The Best Farm Books Episode + Cover Cropping for an Entire Year?

[@camerondrew3779]

Also… as a member of the book industry (part time farmer!) an excellent synopsis of the ‘publishing’ process.

[@richpoints]

More on homesteading but Ben Falk's Second edition of the Resilient Farm and Homestead rocked my world.

[@valsalas666]

i look forward to this podcast every day. thanks for what you do Jesse!

[@harlowecustommicrogreens]

Self publishing through Amazon KDP is a viable route to publish your book. I used it to publish mine rather than trying to pursue a publisher. The only downside is 100% of the marketing is left up to you.

[@ThinkLittleFarm]

YES! The book episode. i'm salivating. thanks, Jesse.

[@brucetepke8150]

Older books that have stood the test of time are also worth reading. Five Acres and Independence by Kains We Wanted a Farm by Kains We Farm for a Hobby and Make It Pay. by Henry Tetlow. Ten Acres Enough by Morris

[@chrisfleming701]

Glad to hear you mention Pam Dawling at the end of your book list. Her “Sustainable Market Farming” has been my encyclopedia for crop requirements and more for almost a decade! She’s the Queen of Farm Knowledge in my book.

[@richpoints]

What your Food Ate is a great read

[@brokenmeats5928]

I love ALL No-Till Growers videos!

[@johnrosier1686]

Some good reading material here and a lot more where that came from.

[@James-ol2fr]

The amendment book by Nigel Palmer has a forward by John Kempf. For those unfamiliar, Johns Regenerative Agriculture podcast is excellent. He technically has a book which is a compilation of some of the interviews from this podcast. Much more helpful than I thought it would be in written form. Also, "How to Grow World Record Tomatoes" is a must- read! Bonus for animal husbands: Dr. Fred Provrnza's, "Nourishment" is very good.

[@NBarSMicrogreens]

I second Kempf's podcast! Also worth a listen is Lowenfel's Teaming with Microbes podcast, who was also mentioned on this list.

[@WillGrowsOrganic]

Would definitely recommend The Market Gardener!

[@FrankMakosiej]

Love the ingenuity of repurposing the greenhouse to a "soccer house"!

[@NBarSMicrogreens]

First, thank you for your book! And all you do to support this effort. I am glad I got a copy of just about every print book you mentioned by Chelsea Green when they had their big sale around labor day. Yes, set me back a pretty penny, but i multiple of those books tabbed out now with invaluable insights. The only one I'd add, which you were close to adding was the Lean Vegetable Farmer. I found that boon to be the most useful on the growing side, where the Lean Farm and Micro Farm are better on the business side.

[@luckyape]

I am using clover as a perennial cover for cannabis, works great in my context.

[@ProlerSkyphet]

Great shares! I’ll have to peep. Don’t forget One Straw Revolution by Fukuoka it’s no till farm philosophy! Also he is one of the people who made no till popular decades ago!

[@strawberryfuntime]

Woo! Love Chris Newman’s book ❤

[@aileensmith3062]

We have a few of those books and we will be purchasing a few more that you mentioned, Thank You. Maybe we are out of sync so to speak. One of the first books that got us into going organic was by Rodale. Since then we have read some of their other books and learned a thing or two and enjoyed them as well!

[@dnawormcastings]

Lots of different books to learn from 🇳🇿🌱

[@HippocratesGarden]

I've already got most of those.

[@lambsquartersfarm]

The Berry Grower, Blake Cothron

[@abydosianchulac2]

Ugh, I miss living further south, it's getting dark at 4:30p these days in NH

[@BruceGlider]

I saved a few of those titles to get later.

[@fourdayhomestead2839]

Books: anything by Eliott Coleman, No Till Grower 😊, Ten Acre Enough, Lean Farm & Root Cellaring. Too many to list here.

[@phil6186]

Richard perkins regenerative agriculture

[@StephanieSomer]

I have a comment and a suggestion. My comment is concerning Jeff Lowenfels "Teaming with..." series. You only mentioned the first 3. He has a 4th, and it is every bit as good and informative as the first 3. I highly recommend it. It's "Teaming with Bacteria", and it gives an excellent description of the rhizophagy cycle. A must have. My suggestion is for you, Jesse. And it will initially sound a bit weird, even prideful. But I suggest you include your own book in your winter reading list. Sometimes reading your own words can have an unexpected impact by bringing back to mind thoughts from the past that may have gotten lost. Think of it as browsing your own diary. You may well learn something. We should never lose sight of where we've been. I've probably read your book 3 or 4 times now and I always glean something new.

[@lksf9820]

I wish it got dark at 6pm here in the UK! 4.30 and that's it and in other countries it's even worse.

[@soilbellefarm3710]

Hey!

[@camerondrew3779]

Restoration Agriculture by Mark Shepard & Water for Every Farm by P.A. Yeomans

[@BruceGlider]

I operate a backyard garden modeled on a market garden. I have 6 4x8 beds. In a bed I opened late summer I have oats and field peas doing well now. I plan a crop of garden peas in early spring and plan to follow that with a dense corn crop. I guess I'm trying to build biomass and get something harvestable. Thoughts?

[@FungalNetwork]

Are you planning corn because you’d just like to experience growing it? Having limited space in raised beds and investing like you are into the soil makes me think maybe a corn crop would potentially give a smaller return than what you’ve put in. But if you just want to grow some really badass corn that is totally cool too

[@James-ol2fr]

"For the Love of Soil" by Nicole Masters.

[@WillGrowsOrganic]

Great content. A little distracting with the zoom of the camera jumping in and out.

[@frederickwessling2039]

Unrelated Jesse, hope everyone is okay there just heard about the explosion.

[@dorcasrodriguez2901]

❤❤❤

[@KorvidRavenscraft]

Would you say your copy of A Soil Owner's Manual...is... buried??? *runsandhides*

[@davidtonge1093]

All the best books on farming was written before 1947

[@James-ol2fr]

You have any titles!?

[@cglick4036]

"Managing Cover Crops Profitably", available online

[@litsci1877]

The women are...where? You've assembled a whole manel of farming books. Plus token. This isn't acceptable, you know that.

[@exploringislivinglife9532]

Woot woot first