A collection of essays on farming, farmers and food by Wendell Berry, America's most prolific and eloquent defender of traditional rural economy and small scale farming.  

This is a collection of 21 essays by Wendell Berry, one of the best minds of our times. His essays offer an agrarian alternative to our mindless urban lives. Berry believes in healthy rural communities, sustainable agriculture, appropriate technology, hard work and frugality. These essays bring out these and many more of his beliefs in a simple and eloquent language. 

 

 

 

 

The author John Nash Ott started time-lapse photography as a hobby during his school days. This hobby turned into a lifetime passion of studying the effects of different light sources on plants and other living things. This book is the outcome of more than 50 years of work in photobiology. It gives us access to our ancient wisdom and raises and answers many of the questions related to light and health.  

 

 

In this book, the author presents his view of parenting and child development, in a context harmonious with the principles of the Sudbury model. 

 

This book offers a glimpse into the mechanics of beginning a new school. It analyses various steps that founding groups have taken to get their schools off the ground and allow them to thrive in the early years. Included are dozens of stories describing triumphs and pitfalls encountered along the way. 

 

Bhaskar Save, the acclaimed ‘Gandhi of Natural Farming’, speaks with conviction and wisdom grown from seven decades of personal experience. His farm is a veritable food forest; and a net supplier of water, energy and fertility to the eco-system, rather than a net consumer. The legendary natural farmer, Masanobu Fukuoka hailed it “the best in the world!” This book relates Save’s way of farming and teachings rooted in his deep understanding of the symbiotic relationships in Nature. Much of the explanation is in Save’s own lucid and down-to-earth idiom.  

 

This comprehensively researched and referenced book draws on hundreds of peer-reviewed scientific studies to provide a concise, lucid insight into genetically modified (GM) crops.