NEW BOOKS CATALOG

SPRING 2015
THE ART OF NATURAL
CHEESEMAKING

THE NOURISHING HOMESTEAD

One Back-to-the Land Familys Plan for
Cultivating Soil, Skills, and Spirit
Ben Hewitt with Penny Hewitt

Using Traditional, Non-Industrial Methods

and Raw Ingredients to Make the Worlds
Best Cheeses
David Asher
Foreword by Sandor Ellix Katz

$29.95 | Paperback | 352 pgs.

200 full-color images throughout

ISBN 9781603585514
Available January 2015
The Nourishing Homestead tells the story
of how we can create truly satisfying,
permanent, nourished relationships to the
land, nature, and one another. Ben and Penny Hewitt offer practical
ways to grow nutrient-dense, nourishing food on a small plot of land,
and will encourage people to think about their farm, homestead,
or home as an ecosystem. The Hewitts story is reminiscent of The
Good Life, by Helen and Scott Nearing, and is sure to inspire a new
generation of homesteaders, or anyone seeking a simpler way of life
and a deeper connection to the world.
Ben Hewitt is the author of The Town That Food Saved and Home
Grown. Ben and Penny Hewitt consult frequently on homesteadscale production and processing of nutrient-dense foods, as well as
homestead planning, design, and implementation. They also offer
workshops in a wide variety of traditional land skills.

$34.95 | Paperback | 320 pgs.

100 color photographs, illustrations

ISBN 9781603585781 | Available July 2015

Asher practices and preaches a traditional, but increasingly
countercultural, way of making cheeseone that is natural and
intuitive, grounded in ecological principles and biological science.
This is also the first cheesemaking book to take a political stance
against Big Dairy and to criticize standard industrial and artisanal
cheese making practices, and may very well change the way we look
at cheese, and how we make it ourselves.
David Asher is an organic farmer, goatherd, and farmstead
cheesemaker, who lives in the Gulf Islands of British Columbia.
A guerrilla cheesemaker, Asher explores traditionally cultured,
noncorporate methods of cheesemaking.

WHAT WE THINK ABOUT WHEN

WE TRY NOT TO THINK ABOUT
GLOBAL WARMING

THE OCCIDENTAL ARTS AND

ECOLOGY COOKBOOK
Fresh-from-the-Garden Recipes for
Gatherings Large and Small
The OAEC Collective with
Olivia 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 of
inventive recipes from the renowned farm, educational retreat center,
and ecothinktank nestled in the hills of western Sonoma County,
California. This beautifully illustrated cookbook includes 204 unique
and delicious vegetarian recipes with ingredients from all seasons of the
garden (including weeds, flowers, herbs, nuts, fruits, mushrooms, and
other forages), and offers samples of seasonal menus to inspire cooks
even as their gardens appear most dormant. Each recipe also includes
quantities and measurements specifically for cooking for a crowd.
The Occidental Arts and Ecology Center (OAEC) serves as a
model of sustainability for the greater San Francisco Bay Area and
an inspiring meeting place for social changemakers from around the
world. OAEC is well-respected in the nonprofit world for its dedication
to participatory decision making, so in true collaborative fashion, this
book is written with input from many voices including current and
former residents, cooks, artists, gardeners, educators, and visionaries.

Toward a New Psychology of

Climate Action
Per Espen Stoknes

$24.95 | Paperback | 320 pgs.

ISBN 9781603585835 | Available April 2015

A leader in the emerging climatepsychology field, Stoknes helps readers
understand the psychology behind our
diverse reactions to climate change,
exposes the barriers to accepting and acting upon what we know
about climate change, and guides us to designing campaigns and
approaches that work with, not against, human nature. This book is
of interest whether you are working on the front lines of the climate
issue, immersed in the science, trying to make policy or educate
the public, or just an average person trying to make sense of the
cognitive dissonance or cope with the despair that comes with such a
looming issue.
Per Espen Stoknes is a psychologist and an economist. An
entrepreneur, he has cofounded clean-energy companies, and he
spearheads the BI Norwegian Business Schools executive program
on green growth. He has previously worked both as a clinical and
organizational psychologist and as an advisor in scenario planning
to a wide range of major national and international businesses,
government agencies, and nonprofit institutions. He has written three
books, including Money and Soul.

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THE COMMUNITY-SCALE
PERMACULTURE FARM

A MAN APART

Bill Coperthwaites Radical

Experiment in Living
Peter Forbes and Helen Whybrow

The D Acres Model for Creating and

Managing an Ecologically Designed
Educational Center
Josh Trought

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

photos throughout | ISBN 9781603585477

Available February 2015

A Man Apartpart memoir and part
biographyis the story of Peter Forbes, Helen Whybrow, and their
familys longtime friendship with Bill Coperthwaite (A Handmade
Life) whose unusual life and fierce ideals helped others examine
and understand their own. It is also a story about the tensions and
complexities of mentorship: the opening of ones life to someone else
to learn together, and carrying on in their physical absence. This book
is also a remembrance of the life, and death, of Coperthwaitea
homesteader and social criticand an account of his decades-long
experiment in living on a remote stretch of Maine coast.
Peter Forbes has become a leader for the American conservation
movement by creating a life in conservation as photographer, writer,
and storyteller about the relationship between people and place.
Helen Whybrows life as an educator life as an educator, farmer, and
writer follows a career in book publishing. The couple cofounded the
nationally recognized place of learning and change-makingCenter
for Whole Communitiesat their home in central Vermont.

$40.00 | Paperback | 416 pgs.

250 color images throughout

ISBN 9781603584753 | Available April 2015

The Community-Scale Permaculture Farm
describes not only the history of D Acres,
but its evolving principles and practices, all rooted in the land, its
inhabitants, and the joy inherent in collective empowerment. This book
contains a wealth of innovative ideas and ways to make your farm
or homestead not only more sustainable, but more inclusive of, and
beneficial to, the larger community. This book promises to inspire a
new generation of growers, builders, educators, artists, and dreamers
to seek new and practical ways to address the problems of our era,
together.
Josh Trought helped to found D Acres of New Hampshire in 1997,
and today serves as its director. He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of
the University of Colorado Boulder with a degree in environmental
conservation, and has worked for organizations as diverse as the
National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration and Costa
Ricas Tapant National Park.

THE NEW LIVESTOCK FARMER

THE SOCIAL PROFIT HANDBOOK

Business of Raising and Selling

Ethical Meat
Rebecca Thistlethwaite and Jim Dunlop

The Essential Guide to Setting Goals,

Assessing Outcomes, and Achieving
Success for Mission-Driven Organizations
David Grant
$20.00 | Paperback | 216 pgs.
ISBN 9781603586047

Available March 2015

How can mission-oriented organizations
and businesses measure success, when
their goals transcend the traditional bottom
line, and their impact seems impossible
to quantify? Drawing upon decades of leadership in schools and the
foundation and nonprofit worlds, author David Grant offers those who
lead, govern, and support nonprofits and emerging social venture
businesses new ways to assess their impact in order to improve future
work rather than merely judge past performance.
David Grant is the former president and CEO of the Geraldine R.
Dodge Foundation where he was responsible for development and
evaluation of programs in the foundations major areas of giving, as
well as the foundations major initiatives. Grant now consults with
people and organizations around the world that have a social or
educational mission, specializing in strategic planning, design of
assessment systems, and board development.

$29.95 | Paperback | 336 pgs.

16-page color insert

ISBN 9781603585538 | Available June 2015

With the rising consumer interest in grassfed, pasture-raised, and antibiotic-free
meats, how can farmers most effectively
tap into those markets and become more
profitable? The New Livestock Farmer provides pasture-based
production essentials for a wide range of animals, from common farm
animals (cattle, poultry, pigs, sheep, and goats) to more exotic species
(bison, rabbits, elk, and deer). A must read for anyone who is serious
about raising meat animals ethically.
Rebecca Thistlethwaite (Farms with a Future) runs Sustain
Consulting, which specializes in food and farm issues, working with
both nongovernmental organizations and for-profit businesses. She
and her husband and coauthor, Jim Dunlop, operate a small farm and
a community farm stand in Oregon, along with their daughter, Fiona.
They previously owned TLC Ranch in Watsonville, California, where
they raised organic, pastured livestock and poultry, selling to direct
markets across Northern California.

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THE CHELSEA GREEN READER

THE ORGANIC MEDICINAL

HERB FARMER

Selections from 30 Years of Independent

Publishing, 19842014
Edited by Benjamin Watson
Foreword by Ian Baldwin

The Ultimate Guide to Producing HighQuality Herbs on a Market Scale

Jeff and Melanie Carpenter
Foreword by Rosemary Gladstar
$39.95 | Paperback | 416 pgs.

250 photos full-color throughout

ISBN 9781603585736 | Available May 2015

Both a business guide and a farming manual, this is the first book to
be published on the organic commercial farming of Western herbs.
Successful small-scale herb farmers Jeff and Melanie Carpenter
emphasize quality over quantity and keeping costs down by innovating
with existing equipment, rather than investing in expensive technology
and overproduction. They will help people interested in commercial
medicinal herb farming determine what and how to grow using
ecologically sustainable techniques while still remaining profitable.
Jeff and Melanie Carpenter co-run Zack Woods Herb Farm in
Vermont. Jeff has recently entered into partnership with noted herbalist
Rosemary Gladstar to host the International Herb Symposium. Melanie
grew up at Sage Mountain under the tutelage of Gladstar and it was
there she started her first business, Sage Mountain Herb Products.

$15.00 | Paperback | 320 pgs.

ISBN 9781603586016 | Now Available

Chelsea Green has always had an instinctive
knack for publishing authors and books on
subjects far ahead of the cultural curveas is
evident in this representative anthology, which
celebrates our companys first thirty years in publishing. The more than
one hundred books represented in this collection reflect the many
distinct areas in which we have publishedfrom literature and memoir
to progressive politics, to highly practical books on green building,
farming, food, homesteading, and related topics that embrace our
underlying philosophy: The politics and practice of sustainable living.
Benjamin Watson is a longtime senior editor for Chelsea Green, and
Foreword author Ian Baldwin is publisher emeritus and its cofounder.

THE SEED GARDEN

The Art and Practice of Seed Saving

Lee Buttala and Shanyn Siegel
SEED SAVERS EXCHANGE

WILL BONSALLS ESSENTIAL

GUIDE TO RADICAL,
SELF-RELIANT GARDENING

Innovative Techniques for Growing

Vegetables, Grains, and Perennial Food Crops
with Minimal Fossil Fuel and Animal Inputs
Will Bonsall
$34.95 | Paperback | 432 pgs.

full-color throughout, photos and drawings

ISBN 9781603584425 | Available June 2015

Will Bonsall maintains that to achieve real wealth we first need to
understand the economy of the land, to realize that things that might
make sense economically dont always make sense ecologically, and
vice versa. By avoiding any off-farm inputs (fertilizers, minerals, and
animal manures), and drawing upon the fertility of on-farm plant
materials: compost, green manures, perennial grasses, and forest
products like leaves and ramial wood chips, Bonsall has learned
how to practice a purely veganic, or plant-based, agriculture, and to
become largely self-reliant. He grows and harvests a diversity of crops
from both cultivated and perennial plants: vegetables, grains, pulses,
oilseeds, fruits and nuts, and more.
Will Bonsall is the director of the Scatterseed Project, which he
founded to help preserve our endangered crop-plant diversity. He
lives and farms in Maine.

$29.95 | Paperback with flaps | 352 pgs.

250 photos, full-color throughout

ISBN 9780988474918 | Available March 2015

In this comprehensive book, Seed Savers
Exchange, one of the foremost American
authorities on the subject, and the Organic
Seed Alliance bring together decades of knowledge to demystify
the time-honored tradition of saving the seed of more than seventyfive coveted vegetable and herb crops. With clear instructions,
lush photographs, and easy-to-comprehend profiles on individual
vegetable crops, this book not only teaches us how to go about
conserving these important varieties for future generations and
for planting out in next years garden, it also provides a deeper
understanding of the importance of saving these genetically valuable
varieties of vegetables.
Lee Buttala is an Emmy Awardwinning television producer of
Martha Stewart Living and was the creator, producer, and director
of Cultivating Life, a PBS series on outdoor living and gardening.
Shanyn Siegel has worked in sustainable agriculture and horticulture
for over fifteen years, specializing in organic vegetable gardening and
organic 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 find answers to practical
questions 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, worksonging,
farm terraces, and quite a few more.
Greenhorns is a young farmers organization: an un-traditional grassroots network with the mission to promote, recruit
and support the emerging generation of new farmers.

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SLOW WINE 2015

TREES FOR GARDENS,ORCHARDS,

AND PERMACULTURE

A Year in the Life of Italys Vineyards

and Wines
SLOW FOOD EDITORE

Martin Crawford
PERMANENT PUBLICATIONS

$25.00 | Paperback | 256 pgs.

$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 forest
gardener Martin Crawford has researched
and experimented with tree crops for twentyfive years and here provides details on more than 100 of the best trees
producing fruits, nuts, edible leaves, and other useful products that can
be grown in Europe and North America.
Martin Crawford founded the Agroforestry Research Trust in the
UK in 1992, and focuses on researching and growing perennial food
systems including forest gardens and orchards of nut trees and
uncommon fruits. He is the author of Food from Your Forest Garden,
Creating a Forest Garden, and How to Grow Perennial Vegetables.

ISBN 9788884993700

Available February 2015

For the fourth consecutive year, Slow Food
International offers an English-language
edition of their guide to Italian wines whose
qualities extend well beyond the palate.
With visits to 350 cellars, its 3000 wine reviews describe not only whats
in the glass, but also whats behind it: namely the work, the aims, and
the passion of producers; their bond with the land; and their choice of
cultivation and cellar techniques. An essential guide for the armchair
oenophile.

DISCOVERING THE TRUFFLE

In History, in Its Habitat, in the Kitchen

SLOW FOOD EDITORE

GETTING STARTED IN YOUR

OWN WOOD
Julian Evans, Will Rolls
PERMANENT PUBLICATIONS
$19.95 | Paperback | 168 pgs.
40 line drawings, black and white

ISBN 9781856232128 | Available May 2015

Owning a small wood or being able to
help look after one well has become an
increasingly popular subject. Getting
Started in Your Own Wood and expanded
edition includes information on: Owning or caring for a wood lot;
first steps; planting and caring for trees; coppicing and pollarding;
woodland crafts and products; enriching the wood for wildlife;
keeping your wood safe from pests and diseases, and more.
Julian Evans is a forest scientist who has written and edited some
sixteen books on forestry, including A Wood of Our Own and What
Happened to Our Wood. He is currently president of Britains Institute
of Chartered Foresters. Will Rolls is a chartered forester, an expert on
firewood, and author of The Log Book.

$15.00 | Paperback | 160 pgs.

40 color photos | ISBN 9788884993687

Available February 2015

An aura of mystery surrounds the most
precious of the earths fruits. This Slow Food
manual dispels it, describing the various
types of tuber, explaining how to recognize
and select them, and offering suggestions for
buying truffles, cleaning them, storing them,
and using them in the kitchen. This practical advice is complemented
by a series of itineraries in the homeland of the Alba white truffle and a
selection of classic and creative recipes.
Slow Food Editore was founded in Italy in 1989 to counteract fast
food and fast life, the disappearance of local food traditions, and
peoples dwindling interest in the food they eat, where it comes from,
how it tastes, and how our food choices affect the rest of the world. It
now has more than 80,000 members in 120 countries around the world.

WE DONT QUIT!

Stories of UAW Global Solidarity

Don Stillman
INTERNATIONAL UNION, UAW

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

Available February 2015

We Dont Quit! describes the crucial role the United Auto Workers (UAW) union has played in the global
struggle for workers rights. At a time when labors power seems to be waning, the book establishes the UAWs
vigorous internationalism as a counterbalance to corporate globalization and anti-worker repression by foreign
governments. At a time when corporations operate without national boundaries, We Dont Quit! charts a path
for 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 imprisoned
worker activists throughout the world. His writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post,
The Progressive, and other publications.

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