BOOKS

ANIMALS / PASTURE:

• Beekeeping, Bonney

• Grass Productivity, Voisin

• Grasses, Brown

• Greener Pastures..., Murphy

• Homeopathic Treatment of Cattle, George McCloud

• Pastured Poultry Profits, Salatin

• Raising Poultry, Mercia

• Raising Sheep the Modern Way, Simmons

• Salad Bar Beef, Salatin

• Sheep Raisers Manual, Knuesi

• Small Scale Sheep Keeping, Hunt

• The Man Who Listens to Horses, Roberts

• Training Workhorses, Training Teamsters, Miller

• Why Grassfed is Best, Robinson

• Work Horse Handbook, Miller

APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY:

• Micro-Hydropower Sourcebook, NRECA International Foundation

• Solar Living Sourcebook, Real Goods

BIODYNAMICS:

• Agriculture, Rudolph Steiner

• A Biodynamic Farm, Lovel

• Biodynamic Agriculture, Willy Schilthuis

• "Biodynamic Farming practice", Wistinghausen and Sattler

• "Biodynamic Sprays", Koepf

• "Compost preps and Sprays", Pfeiffer

• Culture and Horticulture, Storl

• "Handbook on Composting and the Biodynamic Preps", Corrin

• Kimberton Calendar

• Spiritual Foundations for the Renewal of Agriculture, Steiner

• "Stella Natura", Calender from Biodynamic Farming and Gardening Association

• The Biodynamic Farm, Herbert Koepf

COVERCROPPING

• The Northeast Cover Crop Handbook, Marianne Sarrantonio Rodale Institute

• Managing Cover Crops for Profitability, Sustainable Ag Network

CSA:

• CSA Farm Network, vol. 1&2, Gilman

• Sharing the Harvest: a guide to community supported agriculture, Elizabeth Henderson

EQUIPMENT:

• Horsedrawn Plows and Plowing, Miller

• The Handcart Handbook, Tresemer

• The Scythe Book, Tresemer

• Steel in the Field, Bowman

• Crop and Vegetable Farming or Gardening, Technical

• Botany for Gardeners, Brian Capon

• Garden Primer, Damrosch

• Knott's Handbook for Vegetable Growers, Maynard & Hochmuth

• Rodales All New Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening, Rodale Press

• Small Scale Grain Raising, Logsdon

• Sustainable Vegetable Production from Start Up to Market, Vernon Grubinger

• The Biological Farmer, Zimmer

• The Gardenville Method, Beck

• The Natural Way of Farming, Fukuoka

• The New Organic Grower, Coleman

FARMING OR GARDENING, GENERAL:

• An Agricultural Testament, Albert Howard

• The Albrecht Papers, William Albrecht, ACRES USA

• Changes in the Land, Cronin

• Conversations with Farmers, Finding Sustainable Agriculture, SARE project on Maine farms

• Culture and Horticulture, Storl

• Elements of Sustainable Agriculture, SARE project on Maine farms

• Encyclopedia of Country Living, Emery

• Exploring the Small Farm Dream, New England Small Farm Institute

• Farmers of Forty Centuries: Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan, F.H. King

• Farmland Transfer and Protection in New England, New England Small Farm Institute

• Farms of Tomorrow Revisited, Groh

• Five Acres and Independence, Kains

• Gift of Good Land, Berry

• H.R.M., Alan Savory

• Introduction to Permaculture, Mollison

• Making your Small Farm Profitable, Macher

• Natural Capitalism, Hawkins/Lovings

• On Good Land, Ableman

• Out of the Earth, Daniel Hillel

• Regenerating Agriculture, Pretty

• Successful Small Scale Farming, Schwenke

• The Contrary Farmer, Logsdon

• The Organic Farmer's Business Handbook, Wiswall

• The Organic Farming Manual, Hansen

• The On-Farm Mentor's Guide, NESFI

• The New Farmers Market, Corum et al.

• The Real Dirt, Miranda Smith

• The Soul of Soil, Gershuny & Smillie

• The Soil & Health, Albert Howard

• Unsettling of America, Wendell Berry (as well as anything else he has written)

• Water for Every farm, P.A. Yeomans

FOOD - HANDLING, STORAGE:

• Putting Food By, Greene et al.

• Root Cellaring, Bubel

• Small Scale Postharvest Handling Practices, Kitinoja and Kader

• Stocking Up, Hupping and the Rodale Staff

FOOD - RECIPIES, NUTRITION:

• Greene on Greens, Greene

• Healing with Whole Foods, Pitchford

• Laurel's Kitchen, Robertson et al.

• Joy of Cooking, Rombauer, Rombauer Becker, and Becker

• Nourishing Traditions, Fallon

• Recipies From America's Small Farms, Hayes and Stein

• The Eco-Foods Guide, Barstow

• The Grassfed Gourmet Cookbook, Hayes

• The Moosewook Cookbook, Katzen

• The Simply Grande Gardening Cookbook, Pollard

GREENHOUSE:

• Secrets of Plant Propogation, Hill

• Solviva, Edey

• The Solar Greenhouse Book, McCullagh

HERBS:

• A Modern Herbal, Grieve

• A Woman's Book of Herbs, Soule

• Green Pharmacy, Griggs

POLITICS:

• Biopiracy, Shiva

• Stolen Harvest, Shiva

SEASON EXTENSION:

• Four Season Harvest, Coleman

• Winter Harvest Manual, Coleman

SEED SAVING:

• Breed your own Vegetable Varieties, Deppe

• "Restoring our Seed" packet, see also their website, growseed.org

• Seed to Seed, Ashworth

SOILS AND COMPOST:

• Building Soils for Better Crops, Magdoff and van Es

• Compost: What it is, How it's made, What it does, Koepf

• DIRT The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth, William Bryant Logan

• Easy Compost, Hanson

• Start With The Soil, Gershuny

• The Complete Book of Composting, Rodale

• The Living Soil Balfour

• The Nature and Properties of Soils, Nyle C. Brady

SPECIFIC CROPS:

• A Garlic Testament, Stanley Crawford

• Growing Great Garlic, Engeland

• Herbal Renaissance, Foster

• Medicinal Herbs, Sturdivant and Blakely

• Specialty Cut Flowers, Alan Armitage

• The Apple Grower, Phillips

• The Back Yard Berry Book, Otto

• The Flower Farmer, Byczynski

• The Organic Apple Grower, Michael Philly's

• The Potential of Herbs as a Cash Crop, Miller

WEED, PEST, & DISEASE CONTROL:

• Diseases & Pests of Vegetable Crops in Canada, Howard, Garland, & Seaman, Edaphos Paul Sachs

• Identifying Diseases of Vegetables, MacNab et al.

• Rodale's Color Handbook of Garden Insects, Anna Carr

• The Organic Gardeners Handbook of Natural Insect and Disease Control, Ellis and Bradey

• Vegetable Farmers and their Weed Control Machines, produced by Vern Grubinger, UVM Extension and Mary Jane Else, UMass extension

• Weeds and What they Tell, Pfeiffer

• Weeds of the Northeast, Uva et al.

Distributors

• Provisions International

• What Cheer Fruit and Produce

• Marty's Local

• Squash, Inc.

EQUIPMENT & SUPPLIES

• B.W. Macknair & Son (horse and tractor drawn used and parts)

• Gemper's (safety, workwear, footwear, pest management, horticulture, shop and tires)

• Griffin Greenhouse & Nursery Supplies

• Fertrell (soil and animal care)

• I & J Manufacturing (horse and tractor drawn equipment)

• Ledgewood Farm Greenhouse Frames

• NOFA MASS Bulk Order

• Nolt's Produce Supplies

• Packaging Corporation of America

• Peaceful Valley Farm Supply

• Pioneer Equipment Inc. (horsedrawn)

• Progressive Grower (farm supplies, amendments, cover crops)

• Market Farm Implement

• Farm Tek

• Growers Supply

• Kennecco Manufacturing

• Rain Flo Irrigation

• Charles Harris Co. (irrigation)

• Growell (greenhouse frames)

• Jensales (tractor manual reprints)

• Waldo and Associates (greenhouse supply)

• Market Farm Implement

ORGANIZATIONS

• American Farmland Trust

• Community Involved In Sustaining Agriculture

• Cornell's Small Farm Program

• Henry A Wallace Institute for Alternative Agriculture

• Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association

• New England Small Farm Institute

• New England Vegetable and Berry Growers Association

• Northeast Organic Farming Association (NOFA)

• NOFAs - NY, VT, MA, CT, RI

• Northeast Region Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE)

• UMASS Cooperative Extension

• UVM

• Regional Farm and Food Project

• Rodale Institute

• UVM Sustainable Agriculture Program

• Equity Trust

• Mount Grace Land Conservation Trust

• First Pioneer Farm Credit

• Farm Viability Enhancement Program

• National Resource Conservation Service

• Southcentral Alaska CRAFT

SEED RESOURCES

VEGETABLE SEED CATALOGS:

• Fedco Seeds, Maine

• High Mowing Seeds, Vermont

• Johnny's Selected Seeds, Maine

• Turtle Tree Seed, New York

• Tomato Growers Supply, Florida

• Seed Savers Exchange, Iowa

COVER CROP, PASTURE, & FORAGE SEED CATALOGS:

• Albert Lea Seed House, Albert Lea, MN 1-800-352-5247

• Lakeview Organic Grain, Box 361 Penn Yan, NY 14527 315-531-1038

• Your local Agway

PERIODICALS

• Acres USA

• Biodynamics P.O. Box 550 Kimberton, PA 19442

• Growing for Market P.O. Box 3747 Lawrence, Kansas 66046 (1-800-307-8949)

• Hortideas 460 Black Lick Rd, Gravel Switch KY 40328

• Rural Heritage Small Farmers Journal P.O. Box 1627 Sisters, Oregon 97759

• Stockman Grass farmer 282 Commerce Park Drive Ridgeland, MS 39157 (601) 853 - 1861

• The Land Report The Land Institute 2440 E Water Well Road Salinas, Kansas 67401

• The Natural Farmer NOFA 411 Sheldon Road Barre, MA 01005 (978-355-2853)

• MOFGA (Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association) journals

• "New Connections", newletter of Regional Farm and Food Project

• New England Vegetable and Berry Conference, 2003 Proceedings

• NOFA chapter newletters

• Small Farmer's Journal

• VegNotes from UMass

VIDEOS

• Farmers and Their Innovative Cover Cropping Techniques, V. Grubinger, UVM

• Vegetable Farmers and their Weed Control Machines, V. Grubinger, UVM

• Controlled Rotational Cover Cropping in the Bio-Extensive Market Garden, a slide presentation by Anne and Eric Nordell at the 1996 PASA Conference.

• Harvest of Fear, Exploring the Fight over Genetically Modified Food, a NOVA/Frontline Special Report, 4/24/01

• "Healing the earth one cow at a time" By Peter Proctor, narrated by Peter CoyoteNOFA videos NOFA 411 Sheldon Road Barre, MA 01005

• Poughkeepsie Farm Project, video by Dick Crenson, Dated: February, 08

OTHER RESOURCES

• 60+ Financial & Educational Resources for Kicking Off Your Farming Career