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Monday
Nov282011

Book Review: Worms Eat My Garbage

Worms Eat My Garbage
by Mary Appelhof, Flowerfield Enterprises
162 pp., $12.95 (1982)

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Friday
Nov252011

Book Review: Folks, This Ain't Normal

Folks, This Ain’t Normal
by Joel Salatin
(Center Street, 384 pp., $25.99, October 2011)

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Thursday
Nov242011

Book Review: I'm With The Bears

I’m With the Bears: Short Stories From a Damaged Planet
Edited by Mark Martin
(Verso Books, 200 pp., October 2011)

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Thursday
Nov242011

Book Review: Sacred Economics

Sacred Economics: Money, Gift and Society in the Age of Transition
by Charles Eisenstein
(Evolver Editions, 496 pp., paperback: $22.95, Online: Free, July 2011)

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Tuesday
Nov152011

Book Review: How To Grow a School Garden

How to Grow a School Garden: A Complete Guide for Parents and Teachers
by Arden Bucklin-Sporer and Rachel Kathleen Pringle
(Timber Press, 224 pp., $24.95, June 2010)

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Friday
Nov112011

Book Review: Free For All

Free For All: Fixing School Food in America
by Janet Poppendieck
(University of California Press, 368 pp., $17.95, January 2010)

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Sunday
Oct162011

Book Review: Seeds of Discent

Seeds of Discent
by Nic Esposito
(Bobcat Coveside Books, 300 pp., $20, March 2011)

The descent of plant roots into Philadelphia’s trashed soils is the most essential dissent against America’s failing economy, especially when these roots grow food, says author Nic Esposito. A 28-year-old West Philly farmer, Esposito’s first novel, Seeds of Discent, appears inspired by, if not a reflection of, his personal experiences. The fictional story features West Philadelphia Millennials serving the planet by rebuilding cities greenward. They fill vacant lots, roofs and walls with food. They live simply, for this future. Philadelphia’s urban farmers exhibit daily heroism, by defying social pressures to succeed as consumers. Yet instead of becoming competitive, they courageously love one another for their shared vision.

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Saturday
Oct152011

Book Review: Shucked

Shucked: Life on a New England Oyster Farm
by Erin Byers Murray
(St. Martin’s Press, 368 pp., $24.99, October 2011)

Boston-based journalist Erin Byers Murray quit her full-time job as a lifestyle reporter to go work on an oyster farm. Shucked is both a personal memoir of the physical, emotional, and mental challenges she faced to succeed at her new job, and a look at the day-to-day, year-round operations of Island Creek Oysters in Duxbury, Ma.

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Friday
Oct142011

Book Review: Rambunctious Garden

Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World
by Emma Marris
Bloomsbury Publishing (2011), $25

"Rambunctious gardening is proactive and optimistic; it creates more and more nature as it goes, rather than just building walls around the nature we have left,” proclaims author Emma Marris in the first chapter of Rambunctious Garden.

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Thursday
Sep292011

Book Review: Rat Island

Rat Island: Predators in Paradise and the World’s Greatest Wildlife Rescue
by William Stolzenburg
Bloomsbury (2011), $26

For city dwellers, rats are a nuisance and a health hazard. But for isolated island species, rats are a death sentence, as William Stolzenburg demonstrates in his new book, Rat Island.

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