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Books

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Building a Sustainable Business

A Guide to Developing a Business Plan for Farms and Rural Businesses

Type: Book

Biz Book

Building a Sustainable Business: A Guide to Developing a Business Plan for Farms and Rural Businesses brings the business planning process alive to help today's alternative and sustainable agriculture entrepreneurs transform farm-grown inspiration into profitable enterprises.

Download File (4.83 MB)

Print Version:
$17.00

Building Soils for Better Crops, 3rd Edition

Sustainable Soil Management

Type: Book

BSBC 3

Building Soils for Better Crops is a one-of-a-kind, practical guide to ecological soil management, now expanded and in full color.

Download File (13.89 MB)

Print Version:
$20.95

Building Sustainable Farms, Ranches and Communities

Federal Programs for Sustainable Agriculture, Forestry, Entrepreneurship, Conservation and Community Development

Type: Book

Building Sustainable Farms Ranches and Communities Guide COVER

This guide lists funding opportunities offered by federal programs, and is indispensable for anyone seeking government help to foster their innovative enterprise in forestry and agriculture. Available only online.

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Crop Rotation on Organic Farms

A Planning Manual

Type: Book

Crop Rotation

Crop Rotation on Organic Farms: A Planning Manual provides an in-depth review of crop rotation, including how it improves soil quality and health and helps manage pests, diseases and weeds.

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Print Version:
$24.00

How to Direct Market Your Beef

Type: Book

Beef book

How to Direct Market Your Beef portrays how one couple used its family’s ranch to launch a profitable, grass-based beef operation focused on direct market sales.

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$14.95

How to Manage the Blue Orchard Bee

Type: Book

Blue Orchard Bee

How to Manage the Blue Orchard Bee explains how to use this alternative pollinator successfully, including nesting, rearing and wintering, how to manage predators, and more. Available only online.

Download File (965.43 kB)

Land and Power

Sustainable Agriculture and African Americans

Type: Book

Land and Power

Renowned experts' articles, essays and poems offering historical and contemporary Black perspectives on sustainable agriculture.

Download File (11.99 MB)

Print Version:
$10.00

Local Harvest

A Multifarm CSA Handbook

Type: Northeast SARE Grantee-Produced Info Product

CSA-book

Local Harvest: A Multifarm CSA Handbook offers straightforward guidance on cooperative marketing, an innovative practice that is helping CSAs stay strong and viable over the long term.

Download File (2.44 MB)

Manage Insects on Your Farm

A Guide to Ecological Strategies

Type: Book

Manage Insects

While every farming system is unique, the principles of ecological pest management apply universally. Manage Insects on Your Farm highlights ecological strategies that improve your farm’s natural defenses and encourage beneficial insects to attack your worst pests.

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$15.95

Managing Alternative Pollinators

A Handbook for Beekeepers, Growers and Conservationists

Type: Book

Managing Alt Pollinators

Managing Alternative Pollinators: A Handbook for Beekeepers, Growers and Conservationists is a first-of-its-kind, step-by-step, full-color guide for rearing and managing bumble bees, mason bees, leafcutter bees and other bee species that provide pollination alternatives to the rapidly declining honey bee.

Download File (4.92 MB)

Print Version:
$23.50

Managing Cover Crops Profitably, 3rd Edition

Type: Book

MCCP3

Managing Cover Crops Profitably explores how and why cover crops work and provides all the information needed to build cover crops into any farming operation.

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$19.00

Steel in the Field

A Farmer's Guide to Weed Management Tools

Type: Book

steel-in-the-field

Weed control demands time, labor and expense for every farmer every year. Steel in the Field shows how today's implements and techniques can control weeds while reducing—or eliminating—herbicides. Available only online.

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Sustainable Agriculture Resources and Programs for K-12 Youth

Type: North Central SARE Online Course/Curriculum

Cover image of K-12 Resource Guide. Cow in a field.

This 16-page guide to sustainable agriculture-oriented educational opportunities for schoolchildren features more than 50 programs and curricula nationwide, updated in 2011. Available only online.

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Ten Years of SARE

Type:

Ten Years of SARE book cover

Ten Years of SARE showcases accomplishments of a unique USDA program that has made a difference in the lives of farmers and ranchers across the United States and Island Protectorates.
 

The New American Farmer, 2nd Edition

Profiles of Agricultural Innovation

Type: Book

The New American Farmer

Hailing from small vegetable farms, cattle ranches and grain farms covering thousands of acres, the producers in The New American Farmer, 2nd edition have embraced new sustainable approaches to agriculture.

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Print Version:
$16.95

The New Farmers' Market

Farm-Fresh Ideas for Producers, Managers and Communities

Type: Book

New Farmers Mrkt

In one complete volume, this must-have resource for direct market producers covers the latest tips and trends from leading-edge sellers, managers and market planners all over the country.


Print Version:
$26.95

Youth Renewing the Countryside

Type: Book

Youth Book

This full-color book profiles 50 inspiring young people—one from every state—who are revitalizing rural America with new enterprises.

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Print Version:
$24.95
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