Chelsea Green Spring 2009 Catalog

Chelsea Green
Spring/Summer 2009

Why We Need Slow Money
There is such a thing as money that is too fast.
Money that is too fast is money that has become so detached from people, place, and the activities that it is
financing that not even the experts understand it fully. Money that is too fast makes it impossible to say whether
the world economy is going through a correction in the credit markets, triggered by the subprime mortgage crisis,
or whether we are teetering on the edge of something much deeper and more challenging, tied to petrodollars,
derivatives, hedge funds, futures, arbitrage, and a byzantine hyper-securitized system of intermediation that no
quant, no program trader, no speculator, no investment bank CEO, can any longer fully understand or manage.
Just as no one can say precisely where the meat in a hamburger comes from (it may contain meat from as many as a
hundred animals), no one can say where the money in this or that security has come from, where it is going, what
is behind it, whether—if it were to be “stopped” and, like a hot potato, held by someone for more than a few
instants—it represents any intrinsic or real value. Money that is too fast creates an environment in which, when
questioned by the press about the outcome of the credit crisis, former treasury secretary Robert Rubin can only
respond, “No one knows.”
This kind of befuddlement is what arises when the relationships among capital, community, and bioregion are broken.
As long as money accelerates around the planet, divorced from where we live, our befuddlement will continue. As
long as the way we invest is divorced from how we live and how we consume, our befuddlement will worsen. As long as
the way we invest uproots companies, putting them in the hands of a broad, shallow pool of absentee shareholders
whose primary goal is the endless growth of their financial capital, our befuddlement at the depletion of our social and
natural capital will only deepen.
****
We must reexamine the story of progress, being honest about where we as a species seem to be going awry—if one
defines nuclear weapons, 9/11, Twinkies, the continuing promulgation of a culture of rampant consumerism in the face
of 6.6 billion people, climate change, volatility in global food prices, and widening wealth inequalities as “going awry.”
We must recognize the potentially disastrous consequences of doing the same thing over and over again—going more
and more global, bigger and bigger, faster and faster—hoping for a different outcome.
Then, and only then, we may find the courage to slow money down—not all of it, of course, but meaningful
quantities of it. In a world of trillions of dollars a day, this means billions of dollars a day . . . wait . . . did I say billions
of dollars a day? I did, and before The Twilight Zone theme song starts ringing in your ears, I add: The Good Lord, and
his better half, Great Gaia, did not hand us today’s global financial markets on a platter, blessed and preordained. No,
we invented them, and we have it in our power to reinvent them, to design what comes after them. What seems pre-
posterous when viewed through the wrong end of the fast-money telescope seems wonderfully within reach when
looked at through the lens of slow money, allowing us to set about the work of rebuilding healthy relationships among
enterprises and communities and bioregions, and between investors and the enterprises in which they invest.
Let us set about this work, then, so that whoever it is that comes onto the world stage after Homo economista and
Homo consumerista and the Invisible Hand of the marketplace, may, as they exit stage left, come—fully and fearlessly
and wearing whiffs of humus and manure like badges of honor—into view.
Woody Tasch
From the Prologue of
Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money
(see page 28)

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contents
contents
The Winter Harvest Handbook 02
Climate Change 04
Future Scenarios 05
Devil in the Milk 06
Wind Energy Basics, Second Edition 07
In Late Winter We Ate Pears 08
Libation, a Bitter Alchemy 09
Gaia’s Garden, Second Edition 10
Living Above the Store 11
The Earth-Sheltered House 12
new releases Small-Scale Grain Raising, Second Edition 13
The End of Money and the Future of Civilization 14
The Purpose of Life 15
Walking with the Great Apes 16
Search for the Golden Moon Bear 16
The New Solar Electric Home, Third Edition 17
Drip Irrigation for Every Landscape
and All Climates, Second Edition 18
Crescent City Farmers Market Cookbook 19
The Holistic Beauty Book 20
Earth Pledge White Papers 20
Surviving and Thriving on the Land 21
The Woodland Year 22
Vegan Rustic Cooking 22
Livable Neighborhood 23

Distributed Titles 17
Previously Announced 24
Recently Published 28
Barbara Damrosch

ChelseaGreen.com • 802.295.6300

02 April 2009

THE WINTER HARVEST HANDBOOK
Year-Round Vegetable Production Using Deep Organic
Techniques and Unheated Greenhouses
Eliot Coleman
From the bestselling author of The New Organic
Grower and Four-Season Harvest, a revolutionary
guide to year-round harvests of fresh, organic
produce—with little or no energy inputs.
Choosing locally grown organic food is a sustainable living trend that’s taken hold through-
out North America. Celebrated farming expert Eliot Coleman helped start this movement
with The New Organic Grower published 20 years ago. He continues to lead the way,
pushing the limits of the harvest season while working his world-renowned organic farm
in Harborside, Maine.
Now, with his long-awaited new book, The Winter Harvest Handbook, anyone can have
access to his hard-won experience. Gardeners and farmers can use the innovative, highly
successful methods Coleman describes in this comprehensive handbook to raise crops
throughout the coldest of winters.
Building on the techniques that hundreds of thousands of farmers and gardeners adopted
from The New Organic Grower and Four-Season Harvest, this new book focuses on growing
produce of unparalleled freshness and quality in customized unheated or, in some cases,
Pub Date: April 2009
minimally heated, movable plastic greenhouses.
$29.95 US, $37.50 CAN • PB
9781603580816
7 x 10 • 224 pages • Appendices • Bibliography • Index
Color illustrations and photos throughout
Gardening/Agriculture

Barbara Damrosch
Eliot Coleman is an organic gardening pioneer. His more than 30
years of experience in all aspects of organic farming includes field veg-
etables, greenhouse vegetables, rotational grazing of cattle and sheep,
and free-range poultry. He is the author of The New Organic Grower
and Four-Season Harvest. He and his wife, Barbara Damrosch, were
BARBARA DAMROSCH

hosts of The Learning Channel’s popular series Gardening Naturally.
Today, Coleman and Damrosch operate a year-round commercial market
garden and conduct groundbreaking horticultural research projects at
Four Season Farm in Harborside, Maine.


03
April 2009

More about Eliot Coleman
The winter was not given to us for no purpose. We must thaw its cold
with our genialness. We are asked to find out and appropriate all the
nutrients it yields. If it is a cold and hard season, its fruit, no doubt, is
the more concentrated and nutty. —Henry David Thoreau
Coleman offers clear, concise details on greenhouse construction and maintenance, planting schedules, crop management,
harvesting practices, and even marketing methods in this complete, meticulous, and illustrated guide. Readers have access
to all the techniques that have proven to produce higher-quality crops on Coleman’s own farm.
His painstaking research and experimentation with more than 30 different crops will be valuable to small farmers,
homesteaders, and experienced home gardeners who seek to expand their production seasons.
A passionate advocate for the revival of small-scale sustainable farming, Coleman provides a practical model for
supplying fresh, locally grown produce during the winter season, even in climates where conventional wisdom says
it “just can’t be done.”

• More than 250,000 Eliot Coleman Books Sold! • National Publicity • Author Tour

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
01. THE WINTER HARVEST
02. HISTORICAL INSPIRATION
03. GETTING STARTED
04. THE YEARLY SCHEDULE
05. SUNLIGHT
06. THE “COLD” GREENHOUSE
07. THE “COOL” GREENHOUSE
08. WINTER CROPS
09. SUMMER CROPS
10. GREENHOUSE DESIGN
11. YEAR-ROUND INTENSIVE
CROPPING
12. SOIL PREPARATION
13. SOWING
14. WEED CONTROL
15. HARVESTING IN WINTER
16. MARKETING AND ECONOMICS
17. PESTS
•••Also by ELIOT COLEMAN •••
18. INSECTS AND DISEASES
19. TOOLS FOR THE SMALL FARM
20. DEEP ORGANIC FARMING AND
THE SMALL FARM
APPENDICES
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX 9780930031756 9781890132279
$24.95 • PB $24.95 • PB


04 April 2009

CLIMATE CHANGE
Simple Things You Can Do
to Make a Difference
Jon Clift and Amanda Cuthbert

The 7th in the Chelsea GREEN Guide series
A pocket guide for personal action that will combat
global warming.
You know that the ice caps are melting, the seasons are changing, sea levels are rising, storms
are on the increase, but what can you do about it? Plenty!
This book puts the power back into your hands in the face of the doom and gloom of climate
change. You don’t have to wait for someone else to sort it out; rather than worry and feel
helpless, you can get up and do something.
Climate Change: Simple Things You Can Do to Make a Difference is packed with ideas for
action, from simple everyday things that cost nothing to bigger projects that involve more
time and money. For example:
Get on your bike • Buy local food • Turn off your TV • Insulate your attic • Recycle and
compost • Take the train • Turn down the heat • Install solar panels
Do your part and protect the planet for today and tomorrow.
$7.95 US, $9.95 CAN • PB
9781603581066
Jon Clift has a master’s degree in sustainable environmental management. He works as a
43/4 x 61/2 • 96 pages • Color photos
freelance environmental consultant and lives in Salcombe, South Devon. Amanda Cuthbert
Environment
works as a freelance writer and lives in Devon. Together, they have authored many Chelsea
Green Guides: Greening Your Office; Water: Use Less–Save More; and Energy: Use
• Green tips of the day found
Less–Save More.
on chelseagreen.com

•••Other books of interest•••

9781933392738
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GREEN FACT:
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or less. We can use that amount
in one flush of the toilet. The Chelsea Green Guides 6-Pack Set
—From Chelsea Green Guide, Water 9781603580342 • $44.95


05
April 2009

FUTURE SCENARIOS
How Communities Can Adapt to
Peak Oil and Climate Change
David Holmgren
From permaculture’s co-originator, a hopeful,
compassionate, and cautious look at four possible
futures, and what we can do to prepare for them.
In Future Scenarios, permaculture co-originator and leading sustainability innovator David
Holmgren outlines four scenarios that bring to life the likely cultural, political, agricultural,
and economic implications of peak oil and climate change, and the generations-long era of
“energy descent” that faces us.
“Scenario planning,” Holmgren explains, “allows us to use stories about the future as a reference
point for imagining how particular strategies and structures might thrive, fail, or be transformed.”
Future Scenarios depicts four very different futures. Each is a permutation of mild or destructive
climate change, combined with either slow or severe energy declines. Probable futures, explains
Holmgren, range from the relatively benign Green Tech scenario to the near catastrophic
Lifeboats scenario.
As Adam Grubb, founder of the influential Energy Bulletin Web site, says, “These aren’t two-
dimensional nightmarish scenarios designed to scare people into environmental action. They
are compellingly fleshed-out visions of quite plausible alternative futures, which delve into
energy, politics, agriculture, social, and even spiritual trends. What they do help make clear
are the best strategies for preparing for and adapting to these possible futures.”
$12.00 US, $14.95 CAN • PB
9781603580892 Future Scenarios provides brilliant and balanced consideration of the world’s options and will
5 x 8 • 144 pages prove to be one of the most important books of the year.
Color illustrations & graphs
Environment/Future Studies
• National Media
• U.S. Radio Tour
MAUREEN CORBETT

David Holmgren is best known as the co-originator,
with Bill Mollison, of the permaculture concept,
following the 1978 publication of their book
Permaculture One. Since then he has written
Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond
Sustainability, developed three properties using
permaculture principles, and conducted workshops
and courses throughout the world. He shows that a
sustainable lifestyle is a realistic, attractive, and
powerful alternative to dependent consumerism.
Holmgren lives with his partner, Su Dennett, and
their son, Oliver, at Melliodora, a one-hectare 9780646269900
permaculture demonstration site at Hepburn $39.00 • PB 9781900322188
9780646418445 9781933392127
Springs, Central Victoria, Australia. $24.95 • PB
$30.00 • PB $21.95 • PB


06 April 2009

DEVIL IN THE MILK
Illness, Health, and the Politics
of A1 and A2 Milk
Keith Woodford
Evidence shows cows’ milk is a link to solving many
medical mysteries, from diabetes to autism.
This groundbreaking work is the first internationally published book to examine the link
between a protein in the milk we drink and a range of serious illnesses, including heart
disease, Type 1 diabetes, autism, and schizophrenia.
These health problems are linked to a tiny protein fragment that is formed when we digest
A1 beta-casein, a milk protein produced by many cows in the United States and northern
European countries. Milk that contains A1 beta-casein is commonly known as A1 milk; milk
that does not is called A2. All milk was once A2, until a genetic mutation occurred some
thousands of years ago in some European cattle. A2 milk remains high in herds in much of
Asia, Africa, and parts of Southern Europe. A1 milk is common in the United States, New
Zealand, Australia, and Europe.
In Devil in the Milk, Keith Woodford brings together the evidence published in more than
100 scientific papers. He examines the population studies that look at the link between con-
sumption of A1 milk and the incidence of heart disease and Type 1 diabetes; he explains the
science that underpins the A1/A2 hypothesis; and he examines the research undertaken with
animals and humans. The evidence is compelling: We should be switching to A2 milk.
Pub Date: April 2009 A2 milk from selected cows is now marketed in parts of the U.S., and it is possible to convert a
$24.95 US, $31.25 CAN • PB herd of cows producing A1 milk to cows producing A2 milk.
9781603581028
This is an amazing story, one that is not just about the health issues surrounding A1 milk,
6 x 9 • 240 pages
but also about how scientific evidence can be molded and withheld by vested interests, and
Health/Medical Diseases
how consumer choices are influenced by the interests of corporate business.
• National Media
• U.S. Radio Tour

“Devil in the Milk is potentially as significant as Carson’s Silent
Spring or Nader’s Unsafe at Any Speed. . . . Devil in the Milk is
soundly researched. . . . It should be read by every dairy farmer
and consumer.” —Alan Robb,The New Zealand Farmer's Weekly

“[A] shattering exposé of the health problems caused by milk and
Keith Woodford is Professor of Farm the efforts of elements in the dairy industry and government to
Management and Agribusiness at Lincoln
cover them up.” —Jacqueline Steincamp, Healthy Options
University in New Zealand. A regular
commentator in the news media, he was
previously at the University of Queensland
(Australia) for 20 years. He lives with his “I believe this is an important book. Critics should think carefully
family in Christchurch, New Zealand.
and avoid knee-jerk reactions.” —Professor Sir John Scott, Professor
Emeritus of Medicine, University of Auckland


07
April 2009

WIND ENERGY BASICS
SECOND EDITION
A Guide to Home- and Community-Scale
Wind-Energy Systems
Paul Gipe
For the homeowner or community organizer,
the essential guide to harnessing wind energy.
The availability of clean, renewable power is without question going to be the defining
challenge and goal of the 21st century, and wind will lead the way.
Internationally acclaimed wind energy expert Paul Gipe is as soberly critical of past energy
mistakes as he is convincingly optimistic about the future. The overwhelming challenge of
transforming our world from one of fossil carbon to one of clean power seems daunting at
best—and paralyzingly impractical at worst. Wind Energy Basics offers a solution.
Wind power can realistically not only replace the lion’s share of oil-, coal-, and natural-
gas–fired electrical plants in the U.S., but also can add enough extra power capacity to allow
for most of the cars in the nation to run on electricity. Gipe explains why such a startlingly
straightforward solution is eminently doable and can be accomplished much sooner than
previously thought—and will have the capacity to resuscitate small and regional economies.
Wind Energy Basics offers a how-to for home-based wind applications, with advice on which
$29.95 US, $37.50 CAN • PB wind turbines to choose and which to avoid. He guides wind-energy installers through
9781603580304 considerations such as renewable investment strategies and gives cautionary tales of wind
8 x 10 • 224 pages applications gone wrong. And for the activist, he suggests methods of prodding federal, state,
Color illustrations, charts, and tables and provincial governments to promote energy independence.
Previous edition: 9781890132071
Renewable Energy

Extensively revised and expanded by 70 percent. New topics include:
• Urban wind: Does it make sense?
• Building-integrated wind: Is it real or not?
• Rooftop mounting: Should you avoid it?
• New vertical-axis wind turbines: Are they ready?
• Fantasy wind turbines: How to spot them
• Ducted turbines: Can they deliver?
• Community wind: A not-so-new way to harness the wind
• Feed-in tariffs: Can they power a renewables revolution?

Paul Gipe is internationally recognized
for his expertise in wind energy. In •••Other books of interest•••
2008, he was awarded the World
Energy Association’s “World Wind
Energy Award.” He has been honored
as a “Pioneer” by the World Renewable
Energy Congress and as “Person of the
Year” by the American Wind Energy
Association. Gipe’s previous books are
Wind Energy Comes of Age and Wind 9781931498142 9781933392622 9781933392127
Power: Renewable Energy for Home, $50.00 • PB $35.00 • PB $21.95 • PB
Farm, and Business. He lives in
Bakersfield, California.


08 May 2009

IN LATE WINTER
WE ATE PEARS
A Year of Hunger and Love
Deirdre Heekin and Caleb Barber
Recipes and stories from the romantic year in Italy
that inspired the acclaimed Osteria Pane e Salute.
More than a cookbook, In Late Winter We Ate Pears is a love affair with a culture and a
way of life. In vignettes taken from their year in Italy, husband and wife Caleb Barber and
Deirdre Heekin offer glimpses of a young, vibrant Italy: of rolling out pizza dough in an
ancient hilltown at midnight while wild dogs bay in the abandoned streets; of the fogged
car windows of an ancient lovers’ lane amid the olive groves outside Prato.
The recipes in In Late Winter We Ate Pears are every bit as delicious as the memories.
Selections such as red snapper with fennel sauce, fresh figs with balsamic vinegar and mint,
and frangipane and plum tart capture the essence of Italy. Following the tradition of Italian
cuisine, the 80 recipes are laid out according to season, to suggest taking advantage of your
freshest local ingredients.
Whether you are an experienced cook looking for authentic Italian recipes or a beginner wanting
to immerse yourself in the romance of a young couple’s culinary adventure, In Late Winter We
Ate Pears provides rich sustenance in the best tradition of travel and food writing.
Pub Date: May 2009
Cheers to Chef Barber and writer Deirdre Heekin for sharing these marvelous recipes from
$25.00 US, $31.25 CAN • PB
Osteria Pane e Salute (Pane translates as bread and Salute as health) and for sharing the story
9781603581011
of a most inspired year spent in Italy. In Late Winter We Ate Pears is a testament that bread
7 x 91/2 • 296 pages • 80 recipes
and health are the things that make a good life.
Previous ISBN: 1931229163
Cooking/Food Lit.
• National Media
• Authors’ Tour
• Simultaneous publication
with Libation, a Bitter Alchemy,
by Deirdre Heekin
“Just right! An inspiring and informative personal quest and a deeply felt
journey into the heart and soul of Italian artisanal cuisine.”
—Anthony Bourdain, author of A Cook’s Tour and Kitchen Confidential

Deirdre Heekin and Caleb Barber are the proprietors and, respectively, wine director and
head chef of Osteria Pane e Salute, a boutique restaurant and wine bar in Woodstock,
Vermont, recently acclaimed in Bon Appétit, The Boston Globe, Travel and Leisure, and
Attaché. Heekin and Barber grow most of their own produce in addition to working with
local farm partners. In preparation for his role as head chef of Osteria Pane e Salute, Barber
apprenticed with an artisanal baker and in a small trattoria in Tuscany.
Heekin and Barber live in Barnard, Vermont, where Heekin produces artisanal after-dinner
brandies and micro-vintage garage wine for the osteria.


09
May 2009

LIBATION, A BITTER ALCHEMY
Deirdre Heekin
Nostalgic and intoxicating, Libation, a Bitter Alchemy
explores the bittersweet magic of developing nose and
palate through experience and place.
For many years, Deirdre Heekin has been creating an unusual, revitalist wine archive of rare
and traditional Italian varietals at Osteria Pane e Salute, the nationally celebrated restaurant
and wine bar she shares with her chef husband, Caleb Barber. Self-taught in the world of
Italian wines, she is known for her fine-tuned work with scent and taste and her ability to
pair wines and food in unexpected yet terroir-driven ways.
In Libation, a Bitter Alchemy, a series of linked personal essays, Heekin explores the curious
development of her nose and palate, her intuitive education and relationship with wine and
spirits, and her arduous attempts to make liqueurs and wine from the fruits of her own land
in northern New England. The essays follow her as she unearths ruby-toned wines given up
by the ghosts of long-gone wine makers from the red soil of Italy, her adoptive land; as she
embarks on a complicated pilgrimage to the home of one of the world’s oldest cocktails,
Sazerac, in Katrina-soaked New Orleans; as she attempts a midsummer crafting of a brandy
made from inherited roses, the results of an old Sicilian recipe she found in a dusty book-
store in Naples.
Musing on spirits from Campari to alkermes, Heekin’s writing is as intoxicating, rich, and
Pub Date: May 2009
carefully crafted as the wines, liquors, and locales she loves.
$25.00 US, $31.25 CAN • HC
9781603580861
5 x 8 • 272 pages
Food Lit/Wine & Spirits
• National Media
• Author Tour
• Simultaneous publication
with In Late Winter We Ate Pears
CALEB BARBER

Deirdre Heekin has been nominated
for a Pushcart Prize and is winner of
the Italo Calvino Award for her fiction.
Her food writing appears regularly in
Gastronomica: The Journal of Taste
and Culture.

9781933392899
9781933392004 9781933392349 $35.00 • PB
$25.00 • PB $35.00 • PB


10 May 2009

GAIA’S GARDEN
SECOND EDITION
A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture
Toby Hemenway
A classic, popular Chelsea Green gardener's
reference—revised and also expanded to address
urban and limited-space permaculture.
The first edition of Gaia’s Garden sparked the imagination of America’s home gardeners,
introducing permaculture’s central message: Working with Nature, not against her, results
in more beautiful, abundant, and forgiving gardens. This extensively revised and expanded
second edition broadens the reach and depth of the permaculture approach for urban and
suburban growers.
Many people mistakenly think that ecological gardening—which involves growing a wide range
of edible and other useful plants—can take place only on a large, multiacre scale. As Hemenway
demonstrates, it’s fun and easy to create a “backyard ecosystem” by assembling communities of
plants that can work cooperatively and perform a variety of functions, including:
• Building and maintaining soil fertility and structure
• Catching and conserving water in the landscape
• Providing habitat for beneficial insects, birds, and animals
• Growing an edible “forest” that yields seasonal fruits, nuts, and other foods
Pub Date: May 2009
$29.95 US, $37.50 CAN • PB This revised and updated edition also features a new chapter on urban permaculture,
9781603580298 designed especially for people in cities and suburbs who have very limited growing space.
8 x 10 • 320 pages • Color photos & illustrations Whatever size yard or garden you have to work with, you can apply basic permaculture
Previous ISBN: 9781890132521 principles to make it more diverse, more natural, more productive, and more beautiful.
Best of all, once it’s established, an ecological garden will reduce or eliminate most of the
Organic Gardening
backbreaking work that’s needed to maintain the typical lawn and garden.

Praise for the Previous Edition

“Takes the native plants and organic gardening movement to
the next level.”
—Joel M. Lerner, The Washington Post
KIEL HEMENWAY

“A bold, wonderful, nature-embracing, and completely sensible
vision of the future.”
—Justin Siskin, Los Angeles Daily News
Toby Hemenway teaches permaculture
and ecological design courses around
the world and is on the faculty of
“Practical science for making your yard produce food and beauty.”
Portland State University. A former
—Rose O’Donnell, The Seattle Times
geneticist, Hemenway left the biotech
industry in the 1990s and spent 10
years creating and living on a rural
permaculture homestead in southern
“A gardener’s blueprint for ecological abundance from the
Oregon. He now lives in Portland,
ground up.”
Oregon, where he is developing
—Steve Spreckel, Acres USA
several urban sustainability sites.


11
May 2009

LIVING ABOVE THE STORE
Building a Business That Creates Value, Inspires
Change, and Restores Land and Community
Martin Melaver
Foreword by Ray Anderson

How a business can redefine, then find, success.
The economic crash of late 2008 is just the latest evidence of the truth that many have
known for so long: that too much of our modern economy is based on a house of cards. We
need businesses that not only factor their impact on people and places into their equations for
success but also strive to restore the communities and environments in which they operate.
How can this be done?
In Living Above the Store, Martin Melaver provides a roadmap for creating such a business. It’s
not only a “how to” but a “why to” that challenges business as usual to change.
Living Above the Store brings us into the story of Melaver, Inc., a third-generation, 70-year-old
family real estate business, as it evolves toward becoming a thought and product leader in sus-
tainable business practices. It is part business management theory and part case study, where
sustainable principles meet sustainable practices, always grounded in day-to-day practice.
Living Above the Store demonstrates how to:
• Adopt a business model that provides for economic success while contributing to
society and the environment
• Shape a business culture that is restorative to a workforce by helping employees
Pub Date: May 2009 realize their highest potential
$27.95 US, $34.95 CAN • HC • Leverage an ethos within a business that “ripples outward” to foster restoration of
9781603580854 both land and community
6 x 9 • 320 pages • Charts and diagrams • Embrace a notion of limits to growth
Ethical Business • Reframe ideas about competition, proprietary knowledge, and business success
Living Above the Store is for readers who care about issues of community and sustainability as
•National Media
well as for those who want to learn more about how a socially responsible business can first
•Author Tour
redefine, and then find, success.

KIM THOMSON

Martin Melaver has been CEO of Melaver,
Inc., since 1992. Never content with the well-
9780964595354 9781603580007 9781933392905
9781603580069
trod path, he has a PhD in literature from
$19.95 • PB $17.95 • PB $17.95 • PB
$21.95 • HC
Harvard University and an MBA from
Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of
Management. He is actively involved with
numerous community organizations in and
around Savannah, Georgia. Melaver splits his
time between Savannah and Tel Aviv, Israel.


12 May 2009

THE EARTH-SHELTERED HOUSE
Now Back in Print!
An Architect’s Sketchbook
Malcolm Wells
Revolutionary common-sense advice for home building
from the leading proponent of earth-sheltered living.

A Classic Sustainable Building Book
The Earth-Sheltered House is a classic in the annals of sustainable building books, written
by a legend in the field of environmentally responsible architecture. Malcolm Wells has a
fundamentally different way of looking at the design and building process, and his icon-
oclastic perspective has never been more apparent.
Wells’s work is revolutionary, but readers will find his message to be pure common
sense. Earth sheltering offers superior comfort with minimal energy input, and it is
Pub Date: May 2009
adaptable to diverse terrains as well as a variety of architectural aesthetics.
$24.95 US, $31.25 CAN • PB
9781603581073
11 x 81/2 • 192 pages • B&W illustrations
Green Building

“Lovely and provocative.” —Whole Earth Review

“Malcolm Wells has been an inspiration to two generations of
architecture students. This book should be required reading for
everyone making decisions about the built environment.”
—Steve Heckeroth, award-winning solar designer/builder
JAY ELLIOTT

Malcolm Wells, a pioneer of under-
ground building and natural design,
is widely known for his many books,
including How to Build an
Underground Home and Gentle
Architecture. His cartoons are fea-
tured in Rob Roy’s Mortgage Free!
Innovative Strategies for Debt-Free
Home Ownership. He works in the
Underground Art Gallery in
Brewster, Massachusetts.


13
June 2009

SMALL-SCALE GRAIN RAISING
SECOND EDITION
An Organic Guide to Growing, Processing,
and Using Nutritious Whole Grains for
Home Gardeners and Local Farmers
Gene Logsdon
The classic text on raising grain—revised and expanded
for home gardeners and small-scale farmers.
First published in 1977, this book—from one of America’s most famous and prolific agri-
cultural writers—became an almost instant classic among homestead gardeners and small
farmers. Now fully updated and available once more, Small-Scale Grain Raising offers an
entirely new generation of readers the best introduction to a wide range of both common
and lesser-known specialty grains and related field crops, from corn, wheat, and rye to
buckwheat, millet, rice, spelt, flax, and even beans and sunflowers.
More and more Americans are seeking out locally grown foods, yet one of the real stum-
bling blocks to their efforts has been finding local sources for grains, which are grown
mainly on large, distant corporate farms. At the same time, commodity prices for grains—
and the products made from them—have skyrocketed due to rising energy costs and
increased demand. In this book, Gene Logsdon proves that anyone who has access to a
large garden or small farm can (and should) think outside the agribusiness box and learn to
grow healthy whole grains or beans—the base of our culinary food pyramid—alongside
their fruits and vegetables.
Starting from the simple but revolutionary concept of the garden “pancake patch,”
Logsdon opens up our eyes to a whole world of plants that we wrongly assume only the
Pub Date: June 2009
$29.95 US, $37.50 CAN • PB agricultural “big boys” can grow. He succinctly covers all the basics, from planting and
9781603580779 dealing with pests, weeds, and diseases to harvesting, processing, storing, and using whole
7 x 10 • 256 pages • B&W drawings grains. There are even a few recipes sprinkled throughout, along with more than a little wit
Sustainable Agriculture/Organic Gardening and wisdom.
Never has there been a better time, or a more receptive audience, for this book. Localvores,
serious home gardeners, CSA farmers, and whole-foods advocates—in fact, all people who
value fresh, high-quality foods—will find a field full of information and ideas in this once
and future classic.
REBECCA CARTELLONE

•••Also by Gene Logsdon •••

Gene Logsdon is the author of 25 books (and
counting) embracing ecology, art, farming,
cultural studies, and nature writing, including
The Contrary Farmer and Farming at Nature’s
Pace. He has a weekly newspaper column 9781890132569
9780930031749 9781890132668
and contributes regularly to two quarterly $25.00 • PB
$19.95 • PB $14.95 • PB
magazines, Farming and The Draft Horse
Journal, and to the Web site OrganicToBe.org.
He and his wife, Carol Logsdon, operate an
experimental garden farm in Wyandot
County, Ohio. They have two children and
three grandchildren.

14 June 2009

THE END OF MONEY AND
THE FUTURE OF CIVILIZATION
Thomas H. Greco, Jr.
A sweeping view of money—past, present, and
future—including a plan to democratize the economy
and restore the “credit commons.”
Like the proverbial fish who doesn’t know what water is, we swim in an economy built on
money that few of us comprehend, and, most definitely, what we don’t know is hurting us.
Very few people realize that the nature of money has changed profoundly over the past three
centuries, or—as has been clear with the latest global financial crisis—the extent to which it has
become a political instrument used to centralize power, concentrate wealth, and subvert popular
government. On top of that, the economic growth imperative inherent in the present global
monetary system is a main driver of global warming and other environmental crises.
The End of Money and the Future of Civilization demystifies the subjects of money, banking, and
finance by tracing historical landmarks and important evolutionary shifts that have changed the
essential nature of money. Greco’s masterful work lays out the problems and then looks to the
future for a next stage in money’s evolution that can liberate us as individuals and communities
from the current grip of centralized and politicized money power.
Greco provides specific design proposals and exchange-system architectures for local, regional,
Pub Date: June 2009
national, and global financial systems. He offers strategies for their implementation and outlines
$19.95 US, $24.95 CAN • PB
actions grassroots organizations, businesses, and governments will need to take to achieve success.
9781603580786
6 x 9 • 256 pages Ultimately, The End of Money and the Future of Civilization provides the necessary under-
standing—for entrepreneurs, activists, and civic leaders—to implement approaches toward
B&W photos, tables, and diagrams
monetary liberation. These approaches would empower communities, preserve democratic
Economics/Monetary Policy
institutions, and begin to build economies that are sustainable, democratic, and insulated
• National Media from the financial crises that plague the dominant monetary system.
• U.S. Radio Tour

• The what, how, and why of our current,
destructive money system
• The what, how, and why of independent,
sustainable alternatives
• The long-ignored change that is required to
move toward a democratic, steady-state economy
Thomas H. Greco, Jr. is a leading authority on
free-market approaches to monetary and
financial innovation, including cashless
exchange systems. A former engineer, entre-
preneur, and tenured college professor, Greco
is now a sought-after advisor and speaker at
conferences internationally. His previous
books include Money: Understanding and
Creating Alternatives to Legal Tender. Through
his Web site, reinventingmoney.com, and
associated blogs and books, Greco offers an
unprecedented wealth of information on the 9781603580069 9781933392233
9781890132378
$21.95 • HC $30.00 • PB
$25.00 • PB
interplay of economics and democracy. When
not traveling internationally, he lives in the
San Francisco Bay area and Tucson, Arizona.


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August 2009

THE PURPOSE OF LIFE
Science’s Surprising Answer to
Religion’s Most Profound Question
Dorion Sagan and Eric D. Schneider

The answer to the grandest philosophical question of all
time requires thinking outside the boxes of conventional
religious teaching and conventional scientific wisdom.
What is the purpose of life? Some say it's to reproduce, others to glorify God, but behind these
and other proposed purposes lies a scientific purpose. In The Purpose of Life, science writer
Dorion Sagan and biophysicist Eric D. Schneider lay out the fascinating evidence for life’s nat-
ural purpose—its function in an energy-driven cosmos. New evidence shows that the evolution
of life on Earth over the past three-and-a-half billion years has not been random but has a clear
direction, and its direction is related to life's function as a natural system. Indeed, life shares its
function—its purpose—with that of certain other complex natural systems. Although the
answer is simple and not exclusive—life may have other purposes—its profound implications
may change the way we see ourselves, our relationships to other living beings, and our future
on this shared, energy-driven planet.
Sagan and Schneider provide a striking alternative to both scientific and religious views of this
age-old question. Engaging recent bestsellers such as Rick Warren’s The Purpose-Driven Life and
Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth: Finding Your Life's Purpose, The Purpose of Life goes beyond popular
Pub Date: August 2009 science, weaving literature, philosophy, and spirituality into a highly readable narrative.
$15.95 US, $19.95 CAN • PB
9781933392387
51/2 x 81/2 • 224 pages
Science/Philosophy
“Building upon the beautiful subtleties of the Second Law of
• National Media
Thermodynamics, Eric Schneider and Dorion Sagan take us on a tour
•••Also by Dorion Sagan••• de force through biology, touching upon the origin of life, sex, evolution,
ecology, and even economics. Along the way, they dethrone the idea
that the gene is the central actor in the drama of life and put the focus
properly back on the plot—the organized flows of matter and energy
that make life what it is.”
—J. Scott Turner, author of The Extended Organism
9781933392325 9781933392318
$14.95 • PB $25.00 • PB

Dorion Sagan is the Eric D. Schneider lives in
author or coauthor of 21 the mountains of southwest
books translated into 11 Montana. He is best
languages, including described as a biophysi-
Notes from the Holocene cist, synthesizing biology
WILLIAM CAMPELL

and Microcosmos (with and physics at a fundamen-
Lynn Margulis). A tal level. He has been chief
Humana Scholar, scientist of the National
Lindisfarne Fellow, and Oceanic Administration
recipient of an EdPress and director of the
Award in nonfiction, Sagan has written for The New York National Marine Quality Laboratory of the U.S. Environmental
Times, Wired, and The New York Times Book Review. He cur- Protection Agency.
rently resides in Amherst, Massachusetts.

Schneider and Sagan coauthored Into the Cool: Energy Flow, Thermodynamics, and Life (University of Chicago Press, 2006), which has
been a scientific bestseller.


16 August 2009

WALKING WITH THE GREAT APES
Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, Biruté Galdikas
Sy Montgomer y
Foreword by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

From the bestselling author of The Good Good Pig,
a classic book back in print!

Extensively Updated by the Author • New Photos
Three astounding women scientists have in recent years penetrated the jungles of Africa and
Borneo to observe, nurture, and defend humanity’s closest cousins. Jane Goodall has worked
with the chimpanzees of Gombe for nearly 50 years; Dian Fossey died in 1985 defending the
mountain gorillas of Rwanda; and Biruté Galdikas lives in intimate proximity to the orangutans
of Borneo. All three began their work as protégées of the great Anglo-African archeologist Louis
Leakey, and each spent years in the field, allowing the apes to become their familiars—and
ultimately waging battles to save them from extinction in the wild.
Their combined accomplishments have been mind-blowing, as Goodall, Fossey, and Galdikas
forever changed how we think of our closest evolutionary relatives, of ourselves, and of how to
conduct good science. From the personal to the primate, Sy Montgomery explores the science,
Pub Date: August 2009
$17.95 US, $22.50 CAN • PB wisdom, and living experience of three of the greatest scientists of the twentieth century.
9781603580625
51/2 x 81/2 • 304 pages • Color photo insert
Nature/Essays

SEARCH FOR THE GOLDEN MOON BEAR New in Paper!
Science and Adventure in Pursuit of a New Species
Sy Montgomer y
With a New Scientific Addendum by
Dr. Gary Galbreath • New Photos
Sy Montgomery has already shared with readers her amazing encounters with great apes,
man-eating tigers, and pink river dolphins, but her latest muse is an animal whose name
and appearance evoke another world altogether. Southeast Asia’s golden moon bear, with
its luminous coat, lionlike mane, and Mickey Mouse ears, was unknown to science—until
Montgomery and her colleagues got on the trail at the dawn of the new millennium.
Search for the Golden Moon Bear recounts Montgomery’s quest—fraught with danger and
mayhem—to reconstruct an evolutionary record and piece together a living portrait of her little-
known subject. This beautiful animal is not just a scientific eureka! It is also a powerful symbol
of conservation. Search for the Golden Moon Bear is a field report from the frontiers of science
and the ends of the earth, seamlessly weaving together folklore, natural history, and contemporary
research into fantastic travelogue.

Sy Montgomery is an author, naturalist, documentary scriptwriter, and radio commentator who
Pub Date: August 2009
has traveled to some of the world’s most remote wildernesses for her work. She has worked in a
$19.95 US, $19.95 CAN • PB pit crawling with 18,000 snakes in Manitoba, been hunted by a tiger in India, swum with pink
9781603580632 dolphins in the Amazon, and been undressed by an orangutan in Borneo. She is the author of
51/2 x 81/2 • 336 pages • Color photo insert 15 award-winning books, including her national bestselling memoir, The Good Good Pig.
Previous ISBN: 9780618356508 Montgomery lives in Hancock, New Hampshire.
Nature/Essays


17
aatec publications

THE NEW SOLAR ELECTRIC HOME
THIRD EDITION
The Complete Guide to Photovoltaics for Your Home
Joel Davidson and Fran Orner

A reality-based education in conservation and home
solar electric systems.
Joel Davidson and Fran Orner have updated their PV classic for our “new age of photo-
voltaics.” Drawing on decades of industry, hands-on, and personal experience (they live in
one of the first net-metered PV homes in California), the authors guide you step-by-step
through the process of going solar.
Emphasizing energy conservation, but not deprivation, Davidson and Orner take you from
determining your energy needs to sizing, siting, selecting, and installing—or hiring professionals
to install—your PV system. A safe and code-compliant system is the result.
• Chapters 1 through 8 explain the basics of PV, discuss the policies and regulations
that affect a home PV system, and guide the reader through decision making.
• Chapters 9 through 15 examine the components of a PV system—what they are, how
they work, and how to select them.
• Chapters 16 through 19 provide instruction on sizing, siting, installing, and maintaining
a code-compliant PV system.
Pub Date: Available Now • Chapter 20 offers a glimpse into the future of PV.
$39.95 US, $45.95 CAN • PB
In clear, concise language, with more than 170 illustrations, 52 tables, multiple worksheets and
9780937948170
checklists, solar radiation data, excerpts from the National Electrical Code®, and more—includ-
6 x 9 • 496 pages • 171 B&W photos &
ing numerous real-life examples—this third edition of The New Solar Electric Home gives you all
drawings • Worksheets • Checklists
the information you need to get your personal power plant online.
Green Building

A PV industry founder, Joel Davidson was
named “one of this country’s most experi-
enced hands-on pioneers” by the Rocky
Mountain Institute. Fran Orner, an accom-
plished PV system designer, owns and
operates SOLutions in Solar Electricity
(www.solarsolar.com).


18 Metamorphic Press

DRIP IRRIGATION FOR EVERY
LANDSCAPE AND ALL CLIMATES
SECOND EDITION
Robert Kourik
Manage limited water supplies with precision
and efficiency.
Drip irrigation is the best way to help any plant flourish and survive tough times, especially
short or long droughts. Pick the wrong “stuff ” and you easily can feel overwhelmed. Robert
Kourik’s Drip Irrigation for Every Landscape and All Climates clearly explains how to use less
water yet increase the yields of vegetables and promote the growth and flowering of all
plants—trees, shrubs, and container plants—in any climate, even where it rains irregularly.
In the tradition of the original groundbreaking book, this fully revised edition incorporates
new information essential for gardeners, including how to manage limited water supplies
with precision and efficiency, without the clutter of hundreds of widgets and gizmos, and
the knowledge is shared in Kourik’s inimitable, friendly, down-to-earth, and easy-to-under-
stand style.
Drip Irrigation for Every Landscape and All Climates reveals how to:
• Utilize drip irrigation for everything you grow—trees, shrubs, hanging plants,
container plants, and vegetable and flower gardens —and save up to 50 percent
Pub Date: April 2009 of your water compared to sprinklers.
$24.95 US, $31.25 CAN • PB
• Use a streamlined configuration of hardware and tubing.
9780961584849
81/2 x 11 • 160 pages • B&W illustrations • Choose the best, sturdiest hardware that will last for decades in your home landscape
Organic Gardening/Techniques and vegetable garden.
• Pick tubing that has no emitters punched on the outside—these have a tendency to
break off—and use this tubing buried beneath the surface to irrigate without losing
any water to wind or evaporation.
• Roll out a drip system in a very short period of time, avoiding tedious hours punching
in emitters or adding smaller tubing to reach each plant.
• Capture and reuse gray water and cistern water for irrigation.
• Construct a system in which the main parts are effectively hidden or can be
simply attached to an existing garden faucet.
Individual projects are carefully detailed and include: how anyone can construct a system by
attaching it to an existing garden faucet or the main water supply, constructing larger assem-
blies for big gardens, irrigating all sizes of potted plants, easy ways to irrigate a vegetable gar-
den, and how to lay out tubing for the best health of trees and shrubs.
During the 1975 California drought,
Robert Kourik created a primitive drip
•••Also by ROBERT KOURIK•••
system, and since then he has continued
to innovate using the latest technologies.
He has written 10 instructional books
advocating sustainable gardening,
edible landscaping, and a healthy
lifestyle, including Roots Demystified.
He lives in Occidental, California.

9780961584832 9781856230261
$25.00 • PB $49.95 • PB


19
marketumbrella.org

CRESCENT CITY
FARMERS MARKET COOKBOOK
Poppy Tooker
Foreword by Alice Waters
Experience the flavors of Slow Food New Orleans.
Thirteen years in the making, the Crescent City Farmers Market Cookbook is ready for the
audience that has long been awaiting it. The world’s loudly proclaimed interest in New
Orleans—its food, its culture, and most recently its struggle to rebuild after one of the
greatest disasters in modern times—proves that, now more than ever, there is tremendous
demand for such a book.
Poppy Tooker tells the story of the Crescent City Farmers Market through her distinctly
New Orleans voice as one of a local food preservationist, Slow Food New Orleans founder,
and longtime market collaborator. With a market tradition dating back to the late 1600s,
the story of the rise and decline of New Orleans’ city markets prior to the creation of the
Crescent City Farmers Market is both educational and entertaining. Tooker recalls whimsical
and wacky market events with both prose and archival photography. On a more serious note,
she tells compelling stories of Hurricane Katrina’s devastating impact on market vendors
Pub Date: April 2009 from an insider’s point of view. More than 70 profiles of key market vendors are included,
$24.95 US, $31.25 CAN • PB humanizing the book’s recipes in a truly unique way.
9781603580991
The Crescent City Farmers Market Cookbook incorporates renowned New Orleans chefs’ recipes
9 x 9 • 208 pages • 100 color photos
inspired by the region’s seasonal bounty, as well as family favorites from market vendors and
Cooking/Slow Food shoppers. More than 125 recipes, ranging from Creole classics such as Oysters Rockefeller,
Gumbo Z’Herbes, and Bread Pudding to Gator-Tater Salad, Asian Pear Slaw, Chevre-Stuffed
Squash Blossoms, Kakurei Turnip and Pork Fricasse, Barbecue Shrimp Pie, and Satsuma-
Chocolate Gelato reveal why New Orleans is one of the great food cities of the world.

Poppy Tooker is a culinary activist who has worked
tirelessly to promote and preserve the historic food
ways of New Orleans. With her motto “Eat It to Save
It,” she has helped revive endangered foods across
the U.S. and abroad in collaboration with Slow
Food’s Ark of Taste. She is a contributing editor for
Hallmark Magazine and a regular columnist for
Louisiana Cookin’ magazine and also has written for
Fine Cooking. Tooker’s on-camera flair has made her
a sought-after guest on the Food Network, on the
History Channel, and in multiple PBS documentaries.
She lives in New Orleans, LA.


20 Green Books

THE HOLISTIC BEAUTY BOOK
Over 100 Natural Recipes for Gorgeous Healthy Skin
Star Khechara
The how and why of making your own cosmetics.
Do you:
• Worry about chemicals in your cosmetics?
• Want to use only the very best, fresh, handmade holistic potions?
• Want to use ethical and environmentally friendly products?
• Have sensitive skin and need very pure potions?
DIY skin care is fun, easy, and empowering. The Holistic Beauty Book is packed with safe,
100 percent natural, organic, eco-friendly skin-care potions you can make at home that
are gorgeous yet affordable.
• Use vegan/vegetarian ingredients that are organic, local, and fairly traded.
• Make plain base creams/ointments from scratch for herbal/aromatherapy use.
• Stop using skin-damaging and environment-damaging chemicals.
• Make wonderful soothing potions for pregnancy and baby care.
The author includes recipes for lip balms, face creams, body butters, massage bars, bath
melts, scrubs, cleansers, baby care products, moisturizers, facial toners, masks and packs,
and much more.
$22.00 US, $27.50 CAN • PB
A holistic practitioner, Star Khechara teaches workshops on how to make your own 100-per-
9781900322270 cent natural, earth-friendly skincare potions and offers skin-health consultations and a potion-
71/2 x 9 • 160 pages • Two-color throughout making service for those who want individual formulations. Her business, Flowr’d Up, is an
Health/Natural Beauty ethical practice that focuses on sustainability and protecting the environment, actively sup-
porting fair trade, organics, local growers, and reusing and recycling. She lives in the UK.

Earth Pledge

EARTH PLEDGE WHITE PAPERS 3-Book Box Set!
Series on Sustainable Development
Earth Pledge More than 80 essays on sustainability in the fields of
architecture, fashion, and cuisine.
Beginning in England, white papers have long provided a forum for exploring important social and
political issues. Earth Pledge publishes the series on sustainable development to highlight and encourage
discussion about the issues of sustainability the world faces in the twenty-first century. This remarkable
collection, featuring essays by academics and experts in the fields of cuisine, architecture, and fashion,
identifies the barriers to sustainability, provides solutions to overcome them, and celebrates the pioneers
who lead the charge toward meeting the practical requirements of today without compromising the
needs of future generations.
Included in this beautifully packaged 3-book box set are:
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9780967509938 Earth Pledge partners with business, communities, and government to accelerate the adoption of sustain-
41/2 x 73/4 • 784 pages • Two-color throughout able practices. The foundation has a range of innovative eco-tech initiatives that share one common
Green Living objective: to demonstrate economic viability today and make a real difference tomorrow.


21
Green Books

SURVIVING AND THRIVING
ON THE LAND
How to Use Your Time and Energy
to Run a Successful Smallholding
Rebecca Laughton
The first book to look at how to avoid burnout, manage your time,
and earn a viable living from the land.
It’s a dream come true when you finally get a piece of land or join an eco-community and start
to plan your sustainable land-based enterprise. But all too often the dream is spoiled by lack of
money, stress, exhaustion, and poor time management, and your work and future plans can dis-
solve into discord, illness, and poverty. Smallholdings provide food, home, fuel, and employment
for those who run them and local, seasonal, often organic and ethical food and timber for an
expanding market.
Surviving and Thriving on the Land looks at ways in which projects can be designed that care for
the people involved in them as well as the earth that they are trying to protect. If land-based
ecological projects are to offer a realistic solution to the problems we face in the twenty-first
century, it is imperative that they be sustainable in terms of human energy. This book offers a
framework, backed up by real-life examples, of issues to consider when setting up a new project
or for overcoming human-energy–based problems in existing projects.
Rebecca Laughton lived for 4 years at Tinker’s Bubble, an ecological community in
Somerset where the residents manage 40 acres of land without the use of fossil fuels.
While researching her book, she traveled around France and the UK visiting other land-
based projects, and she found that the subject of human energy use within ecological
$24.95 US, $31.25 CAN • PB projects had not been addressed adequately. Laughton studied geography at Newcastle
9781900322287 University and has an MSC in sustainable agriculture from Wye College, University of
6 x 9 • 256 pages London. She lives in the UK.
B&W photos throughout
Sustainable Living/Agriculture

FOREST GARDENING
PERMACULTURE
Robert Hart
IN PRACTICE
Permanent Agriculture
Pub Date: April 2009 $20.00 US, $24.95 CAN • DVD
$20.00 US, $24.95 CAN • DVD 9781900322393
48 minutes
9781900322409
50 minutes
A Classic Now
A Classic Now Available in DVD!
Available in DVD!
This DVD, whose aim is to inspire people to start their own perma- Some 45 years ago, the late Robert Hart had a vision of planting a
culture projects, shows how permaculture is practiced in four very small food-producing forest that could fulfill the needs of a healthy diet
different settings: a Hampshire back garden belonging to the editors and at the same time create a beautiful and ecologically sound environ-
of Permaculture Magazine, including fruit trees, vegetables, bees, ment. Having explored Hart’s practical and philosophical ideas, this
chickens, and ducks; a City Challenge project in Bradford close to a film goes on to look at two other projects inspired by the principles of
housing estate with 10,000 residents, tackling the problems of forest gardening and perennial vegetable growing.
unemployment, environmental awareness, and backyard food grow-
On a windy plot in Cornwall, Ken Fern has set up Plants for a Future,
ing; a community co-op in Devon, which involves a café, allot-
where he grows 1,500 species of useful perennial plants (and maintains
ments, and local composting scheme; and a small farm in the Forest
information on a further 5,500 in his database). And a few miles north
of Dean where innovative marketing schemes ensure a close link
of London, Mike and Julia Guerra have created a tiny garden as an
between producer and consumer, including meat production, a veg-
inspiration to anyone wanting to “act locally.”
etable box scheme, and locally produced charcoal.
Anyone looking for small, practical solutions to world problems will
find this DVD both useful and inspiring.


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