The New Organic Grower by Eliot Coleman There was a time (before kids, before a bustling seed company, before all the spreadsheets) that I’d start every winter by reading this book. Eliot Coleman presented everything in a series of cycles and systems that flowed into each other and supported each other. And it was done … More Farmer Book Club: The New Organic Grower
Here’s the Farmer Book of Nightmares. Also published as Diseases and Pests of Vegetable Crops in Canada by The Canadian Phytopathological Society. 500+ pages of suspense and vegetable gore. This book is broken down by a series of crops/crop families and their diseases + pests. Each disease/pest section explains its symptoms, disease cycle/life history, and … More Farmer Book Club: The Farmer Book Of Nightmares
Weed The Soil, Not the Crop by Anne & Eric Nordell. The Nordell’s defined how I think about crop rotation and farm design. There is nothing like the long series of articles they’ve written for the Small Farmer’s Journal. As a younger farmer, I would read deeply through each of their articles 5 or 6 … More Farmer Book Club: Weed The Soil, Not the Crop
The title of this book says it all. It’s a manual to help your Plan Your Crop Rotation. It’s got tons of information and some beautiful tables of the rotations on a number of top notch vegetable farms. This book is solid but I’m a bit hesitant to recommend it if you’re new to crop … More Book Review: Crop Rotation On Organic Farms
I picked up Beneath The Concrete on a Zine table after a Food Not Lawns event at McGill University back in early 2000. The zine lived in a cardboard box full of other books for the rest of the semester. I may have flipped through the pages but I didn’t spend much time with it. … More My First Farming Book
These are my other two favourite garlic books. These are my other two favourite garlic books. Growing Great Garlic (by Ron Engeland) was my constant companion in my early garlic years. This book would be spread open on the straw mulch as I compared the scape size and colour with the descriptions in the book. … More My Two Other Favourite Garlic Books
It’s good to have a few good books lying around at all times These days, The Garlic Papers is sitting on my kitchen counter. That way I can steal a few pages here and there throughout the day. This book arrived in the mail a few days ago. My buddy JC had seen it and … More Don’t you love to drown in a good garlic book?
Didn’t we already go through the 10 books of my Top 10 Farm Books Of The Decade? We did, but there is one other book I want to talk about. This is a book that just barely missed being on my list, but as I’ve been posting these last 10 days, I kept wishing it … More All the Dirt: Reflections on Organic Farming – Book Review
This is book 10 of my personal Top 10 Farm Books Of The Decade. I’ve been presenting my Top 10 in order of publication. Farming While Black Soul Fire Farm’s Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land by Leah Penniman Leah Penniman has written a complete farming manual that covers all steps from soil prep … More Farming While Black – Book Review
This is book nine of my personal Top 10 Farm Books Of The Decade. I’m presenting my Top 10 in order of publication. Next up ,,, The Greenhouse and Hoophouse Grower’s Handbook Organic Vegetable Production Using Protected Culture by Andrew Mefferd In the spring of 2017, after the snow melted at Tourne-Sol farm, it started … More The Greenhouse and Hoophouse Grower’s Handbook – Book Review
Going to Seed with Dan Brisebois 