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Building Soils for Better Crops | SARE Outreach | Building Soils for Better Crops provides step-by-step information on soil-improving practices as well as show you how different physical, chemical and biological factors of the soil interconnect, and how management practices impact them to make your soil healthy and resilient or unhealthy and vulnerable to degradation. | https://www.sare.org/wp-content/uploads/Building-Soils-for-Better-Crops.pdf | |
Managing Cover Crops Profitably | SARE Outreach | Managing Cover Crops Profitably explores how and why cover crops work, and provides all the information needed to build cover crops into any farming operation. Along with detailed management information on the most commonly used species—including grasses, grains, brassicas and mustards, and legumes. | https://www.sare.org/wp-content/uploads/Managing-Cover-Crops-Profitably.pdf | |
Dirt: The Erosion of Civilization | David R. Montgomery | An engaging natural and cultural history of soil that sweeps from ancient civilizations to modern times, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations explores the compelling idea that we are—and have long been—using up Earth's soil. | https://www.amazon.com/Dirt-Civilizations-David-R-Montgomery-ebook/dp/B0032JTFGQ/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= | |
Restoration Agriculture | Mark Shepard | Restoration Agriculture explains how we can have all of the benefits of natural, perennial ecosystems and create agricultural systems that imitate nature in form and function while still providing for our food, building, fuel and many other needs - in your own backyard, farm or ranch. | https://www.amazon.com/Restoration-Agriculture-Mark-Shepard/dp/1601730357/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?gclid=CjwKCAiA1aiMBhAUEiwACw25MTFrQl2MYsM_-Oc27QDuls6ki_xTTKHkkEnC_zMRTuj1ibg1O6aLdRoCpBsQAvD_BwE&hvadid=323127634460&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9060400&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=e&hvrand=6327968828607752633&hvtargid=kwd-307551067326&hydadcr=3208_10392132&keywords=restoration+agriculture+book&qid=1636500356&sr=8-1-spons&psc=1&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUFVM1lPQ1JJQ0RHTjQmZW5jcnlwdGVkSWQ9QTA5MDQzMTgzNE1YRjA5S1pONDhQJmVuY3J5cHRlZEFkSWQ9QTA1Mjc4NTM2UUhXRUpWTlFPQ1Amd2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9hdGYmYWN0aW9uPWNsaWNrUmVkaXJlY3QmZG9Ob3RMb2dDbGljaz10cnVl | |
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl | Timothy Egan | Following a dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, Egan tells of their desperate attempts to carry on through blinding black dust blizzards, crop failure, and the death of loved ones. | https://www.amazon.com/Worst-Hard-Time-Survived-American/dp/0618773479 | |
Farming for the Long Haul: Resilience and the Lost Art of Agricultural Inventiveness | Michael Foley | Farming for the Long Haul is about building a viable small farm economy that can withstand the economic, political, and climatic shock waves that the twenty-first century portends. | https://www.amazon.com/Farming-Long-Haul-Agricultural-Inventiveness-ebook/dp/B07N6DQNCN/ref=sr_1_1?gclid=CjwKCAiA1aiMBhAUEiwACw25MWrdHQ7ax-6pXhsZYs6O3IY32aiJG13vrOjtBO8YrH6AM1cuhCw5uRoCOYcQAvD_BwE&hvadid=323271336625&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9060400&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=e&hvrand=6946063988988230713&hvtargid=kwd-646775882044&hydadcr=3205_9861005&keywords=farming+for+the+long+haul&qid=1636502079&qsid=136-4218731-1101231&sr=8-1&sres=1603588000%2C0983323828%2C1932595465%2C1571988459%2C1517355915%2CB09BQ4Y4C9%2C1574411136%2CB08DY6QY33%2C1914207742%2C1906853339%2CB08T6Q2DZY&srpt=ABIS_BOOK | |
Dirt to Soil: One Family's Journey into Regenerative Agriculture | Gabe Brown | In Dirt to Soil Gabe Brown tells the story of that amazing journey and offers a wealth of innovative solutions to restoring the soil by laying out and explaining his "five principles of soil health". | https://www.amazon.com/Dirt-Soil-Familys-Regenerative-Agriculture-ebook/dp/B07HL726H2 | |
The One Straw Revolution | Masanobu Fukuoka | Call it “Zen and the Art of Farming” or a “Little Green Book” Masanobu Fukuoka’s manifesto about farming, eating, and the limits of human knowledge presents a radical challenge to the global systems we rely on for our food. | https://library.uniteddiversity.coop/Food/The-One-Straw-Revolution.pdf |
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