Sustainable Agriculture

Ben Falk
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Chelsea Green Publishing

Ben Falk M.A.L.D, developed Whole Systems Design, LLC, as a land-based response to biological and cultural extinction and the increasing separation between people and elemental things. Life as a designer, builder, ecologist, tree-tender, and backcountry traveler continually informs Ben’s integrative approach to developing landscapes and buildings. His home landscape and the WSD studio site in Vermont’s Mad River Valley serve as a proving ground for the innovative land developments featured in the projects of Whole Systems Design. Ben has studied architecture and landscape architecture at the graduate level and holds master of arts in landscape design degree. He has taught design courses at the University of Vermont and Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum as well as on permaculture design, microclimate design, and design for climate change. He recently served on the board of directors at the Yestermorrow Design-Build School, where he also teaches from time to time. He is the author of The Resilient Homestead: Innovative Permaculture Systems for the Home and Farm.

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Moretown, VT

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The Resilient Farm and Homestead
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Chelsea Green Publishing

Grace Gershuny, in addition to her position on the staff of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Organic Program, has worked for many years as an educator, organizer, and market gardener. She is nationally known in the alternative agriculture movement, is the author of Start With the Soil, and Compost, Vermicompost and Compost Tea: Feeding the Soil on the Organic Farm as well as co-author of The Rodale Book of Composting and The Soul of Soil. She is on the faculties of the Institute for Social Ecology and Goddard College, and lives in Barnet, Vermont.

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St. Johnsbury, VT

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Compost, Vermicompost, and Compost Tea - 1603583475 / 9781603583473

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The Soul of the Soil - 1890132314 / 9781890132316
Jeff Carpenter
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Chelsea Green Publishing

Jeff Carpenter and his wife, Melanie Carpenter, own and operate Zack Woods Herb Farm in Hyde Park, Vermont. They have recently co-authored the book, The Organic Medicinal Herb Farmer published by Chelsea Green.

Jeff Carpenter has farming in his blood. Descended from generations of Vermont farmers, Jeff deepened his love and understanding of plants through an apprenticeship with Rosemary Gladstar and as the co-owner of Sage Mountain Herb Products. Since those early days, Jeff’s work as a farmer, agricultural consultant, educator, and researcher has focused on the cultivation and marketing of medicinal herbs. Jeff also partners with Rosemary Gladstar in hosting the International Herb Symposium. His passion for the green world is evident as he spends his days working in the fields and in the community.

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(802) 851-7536
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Hyde Park, VT
Where my books are sold.
Amazon, chelseagreen.com, bookstores

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The Organic Medicinal Herb Farmer - ISBN 9781603585736
Nicole Civita (& Michelle Auerbach)
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Nicole Civita is a food systems thinker, experiential educator, applied ethicist, and integrative lawyer, and responsive consultant who grounds in ecological knowledge, attends to relationships of care and reciprocity, and pursues collective liberation.


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https://www.amazon.com/Resetting-our-Future-Feeding-Relationship/dp/180341488X/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=8-1

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Feeding Each Other: Shaping Change in Food Systems Through Relationship (Changemakers Books, John Hunt Publishing 2023) by Nicole Civita and Michelle Auerbach ISBN: 978-1-80341-488-1 (paperback); 978-1-80341-489-8 (ebook) Library of Congress Control Number: 2023930910. Food does much more than fuel our bodies. Food helps us express care, create culture, and connect. Food today might feed you, but the growing, producing, packaging, and distributing is killing us. Trying to ‘feed the world’  is accelerating the collapse of environmental, economic, and social structures.  The current “solutions” aren’t working. The authors demonstrate that our lives depend on the relationships we make with and through food. By blending research, insights from diverse thinkers, and lived experience, food systems educator Nicole Civita and story justice activist Michelle Auerbach make sense of sustenance. They encourage us to focus on Feeding Each Other – not the world. They serve up:  * What you ought to know about food systems;  * The case for a much-needed cultural shift in the way we approach food;  * Unexpected instructions for living into the new paradigm; and  * Stories of those already savoring a delicious future. 
 This guidebook for shaping change in the food system will help us find security and pleasure in a well-nourished life.
Ross Conrad
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Chelsea Green Publishing

Ross Conrad learned his craft from the late Charles Mraz, world-renowned beekeeper and founder of Champlain Valley Apiaries in Vermont. Former president of the Vermont Beekeepers Association, Conrad is a regular contributor to Bee Culture—The Magazine of American Beekeeping. He has led bee-related presentations and taught organic beekeeping workshops and classes throughout North America for many years. His small beekeeping business, Dancing Bee Gardens, supplies friends, neighbors, and local stores with honey and candles, among other bee related products, and provides bees for Vermont apple-pollination in spring.

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Middlebury, VT

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Natural Beekeeping - ISBN 9781603583626 - Whether you are a novice looking to get started with bees, an experienced apiculturist looking for ideas to develop an integrated pest-management approach, or someone who wants to sell honey at a premium price, this is the book you’ve been waiting for.