Central Skagit Library District

"Author Zach Loeks brings together his passion for sustainable permaculture food production systems and beautiful, vibrant illustrations to provide a highly visual guide to the smooth integration of permaculture into the market garden, without use of major equipment or operation changes. Profiling crops and ecosystem-based systems, Loeks demonstrates a profitable, sustainable and approachable model for the future of market gardening."--

Provides readers with an in-depth guide to sustainable farming from planting to processing, offering information processing, threshing, and composting.

Explains how to build green homes and passive solar design, grow edible plant communities and forest gardens, use no-till and natural farming methods, and create microclimates for extended growing seasons.

After hearing about efforts in Venezuela to develop a more equitable as well as sustainable food and agriculture system, filmmaker Simon Cunich heads to Venezuela to investigate what we might learn about food sovereignty from the country's various initiatives to reduce the price of food by opening up urban land to community farming. So they may become urban gardeners, the nation is providing citizens with free seeds, tools, and other materials needed...

This book gives you all the information you need to start your own local foods business.

Describes the author's early experiences as a sharecropper's son and a KFC executive before building a preeminent urban farm to feed, educate, and employ thousands of at-risk youths.

From midwifing new lambs to harvesting basil, Jessica Gigot invites the reader into her life on a small farm and the uncommon road that led her there. Fascinated by farming and the burgeoning local food movement, she spent her twenties wandering the Pacific Northwest, interning at small farms and doing graduate work in horticulture, always with an eye towards learning as much as she could about how and why people farm. Despite numerous setbacks and...

Our current industrial method of food production is increasingly viewed as an unsustainable system, destructive to the environment and public health. But what is the alternative? Fresh profiles the farmers, thinkers, and business people across the nation who are at the forefront of re-inventing food production in America. With a strong commitment to sustainability, they are changing how farms are run, how the land is cared for, and how food is distributed....

Los tubérculos y raíces andinas, grandes tesoros ancestrales de nuestra amplia biodiversidad vegetal, merecen una especial atención, en momentos en que la sociedad está en la búsqueda de alimentos de alta calidad, con valor nutritivo y limpios de agentes contaminantes químicos y orgánicos. Producidos sosteniblemente en ecosistemas de alta montaña, se convierten en una alternativa alimenticia que, por su rica composición, pueden escalar hacia...