Publications and Other
Resources
Ecology Action’s Sustainability
paper has been updated and revised, with increased
detail, and is now available for $1.50. Order Booklet
#24 from Bountiful Gardens, 18001 Shafer Ranch Road,
Willits CA 95490, or online at www.bountifulgardens.org.
Sustainable Practices
for Vegetable Production in the South by
Mary Peet (Focus Publishing, R. Pullins Co., P.O.
Box 369, Newburyport MA 01950; 1996). The author,
a teacher and researcher in the Horticulture Science
Department at North Carolina State University, learned
about sustainable agriculture practices and wanted
to introduce them in her Vegetable Production course.
However, she was unable to find materials for growing
conditions specific to the southern part of the
country. This book is her attempt to fill that gap,
with information from both local small-scale growers
already using the concepts, and research results
from southern region universities. The book presents
Sustainable Production Practices, Integrated Pest
Management and profiles of specific southern crops.
The book is informative and easy to read and contains
many tables that should prove useful to the southern
grower.
Amazon Herb Company/Vital
Strategies, an enterprise in rainforest preservation
and global nutrition (Arthur Atkinson,
Vital Strategies, LC, P.O. Box 493, Fairfield IA
52556; (800) 590-2072; vitalstrategies@globalverde.com: http://Vitalstrategies.com.amazonherb.net;
sells wild botanicals from the rainforests of the
Amazon, sustainably harvested by the company’s
indigenous partner communities. All purchases support
the preservation of the Amazon rainforest.
Books Not Reviewed But
Which May Be of Interest
Two more from the E.F. Schumacher Society (140 Jug
End Road, Great Barrington MA 01230): Good
Morning, Beautiful Business, presented
by Judy Wicks (2005) and Bob Swann’s “Positively
Dazzling Realism,” presented by Stephanie
Mills (2005).
The following
four booklets were all written by Jeff McCormack
and copyrighted in 2004:
- Isolation Distances: Principles
and practices of isolation distances for seed
crops: an organic seed production manual for seed
growers in the Mid-Atlantic and Southern U.S.
- Tomato Seed Production: An
organic seed production manual for seed growers
in the Mid-Atlantic and Southern U.S.
- Bean Seed Production: An organic
seed production manual for seed growers in the
Mid-Atlantic and Southern U.S.
- Seed Processing and Storage: Principles
and practices of seed harvesting, processing,
and storage: an organic seed production manual
for seed growers in the Mid-Atlantic and Southern
U.S.
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