Friends; I will be doing a reading from my newest book, a collection of essays titled Homespun Mom Comes Unraveled, tomorrow at noon in the teaching tent at the Local Harvest Festival in Washington Park in Albany, NY. Officially, the book will not be released for sale until November 15. However, we will have a limited number […]
New Book From Shannon Hayes: Cooking Grassfed Beef
Free Range Farm Girl: Cooking Grassfed Beef Healthy Recipes From Nose To Tail All prices include shipping. For volumes greater than 100 copies, write to sapbushshannon(at)gmail.com for special pricing and shipping. From America’s leading authority on cooking sustainably raised meats comes the first in a series of nose-to-tail guides for home cooks. In Cooking Grassfed […]
Best Books of 2013
Every year, my favorite gift to give (and to get) is a good book. But I’m fussy. A holiday read must be something truly special. It becomes an intellectual companion when the days are darkest, so I ask that they fill me with inspiration, feed my imagination and propensity to dream, present me with good […]
12 Books for the Holidays
With Christmas right around the corner, a few of you may be looking for some possible gift ideas, while others of you might be looking for some good suggestions for library books to check out during your holiday break. The real cheap skates among you may even be looking for library book suggestions that you […]
Sheila Says We’re Weird Book Review
February 4, 2012 Tags: book reviews Sheila Says We’re Weird by Ruth Ann Smalley I’m here at the PASA conference in State College, PA, surrounded by a few thousand amazing souls. While leading a Radical Homemakers workshop yesterday, the question arose about how I am helping my daughters to make sense of the life they […]
Children’s Books to Cope with the Gifting Frenzy
Children’s Books To Cope With The Gifting Frenzy December 15, 2011 Helping our kids see more than what’s beneath the tree Christmas is just a few days away, and no matter how averse many of us may be to the social pressures of our consumer culture, we all still need to deal with the “gift […]
The Small Scale Poultry Flock
By Harvey Ussery Chelsea Green Press, ISBN: 978-1603582902 ; $39.95 Ussery is a homesteader inVirginiawho has taken his passion for poultry to the written page. He paired up with Chelsea Green to publish a phenomenal resource that delves into everything from the philosophy of why and how we should be keeping poultry, to housing, starting […]
Sepp Holzer’s Permaculture
By Sepp Holzer Chelsea Green Press, ISBN: 978-1603583701 , $29.95 Originally published in German, Holzer’s book was translated for American audiences in the past year. When I first saw the book, I must admit that I didn’t think it held much applicability for the North American pasture-based farmer. However, as I spent more time with […]
A Handmade Life
By William S. Coperthwaite ISBN: 978-1933392479 , Chelsea Green, $25.00 Coperthwaite’s book was originally released in 2002, but I stumbled upon my dog-eared copy a few days ago, and thought it was worth mentioning here. It is not a farmers’ guide by any means, but for those of us who are deeply committed to […]
Meat: A Benign Extravagance
MEAT: A Benign Extravagance Written by British activist and former livestock farmer, Simon Fairlie, MEAT was published last year in the UK, and has recently made it over the pond to us, thanks to Chelsea Green Publishing. Fairlie’s book is exhaustively researched, and one of the most intelligent and thorough arguments for sensible, sustainable meat […]