464 Size: 10 X 10 Art Program: Full Color Throughout Rights Held: World

Grass, Soil, Hope: A Journey Through Carbon Country By Courtney White Foreword by Michael Pollan Book Description This book tackles an increasingly crucial question: What can we do about the seemingly intractable challenges confronting all of humanity today, including climate change, global hunger, water scarcity, environmental stress, and economic instability?

The quick answers are: Build topsoil. Fix creeks. Eat meat. Soil scientists maintain that a mere 2 percent increase in the carbon content of the planet’s soils could offset 100 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions going into the atmosphere. But how could this be accomplished? What would it cost? Is it even possible?

Yes, says author Courtney White, it is not only possible, but essential for the long-term health and sustainability of our environment and our economy. Right now, the only possibility of large-scale removal of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere is through plant photosynthesis and related land-based carbon sequestration activities. These include a range of already existing, low-tech, and proven practices: composting, no-till farming, climate-friendly livestock practices, conserving natural habitat, restoring degraded watersheds and rangelands, increasing biodiversity, and producing local food.

In Grass, Soil, Hope the author shows how all these practical strategies can be bundled together into an economic and ecological whole, with the aim of reducing atmospheric CO2 while producing substantial co-benefits for all living things. Soil is a huge natural sink for carbon dioxide. If we can draw increasing amounts carbon out of the atmosphere and store it safely in the soil then we can significantly address all the multiple challenges that now appear so intractable. Author Bio Courtney White is the author of Grass, Soil, Hope. A former archaeologist and Sierra Club activist, White dropped out of the “conflict industry” in 1997 to co-found The Quivira Coalition, a nonprofit dedicated to building bridges between ranchers, conservationists, public land managers, scientists and others around the idea of land health (www.quiviracoalition.org). Today, his work with Quivira concentrates on building economic and ecological resilience on working landscapes, with a special emphasis on carbon ranching and the new agrarian movement.

His writing has appeared in numerous publications, including Farming, Acres Magazine, Rangelands, the Natural Resources Journal and Solutions. His essay “The Working Wilderness: A Call for a Land Health Movement” was published by Wendell Berry in 2005 in his collection of essays titled The Way of Ignorance.

Courtney is the author of the book Revolution on the Range: the Rise of a New Ranch in the American West (Island Press, 2008) and he co-edited, with Dr. Rick Knight, Conservation for a New Generation, also published by Island Press in 2008.

In 2012, he published a collection of black-and-white photographs of the American West in an online book titled The Indelible West, which includes a foreword by Wallace Stegner.

He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with his family and a backyard full of chickens.

Publication Date: June 10, 2014 Pages: 272 Size: 6 X 9 Art Program: N/A Rights Held: World

Extracted: How the Quest for Mineral Wealth is Plundering the Planet By Ugo Bardi Foreword by Jorgen Randers Book Description As we dig, drill, and excavate to unearth the planet’s mineral bounty, the resources we exploit from ores, veins, seams, and wells are gradually becoming exhausted. Mineral treasures that took millions, or even billions, of years to form are now being squandered in just centuries—or sometimes just decades. Will there come a time when we actually run out of minerals? Debates already soar over how we are going to obtain energy without oil, coal, and gas. But what about the other mineral losses we face? Without metals, and semiconductors, how are we going to keep our industrial system running? Without mineral fertilizers and fuels, how are we going to produce the food we need?

Ugo Bardi delivers a sweeping history of the mining industry, starting with its humble beginning when our early ancestors started digging underground to find the stones they needed for their tools. He traces the links between mineral riches and empires, wars, and civilizations, and shows how mining in its various forms came to be one of the largest global industries. He also illustrates how the gigantic mining machine is now starting to show signs of difficulties. The easy mineral resources, the least expensive to extract and process, have been mostly exploited and depleted. There are plenty of minerals left to extract, but at higher costs and with increasing difficulties.

The effects of depletion take different forms and one may be the economic crisis that is gripping the world system. And depletion is not the only problem. Mining has a dark side—pollution—that takes many forms and delivers many consequences, including climate change.

The world we have been accustomed to, so far, was based on cheap mineral resources and on the ability of the ecosystem to absorb pollution without generating damage to human beings. Both conditions are rapidly disappearing. Having thoroughly plundered planet Earth, we are entering a new world. Bardi draws upon the world’s leading minerals experts to offer a compelling glimpse into that new world ahead.

Author Bio Ugo Bardi teaches physical chemistry at the University of Florence, in Italy. He is the author of several books and articles dedicated to mineral resources, with special attention to the systemic effects of resource depletion and climate change. His most recent book is The Limits to Growth Revisited. He is member of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil (ASPO), a scientific committee, and founder of the Italian section of the same association. He is member of Climalteranti, a group of scientists who are active in the dissemination of climate science in Italy. He also a fellow of the Winterthur International Centre of the Club of Rome, in Switzerland. He writes about resources, energy, and sustainability on his blog, Cassandra's Legacy, at www.cassandralegacy@blogspot.com

Publication Date: May 12, 2014 Page Count: 368 Size: 6 X 9 Art Program: B&W Throughout Rights Held: World English

Let Water Do the Work: Induced Meandering, an Evolving Method for Restoring Incised Channels By Bill Zeedyk and Van Clothier Book Description Let the Water Do the Work is an important contribution to riparian restoration. By "thinking like a creek," one can harness the regenerative power of floods to reshape stream banks and rebuild floodplains along gullied stream channels. Induced Meandering is an artful blend of the natural sciences - geomorphology, hydrology and ecology - which govern channel forming processes. Induced Meandering directly challenges the dominant paradigm of river and creek stabilization by promoting the intentional erosion of selected banks while fostering deposition of eroded materials on an evolving floodplain. The river self-heals as the growth of native riparian vegetation accelerates the meandering process.

Not all stream channel types are appropriate for Induced Meandering, yet the Induced Meandering philosophy of "going with the flow" can inform all stream restoration projects. Induced meandering strives to understand rivers as timeless entities governed by immutable rules serving their watersheds, setting their own timetables, and coping with their own realities as they carry mountains grain by grain to the sea. Anyone with an interest in natural resource management in these uncertain times should read this book and put these ideas to work. Author Bio Bill Zeedyk, innovator of the Induced Meandering concept and principal author of this book, brings a lifetime of experience in natural resource conservation to the practice of river, wetland and riparian restoration. Upon retiring from the U.S. Forest Service with thirty-four years experience in habitat management, Bill founded a small consulting business with the mission of motivating others by developing and advancing simple techniques for healing incised streams and gullied wetlands. He has prepared training materials and conducted numerous hands-on workshops involving professionals, laymen, and volunteers alike. His methods have been adopted by federal, state, and tribal agencies, landowners and conservation organizations, and acclaimed by teachers, scientists, and practitioners in the field.

Van Clothier is involved in stream, wetland, and water harvesting projects all over New Mexico and Southeast Arizona. He has a degree in physics from the University of California and is a student of Dr. David Rosgen. Van has been an apprentice of Bill Zeedyk since 2003 and his company, Stream Dynamics, Inc., provides consultation and on-the-ground work for water harvesting earthworks, stream and arroyo improvement, erosion control, and road maintenance.

Publication Date: May 5, 2014 Page Count: 272 Size: 8 1/2 X 11 Art Program: Full Color Throughout Rights Held: World

Hemp Bound: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Cannabis Economy By Doug Fine Book Description The stat sheet on hemp sounds almost too good to be true: its fibers are among the planet’s strongest, its seed oil the most nutritious, and its potential as an energy source vast and untapped. Its one downside? For nearly a century, it’s been illegal to grow industrial cannabis in the United States—even though Betsy Ross wove the nation’s first flag out of hemp fabric. But as the prohibition on its psychoactive cousin winds down, one of humanity’s longest-utilized plants is about to be reincorporated into the American economy. Get ready for the newest billion-dollar industry.

In Hemp Bound: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Cannabis Economy, bestselling author Doug Fine embarks on a humorous yet rigorous journey to meet the men and women who are testing, researching, and pioneering hemp’s applications for the twenty-first century. From Denver, where Fine hitches a ride in a hemp-powered limo; to Asheville, North Carolina, where carbon-negative hempcrete-insulated houses are sparking a mini housing boom; to Manitoba where he raps his knuckles on the hood of a hemp tractor; and finally to the fields of east Colorado, where practical farmers are looking toward hemp to restore their agricultural economy—Fine learns how eminently possible it is for this misunderstood plant to help us end dependence on fossil fuels, heal farm soils damaged after a century of growing monocultures, and bring more taxable revenue into the economy than its notorious relative.

Fine’s journey will not only leave you wondering why we ever stopped cultivating this miracle crop, it will fire you up to sow a field of it for yourself, and for the planet. Author Bio Doug Fine is a comedic investigative journalist, bestselling author and solar-powered goat herder. He has reported from five continents for the Washington Post, Wired, Salon, The New York Times, Outside, National Public Radio, and US News and World Report. His work from Burma was read into the Congressional Record (by none other than pro-hemp Senator Mitch McConnell) and he won more than a dozen Alaskan press club awards for his radio reporting from the Last Frontier. Fine is the author of three previous books: Too High to Fail: Cannabis and the New Green Economic Revolution, Farewell, My Subaru: An Epic Adventure in Local Living, and Not Really an Alaskan Mountain Man. A website of his print work, radio work and short films is at www.dougfine.com. Twitter: organiccowboy.

Publication Date: April 20, 2014 Pages: 144 Size: 5.5 X 7.5 Art Program: N/A Rights Held: World English

The Small-Scale Dairy: The Complete Guide to Running a Successful Farmstead Creamery By Gianaclis Caldwell Book Description The Small-Scale Dairy includes everything you need to know in order to successfully produce nourishing, healthy, farm-fresh milk. Whether for home use, direct sale to the consumer, or sale to an artisanal cheesemaker, high-quality raw milk is a delicate, desirable product. Successful and sustainable production requires the producer to consider and tackle many details, ranging from animal care to microbiology to good hygienic practices—and, for those with commercial aspirations, business plans, market savvy, and knowledge of the regulations.

Applicable to keepers of cows, goats, or sheep, The Small-Scale Dairy offers a holistic approach that explores the relationships between careful, conscientious management and the production of safe, healthy, and delicious milk. A historical overview offers readers a balanced perspective on the current regulatory environment in which raw milk lovers find themselves.

Included are options for designing a well-functioning small dairy, choosing equipment, and understanding myriad processes—such as the use of low-temperature pasteurization where raw milk sales are prohibited. Whether you have a one-cow home dairy, a fifty-goat operation, or are simply a curious consumer, The Small-Scale Dairy is an accessible and invaluable resource for achieving your goals.

Author Bio Gianaclis’s aged, raw-milk cheeses have been recognized and applauded by America’s foremost authorities on cheese. Pholia Farm cheeses have been included in many major books on artisan cheese, the latest being Max McCalman's Mastering Cheese, in which her Elk Mountain cheese is included in a short list of "rock stars of the 21st century." Her Hillis Peak cheese was the centerfold cheese in the winter 2010 issue of Culture Magazine. She was one of the spotlighted cheesemakers in a recent publication, Cheesemaking, by Hobby Farms magazine for their Popular Kitchen Series. She has been teaching all levels of cheesemaking for years, as well as speaking and teaching about the business of farmstead cheese, both at Pholia Farm and other venues, including the American Dairy Goat Association annual convention, the American Cheese Society Conference, and the Mother Earth News fairs. Caldwell is the author of The Small-Scale Cheese Business, a guide to building and running a small, on-farm creamery, and Mastering Artisan Cheesemaking, which won a 2013 Foreword Book of the Year Award in reference and was an International Association of Culinary Professionals Awards finalist.

Publication Date: October 16, 2012 Pages: 232 Size: 7 X 10 Art Program: Full Color Throughout Rights Held: World

The Small-Scale Cheese Business: The Complete Guide to Running a Successful Farmstead Creamery By Gianaclis Caldwell Book Description There has never been a better time to be making and selling great cheese. People worldwide are consuming more high-quality, handmade cheese than ever before. Today, more than ever before, the people who choose to become farmer-cheesemakers need access to the knowledge of established cheese artisans who can help them build their dream.

Few career choices lead to such extremes of labor, emotion, and monetary challenge. In The Small-Scale Cheese Business (originally published in 2010 as The Farmstead Creamery Advisor), respected cheesemaker, instructor, and speaker Gianaclis Caldwell walks would-be producers through the many, and often confusing, steps and decisions they will face when considering a career in this burgeoning cottage industry. This book fills the gap that exists between the pasture and cheese plate.

Drawing from her own and other cheesemakers’ experiences, Caldwell brings to life the story of creating a successful cheesemaking business in a practical, organized manner. Absolutely essential for anyone interested in becoming a licensed artisan cheesemaker, The Small-Scale Cheese Business will also appeal to the many small and hobby-farm owners who already have milking animals and who wish to improve their home dairy practices and facilities.

Author Bio Gianaclis’s aged, raw-milk cheeses have been recognized and applauded by America’s foremost authorities on cheese. Pholia Farm cheeses have been included in many major books on artisan cheese, the latest being Max McCalman's Mastering Cheese, in which her Elk Mountain cheese is included in a short list of “rock stars of the 21st century.” She was one of the spotlighted cheesemakers in a recent publication, Cheesemaking, by Hobby Farms magazine for their Popular Kitchen Series. She has been teaching all levels of cheesemaking for years, as well as speaking and teaching about the business of farmstead cheese, both at Pholia Farm and other venues, including the American Dairy Goat Association annual convention, the American Cheese Society Conference, and the Mother Earth News fairs. Caldwell is the author of The Small-Scale Cheese Business, a guide to building and running a small, on-farm creamery, and Mastering Artisan Cheesemaking, which won a 2013 Foreword Book of the Year Award in reference and was an International Association of Culinary Professionals Awards finalist.

Publication Date: September 23, 2013 Pages: 256 Size: 7 X 10 Art Program: N/A Rights Held: World

Gene Everlasting: A Contrary Farmer’s Thoughts on Living Forever

By Gene Logsdon

Book Description “Once one decides that there is no such thing as death but only a change in life form, the clutching paranoid fear of it begins to fade,” writes Gene Logsdon. Gene Everlasting contains his reflections, by turns both humorous and heart-wrenching, on nature, death, and eternity, all from a contrary farmer’s perspective. He recounts joys and tragedies from his childhood in the 1930s and 40s spent on an Ohio farm, through adulthood and child-raising, all the way up to his recent bout with cancer, with an eye toward the lessons that farming has taught him about life and its mysteries. Whether his subject is parsnips, irises, buzzards, or compound interest, Logsdon generously applies as much heart and wit to his words as he does to his fields.

Author Bio A prolific nonfiction writer, novelist, and journalist, Gene Logsdon has published more than two dozen books, both practical and philosophical. Gene’s nonfiction works include A Sanctuary of Trees, Holy Shit, Small-Scale Grain Raising, Living at Nature’s Pace, and The Contrary Farmer. His most recent novel is Pope Mary and the Church of Almighty Good Food. He writes a popular blog, The Contrary Farmer, as well as an award-winning column for the Carey (OH) Progressor Times, and is a regular contributor to Farming magazine and Draft Horse Journal. He lives and farms in Upper Sandusky, Ohio.

Publication Date: February 14, 2014 Page Count: 160 Size: 5.5 X 8.5 Art Program: N/A Rights Held: World

Featured Backlist Titles

Paradise Lot: Two Plant Geeks, One Tenth of an Acre and The Making of an Edible Garden Oasis in the City

Eric Toensmeier and Jonathan Bates

Good Morning Beautiful Business: The Unexpected Journey of an Activist Entrepreneur and Local-Economy Pioneer

Judy Wicks

Marijuana is Safer, Updated and Expanded Edition: So Why Are We Driving People to Drink?

Steve Fox, Paul Armentano, and Mason Tvert

The Zero Waste Solution: Untrashing the Planet One Community at a Time

Paul Connett

2052: A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years Jorgen Randers

Reinventing Fire:

Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era Amory Lovins and Rocky Mountain Institute

Gaia’s Garden, Second Edition:

A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture Toby Hemenway

Thinking in Systems:

A Primer Donella Meadows

Wild Fermentation:

The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-Culture Foods Sandor Ellix Katz

Paradise Lot: Two Plant Geeks, One Tenth of an Acre and The Making of an Edible Garden Oasis in the City By Eric Toensmeier and Jonathan Bates Book Description When Eric Toensmeier and Jonathan Bates moved into a duplex in a run-down part of Holyoke, Massachusetts, the tenth-of-an-acre lot was barren ground and bad soil, peppered with broken pieces of concrete, asphalt, and brick. The two friends got to work designing what would become not just another urban farm, but a “permaculture paradise” replete with perennial broccoli, paw paws, bananas, and moringa—all told, more than two hundred low-maintenance edible plants in an innovative food forest on a small city lot. The garden—intended to function like a natural ecosystem with the plants themselves providing most of the garden’s needs for fertility, pest control, and weed suppression—also features an edible water garden, a year-round unheated greenhouse, tropical crops, urban poultry, and even silkworms.

In telling the story of Paradise Lot, Toensmeier explains the principles and practices of permaculture, the choice of exotic and unusual food plants, the techniques of design and cultivation, and, of course, the adventures, mistakes, and do-overs in the process. Packed full of detailed, useful information about designing a highly productive permaculture garden, Paradise Lot is also a funny and charming story of two single guys, both plant nerds, with a wild plan: to realize the garden of their dreams and meet women to share it with. Amazingly, on both counts, they succeed. Author Bios Eric Toensmeier has studied and practiced permaculture since 1990. He is the author of Perennial Vegetables and coauthor of Edible Forest Gardens with Dave Jacke. Toensmeier has workedas a small-farm trainer at the New England Small Farm Institute, has managed the Tierra de portunidades new-farmer program of Nuestras Raices, and is a graduate and former faculty member of the Institute for Social Ecology in Plainfield, Vermont. His current interest is in large-scale permaculture farming as a carbon-sequestering solution to climate change. Toensmeier’s writing, consulting, and teaching business is based at www.perennialsolutions.org, where he posts his latest articles and videos. He lives in Holyoke, Massachusetts.

Jonathan Bates owns Food Forest Farm Permaculture Nursery (permaculturenursery.com), a nursery specializing in educational services and useful/edible plant sales. He’s been studying, creating, and working with rural and urban gardens in the Connecticut River Valley for over a decade. With a bachelor’s degree in biology and an MA in social ecology from the Institute for Social Ecology, Jonathan loves wildcrafting with friends and working with folks to better the world we live in. He cofounded and is a board member of the Apios Institute, is a teacher at the Yestermorrow Design/Build School, and is a farmer with Nuestras Raices, Inc. He lives in Holyoke, Massachusetts.

Publication Date: March 4, 2013 Size: 6 X 9 Art Program: Color Inserts Rights Held: World

Good Morning, Beautiful Business: The Unexpected Journey of an Activist Entrepreneur and Local-Economy Pioneer By Judy Wicks Book Description It's not often that someone stumbles into entrepreneurship and ends up reviving a community and starting a national economic-reform movement. But that’s what happened when, in 1983, Judy Wicks founded the White Dog Cafe. After helping to save her block from demolition, Judy grew what began as a tiny muffin shop into a 200-seat restaurant—one of the first to feature local, organic, and humane food. The restaurant blossomed into a regional hub for community, and a national powerhouse for modeling socially responsible business.

Good Morning, Beautiful Business is a memoir about the evolution of an entrepreneur who would not only change her neighborhood, but would also change her world—helping communities far and wide create local living economies that value people and place as much as commerce and that make communities not just interesting, diverse, and prosperous, but also resilient.

Wicks recounts a girlhood coming of age in the sixties, a stint working in an Alaska Eskimo village in the seventies, her experience cofounding the first Free People store, her accidental entry into the world of restauranteering, the emergence of the celebrated White Dog Cafe;, and her eventual role as an international leader and speaker in the local-living-economies movement. Her memoir traces the roots of her career - exploring what it takes to marry social change and commerce, and do business differently. Passionate, fun, and inspirational, Good Morning, Beautiful Business explores the way women, and men, can follow both mind and heart, do what’s right, and do well by doing good. Author Bio An international leader and speaker in the local-living-economies movement, Judy Wicks is former owner of the White Dog Cafe, acclaimed for its socially and environmentally responsible business practices. She is also cofounder of the nationwide Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE), as well as founder of the Sustainable Business Network of Greater Philadelphia and Fair Food - both incubated at the White Dog Café Foundation and supported by the restaurant's profits.

Her work has earned numerous awards, including the James Beard Foundation Humanitarian of the Year Award, the International Association of Culinary Professionals Humanitarian Award and the Women Chefs and Restaurateurs Lifetime Achievement Award.

Publication Date: March 6, 2013 Page Count: 320 Size: 6 X 9 Art Program: Color Insert Endorsements, reviews, video, and press kit: http://media.chelseagreen.com/good-morning-beautiful-business/ Rights Held: World

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Marijuana Is Safer, Updated and Expanded Edition: So Why Are We Driving People to Drink? By Steve Fox, Paul Armentano, and Mason Tvert Foreword by Norm Stamper Book Description In 2012, voters in Colorado shocked the political establishment by making the use of marijuana legal for anyone in the state twenty-one years of age or older. In the wake of that unprecedented victory, nationally recognized marijuana-policy experts Steve Fox, Paul Armentano, and Mason Tvert revisit the “Marijuana Is Safer” message that contributed to the campaign’s success - as the first edition of this book predicted it would in 2009. In this updated and revised edition, the authors include a new chapter on the victory in Colorado and updates on a growing mountain of research that supports their position. Through an objective examination of marijuana and alcohol, and the laws and social practices that steer people toward the latter, the authors pose a simple yet rarely considered question: Why do we punish adults who make the rational, safer choice to use marijuana instead of alcohol? For those unfamiliar with marijuana, Marijuana Is Safer provides an introduction to the cannabis plant and its effects on the user, and debunks some of the government's most frequently cited marijuana myths. Author Bios Steve Fox is the national policy director for the Marijuana Policy Project (MPP), the nation’s largest organization dedicated to reforming marijuana laws. In this role, he oversees MPP’s ballot-initiative work and its federal lobbying efforts. He also serves as the director of government relations for the National Cannabis Industry Association. Fox cofounded Safer Alternative for Enjoyable Recreation (SAFER) in 2005 and has helped guide its operations since its inception. He is a graduate of Tufts University and Boston College Law School and currently lives in Maryland with his wife and two daughters. Paul Armentano is the deputy director of NORML (National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws) and the NORML Foundation. He also serves on the faculty of Oaksterdam University in Oakland, California. A recognized national expert in marijuana policy, health, and pharmacology, he has spoken at dozens of national conferences and legal seminars and has testified before state legislatures and federal agencies. His writing has appeared in over 750 publications, including over a dozen textbooks and anthologies. Armentano is the 2008 recipient of the Project Censored Real News Award for Outstanding Investigative Journalism. He currently lives in California with his wife and son. Mason Tvert is the director of communications for the Marijuana Policy Project and a cofounder of and former executive director of SAFER. He codirected the campaign in support of the successful 2012 ballot initiative to regulate marijuana like alcohol in Colorado. The Denver Post named him Colorado’s “Top Thinker” of 2012 in the category of politics and government, and he was recognized as 2012 Freedom Fighter of the Year by High Times magazine. He currently resides in Denver.

Publication Date: September 1, 2013 Pages: 256 Size: 5 3/8 X 8 3/8 Art Program: N/A Endorsements, reviews, videos, and press kit: http://media.chelseagreen.com/marijuana-is-safer-updated-and-expanded-edition/ Rights Held: World Rights Sold:

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The Zero Waste Solution: Untrashing the Planet One Community at a Time How cities and towns around the world are saying no to incinerators and wasteful product design, and yes to radical recycling, reuse entrepreneurs, and the jobs they create By Paul Connett Foreword by Jeremy Irons Book Description Scientist-turned-activist Paul Connett, a leading international figure in decades-long battles to fight pollution, has championed efforts to curtail over-consumption and keep industrial toxins out of our air, drinking water, and bodies. But he’s best known around the world for leading efforts to help communities deal with their waste in sustainable ways—in other words, to eliminate and reuse waste rather than burn it or stow it away in landfills. In The Zero Waste Solution, Connett profiles the most successful zero-waste initiatives around the world, showing activists, planners, and entrepreneurs how to re-envision their community’s waste-handling process—by consuming less, turning organic waste into compost, recycling, reusing other waste, demanding nonwasteful product design, and creating jobs and bringing community members together in the process. It also gives detailed information on how communities can battle incineration projects that, even at their best, emit dangerous particles into the atmosphere. Waste is something we all make every day but often pay little attention to. That’s changing, and model programs in California, Italy, and elsewhere around the globe show the many different ways a community can strive for, and achieve, zero-waste status. This is an important toolkit for anyone interested in creating sustainable communities, generating secure local jobs, and keeping toxic alternatives at bay. Author Bio Dr. Paul Connett, author of The Case Against Fluoride, is the director of the Fluoride Action Network (FAN) and the executive director of its parent body, the American Environmental Health Studies Project (AEHSP). He has spoken and given more than 2,000 presentations in forty-nine states and sixty countries on the issue of waste management. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Cambridge and a PhD in chemistry from Dartmouth College and is a retired professor of environmental chemistry and toxicology at St. Lawrence University. He lives in Binghamton, New York.

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2052: A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years By Jorgen Randers Book Description Forty years ago, The Limits to Growth study addressed the grand question of how humans would adapt to the physical limitations of planet Earth. It predicted that during the first half of the 21st century the ongoing growth in the human ecological footprint would stop—either through catastrophic “overshoot and collapse”—or through well-managed “peak and decline.”

So, where are we now? And what does our future look like? In the book 2052, Jorgen Randers, one of the co-authors of Limits to Growth, issues a progress report and makes a forecast for the next forty years. To do this, he asked dozens of experts to weigh in with their best predictions on how our economies, energy supplies, natural resources, climate, food, fisheries, militaries, political divisions, cities, psyches, and more will take shape in the coming decades. He then synthesized those scenarios into a global forecast of life as we will most likely know it in the years ahead.

The good news: we will see impressive advances in resource efficiency, and an increasing focus on human well being rather than on per capita income growth. But this change might not come as we expect. Future growth in population and GDP, for instance, will be constrained in surprising ways—by rapid fertility decline as result of increased urbanization, productivity decline as a result of social unrest, and continuing poverty among the poorest 2 billion world citizens. Runaway global warming, too, is likely.

So, how do we prepare for the years ahead? With heart, fact, and wisdom, Randers guides us along a realistic path into the future and discusses what readers can do to ensure a better life for themselves and their children during the increasing turmoil of the next forty years. Author Bio Jorgen Randers is professor of climate strategy at the BI Norwegian Business School, where he works on climate issues and scenario analysis. He was previously president of BI and deputy director general of WWF International (World Wildlife Fund) in Switzerland. He lectures internationally on sustainable development and especially climate, and is a nonexecutive member of a number of corporate boards. He sits on the sustainability councils of British Telecom in the UK and the Dow Chemical Company in the United States. In 2006 he chaired the cabinet-appointed Commission on Low Greenhouse Gas Emissions, which reported on how Norway can cut its climate gas emissions by two-thirds by 2050. Randers has written numerous books and scientific papers, and was coauthor of The Limits to Growth in 1972, Beyond the Limits in 1992, and Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update in 2004.

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Reinventing Fire: Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era By Amory Lovins and Rocky Mountain Institute “A wise, detailed, and comprehensive blueprint.” —President Bill Clinton Book Description Oil and coal have built our civilization, created our wealth, and enriched the lives of billions. Yet their rising costs to our security, economy, health, and environment now outweigh their benefits. Moreover, that long-awaited energy tipping point—where alternatives work better than oil and coal and compete purely on cost—is no longer decades in the future. It is here and now. And it is the fulcrum of economic transformation.

A global clean energy race has emerged with astounding speed. The ability to operate without fossil fuels will define winners and losers in business—and among nations.

Now, in Reinventing Fire, Amory Lovins and Rocky Mountain Institute offer a new vision to revitalize business models and win the clean energy race—not forced by public policy but led by business for enduring profit. Grounded in 30 years’ practical experience, this ground-breaking, peer-reviewed analysis integrates market-based solutions across transportation, buildings, industry, and electricity. It maps pathways and competitive strategies for a 158%-bigger 2050 U.S. economy that needs no oil, no coal, no nuclear energy, one-third less natural gas, and no new inventions. Reinventing Fire charts a pragmatic course that makes sense and makes money. Author Bio Amory Lovins is among the world’s leading experts on energy and its links with economy, security, development, and environment. He has advised the energy and other industries for four decades, as well as the U.S. departments of energy and defense. His work in more than fifty countries has been recognized by the “Alternative Nobel,” Zayed, Blue Planet, Volvo, Onassis, Nissan, Shingo, and Mitchell Prizes, the Benjamin Franklin and Happold Medals, MacArthur and Ashoka Fellowships, eleven honorary doctorates, and the Heinz, Lindbergh, Time Hero for the Planet, National Design, and World Technology Awards. An honorary U.S. architect, Swedish engineering academician, and former Oxford don, he has taught at nine universities. Among his thirty previous books are Small Is Profitable, Winning the Oil Endgame, and the coauthored business classic Natural Capitalism. Lovins was named one of Time’s 100 most influential people in the world and Foreign Policy’s 100 top global thinkers. He is cofounder, chairman, and chief scientist of Rocky Mountain Institute.

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Gaia’s Garden, Second Edition A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture By Toby Hemenway Book Description The first edition of Gaia’s Garden sparked the imagination of America’s home gardeners, introducing permaculture’s central message: Working with Nature, not against her, results in more beautiful, abundant, and forgiving gardens. This extensively revised and expanded second edition broadens the reach and depth of the permaculture approach for urban and suburban growers. Many people mistakenly think that ecological gardening—which involves growing a wide range of edible and other useful plants—can take place only on a large, multiacre scale. As Hemenway demonstrates, it’s fun and easy to create a “backyard ecosystem” by assembling communities of plants that can work cooperatively and perform a variety of functions, including:

• Building and maintaining soil fertility and structure • Catching and conserving water in the landscape • Providing habitat for beneficial insects, birds, and animals • Growing an edible “forest” that yields seasonal fruits, nuts, and other

foods This revised and updated edition also features a new chapter on

urban permaculture, designed especially for people in cities and suburbs who have very limited growing space. Whatever size yard or garden you have to work with, you can apply basic permaculture principles to make it more diverse, more natural, more productive, and more beautiful. Best of all, once it’s established, an ecological garden will reduce or eliminate most of the backbreaking work that’s needed to maintain the typical lawn and garden.

Author Bio Toby Hemenway is the author of the first major North American book on permaculture, Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, and an adjunct assistant professor at Portland State University. He wrote the foreword for Heather C. Flores' Food Not Lawns.

After obtaining a degree in biology from Tufts University, Toby worked for many years as a researcher in genetics and immunology, first in academic laboratories including Harvard and the University of Washington in Seattle, and then at Immunex, a major medical biotech company. At about the time he was growing dissatisfied with the direction biotechnology was taking, he discovered permaculture, a design approach based on ecological principles that creates sustainable landscapes, homes, and workplaces. A career change followed, and Toby and his wife spent ten years creating a rural permaculture site in southern Oregon. He was associate editor of Permaculture Activist, a journal of ecological design and sustainable culture, from 1999 to 2004. His current project is developing urban sustainability resources in Portland, Oregon, where he now lives. He teaches permaculture and consults and lectures on ecological design throughout the country. His writing has appeared in magazines such as Whole Earth Review, Natural Home, and Kitchen Gardener. He is available for workshops, lectures, and consulting in ecological design.

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Thinking in Systems: A Primer By Donella Meadows Book Description In the years following her role as the lead author of the international bestseller, Limits to Growth—the first book to show the consequences of unchecked growth on a finite planet— Donella Meadows remained a pioneer of environmental and social analysis until her untimely death in 2001. Meadows’ newly released manuscript, Thinking in Systems, is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global. Some of the biggest problems facing the world—war, hunger, poverty, and environmental degradation—are essentially system failures. They cannot be solved by fixing one piece in isolation from the others, because even seemingly minor details have enormous power to undermine the best efforts of too-narrow thinking. While readers will learn the conceptual tools and methods of systems thinking, the heart of the book is grander than methodology. Donella Meadows was known as much for nurturing positive outcomes as she was for delving into the science behind global dilemmas. She reminds readers to pay attention to what is important, not just what is quantifiable, to stay humble, and to stay a learner. In a world growing ever more complicated, crowded, and interdependent, Thinking in Systems helps readers avoid confusion and helplessness, the first step toward finding proactive and effective solutions. Author Bio A woman whose pioneering work in the 1970s still makes front-page news, Donella Meadows was a scientist, author, teacher, and farmer widely considered ahead of her time. She was one of the world's foremost systems analysts and lead author of the influential Limits to Growth—the 1972 book on global trends in population, economics, and the environment that was translated into 28 languages and became an international bestseller. That book launched a worldwide debate on the earth's capacity to withstand constant human development and expansion. Twenty years later, she and co-authors Dennis Meadows and Jorgen Randers reported on their follow-up study in Beyond the Limits and a final revision of their research, Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update, was published in 2004. To many, Meadows is most remembered for her weekly, nationally syndicated column, "The Global Citizen," which ran for 16 years and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. She was the founder of the Sustainability Institute, cofounder of the International Network of Resource Information Centers (INRIC, also called the Balaton Group), and a generally recognized leader in getting people at all levels of society, government, and business to think differently, understand systems, and strive for sustainability.

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Wild Fermentation: The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-Culture Foods By Sandor Katz Foreword by Sally Fallon Over 100,000 copies sold domestically Book Description Bread. Cheese. Wine. Beer. Coffee. Chocolate. Most people consume fermented foods and drinks every day. For thousands of years, humans have enjoyed the distinctive flavors and nutrition resulting from the transformative power of microscopic bacteria and fungi. Wild Fermentation: The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-Culture Foods is the first cookbook to widely explore the culinary magic of fermentation. “Fermentation has been an important journey of discovery for me,” writes author Sandor Ellix Katz. “I invite you to join me along this effervescent path, well trodden for thousands of years yet largely forgotten in our time and place, bypassed by the superhighway of industrial food production.” The flavors of fermentation are compelling and complex, quite literally alive. This book takes readers on a whirlwind trip through the wide world of fermentation, providing readers with basic and delicious recipes-some familiar, others exotic-that are easy to make at home. The book covers vegetable ferments such as sauerkraut, kimchi, and sour pickles; bean ferments including miso, tempeh, dosas, and idli; dairy ferments including yogurt, kefir, and basic cheesemaking (as well as vegan alternatives); sourdough bread-making; other grain fermentations from Cherokee, African, Japanese, and Russian traditions; extremely simple wine- and beer-making (as well as cider-, mead-, and champagne-making) techniques; and vinegar-making. With nearly 100 recipes, this is the most comprehensive and wide-ranging fermentation cookbook ever published. Author Bio Sandor Ellix Katz is a self-taught fermentation experimentalist. He wrote Wild Fermentation: The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-Culture Foods—which Newsweek called "the fermenting bible"—in order to share the fermentation wisdom he had learned, and demystify home fermentation. Since the book's publication in 2004, Katz has taught hundreds of fermentation workshops across North America and beyond, taking on a role he describes as a "fermentation revivalist."

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