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THE NOURISHING HOMESTEAD
One Back-to-the Land Familys Plan forCultivating Soil, Skills, and Spirit
Ben Hewitt with Penny Hewitt
$29.95 | Paperback | 352 pgs.
200 full-color images throughout
ISBN 9781603585514Available January 2015
The Nourishing Homesteadtells the storyof how we can create truly satisfying,permanent, nourished relationships to the
and, nature, and one another. Ben and Penny Hewitt offer practicalways to grow nutrient-dense, nourishing food on a small plot of land,nd will encourage people to think about their farm, homestead,r home as an ecosystem. The Hewitts story is reminiscent of The
Good Life, by Helen and Scott Nearing, and is sure to inspire a neweneration of homesteaders, or anyone seeking a simpler way of lifend a deeper connection to the world.
Ben Hewittis the author of The Town That Food Savedand HomeGrown. Ben and Penny Hewitt consult frequently on homestead-cale production and processing of nutrient-dense foods, as well asomestead planning, design, and implementation. They also offer
workshops in a wide variety of traditional land skills.
THE OCCIDENTAL ARTS AND
ECOLOGY COOKBOOK
Fresh-from-the-Garden Recipes forGatherings Large and Small
The OAEC Collective withOlivia Rathbone
$40.00 | Hardcover, PLC | 416 pgs.
250 color images throughout
ISBN 9781603585132
Available March 2015
The Occidental Arts and Ecology Center Cookbook is a collection ofnventive recipes from the renowned farm, educational retreat center,nd ecothinktank nestled in the hills of western Sonoma County,
California. This beautifully illustrated cookbook includes 204 uniquend delicious vegetarian recipes with ingredients from all seasons of the
arden (including weeds, owers, herbs, nuts, fruits, mushrooms, andther forages), and offers samples of seasonal menus to inspire cooksven as their gardens appear most dormant. Each recipe also includesuantities and measurements specically for cooking for a crowd.
The Occidental Arts and Ecology Center (OAEC) serves as amodel of sustainability for the greater San Francisco Bay Area andn inspiring meeting place for social changemakers from around the
world. OAEC is well-respected in the nonprot world for its dedicationo participatory decision making, so in true collaborative fashion, thisook is written with input from many voices including current and
ormer residents, cooks, artists, gardeners, educators, and visionaries.
THE ART OF NATURAL
CHEESEMAKINGUsing Traditional, Non-Industrial Methand Raw Ingredients to Make the WorBest Cheeses
David AsherForeword by Sandor Ellix Katz
$34.95 | Paperback | 320 pgs.
100 color photographs, illustrations
ISBN 9781603585781 | Available July 2
Asher practices and preaches a traditional, but increasinglycountercultural, way of making cheeseone that is natural andintuitive, grounded in ecological principles and biological scienceThis is also the rst cheesemaking book to take a political stanceagainst Big Dairy and to criticize standard industrial and artisanalcheese making practices, and may very well change the way we loat cheese, and how we make it ourselves.
David Asher is an organic farmer, goatherd, and farmsteadcheesemaker, who lives in the Gulf Islands of British Columbia.A guerrilla cheesemaker, Asher explores traditionally cultured,noncorporate methods of cheesemaking.
WHAT WE THINK ABOUT WHE
WE TRY NOT TO THINK ABOU
GLOBAL WARMING
Toward a New Psychology of
Climate ActionPer Espen Stoknes
$24.95 | Paperback | 320 pgs.
ISBN 9781603585835 | Available April 2
A leader in the emerging climate-psychology eld, Stoknes helps readerunderstand the psychology behind ourdiverse reactions to climate change,
exposes the barriers to accepting and acting upon what we knowabout climate change, and guides us to designing campaigns andapproaches that work with, not against, human nature. This book of interest whether you are working on the front lines of the climaissue, immersed in the science, trying to make policy or educate
the public, or just an average person trying to make sense of thecognitive dissonance or cope with the despair that comes with sulooming issue.
Per Espen Stoknes is a psychologist and an economist. Anentrepreneur, he has cofounded clean-energy companies, and hespearheads the BI Norwegian Business Schools executive prograon green growth. He has previously worked both as a clinical andorganizational psychologist and as an advisor in scenario planningto a wide range of major national and international businesses,government agencies, and nonprot institutions. He has written thbooks, including Money and Soul.
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A MAN APART
Bill Coperthwaites RadicalExperiment in Living
Peter Forbes and Helen Whybrow
$35.00 | Hardcover | 256 pgs. | full-color
photos throughout | ISBN 9781603585477
Available February 2015
A Man Apartpart memoir and partiographyis the story of Peter Forbes, Helen Whybrow, and their
amilys longtime friendship with Bill Coperthwaite (A Handmadeife) whose unusual life and erce ideals helped others examinend understand their own. It is also a story about the tensions andomplexities of mentorship: the opening of ones life to someone elseo learn together, and carrying on in their physical absence. This books also a remembrance of the life, and death, of Coperthwaiteaomesteader and social criticand an account of his decades-longxperiment in living on a remote stretch of Maine coast.
Peter Forbes has become a leader for the American conservationmovement by creating a life in conservation as photographer, writer,nd storyteller about the relationship between people and place.
Helen Whybrowslife as an educator life as an educator, farmer, and
writer follows a career in book publishing. The couple cofounded theationally recognized place of learning and change-makingCenteror Whole Communitiesat their home in central Vermont.
THE SOCIAL PROFIT HANDBOOK
The Essential Guide to Setting Goals,Assessing Outcomes, and AchievingSuccess for Mission-Driven Organizations
David Grant
$20.00 | Paperback | 216 pgs.
ISBN 9781603586047
Available March 2015How can mission-oriented organizationsand businesses measure success, whentheir goals transcend the traditional bottomline, and their impact seems impossible
o quantify? Drawing upon decades of leadership in schools and theoundation and nonprot worlds, author David Grant offers those whoead, govern, and support nonprots and emerging social ventureusinesses new ways to assess their impact in order to improve future
work rather than merely judge past performance.
David Grantis the former president and CEO of the Geraldine R.Dodge Foundation where he was responsible for development andvaluation of programs in the foundations major areas of giving, as
well as the foundations major initiatives. Grant now consults witheople and organizations around the world that have a social orducational mission, specializing in strategic planning, design ofssessment systems, and board development.
THE COMMUNITY-SCALE
PERMACULTURE FARM
The D Acres Model for Creating andManaging an Ecologically DesignedEducational Center
Josh Trought
$40.00 | Paperback | 416 pgs.
250 color images throughout
ISBN 9781603584753 | Available April The Community-Scale Permaculture Fardescribes not only the history of D Acres
but its evolving principles and practices, all rooted in the land, itsinhabitants, and the joy inherent in collective empowerment. This bcontains a wealth of innovative ideas and ways to make your farmor homestead not only more sustainable, but more inclusive of, andbenecial to, the larger community. This book promises to inspire anew generation of growers, builders, educators, artists, and dreameto seek new and practical ways to address the problems of our era,together.
Josh Troughthelped to found D Acres of New Hampshire in 1997and today serves as its director. He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate the University of Colorado Boulder with a degree in environmentaconservation, and has worked for organizations as diverse as theNational Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration and CoRicas Tapant National Park.
THE NEW LIVESTOCK FARME
Business of Raising and SellingEthical Meat
Rebecca Thistlethwaite and Jim Dunl
$29.95 | Paperback | 336 pgs.
16-page color insert
ISBN 9781603585538 | Available June
With the rising consumer interest in grafed, pasture-raised, and antibiotic-freemeats, how can farmers most effectiveltap into those markets and become mo
protable? The New Livestock Farmerprovides pasture-basedproduction essentials for a wide range of animals, from common fanimals (cattle, poultry, pigs, sheep, and goats) to more exotic sp(bison, rabbits, elk, and deer). A must read for anyone who is serioabout raising meat animals ethically.
Rebecca Thistlethwaite(Farms with a Future) runs SustainConsulting, which specializes in food and farm issues, working witboth nongovernmental organizations and for-prot businesses. Shand her husband and coauthor, Jim Dunlop, operate a small farma community farm stand in Oregon, along with their daughter, Fio
They previously owned TLC Ranch in Watsonville, California, whethey raised organic, pastured livestock and poultry, selling to diremarkets across Northern California.
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THE ORGANIC MEDICINAL
HERB FARMER
The Ultimate Guide to Producing High-Quality Herbs on a Market Scale
Jeff and Melanie CarpenterForeword by Rosemary Gladstar
$39.95 | Paperback | 416 pgs.
250 photos full-color throughout
ISBN 9781603585736 | Available May 2015oth a business guide and a farming manual, this is the rst book toe published on the organic commercial farming of Western herbs.uccessful small-scale herb farmers Jeff and Melanie Carpentermphasize quality over quantity and keeping costs down by innovating
with existing equipment, rather than investing in expensive technologynd overproduction. They will help people interested in commercial
medicinal herb farming determine what and how to grow usingcologically sustainable techniques while still remaining protable.
eff and Melanie Carpenterco-run Zack Woods Herb Farm inVermont. Jeff has recently entered into partnership with noted herbalist
osemary Gladstar to host the International Herb Symposium. Melanierew up at Sage Mountain under the tutelage of Gladstar and it was
here she started her rst business, Sage Mountain Herb Products.
WILL BONSALLS ESSENTIAL
GUIDE TO RADICAL,
SELF-RELIANT GARDENING
Innovative Techniques for GrowingVegetables, Grains, and Perennial Food Cropswith Minimal Fossil Fuel and Animal Inputs
Will Bonsall
$34.95 | Paperback | 432 pgs.
full-color throughout, photos and drawings
ISBN 9781603584425 | Available June 2015
Will Bonsall maintains that to achieve real wealth we rst need tonderstand the economy of the land, to realize that things that might
make sense economically dont always make sense ecologically, andice versa. By avoiding any off-farm inputs (fertilizers, minerals, andnimal manures), and drawing upon the fertility of on-farm plant
materials: compost, green manures, perennial grasses, and forestroducts like leaves and ramial wood chips, Bonsall has learnedow to practice a purely veganic, or plant-based, agriculture, and toecome largely self-reliant. He grows and harvests a diversity of crops
rom both cultivated and perennial plants: vegetables, grains, pulses,ilseeds, fruits and nuts, and more.
Will Bonsallis the director of the Scatterseed Project, which heounded to help preserve our endangered crop-plant diversity. Heves and farms in Maine.
THE CHELSEA GREEN READER
Selections from 30 Years of IndependentPublishing, 19842014
Edited by Benjamin Watson
Foreword by Ian Baldwin
$15.00 | Paperback | 320 pgs.
ISBN 9781603586016 | Now Available
Chelsea Green has always had an instinctiv
knack for publishing authors and books onsubjects far ahead of the cultural curveaevident in this representative anthology, w
celebrates our companys rst thirty years in publishing. The more tone hundred books represented in this collection reect the manydistinct areas in which we have publishedfrom literature and memto progressive politics, to highly practical books on green building,farming, food, homesteading, and related topics that embrace ourunderlying philosophy: The politics and practice of sustainable livi
Benjamin Watson is a longtime senior editor for Chelsea Green, aForeword authorIan Baldwinis publisher emeritus and its cofound
THE SEED GARDEN
The Art and Practice of Seed SavingLee Buttala and Shanyn Siegel
SEED SAVERS EXCHANGE
$29.95 | Paperback with faps | 352 pgs.
250 photos, full-color throughout
ISBN 9780988474918 | Available March
In this comprehensive book, Seed SaverExchange, one of the foremost Americaauthorities on the subject, and the Orga
Seed Alliance bring together decades of knowledge to demystifythe time-honored tradition of saving the seed of more than sevenve coveted vegetable and herb crops. With clear instructions,lush photographs, and easy-to-comprehend proles on individual
vegetable crops, this book not only teaches us how to go aboutconserving these important varieties for future generations andfor planting out in next years garden, it also provides a deeperunderstanding of the importance of saving these genetically valuavarieties of vegetables.
Lee Buttalais an Emmy Awardwinning television producer ofMartha Stewart Living and was the creator, producer, and directorof Cultivating Life, a PBS series on outdoor living and gardening.Shanyn Siegelhas worked in sustainable agriculture and horticultfor over fteen years, specializing in organic vegetable gardeningorganic seed production.
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THE NEW FARMERS ALMANAC 2015
A Contemporary Compendium for Agrarians, Interventionists, and Patriots of Place
GREENHORNS
$20.00 | Paperback | 256 pgs. | ISBN 9780986320507 | Now Available
The theme of the second New Farmers Almanac is Agrarian Technology. In this volume you will nd answers to practquestions about institutional forms, and future-making: restoration agro-forestry, reclaiming high desert urban farmland,starting a co-op, pickup truck maintenance, pirate radio utopia, cheap healthcare, farming while pregnant, worksongingfarm terraces, and quite a few more.
Greenhornsis a young farmers organization: an un-traditional grassroots network with the mission to promote, recand support the emerging generation of new farmers.
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TREES FOR GARDENS,ORCHARDS,
AND PERMACULTURE
Martin Crawford
PERMANENT PUBLICATIONS
$39.95 | Paperback | 256 pgs. | 180 color
photos, full-color throughout
ISBN 9781856232166 | Available May 2015
Are you wondering which productive trees
to plant in your garden? Master forestgardener Martin Crawford has researchedand experimented with tree crops for twenty-
ve years and here provides details on more than 100 of the best treesroducing fruits, nuts, edible leaves, and other useful products that cane grown in Europe and North America.
Martin Crawford founded the Agroforestry Research Trust in theUK in 1992, and focuses on researching and growing perennial foodystems including forest gardens and orchards of nut trees andncommon fruits. He is the author of Food from Your Forest Garden,
Creating a Forest Garden, and How to Grow Perennial Vegetables.
GETTING STARTED IN YOUR
OWN WOOD
Julian Evans, Will Rolls
PERMANENT PUBLICATIONS
$19.95 | Paperback | 168 pgs.
40 line drawings, black and white
ISBN 9781856232128 | Available May 2015
Owning a small wood or being able tohelp look after one well has become anincreasingly popular subject. GettingStarted in Your Own Woodand expanded
dition includes information on: Owning or caring for a wood lot;rst steps; planting and caring for trees; coppicing and pollarding;
woodland crafts and products; enriching the wood for wildlife;eeping your wood safe from pests and diseases, and more.
ulian Evans is a forest scientist who has written and edited someixteen books on forestry, including A Wood of Our Ownand What
Happened to Our Wood. He is currently president of Britains Institutef Chartered Foresters.Will Rollsis a chartered forester, an expert onrewood, and author of The Log Book.
SLOW WINE 2015
A Year in the Life of Italys Vineyardsand Wines
SLOW FOOD EDITORE
$25.00 | Paperback | 256 pgs.
ISBN 9788884993700
Available February 2015
For the fourth consecutive year, Slow Fo
International offers an English-languageedition of their guide to Italian wines whqualities extend well beyond the palate
With visits to 350 cellars, its 3000 wine reviews describe not only whin the glass, but also whats behind it: namely the work, the aims, anthe passion of producers; their bond with the land; and their choicecultivation and cellar techniques. An essential guide for the armchaoenophile.
DISCOVERING THE TRUFFLE
In History, in Its Habitat, in the Kitchen
SLOW FOOD EDITORE
$15.00 | Paperback | 160 pgs.
40 color photos | ISBN 9788884993687
Available February 2015
An aura of mystery surrounds the mostprecious of the earths fruits. This Slow Foomanual dispels it, describing the varioustypes of tuber, explaining how to recognizand select them, and offering suggestionsbuying trufes, cleaning them, storing the
and using them in the kitchen. This practical advice is complementeby a series of itineraries in the homeland of the Alba white trufe anselection of classic and creative recipes.
Slow Food Editore was founded in Italy in 1989 to counteract fastfood and fast life, the disappearance of local food traditions, and
peoples dwindling interest in the food they eat, where it comes frohow it tastes, and how our food choices affect the rest of the worldnow has more than 80,000 members in 120 countries around the w
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WE DONT QUIT!
Stories of UAW Global Solidarity
Don Stillman
INTERNATIONAL UNION, UAW
$25.00 | Paperback | 272 pages | full-color throughout | ISBN 9781603585828Available February 2015
We Dont Quit!describes the crucial role the United Auto Workers (UAW) union has played in the globalstruggle for workers rights. At a time when labors power seems to be waning, the book establishes the UAWvigorous internationalism as a counterbalance to corporate globalization and anti-worker repression by foreigngovernments. At a time when corporations operate without national boundaries, We Dont Quit! charts a pathfor workers to join together across borders to preserve and expand workers rights.
Don Stillman is president of Labor Rights Now, the human rights group that campaigns on behalf of imprisonworker activists throughout the world. His writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington PThe Progressive, and other publications.
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DEFENDING BEEF
$19.95 | Paperback
ISBN 9781603585361
Nicolette Hahn Niman
WILD FERMENTATION
$25.00 | Paperback
ISBN 9781931498234
Sandor Ellix Katz
TOP-BAR
BEEKEEPING
$24.95 | Paperback
ISBN 9781603584616
Les Crowder, Heather Harrell
GROWING HYBRID HAZELNUTS
$39.95 | Paperback
ISBN 9781603585347
Phillip Rutter, Susan Wiegrefe,Brandon Rutter-Daywater
THE SMALL-SCALE
POULTRY FLOCK
$39.95 | Paperback
ISBN 9781603582902
Harvey Ussery
MASTERING ARTISAN
CHEESEMAKING
$40.00 | Paperback
ISBN 9781603583329
Gianaclis Caldwell
GAIAS GARDEN
$29.95 | Paperback
ISBN 9781603580298
Toby Hemenway
SEPP HOLZERS
PERMACULTURE
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ISBN 9781603583701
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ORGANIC MUSHROOM
FARMING AND MYCOREMEDIATION
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ISBN 9781603584555
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THE RESILIENT FARM
AND HOMESTEAD
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ISBN 9781603584449
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INTEGRATED FOREST
GARDENING
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GROWING FOOD IN A
HOTTER, DRIER LAND
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ISBN 9781603584531
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THE WINTER
HARVEST HANDBOOK
$29.95 | Paperback
ISBN 9781603580816
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THE HEAL YOUR GUT
COOKBOOK
$29.95 | Paperback
ISBN 9781603585613
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THE HOLISTIC
ORCHARD
$39.95 | Paperback
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THE ART OF
FERMENTATION
$39.95 | Hardcover
ISBN 9781603582865
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THE TAO OF VEGETABLE GARDENING$24.95 | Paperback
ISBN 9781603584876
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NATURAL BEEKEEPING
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THE WILD WISDOM
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ALTERED GENES,
TWISTED TRUTH
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HOW ON EARTH
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GRASS SOIL HOPE
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IN THE COMPANY
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THINKING IN SYSTEMS
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HEMP BOUND
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CARBON SHOCK
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FROM THE WOOD
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