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Author | : Sepp Holzer |
Publisher | : Permanent Publications |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9783702010546 |
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Once regarded by society and his fellow farmers as a controversial oddball, Sepp Holzer is now recognised as an important agricultural innovator whose influential permaculture ideas have spread beyond his home country of Austria to bring him international acclaim. Holzer himself is modest about his ideas which he regards simply as "Nature's wisdom" and is happy to share his knowledge and experience. In high demand for seminars and lectures, Holzer has aroused a new interest in farming and has inspired even non-farmers to take over old farms and to manage them based on his ideas of permaculture. Holzer' s aim is to develop and promote farmers who are able to live in harmony with nature, to recognise its cycles and symbioses and to treat their land, soil and fellow living creatures with respect. He believes in the urgent need for farmers to re-learn how to produce good natural foods rather than mere nutrients. The roots of Holzer' s permaculture extend back to his childhood when he first became an observer of nature. Through observation and experiment, Holzer came to realise that Creation is perfect and that nature is always right. He realised that the key to agricultural success was diversity based on natural symbioses and mutual promotion of plant varieties rather than monotonous monoculture. Holzer recognised the important relationship between animals and plants and how each affects the other and put this knowledge to use on his farm. Holzer points out that every plant and animal has its purpose in creation and that problems only arise when humans try to steer their fates in the wrong direction. Over the years, the farm at Krameterhof has played host to students and scientists alike, keen to learn from Holzer' s example and Holzer himself has become involved at an international level working in development aid in Colombia, Costa Rica and Africa.
Author | : Brian Brett |
Publisher | : Greystone Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2009-10-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1926812387 |
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The acclaimed author transforms a single day on his small farm into a “gorgeously thoughtful meditation on the natural world” and our place in it (Vancouver Sun). The acclaimed poet and author Brian Brett takes readers on an irreverent and illuminating journey through a day in the life of his small island farm in British Columbia, affectionately named Trauma Farm. With fascinating ruminations on everything from the natural history of farming to the horrors of industrial slaughterhouses, Brett’s day of tending to his farm becomes a Joycean epic of agrarian life. Brett moves from the tending of livestock, poultry, orchards, gardens, machinery, and fields to the social intricacies of rural communities and, finally, to an encounter with a magnificent deer in the silver moonlight of a magical field. Brett understands both tall tales and rigorous science as he explores the small mixed farm—meditating on the perfection of the egg and the nature of soil while also offering a scathing critique of agribusiness. Whether discussing the uses and misuses of gates, examining the energy of seeds, or bantering with his family, farm hands, and neighbors, Brett remains aware of the miracles of life, birth, and death that confront the rural world every day. Trauma Farm was a 2009 book of the year in the Times Literary Supplement and the Globe & Mail, and winner of Writers’ Trust Canadian Non-Fiction Prize.
Author | : Sepp Holzer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2011-01 |
Genre | : Permaculture |
ISBN | : 9781856230599 |
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While the surrounding mountain sides are covered in dark monocultures of spruce, the Krameterhof stands out like a beacon. It's an intricate network of terraces, raised beds, ponds, waterways and tracks, well covered with fruit trees and other productive vegetation and with the farmhouse neatly nestling amongst them. The farm is not just and integrated part of the natural world, it's also where Sepp Holzer and his wife Veronika make their living. It has taken a great deal of skill and knowledge to achieve this, and these things don't come easily. Right from his childhood, when his mother gave him a small plot for his first garden, he has observed, questioned and experimented. After a lifetime of permaculture farming he knows the natural world like few other people do today
Author | : Sepp Holzer |
Publisher | : Chelsea Green Publishing |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Gardening |
ISBN | : 1603584641 |
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Outlines the author's ten points of sustainable self-reliance, details pond and lake construction, and discusses biodiversity.
Author | : Wallace Brown |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 12 |
Release | : 1970* |
Genre | : American loyalists |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Sepp Holzer |
Publisher | : Chelsea Green Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Gardening |
ISBN | : 9781603583701 |
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"First Englished language edition... was published in 2011 in the United Kingdom by Permanent Publications, The Sustainability Centre, East Meon, Hampshire, UK."--T.p. verso.
Author | : Forrest Carter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2010-02-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780843963465 |
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Josey Wales is out for the blood of the pro-Union Jayhawkers who raped & murdered his wife. When Wales refuses to surrender, he begins a life on the run from the law, reluctantly befriending a diverse group of whites & Indians on his quest for revenge and a new life.
Author | : Samantha Bell |
Publisher | : Cherry Lake |
Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 2016-08-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1634711394 |
Download Farm Quad Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This Level 1 guided reader explores the parts and uses of farm quads. Students will develop word recognition and reading skills while learning about what happens on a farm.
Author | : Augustus Jenkins Farmer |
Publisher | : Timber Press |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2014-03-25 |
Genre | : Gardening |
ISBN | : 1604694521 |
Download Deep-Rooted Wisdom Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Presents traditional and time-honored methods for gardening, including holistic solutions to insects and weeds, building fertile soils, saving heirloom seeds, and using garden materials for trellises and sculptures.
Author | : Sarah Vogel |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 2021-11-02 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1635575257 |
Download The Farmer's Lawyer Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
With a new foreword by Willie Nelson "An exquisitely written American saga." --Sarah Smarsh The "remarkably well told and heartfelt" (John Grisham) story of a young lawyer's impossible legal battle to stop the federal government from foreclosing on thousands of family farmers. In the early 1980s, farmers were suffering through the worst economic crisis to hit rural America since the Great Depression. Land prices were down, operating costs and interest rates were up, and severe weather devastated crops. Instead of receiving assistance from the government as they had in the 1930s, these hardworking family farmers were threatened with foreclosure by the very agency that Franklin Delano Roosevelt created to help them. Desperate, they called Sarah Vogel in North Dakota. Sarah, a young lawyer and single mother, listened to farmers who were on the verge of losing everything and, inspired by the politicians who had helped farmers in the '30s, she naively built a solo practice of clients who couldn't afford to pay her. Sarah began drowning in debt and soon her own home was facing foreclosure. In a David and Goliath legal battle reminiscent of A Civil Action or Erin Brockovich, Sarah brought a national class action lawsuit, which pitted her against the Reagan administration's Department of Justice, in her fight for family farmers' Constitutional rights. It was her first case. A courageous American story about justice and holding the powerful to account, The Farmer's Lawyer shows how the farm economy we all depend on for our daily bread almost fell apart due to the willful neglect of those charged to protect it, and what we can learn from Sarah's battle as a similar calamity looms large on our horizon once again.