Spring 2015 Frontlist Catalog

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THE NOURISHING HOMESTEAD

One Back-to-the Land Familys Plan forCultivating Soil, Skills, and Spirit

Ben Hewitt with Penny Hewitt

$29.95 | Paperback | 352 pgs.

200 full-color images throughout

ISBN 9781603585514Available January 2015

The Nourishing Homesteadtells the storyof how we can create truly satisfying,permanent, nourished relationships to the

and, nature, and one another. Ben and Penny Hewitt offer practicalways to grow nutrient-dense, nourishing food on a small plot of land,nd will encourage people to think about their farm, homestead,r home as an ecosystem. The Hewitts story is reminiscent of The

Good Life, by Helen and Scott Nearing, and is sure to inspire a neweneration of homesteaders, or anyone seeking a simpler way of lifend a deeper connection to the world.

Ben Hewittis the author of The Town That Food Savedand HomeGrown. Ben and Penny Hewitt consult frequently on homestead-cale production and processing of nutrient-dense foods, as well asomestead planning, design, and implementation. They also offer

workshops in a wide variety of traditional land skills.

THE OCCIDENTAL ARTS AND

ECOLOGY COOKBOOK

Fresh-from-the-Garden Recipes forGatherings Large and Small

The OAEC Collective withOlivia Rathbone

$40.00 | Hardcover, PLC | 416 pgs.

250 color images throughout

ISBN 9781603585132

Available March 2015

The Occidental Arts and Ecology Center Cookbook is a collection ofnventive recipes from the renowned farm, educational retreat center,nd ecothinktank nestled in the hills of western Sonoma County,

California. This beautifully illustrated cookbook includes 204 uniquend delicious vegetarian recipes with ingredients from all seasons of the

arden (including weeds, owers, herbs, nuts, fruits, mushrooms, andther forages), and offers samples of seasonal menus to inspire cooksven as their gardens appear most dormant. Each recipe also includesuantities and measurements specically for cooking for a crowd.

The Occidental Arts and Ecology Center (OAEC) serves as amodel of sustainability for the greater San Francisco Bay Area andn inspiring meeting place for social changemakers from around the

world. OAEC is well-respected in the nonprot world for its dedicationo participatory decision making, so in true collaborative fashion, thisook is written with input from many voices including current and

ormer residents, cooks, artists, gardeners, educators, and visionaries.

THE ART OF NATURAL

CHEESEMAKINGUsing Traditional, Non-Industrial Methand Raw Ingredients to Make the WorBest Cheeses

David AsherForeword by Sandor Ellix Katz


100 color photographs, illustrations

ISBN 9781603585781 | Available July 2

Asher practices and preaches a traditional, but increasinglycountercultural, way of making cheeseone that is natural andintuitive, grounded in ecological principles and biological scienceThis is also the rst cheesemaking book to take a political stanceagainst Big Dairy and to criticize standard industrial and artisanalcheese making practices, and may very well change the way we loat cheese, and how we make it ourselves.

David Asher is an organic farmer, goatherd, and farmsteadcheesemaker, who lives in the Gulf Islands of British Columbia.A guerrilla cheesemaker, Asher explores traditionally cultured,noncorporate methods of cheesemaking.

WHAT WE THINK ABOUT WHE

WE TRY NOT TO THINK ABOU

GLOBAL WARMING

Toward a New Psychology of

Climate ActionPer Espen Stoknes


ISBN 9781603585835 | Available April 2

A leader in the emerging climate-psychology eld, Stoknes helps readerunderstand the psychology behind ourdiverse reactions to climate change,

exposes the barriers to accepting and acting upon what we knowabout climate change, and guides us to designing campaigns andapproaches that work with, not against, human nature. This book of interest whether you are working on the front lines of the climaissue, immersed in the science, trying to make policy or educate

the public, or just an average person trying to make sense of thecognitive dissonance or cope with the despair that comes with sulooming issue.

Per Espen Stoknes is a psychologist and an economist. Anentrepreneur, he has cofounded clean-energy companies, and hespearheads the BI Norwegian Business Schools executive prograon green growth. He has previously worked both as a clinical andorganizational psychologist and as an advisor in scenario planningto a wide range of major national and international businesses,government agencies, and nonprot institutions. He has written thbooks, including Money and Soul.

NEW BOOKS CATALOG

SPRING 201



A MAN APART

Bill Coperthwaites RadicalExperiment in Living

Peter Forbes and Helen Whybrow

$35.00 | Hardcover | 256 pgs. | full-color

photos throughout | ISBN 9781603585477

Available February 2015

A Man Apartpart memoir and partiographyis the story of Peter Forbes, Helen Whybrow, and their

amilys longtime friendship with Bill Coperthwaite (A Handmadeife) whose unusual life and erce ideals helped others examinend understand their own. It is also a story about the tensions andomplexities of mentorship: the opening of ones life to someone elseo learn together, and carrying on in their physical absence. This books also a remembrance of the life, and death, of Coperthwaiteaomesteader and social criticand an account of his decades-longxperiment in living on a remote stretch of Maine coast.

Peter Forbes has become a leader for the American conservationmovement by creating a life in conservation as photographer, writer,nd storyteller about the relationship between people and place.

Helen Whybrowslife as an educator life as an educator, farmer, and

writer follows a career in book publishing. The couple cofounded theationally recognized place of learning and change-makingCenteror Whole Communitiesat their home in central Vermont.

THE SOCIAL PROFIT HANDBOOK

The Essential Guide to Setting Goals,Assessing Outcomes, and AchievingSuccess for Mission-Driven Organizations

David Grant


ISBN 9781603586047

Available March 2015How can mission-oriented organizationsand businesses measure success, whentheir goals transcend the traditional bottomline, and their impact seems impossible

o quantify? Drawing upon decades of leadership in schools and theoundation and nonprot worlds, author David Grant offers those whoead, govern, and support nonprots and emerging social ventureusinesses new ways to assess their impact in order to improve future

work rather than merely judge past performance.

David Grantis the former president and CEO of the Geraldine R.Dodge Foundation where he was responsible for development andvaluation of programs in the foundations major areas of giving, as

well as the foundations major initiatives. Grant now consults witheople and organizations around the world that have a social orducational mission, specializing in strategic planning, design ofssessment systems, and board development.

THE COMMUNITY-SCALE

PERMACULTURE FARM

The D Acres Model for Creating andManaging an Ecologically DesignedEducational Center

Josh Trought


250 color images throughout

ISBN 9781603584753 | Available April The Community-Scale Permaculture Fardescribes not only the history of D Acres

but its evolving principles and practices, all rooted in the land, itsinhabitants, and the joy inherent in collective empowerment. This bcontains a wealth of innovative ideas and ways to make your farmor homestead not only more sustainable, but more inclusive of, andbenecial to, the larger community. This book promises to inspire anew generation of growers, builders, educators, artists, and dreameto seek new and practical ways to address the problems of our era,together.

Josh Troughthelped to found D Acres of New Hampshire in 1997and today serves as its director. He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate the University of Colorado Boulder with a degree in environmentaconservation, and has worked for organizations as diverse as theNational Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration and CoRicas Tapant National Park.

THE NEW LIVESTOCK FARME

Business of Raising and SellingEthical Meat

Rebecca Thistlethwaite and Jim Dunl


16-page color insert

ISBN 9781603585538 | Available June

With the rising consumer interest in grafed, pasture-raised, and antibiotic-freemeats, how can farmers most effectiveltap into those markets and become mo

protable? The New Livestock Farmerprovides pasture-basedproduction essentials for a wide range of animals, from common fanimals (cattle, poultry, pigs, sheep, and goats) to more exotic sp(bison, rabbits, elk, and deer). A must read for anyone who is serioabout raising meat animals ethically.

Rebecca Thistlethwaite(Farms with a Future) runs SustainConsulting, which specializes in food and farm issues, working witboth nongovernmental organizations and for-prot businesses. Shand her husband and coauthor, Jim Dunlop, operate a small farma community farm stand in Oregon, along with their daughter, Fio

They previously owned TLC Ranch in Watsonville, California, whethey raised organic, pastured livestock and poultry, selling to diremarkets across Northern California.

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THE ORGANIC MEDICINAL

HERB FARMER

The Ultimate Guide to Producing High-Quality Herbs on a Market Scale

Jeff and Melanie CarpenterForeword by Rosemary Gladstar


250 photos full-color throughout

ISBN 9781603585736 | Available May 2015oth a business guide and a farming manual, this is the rst book toe published on the organic commercial farming of Western herbs.uccessful small-scale herb farmers Jeff and Melanie Carpentermphasize quality over quantity and keeping costs down by innovating

with existing equipment, rather than investing in expensive technologynd overproduction. They will help people interested in commercial

medicinal herb farming determine what and how to grow usingcologically sustainable techniques while still remaining protable.

eff and Melanie Carpenterco-run Zack Woods Herb Farm inVermont. Jeff has recently entered into partnership with noted herbalist

osemary Gladstar to host the International Herb Symposium. Melanierew up at Sage Mountain under the tutelage of Gladstar and it was

here she started her rst business, Sage Mountain Herb Products.

WILL BONSALLS ESSENTIAL

GUIDE TO RADICAL,

SELF-RELIANT GARDENING

Innovative Techniques for GrowingVegetables, Grains, and Perennial Food Cropswith Minimal Fossil Fuel and Animal Inputs

Will Bonsall


full-color throughout, photos and drawings

ISBN 9781603584425 | Available June 2015

Will Bonsall maintains that to achieve real wealth we rst need tonderstand the economy of the land, to realize that things that might

make sense economically dont always make sense ecologically, andice versa. By avoiding any off-farm inputs (fertilizers, minerals, andnimal manures), and drawing upon the fertility of on-farm plant

materials: compost, green manures, perennial grasses, and forestroducts like leaves and ramial wood chips, Bonsall has learnedow to practice a purely veganic, or plant-based, agriculture, and toecome largely self-reliant. He grows and harvests a diversity of crops

rom both cultivated and perennial plants: vegetables, grains, pulses,ilseeds, fruits and nuts, and more.

Will Bonsallis the director of the Scatterseed Project, which heounded to help preserve our endangered crop-plant diversity. Heves and farms in Maine.

THE CHELSEA GREEN READER

Selections from 30 Years of IndependentPublishing, 19842014

Edited by Benjamin Watson

Foreword by Ian Baldwin


ISBN 9781603586016 | Now Available

Chelsea Green has always had an instinctiv

knack for publishing authors and books onsubjects far ahead of the cultural curveaevident in this representative anthology, w

celebrates our companys rst thirty years in publishing. The more tone hundred books represented in this collection reect the manydistinct areas in which we have publishedfrom literature and memto progressive politics, to highly practical books on green building,farming, food, homesteading, and related topics that embrace ourunderlying philosophy: The politics and practice of sustainable livi

Benjamin Watson is a longtime senior editor for Chelsea Green, aForeword authorIan Baldwinis publisher emeritus and its cofound

THE SEED GARDEN

The Art and Practice of Seed SavingLee Buttala and Shanyn Siegel

SEED SAVERS EXCHANGE

$29.95 | Paperback with faps | 352 pgs.

250 photos, full-color throughout

ISBN 9780988474918 | Available March

In this comprehensive book, Seed SaverExchange, one of the foremost Americaauthorities on the subject, and the Orga

Seed Alliance bring together decades of knowledge to demystifythe time-honored tradition of saving the seed of more than sevenve coveted vegetable and herb crops. With clear instructions,lush photographs, and easy-to-comprehend proles on individual

vegetable crops, this book not only teaches us how to go aboutconserving these important varieties for future generations andfor planting out in next years garden, it also provides a deeperunderstanding of the importance of saving these genetically valuavarieties of vegetables.

Lee Buttalais an Emmy Awardwinning television producer ofMartha Stewart Living and was the creator, producer, and directorof Cultivating Life, a PBS series on outdoor living and gardening.Shanyn Siegelhas worked in sustainable agriculture and horticultfor over fteen years, specializing in organic vegetable gardeningorganic seed production.


THE NEW FARMERS ALMANAC 2015

A Contemporary Compendium for Agrarians, Interventionists, and Patriots of Place

GREENHORNS

$20.00 | Paperback | 256 pgs. | ISBN 9780986320507 | Now Available

The theme of the second New Farmers Almanac is Agrarian Technology. In this volume you will nd answers to practquestions about institutional forms, and future-making: restoration agro-forestry, reclaiming high desert urban farmland,starting a co-op, pickup truck maintenance, pirate radio utopia, cheap healthcare, farming while pregnant, worksongingfarm terraces, and quite a few more.

Greenhornsis a young farmers organization: an un-traditional grassroots network with the mission to promote, recand support the emerging generation of new farmers.



TREES FOR GARDENS,ORCHARDS,

AND PERMACULTURE

Martin Crawford

PERMANENT PUBLICATIONS

$39.95 | Paperback | 256 pgs. | 180 color

photos, full-color throughout

ISBN 9781856232166 | Available May 2015

Are you wondering which productive trees

to plant in your garden? Master forestgardener Martin Crawford has researchedand experimented with tree crops for twenty-

ve years and here provides details on more than 100 of the best treesroducing fruits, nuts, edible leaves, and other useful products that cane grown in Europe and North America.

Martin Crawford founded the Agroforestry Research Trust in theUK in 1992, and focuses on researching and growing perennial foodystems including forest gardens and orchards of nut trees andncommon fruits. He is the author of Food from Your Forest Garden,

Creating a Forest Garden, and How to Grow Perennial Vegetables.

GETTING STARTED IN YOUR

OWN WOOD

Julian Evans, Will Rolls

PERMANENT PUBLICATIONS


40 line drawings, black and white

ISBN 9781856232128 | Available May 2015

Owning a small wood or being able tohelp look after one well has become anincreasingly popular subject. GettingStarted in Your Own Woodand expanded

dition includes information on: Owning or caring for a wood lot;rst steps; planting and caring for trees; coppicing and pollarding;

woodland crafts and products; enriching the wood for wildlife;eeping your wood safe from pests and diseases, and more.

ulian Evans is a forest scientist who has written and edited someixteen books on forestry, including A Wood of Our Ownand What

Happened to Our Wood. He is currently president of Britains Institutef Chartered Foresters.Will Rollsis a chartered forester, an expert onrewood, and author of The Log Book.

SLOW WINE 2015

A Year in the Life of Italys Vineyardsand Wines

SLOW FOOD EDITORE


ISBN 9788884993700


For the fourth consecutive year, Slow Fo

International offers an English-languageedition of their guide to Italian wines whqualities extend well beyond the palate

With visits to 350 cellars, its 3000 wine reviews describe not only whin the glass, but also whats behind it: namely the work, the aims, anthe passion of producers; their bond with the land; and their choicecultivation and cellar techniques. An essential guide for the armchaoenophile.

DISCOVERING THE TRUFFLE

In History, in Its Habitat, in the Kitchen

SLOW FOOD EDITORE


40 color photos | ISBN 9788884993687


An aura of mystery surrounds the mostprecious of the earths fruits. This Slow Foomanual dispels it, describing the varioustypes of tuber, explaining how to recognizand select them, and offering suggestionsbuying trufes, cleaning them, storing the

and using them in the kitchen. This practical advice is complementeby a series of itineraries in the homeland of the Alba white trufe anselection of classic and creative recipes.

Slow Food Editore was founded in Italy in 1989 to counteract fastfood and fast life, the disappearance of local food traditions, and

peoples dwindling interest in the food they eat, where it comes frohow it tastes, and how our food choices affect the rest of the worldnow has more than 80,000 members in 120 countries around the w


WE DONT QUIT!

Stories of UAW Global Solidarity

Don Stillman

INTERNATIONAL UNION, UAW

$25.00 | Paperback | 272 pages | full-color throughout | ISBN 9781603585828Available February 2015

We Dont Quit!describes the crucial role the United Auto Workers (UAW) union has played in the globalstruggle for workers rights. At a time when labors power seems to be waning, the book establishes the UAWvigorous internationalism as a counterbalance to corporate globalization and anti-worker repression by foreigngovernments. At a time when corporations operate without national boundaries, We Dont Quit! charts a pathfor workers to join together across borders to preserve and expand workers rights.

Don Stillman is president of Labor Rights Now, the human rights group that campaigns on behalf of imprisonworker activists throughout the world. His writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington PThe Progressive, and other publications.


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DEFENDING BEEF

$19.95 | Paperback

ISBN 9781603585361

Nicolette Hahn Niman

WILD FERMENTATION

$25.00 | Paperback

ISBN 9781931498234

Sandor Ellix Katz

TOP-BAR

BEEKEEPING

$24.95 | Paperback

ISBN 9781603584616

Les Crowder, Heather Harrell

GROWING HYBRID HAZELNUTS

$39.95 | Paperback

ISBN 9781603585347

Phillip Rutter, Susan Wiegrefe,Brandon Rutter-Daywater

THE SMALL-SCALE

POULTRY FLOCK

$39.95 | Paperback

ISBN 9781603582902

Harvey Ussery

MASTERING ARTISAN

CHEESEMAKING

$40.00 | Paperback

ISBN 9781603583329

Gianaclis Caldwell

GAIAS GARDEN

$29.95 | Paperback

ISBN 9781603580298

Toby Hemenway

SEPP HOLZERS

PERMACULTURE

$29.95 | Paperback

ISBN 9781603583701

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ORGANIC MUSHROOM

FARMING AND MYCOREMEDIATION

$39.95 | Paperback

ISBN 9781603584555

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THE RESILIENT FARM

AND HOMESTEAD

$40.00 | Paperback

ISBN 9781603584449

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INTEGRATED FOREST

GARDENING

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ISBN 9781603584975

Wayne Weiseman, Dan Halsey,Bryce Ruddock

GROWING FOOD IN A

HOTTER, DRIER LAND

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ISBN 9781603584531

Gary Paul Nabhan

THE WINTER

HARVEST HANDBOOK

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ISBN 9781603580816

Eliot Coleman

THE HEAL YOUR GUT

COOKBOOK

$29.95 | Paperback

ISBN 9781603585613

Hilary Boynton and Mary Brackett

THE HOLISTIC

ORCHARD

$39.95 | Paperback

ISBN 9781933392134

Michael Phillips

THE ART OF

FERMENTATION

$39.95 | Hardcover

ISBN 9781603582865

Sandor Ellix Katz

THE TAO OF VEGETABLE GARDENING$24.95 | Paperback

ISBN 9781603584876

Carol Deppe

NATURAL BEEKEEPING

$34.95 | Paperback

ISBN 9781603583626

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THE WILD WISDOM

OF WEEDS

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ISBN 9781603585163

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ALTERED GENES,

TWISTED TRUTH

$31.95 | Hardcover

ISBN 9780985616915

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ISBN 9780985616908

Steven M. Druker

HOW ON EARTH

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ISBN 9780990369004

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GRASS SOIL HOPE

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ISBN 9781603585453

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IN THE COMPANY

OF BEARS

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ISBN 9781603585873

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THINKING IN SYSTEMS

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HEMP BOUND

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CARBON SHOCK

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THE NEW CIDER MAKERS

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REINVENTING FIRE

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THE NEW NET ZERO

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THE SUGARMAKERS

COMPANION

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FROM THE WOOD

FIRED OVEN

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THE ALL-NEW DONT THINK

OF AN ELEPHANT!

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