{"id":56,"date":"2008-03-10T12:35:31","date_gmt":"2008-03-10T22:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/?p=58"},"modified":"2010-10-25T19:55:19","modified_gmt":"2010-10-26T05:55:19","slug":"ag-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/2008\/03\/ag-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Ag books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My back failed dramatically last week (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sacro-iliac_joints\"><em>sacroiliitis<\/em><\/a>) and i was unable to sit or stand for four days.  A great time to catch up on reading, i finished two ag books:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0963810928\/piggybackcom\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"You Can Farm\" src=\"http:\/\/www.polyfacefarms.com\/images\/books\/you_can_farm.gif\" alt=\"You Can Farm\" width=\"160\" height=\"243\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.landstewardshipproject.org\/programs_agroecobook.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"The Farm as Natural Habitat\" src=\"http:\/\/www.landstewardshipproject.org\/photos\/book_cover.jpg\" alt=\"The Farm as Natural Habitat\" width=\"160\" height=\"243\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0963810928\/piggybackcom\">You Can Farm<\/a>, Joel Salatin.\u00a0 A great book on how to realistically earn a profit raising food in a healthy, humane, sustainable way, on a family farm.\u00a0 It&#8217;s fun to read, blunt, loaded with excellent advice, and definitely <em>not<\/em> for vegans. \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 Lots about chickens.\u00a0 One very interesting point Joel makes in Chapter 13: to have realistic access to markets, you should be within ~40 miles of a town of at least 25,000 people.\u00a0 Here in Ahualoa, we aren&#8217;t &#8211; all of Hamakua, plus all of Waimea, is less than 16,000 people.\u00a0 For people like us in such a rural area, selling enough products, and trucking it to markets, would be a real stretch (in time and fuel).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.landstewardshipproject.org\/programs_agroecobook.html\">The Farm as Natural Habitat<\/a>.\u00a0 It starts out kinda stuffy and academic, but there are some great chapters in here (all by different authors) on exactly how agriculture and biodiversity can and should coexist.\u00a0 Most of the book is about the US midwest, but there is also a chapter on Tule Lake in California, and the meadows of England.\u00a0 There are actually systems in place in the world where agriculture <em>improves <\/em>land for wild species, and vice versa &#8211; the farm doesn&#8217;t have to be a &#8220;sacrifice zone.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My back failed dramatically last week (sacroiliitis) and i was unable to sit or stand for four days. A great time to catch up on reading, i finished two ag books: You Can Farm, Joel Salatin.\u00a0 A great book on &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/2008\/03\/ag-books\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chickens","category-crops","category-food","category-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":441,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions\/441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}