Wild About Weeds March 2020 By Jack Wallington Laurence King Publishing, 2019 176 pages, hardcover, $24.99 This book may make you stop cringing at the word “weed” (and even “invasive”) and enable you to consider some plants in a different light. Landscape garden designer and garden writer Jack Wallington profiles over 50 weeds and ways
Tree Leaf Fodder for Livestock Transitioning Farm Woodlots to ‘Air Meadow’ for Climate Resilience June 1, 2020 By Shana Hanson, 2020 This is the final report about a SARE-funded study of pollarding and harvest of tree growth at 3 Streams Farm in Belfast, Maine, to feed livestock. Pollarding is pruning drastically above browse height, cutting close to
Edible Weeds on Farms Northeast farmer’s guide to self-growing vegetables June 1, 2020 By Tusha Yakovleva, 2020 The 98-page free PDF discusses weeds as foods, outlines harvesting and marketing, and offers weed identification resources and recipes. The information was researched thanks to a grant from Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education. https://foundwith.care/weeds-as-crops
Willie Knows Who Done It June 1, 2020 By Hans Krichels Atmosphere Press, 2020. Available at BookStacks in Bucksport, Union River Book & Toy Co. in Ellsworth, all Sherman’s locations, Longfellow Books in Portland, and from Amazon and atmospherepress.com 208 pages, paperback, $15.99 Hans Krichels migrated to Maine to homestead in the ‘70s and learned
The Farm That Feeds Us A year in the life of an organic farm June 1, 2020 By Nancy Castaldo; illustrated by Ginnie Hsu Quarto Publishing, 2020 80 pages, hardbound, $18.95 How wonderful to read a book that begins, “Hurrah for farms that supply us with the food we eat!” While some farms grow crops
Gardening with Emma Grow and Have Fun: A Kid-to-Kid Guide June 1, 2020 By Emma Biggs and Steven Biggs Storey Publishing, 2019 144 pages, paperback, $18.95 The first thing you notice about this book is that it is bright! It’s filled with colorful photos and kid-friendly illustrations that invite you to explore the pages. The
The Planter of Modern Life Louis Bromfield and the Seeds of a Food Revolution June 1, 2020 By Stephen Heyman W.W. Norton & Company, 2020 https://www.theplanterofmodernlife.com/ How is it that a bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning American writer living and working outside of Paris after World War I whose success – literary and social – was envied
Eager The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter June 1, 2020 By Ben Goldfarb Chelsea Green, 2018 304 pages, hardcover, $17.95 Thinking about beavers makes me happy. I don’t know much about them: They haven’t flooded my back garden, my neighbors’ back field or forest, chewed my trees down, jammed the culvert
Plants for the People A Modern Guide to Plant Medicine September 1, 2020 By Erin Lovell Verinder Thames & Hudson, 2020 208 pages, hardcover, $29.95 Erin Lovell Verinder, an herbalist for almost 20 years, has studied in Australia (where she lives) and the United States. “Plants for the People” is a beautifully designed, readable book
Fighting Pollution and Climate Change September 1, 2020 By Richard W. Emory, Jr. BookLocker, 2020 302 pages, $18.95 paperback, $4.99 Ebook from BookLocker.com Baltimore native Richard Emory grew up summering in Brooklin, Maine, before heading to college (Yale), and then Harvard Law School and the Coast Guard. He ended up working for more than 30
