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Resilient Agriculture, second edition
Laura Lengnick
New Society Publishers
www.newsociety.com
9780865719507, $34.99, PB, 368pp
https://www.amazon.com/Resilient-Agriculture-Second-Cultivating-Changing/dp/0865719500
Synopsis: Climate change presents an unprecedented challenge to food and farming in the U.S. and beyond. Damaging weather variability and extremes capture the headlines, but more subtle changes caused by hotter summer nights, warmer winters, and a longer growing season have far-reaching effects on the land, people, and communities that feed us.
Now in a significantly expanded and fully updated second edition, "Resilient Agriculture: Cultivating Food Systems for a Changing Climate" takes the reader beyond the headlines and the hype to shine a light on agricultural climate solutions with the power to cultivate new American foodways that are just, sustainable, regenerative, and resilient.
The updated content includes: Current and expected changes in regional weather patterns that disrupt food and farming; New adaptation stories from sustainable, climate-smart, organic, and regenerative farmers and updates on the producers featured in the first edition; Real-world applications of resilience thinking that connect the dots between food justice, sustainable development, regenerative economy, and planetary health; A companion website with stories, videos, issue briefs, reading guides, and more.
Whether working in food and farming or are simply an interested eater, this new second edition of "Resilient Agriculture" will take you on a journey into real-world resilience solutions with the power to regenerate the well-being of land, people, and community no matter the challenges ahead.
Critique: Informatively enhanced with the inclusion of twenty-six pages of Notes and a ten page Index, this second edition of "Resilient Agriculture: Cultivating Food Systems for a Changing Climate" is a timely and invaluable addition to personal, professional, community, college, and university library Sustainable Agriculture, Agronomy, and Climate Change collections and supplemental curriculum studies lists. It should be noted that "Resilient Agriculture" is also available in a digital book format (Kindle, $16.99) for agricultural students, academia, farmers, ranchers, agricultural professionals, and non-specialist general readers with an interest in the subject.
Editorial Note: Laura Lengnick (https://www.wildabundance.net/bios/laura-lengnick/) is an award-winning soil scientist with 25 years of experience working as a researcher, policy maker, educator, and farmer to put sustainability values into action in agriculture and food systems. She is also the founder and principal at Cultivating Resilience, LLC, in Asheville, NC.
The Berry Grower
Blake Cothron
New Society Publishers
www.newsociety.com
9780865719651, $39.99, PB, 336pp
https://www.amazon.com/Berry-Grower-Organic-Production-Century/dp/0865719659
Synopsis: "The Berry Grower: Small Scale Organic Fruit Production in the 21st Century" by Blake Cothron is an innovative DIY guide for growing and marketing organic small fruits and berries that offers intelligent strategies and solutions for successful small-scale, non-chemical fruit production in the 21st century.
"The Berry Grower" covers: Berry rowing history, innovations, and 21st-century challenges in modern fruit farming; Creating your own market farming reality; Farm planning for efficiency and profitability; Factoring in climate change, drought, and extreme weather; Soil fertility, efficient weed management, and organic pest control; Modern tools of the trade for efficiency in harvesting, fruit handling, and packing; Fruit profiles including raspberries, blackberries, strawberries, currants, gooseberries, figs, tomatoes, and more, including new cultivars; Innovative marketing methods and thinking beyond fresh fruit with multi-product strategies to maximize profit; Learning from other experts through interviews with successful growers and marketers from diverse areas around the USA.
Critique: Informatively illustrated and exceptionally well organized, "The Berry Grower: Small Scale Organic Fruit Production in the 21st Century" covers everything from the market garden and small farm to the homestead and backyard. Simply stated, "The Berry Grower" is an essential guide for both new and aspiring organic small fruit growers and seasoned farmers looking to produce high-quality organic fruits and products for local markets and self-sufficiency. While also available in a digital book format (Kindle, $16.99), "The Berry Grower" is unreservedly recommended for personal, professional, community, and academic library Sustainable Agricultural & Horticultural Studies collections and supplemental curriculum studies lists.
Editorial Note: Blake Cothron (https://newsociety.com/pages/author-blake-cothron) owns Peaceful Heritage Nursery, a 4-acre USDA Certified Organic research farm, orchard, and edible plant nursery. He shares his two decades of experience in organic agriculture and horticulture through magazine articles, public speaking engagements, and blogging. Blake is the author of Pawpaws: The Complete Growing and Marketing Guide.
EDITOR'S NOTE:
The Midwest Book Review is an organization of volunteers committed to promoting literacy, library usage, and small press publishing. We accept no funds from authors or publishers. Full permission is given to post any of these reviews on thematically appropriate websites, newsgroups, listserves, internet discussion groups, organizational newsletters, or to interested individuals. Please give the Midwest Book Review a credit line when doing so.
The Midwest Book Review publishes the monthly book review magazines "California Bookwatch", "Internet Bookwatch", "Children's Bookwatch", "MBR Bookwatch", "Reviewer's Bookwatch", and "Small Press Bookwatch". All are available for free on the Midwest Book Review website at www (dot) midwestbookreview (dot) com
Anyone wanting to submit books for review consideration can send them to:
James A. Cox, Editor-in-Chief
Midwest Book Review
278 Orchard Drive
Oregon, WI 53575-1129
To submit reviews of any fiction or non-fiction books, email them to Frugalmuse (at) aol (dot) com (Be sure to include the book title, author, publisher, publisher address, publisher website/phone number, 13-digit ISBN number, and list price).
James A. Cox, Editor-in-Chief
Midwest Book Review
Resilient Agriculture, second edition
Laura Lengnick
New Society Publishers
www.newsociety.com
9780865719507, $34.99, PB, 368pp
https://www.amazon.com/Resilient-Agriculture-Second-Cultivating-Changing/dp/0865719500
Synopsis: Climate change presents an unprecedented challenge to food and farming in the U.S. and beyond. Damaging weather variability and extremes capture the headlines, but more subtle changes caused by hotter summer nights, warmer winters, and a longer growing season have far-reaching effects on the land, people, and communities that feed us.
Now in a significantly expanded and fully updated second edition, "Resilient Agriculture: Cultivating Food Systems for a Changing Climate" takes the reader beyond the headlines and the hype to shine a light on agricultural climate solutions with the power to cultivate new American foodways that are just, sustainable, regenerative, and resilient.
The updated content includes: Current and expected changes in regional weather patterns that disrupt food and farming; New adaptation stories from sustainable, climate-smart, organic, and regenerative farmers and updates on the producers featured in the first edition; Real-world applications of resilience thinking that connect the dots between food justice, sustainable development, regenerative economy, and planetary health; A companion website with stories, videos, issue briefs, reading guides, and more.
Whether working in food and farming or are simply an interested eater, this new second edition of "Resilient Agriculture" will take you on a journey into real-world resilience solutions with the power to regenerate the well-being of land, people, and community no matter the challenges ahead.
Critique: Informatively enhanced with the inclusion of twenty-six pages of Notes and a ten page Index, this second edition of "Resilient Agriculture: Cultivating Food Systems for a Changing Climate" is a timely and invaluable addition to personal, professional, community, college, and university library Sustainable Agriculture, Agronomy, and Climate Change collections and supplemental curriculum studies lists. It should be noted that "Resilient Agriculture" is also available in a digital book format (Kindle, $16.99) for agricultural students, academia, farmers, ranchers, agricultural professionals, and non-specialist general readers with an interest in the subject.
Editorial Note: Laura Lengnick (https://www.wildabundance.net/bios/laura-lengnick/) is an award-winning soil scientist with 25 years of experience working as a researcher, policy maker, educator, and farmer to put sustainability values into action in agriculture and food systems. She is also the founder and principal at Cultivating Resilience, LLC, in Asheville, NC.
The Berry Grower
Blake Cothron
New Society Publishers
www.newsociety.com
9780865719651, $39.99, PB, 336pp
https://www.amazon.com/Berry-Grower-Organic-Production-Century/dp/0865719659
Synopsis: "The Berry Grower: Small Scale Organic Fruit Production in the 21st Century" by Blake Cothron is an innovative DIY guide for growing and marketing organic small fruits and berries that offers intelligent strategies and solutions for successful small-scale, non-chemical fruit production in the 21st century.
"The Berry Grower" covers: Berry rowing history, innovations, and 21st-century challenges in modern fruit farming; Creating your own market farming reality; Farm planning for efficiency and profitability; Factoring in climate change, drought, and extreme weather; Soil fertility, efficient weed management, and organic pest control; Modern tools of the trade for efficiency in harvesting, fruit handling, and packing; Fruit profiles including raspberries, blackberries, strawberries, currants, gooseberries, figs, tomatoes, and more, including new cultivars; Innovative marketing methods and thinking beyond fresh fruit with multi-product strategies to maximize profit; Learning from other experts through interviews with successful growers and marketers from diverse areas around the USA.
Critique: Informatively illustrated and exceptionally well organized, "The Berry Grower: Small Scale Organic Fruit Production in the 21st Century" covers everything from the market garden and small farm to the homestead and backyard. Simply stated, "The Berry Grower" is an essential guide for both new and aspiring organic small fruit growers and seasoned farmers looking to produce high-quality organic fruits and products for local markets and self-sufficiency. While also available in a digital book format (Kindle, $16.99), "The Berry Grower" is unreservedly recommended for personal, professional, community, and academic library Sustainable Agricultural & Horticultural Studies collections and supplemental curriculum studies lists.
Editorial Note: Blake Cothron (https://newsociety.com/pages/author-blake-cothron) owns Peaceful Heritage Nursery, a 4-acre USDA Certified Organic research farm, orchard, and edible plant nursery. He shares his two decades of experience in organic agriculture and horticulture through magazine articles, public speaking engagements, and blogging. Blake is the author of Pawpaws: The Complete Growing and Marketing Guide.
EDITOR'S NOTE:
The Midwest Book Review is an organization of volunteers committed to promoting literacy, library usage, and small press publishing. We accept no funds from authors or publishers. Full permission is given to post any of these reviews on thematically appropriate websites, newsgroups, listserves, internet discussion groups, organizational newsletters, or to interested individuals. Please give the Midwest Book Review a credit line when doing so.
The Midwest Book Review publishes the monthly book review magazines "California Bookwatch", "Internet Bookwatch", "Children's Bookwatch", "MBR Bookwatch", "Reviewer's Bookwatch", and "Small Press Bookwatch". All are available for free on the Midwest Book Review website at www (dot) midwestbookreview (dot) com
Anyone wanting to submit books for review consideration can send them to:
James A. Cox, Editor-in-Chief
Midwest Book Review
278 Orchard Drive
Oregon, WI 53575-1129
To submit reviews of any fiction or non-fiction books, email them to Frugalmuse (at) aol (dot) com (Be sure to include the book title, author, publisher, publisher address, publisher website/phone number, 13-digit ISBN number, and list price).
James A. Cox, Editor-in-Chief
Midwest Book Review
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