What’s most ironic about Gary Kleppel’s plea for sustainable agriculture is that he’s merely asking us to do what was done for thousands of years in the years before chemicals and industrialization dominated the fields: keep it natural, diverse, and local. Kleppel sees his … [Read more...] about Clear Thinking About Sustainable Agriculture: Gary Kleppel’s The Emergent Agriculture
Book Reviews
Good Garden Bugs: Everything You Need to Know About Beneficial Predatory Insects
Garden pests like aphids, cucumber beetles and spider mites can wreak havoc on a garden, leading to withered or weakened plants. But not all bugs are a menace to your yard. In Good Garden Bugs: Everything You Need to Know About Beneficial Predatory Insects (Quarry Books, … [Read more...] about Good Garden Bugs: Everything You Need to Know About Beneficial Predatory Insects
Kristin Kimball’s Good Husbandry: Food at the Center of Life as a Marriage Matures
Good Husbandry: Growing Food, Love, and Family on Essex Farm by Kristin Kimball (Scribner, New York, New York, 2019) is a follow-up to Kimball’s first book, The Dirty Life: A Memoir of Farming, Food, and Love, which came out in 2011. The Dirty Life described how Kimball and her … [Read more...] about Kristin Kimball’s Good Husbandry: Food at the Center of Life as a Marriage Matures
Cultivating Customers For the Bounty of Small Farms: Strategies For Economic Survival
Making a living as a farmer isn’t easy. Small farms have so much work on their plates, adding marketing into the mix may seem like an impossible task. But taking the time to make a farm more visible to consumers and to grow the businesses is a vital task for economic … [Read more...] about Cultivating Customers For the Bounty of Small Farms: Strategies For Economic Survival
Reaching Well Beyond Wheat Flour, Sugar & Dairy: Sean Sherman’s The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen
Many are the cookbooks that are underlain by themes or contain winsome backstories, but far less common is a cookbook in which the backstory holds its own with - and imparts meaning to - the recipes. The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen by Sean Sherman with Beth Dooley (University … [Read more...] about Reaching Well Beyond Wheat Flour, Sugar & Dairy: Sean Sherman’s The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen
