Part travelogue, part inspiring social commentary, and part motivating business model, Brewing Change is about one middle manager's quiet, dogged crusade to change the world of coffee. During his 27 years at Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Rick Peyser was a persistent voice advocating for a better quality of life in coffee growing communities. He has teamed up with long-time friend and writer Bill Mares to tell the story of his career and of his travels throughout the coffeelands of Latin America and East Africa. Eye-opening and heart-wrenching, Brewing Change is a story that shows us the indomitable nature of the human spirit, and reminds us of the dramatic change that is possible when individuals fight for an equitable world. The book chronicles Peyser's compelling personal journey and offers a fascinating insider's view of one of the most successful companies in the coffee business.

Brewing Change: Behind the Bean at Green Mountain Coffee Roasters

Biographies & Memoirs

Mares, Bill

Peyser, Rick

Professionals & Academics

Frederick M. Peyser, III

To have your own brewery is the dream of almost every home brewer. Bill Mares was one of those, but he had to wait 40 years to meet and join up with Todd Haire, a real brewer, for this dream to become real. This book takes brewing full circle from Bill the amateur, making inadvertently wild beers, to Todd the professional, brewing first-class mixed-culture wild and funky beers in oak barrels, using mixed-culture fermentation. Together, they offer a delightful journey through the craft-brewing revolution of the last four decades.

Making Beer: From Homebrew to the House of Fermentology

Haire, Todd

Mares Publishing

Anecdotal lore about our fishing presidents, with historic photos, political cartoons, excerpts. "Lighthearted and entertaining." --Library Journal

Fishing with the Presidents: An Anecdotal History

Sports & Outdoors

Hunting & Fishing

Stackpole, 1999

Fishing with the Presidents

History

Americas

Stackpole Books

Stephen H. Morris (Randolph, VT) - "Bees Besieged" portrays the current state of honeybees and their keepers in America. Hobbyist Mares comes out to his hive one day and finds all his bees dead. His curiosity about what had befallen his bees leads to a spiraling journey to learn about what he describes as "the manifold problems facing bees generally, and their keepers." Mares is very much the observer, adopting an impartial journalistic stance as his base of knowledge grows. Occasionally, he will venture an opinion or take a stance, but mostly he is content to find the experts and let them be the storytellers. He begins in Vermont. Each interview points to a new referral, a new perspective, and another piece to the puzzle. The story becomes bigger, more complex, and more important. After a while the author is not trying to understand why his bees died, but what will happen to life on the planet if endangered pollinators become extinct. His circle widens as he travels to the District of Columbia, Texas, Louisiana, and beyond to learn about the current state of bees. It's not a pretty picture. Bees are besieged from all directions-environmental degradation, insidious mites (such as the ones that caused the author's bees to die), fluctuating honey prices, and aggressive, invasive species such as the much-ballyhooed African killer bees. It's a much larger story than just about bees and honey, as these insects play a vital role in the pollination of many agricultural crops. Threats to the bee population, therefore, are threats to the worldwide food supply. "Bees Besieged" is a must read for beekeepers, but its also for environmentalists, naturalists, and social observers.

Bees Besieged

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

The A.I.Root Company

What were you thinking? Donald Trump as our president? You’re kidding, right? Vermont has withstood the Revolution, a New York invasion and the New Hampshire Land Grants and will assuredly survive the next few years under the Washington axis of evil, a.k.a. the Trump Administration, Congress and Supreme Court. We are a small state with a history of making a large impact. We banned billboards and went to great lengths to protect our natural resources, as well as our natural beauty. We’ll be damned if we’re going to let a man who dyes his hair, cheats workers and has his products made in China dictate to us how life should be. Life in Vermont is already great. A man who lies as easily as the average Vermonter catches fish is not someone we’re going to spend much time listening to. That said, we recognize that we can’t ignore him and his actions. Then again, he won’t be able to ignore us, either. We're little, but we're loud, and we’re not afraid to elect New Yorker, Bernie Sanders, to carry our message nationwide. Mr. Trump may see himself as a western version of Vladimir Putin, but we don’t see him as such. He’s just a bully used to stiffing banks (Vermonters make their payments), stiffing his subcontractors (we pay them, because we’re related to most of them), and treating women poorly (we just know better). Short of seceding from Union (we’ve already tried that to no avail), you can be sure that we’re not just going to sit back and be bullied, stiffed, railroaded, and abused. That’s not our style. Vermonters fight back; always have and always will. We love a good fight and those who challenge soon learn that Vermont generally wins. We’re tougher than the bully in the White House and he’s about to learn that first hand. With the help of almost a score of “guest appearances,” our literary duet has now become a chorus. We have assembled a first-rate “posse” of Vermont writers, cartoonists, and politicians to add their intelligence and wit to this momentous task. In addition, the book has quizzes, quotations, escape literature, a Vermont tool box, and more—all the things necessary to flesh out this thump to The Trump.

The Full Vermonty: Vermont in the Age of Trump

Comics & Graphic Novels

Comic Strips

Green Writers Press

The Vermont Owner's Manual

Bryan, Frank

New England Press, Incorporated, The

This is the inspiring story of an unassuming hero. For more than twenty years, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters' Rick Peyser has worked persistently with Green Mountain and the global coffee industry to lead an industry toward sustainability and to ameliorate food scarcity in rural coffee farming communities. In addition to the publisher's contribution, all of the authors net profits from the sale of this book will be donated to the non-profit organization Food 4 Farmers.

Business & Money

Biography & History

Wind Ridge Pub Partnership Book

Land of Milk and Honey: A History of Vermont Beekeeping follows the trials and tribulations of beekeepers in Vermont. This dramatic history begins in the early 1800’s following the life and times of inspired beekeepers that are the advance guard of a line of notable beekeepers that is to stretch through the centuries into modern times. Readers will discover a beekeeping lineage born and raised within a single Vermont county, and establishes a continuity of beekeeping knowledge and skill spanning more than a century. The lineage of beekeeping concludes in the present day as apiculturists throughout the world face some of the most challenging times in over 200 years with the possibility of honey bee extinction rearing its ugly head. Is it possible that by reflecting on the history of Vermont’s beekeepers we can find clues about what is needed to help the honey bee thrive today and well into the future? Land of Milk and Honey will also explore the relationship between the people of Vermont and the countryside they inhabit: a land and people that shift and change through the centuries in ways that directly impact the health and well-being of bees and its beekeepers.

The Land of Milk and Honey: A History of Beekeeping in Vermont

Conrad, Ross

Green Place Books

Vermont towns may be small, but (unlike Trump's hands) they are not clenched in anger. Rather, they are resisting with characteristic wit and charm, with town meetings and grassroots organizing. In The Full Vermonty: Vermont in the Age of Trump, Second Edition , edited by Bill Mares and Jeff Danziger, some of Vermont's most famous voices ask, "What the hell do we do now that Trump is causing a rukus?" The collection of essays, published by Green Writers Press in Brattleboro, Vermont, explores how Vermont-a small, rural state with a progressive history-must reckon with what it means to exist in Trump's America. But The Full Vermonty, Second Edition isn't just for Vermont readers-it is for anyone wondering how to resist, persevere, and remain hopeful in the age of Trump. Expanded to include updated essays and a new cover cartoon by nationally syndicated cartooonist Danziger, the Second Edition is bound to wake up the entire nation.

Danziger, Jeff

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