This book offers a concise overview of the principles and main practices of compost and composting. It includes sections on source ingredients for compost, composting methods, evaluating compost quality, mulching, composting for kitchens and family gardens, and uses of compost. Throughout, it explains any technical terminology, making this a great book for someone approaching composting for the first time. It is illustrated with over 30 drawings and diagrams to help the reader understand the key points.

Earth, Plant, and Compost

Biodynamic Farming and Gardening Association

This timely sequel to the popular inspirational blueprint for Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is set to guide this rapidly growing movement to the next stage of its development. The authors provide very practical examples and information that will be of service to growers and shareholders alike without losing sight of the heart and excitement that makes CSA central to the renewal of agriculture. Added to the material from the original edition are two new essays by Trauger Groh dealing with the economic, legal and spiritual questions surrounding the CSA movement, and the role of domestic animals on CSA farms, while Steven McFadden contributes several new pieces on the context and scope of community farms. New profiles of five farms are included, and the farm "biographies" from the 1990 first edition are reprinted and updated with reports on their present situations and lessons learned during the intervening years. Expanded appendices provide suggestions for starting CSA farms, look at the issues surrounding the acquisition and holding of land, illustrate sample farm prospects and budgets, and offer lengthy lists of resources and suggestions for additional reading.

Farms of Tomorrow Revisited: Community-Supported Farms: Farm-Supported Communities

Science & Math

McFadden, Steven

Groh, Trauger

Biological Sciences

This long-anticipated book from a pioneer in the field of beekeeping addresses the current plight of the honeybee and that noble creature’s reaction to the past hundred years of hive mechanization and human manipulation. Hauk, a biodynamic gardener and beekeeper for more than twenty-five years, approaches the bee “as a sick patient who has been trying for years to signal to us the deep crises of its diminishing life forces and its increasing inability to resonate with the environment.” Hauk presents the bee colony as a complex and delicate organism, with a life and vital functions far beyond the production of honey. Construction of the hive, colony hierarchy, swarming, as well as foul brood, mites, and disease are all discussed in the context of the hive as a whole.

Toward Saving The Honeybee

Hauk, Gunther

Using the Bio-Dynamic Compost Preparations & Sprays in Garden, Orchard & Farm

Pfieffer, E. E.

Stella Natura 1998: Down-To-Earth Advice for Gardening with Cosmic Rhythms

Sherry Wildfeuer

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