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Some are already included in other lists. ORGANIC SUPER FOODS, Michael Van Straten, Mitchell Beazley, London, 2001, £9.99. A source book for organic food and recipes. FERTILITY FARMING, F. Newman Turner, Faber & Faber, 1951. Also FERTILITY PASTURES AND COVER CROPS and HERDMANSHIP. Also see, http://earthlink.net/~brateaver/books/index.htm FAST FOOD NATION, Eric Schlosser. Expertly dissects the global food industry and casts a cold eye, particularly, on the US meat/hamburger industry. Penguin Books, April, 2001, £9.99. CAPTIVE STATE; CORPORATE TAKEOVER OF BRITAIN, George Monbiot, Macmillan, 2000. THE ACTIVISTS' GUIDE TO THE INTERNET, Fiona Osler and Paul Hollis, Prentice Hall, April 2001, £13.95. www.informit.co.uk Osler connected with Red Pepper and www.getethical.com COMPLETE HERBAL HANDBOOK FOR FARM AND STABLE, Juliette de Bairacli Levy, Faber&Faber. This great classic herbal has been in print since 1951. The Ecologist, May 2001 has a profile of her. PRESCRIPTION GAMES, Geoffrey Robinson, April, 2001. Exposing " Big Pharm". GENETICALLY ENGINEERED FOOD - Changing the Nature of Nature, Martin Teitel and Kimberly A. Wilson, (foreword by Ralph Nader), Park Street Press, Vermont, USA, 2001, IP 14.20. FIGHTING LIKE THE FLOWERS – AN AUTOBIOGHRAPHY, Lawrence D. Hills, Green Books, £12.95. THE LIVING LAND, Prof. Jules Pretty, Earthscan, 1998, £18.99. THE MEAT BUSINESS – DEVOURING A HUNGRY PLANET, edited, Joyce D’Silva and Geoff Tansey, Earthscan, 1999, £12.99. GOOD ENOUGH TO EAT, Maureen Tatlow, Gill and Macmillan, Dublin, 1998. THE GROWTH ILLUSION, Richard Douthwaite, Lilliput Press, Dublin, 1999, IP 15.00. Voted one of the top books of the last quarter century by Resurgence magazine. THE ECOLOGY OF MONEY, Richard Douthwaite, Green Books, 1999. FARM YARNS, David Storey, Irish environmental journalist, Atlantic Publishers, £6.00. SIMPLY BUILD GREEN, John Talbott, Findhorn Press, Scotland. THE ORGANIC CAFE COOKBOOK, Carol Charlton, David & Charles, 1999, £18.99. NEW NATURAL HOUSE BOOK, David Pearson, Gaia Books. THE WATER WIZARD, Viktor Schauberger, 1998, £9.99, Gateway Books, The Hollies, Bath, BA2 8QJ. GAVIOTAS; A VILLAGE TO REINVENT THE WORLD, the story of the unique Colombian alternative village whose founder is described by Gabriel Garcia Marquez as, "The Inventor of the World". Alan Weisman, Chelsea Green Books, 1998. THE GREENING OF THE REVOLUTION - Cuba’s experiment with Organic Agriculture, edited by Peter Rosset and Medea Benjamin , Ocean Press, 1994. HIGHGROVE - PORTRAIT OF AN ESTATE, HRH Prince of Wales and Charles Clover. £25.00 THE NATURE AND PROPERTY OF SOILS, Bailey and Bachman, Collier Macmillan, 1984, £14.95. CAFE PARADISO COOKBOOK, Denis Cotter, Attic, Atrium Press, ’99. Cafe Paradiso is a vegetarian restaurant in Cork, Ireland. PLASTIC AND VEGETABLES- A guide to Organic Growing in Polytunnels, David Storey, IOFGA technical series No.4, 1993. IP 5.00. Also available from the Soil Association. David, writer, organic farmer and free-lance journalist is also now co-editor of Organic Matters, the IOFGA bi-monthly, with Cait Curran. A rewrite of this useful booklet could usefully include a section on how to build a (relatively at least ) storm-proof tunnel to withstand our Beara blasts? THE MANIFESTO FOR LAND HERITAGE, UK, is a handsomely produced, 24 page, booklet that gives an almost lyrical but accurate description of farming as it was, is, and how it could be. £1.50 incl. p&p. www.landheritage.org The following are out of print but may be obtained from your local library. Howard, Balfour, Turner, Sykes and Hill are regarded as the founders of the modern organic movement. FERTILITY FARMING, F. Newman Turner, Faber & Faber, 1951. Also FERTILITY PASTURES AND COVER CROPS and HERDMANSHIP. Also see, www.home.earthlink.net~brateaver/books/index.htm for reprints.HUMUS AND THE FARMER, Friend Sykes, Faber & Faber, 1950’s. FARMING AND GARDENING FOR HEALTH AND DISEASE, Sir Albert Howard, Faber & Faber, 1950’s. AN AGRICULTURAL TESTAMENT, Sir Albert Howard, Oxford University Press. THE LIVING SOIL, Lady Eve Balfour, Faber & Faber. ORGANIC GARDENING, Lawrence D. Hills, Penguin, 1977. THE ONE STRAW REVOLUTION–AN INTRODUCTION TO NATURAL FARMING, Masano Fukuoka, Rodale Press, 1978. Antiquarian books on farming can be fascinating to consult and can yield very good practical advice too. We hope to develop this section more and perhaps offer a marketplace for appropriate publications. One of the most accessible is, Encyclopaedia Brittanica - the 1776 edition! The pre-industrial revolution encyclopaedia is heavily biased towards rural businesses and crafts. A bi-centennial, 2 volume, reproduction was brought out in 1976 and should be acquired easily and quite cheaply. Ellis on Sheep is the popular name for, A Compleat System of Experienced Improvements, made on Sheep, Grass-Lambs, and House-Lambs: or, the Country Gentleman's, the Grazier's, the Sheep-Dealer's, and the Shepherd's Sure Guide etc. Published, Dublin, 1749. We know where there is a copy for sale. The English agriculturalist, Arthur Young's books on farming from the late 18th C. are an invaluable source of information on early farming methods. He wrote separate books on England, Scotland, Wales, France and Germany and others. His Tour of Ireland, his last, is regarded as his best. Most republished in recent times. Someone we know is looking for an original, one volume, Dublin-published copy of the Ireland book to buy or swap. Some others for sale. We can put you in touch with the seller. A General Treatise on Cattle,The Ox, The Sheep, and The Swine: etc John Lawrence, London, 1805. All you ever wanted to know about Neat or Black Cattle. A county library should have a copy or again we know of one for sale. Parkinson's Irish Farming is the popular name for The English Practice of Agriculture, exemplified in the management of a farm in Ireland, belonging to The Earl of Conyngham, at Slane in the County of Meath, etc leather bound, London, 1806. Family Herbal, or an Account of all those English Plants, which are remarkable for their virtues, and of the Drugs etc. Sir John Hill M.D. Bungay, 1812, with 54 hand-coloured plates. Full leather binding. The Gentleman's Pocket-Farrier; Shewing How to use your Horse on a journey, and what Remedies etc. Capt. William Burdon, Dublin, 1760 (approx.) Full leather. Jethro Tull, the 18th C., English pioneering agriculturalist (not the band!) invented the seed drill and repopularised the turnip; the Norfolk four-crop rotation system; W. Stuart Trench on the incredibly productive Irish lazy-bed system of potato production (Realities of Irish Life, republished) these and much more are well worth looking up on the Net or at your local library. Multi-volume agricultural hand-books and encyclopaedias from the early 20th C. were easily and cheaply found, until recently, especially at country jumble and car-boot sales. We know of several other fine early books on farming, farriery, machinery,
and herbs for sale. We will be glad to list your valuable publications too.
Email; info@planorganic.com New Internationalist. Around since 1970 and co-operatively managed, this excellent, monthly magazine focuses on issues of world poverty and inequality. It constantly analyses the connections between the powerful and the powerless, seeking solutions to material and spiritual deprivation. They also have a very good website, attractive and well-designed with wonderful access to back issues (See, May 2000, issue on pesticides - Pick your Poison - The Pesticide Scandal. Also see Peter Rosset, on small farms and how they consistently produce far more per hectare than large farms etc) www.newint.org. Contact Bruce Clark, Irish Marketing Representative at ni@dna.ie. The Ecologist - Rethinking basic assumptions. Redesigned, with colour and now a monthly rather than a bi-monthly. Published the best-selling Monsanto Files (edition of the magazine entirely focussed on the GM debate) in 1998. £3.50. One year, 10 issue subscription, delivered UK, from as little as £28.00, concessionary rate. Has a free advertising section, The Exchange, for NGOs, individuals, charities, and campaign groups. Indispensable. www.theecologist.org Resurgence Published bi-monthly in the UK. An intellectual alternative magazine which is a platform for ecological and more esoteric debate. Contributors include, George Monbiot, Noam Chomsky, Vandana Shiva, Jonathan Porritt etc. One year, 6 issue subscription, UK, £23.50. Recommended. www.resurgence.org organiclife is a new UK bi-monthly, devoted to organic food, health and lifestyle. Their alliterative slogan is, From Food to Fashion to Farming to Fun, and claims (proudly?) not to be politically radical or extremist. It has a circulation of 35,000. www.organiclifemag.com Country Smallholding.
This is a magazine I came across in Britain recently. Its by-line is
"Organic living at its best" although it doesn't appear to be an
organic magazine as we know the sacred genre. Its 90 pages however contain much
that would be of interest to the organic farmer/smallholder. Annual subscription
of 12 issues costs Wild Ireland is a wildlife and environmental magazine. www.wildireland.ie and email; info@wildireland.ie ACRES USA Monthly aimed at the larger-scale, commercial organic grower. It's a family-owned business that's been a leading voice for eco-agriculture for over 30 years. Has a huge book catalogue - 74, A4-size pages. We have nothing like this on this side of the pond and it is well worth subscribing to or keeping in touch with their website. www.acresusa.com LIVING EARTH Bi-monthly, published by the Soil Association, UK. Latest edition, April - June 2001, obviously covers the FMD outbreak extensively, and with an emphasis on vaccination. The editorial urges that nothing less than a complete turn-around in British agriculture is now imperative. Why don't they have a free ad section for NGOs etc like The Ecologist? www.soilassociation.org ORGANIC MATTERS Bi-monthly journal of the Irish Organic Farmers’ and Growers’ Association (email; iofga@eircom.net). Editors, David Storey, d.storey@indigo.ie and Cait Curran, ccurran@ireland.com . Since August, 2001, it has its own website: www.organicmattersmag.com. Considering the pathetic size of the market in Ireland and the miniscule resources available to the magazine it does a good job - shaming much better-financed publications in other countries. ORGANIC GARDENING Monthly UK magazine. £2.15. Contact; P.O. Box 4, Wiveliscombe, Taunton, Somerset, TA42QY. Email; organic.gardening@virgin.net Only organic magazine stoked by Easons. June edition ORGANIC GARDENING (USA) www.organicgardening.com. One of the longest-established, organic publications. Circulation, 600,000+. Started, and still owned by the pioneering Rodales. Very professional when you approach them about advertising. Email; ogonline@rodale.com ORGANIC STYLE, www.organicstyle.com New on the scene in 2001 and the brainchild of another Rodale, Maria. Its "mission" is to " build into Your Ultimate Resource for Everything Organic". Easons Ltd., Ireland's largest magazine and book retailer, and wholesaler, now stock it. When first I enquired from them about its availability, they categorically said, " We have never heard of it and do not plan to stock it". Email; Carol.Brooks@rodale.com PERMACULTURE – SOLUTIONS FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVING. Quarterly. www.permaculture.co.uk NEW FARMER AND GROWER – Britain’s journal for Organic production. Quarterly, published by the Soil Association, UK, £2.95. www.soilassociation.org Irish Farmers' Journal, carries occasional articles on organic farming. email; web@farmersjournal.ie. www.farmersjournal.ie Farmers' Weekly, UK's main conventional farming publication has had many articles on organic issues. www.fwi.co.uk EARTH FIRST The radical environmental magazine with more than 15,000 subscribers LAND AND RURAL DIGEST News from Africa on GM, land reform, World Bank etc. Email; nicky@eda.org.za SOURCE – IRELAND’S SOCIAL, ENVIRONMENTAL AND HOLISTIC MAGAZINE. Launched October. Email; info@sourcemag.ie. www.sourcemag.ie New, May 2001, international, monthly journal from Grolink, Sweden, has news and reviews on standards and certification issues. www.organicstandards.com CARBUSTERS Campaigning for a world without cars. www.carbusters.ecn.cz FOOD AND WINE - IRELAND’S NO.1 FOOD AND ENTERTAINING GUIDE. Occasional articles on organic subjects. Email; foodandwine@tinet.ie WAITROSE FOOD ILUSTRATED Has occasional articles on organic matters. See March 2000, issue, for John Humphry’s inspiring and entertaining article on Peter Segger, founder of Organic Farm Foods (Wales). HOTLINE Virgin’s on-train complimentary magazine, Spring 2000, has an interesting article on organic food, Growing Concern, by Catey Hillier.Email; hotline@johnbrown.co.uk UTNE READER Reprints articles from over 2,000 alternative media sources. www.utne.com
Oxfam America, very good on sustainable development, did a recent report on Cuba (August 2001). It can be downloaded in full (pdf) from their site; www.oxfamamerica.org . Email info@oxfamamerica.org and press office; asmith@oxfamamerica.org. Holland. An Organic Market to Conquer - Policy Document on Organic Agriculture, 2001 - 2004. This is one of the best reports we have seen on a national organic industry. From Ministry of Agriculture, Nature Management and Fisheries, The Hague, http://www.minlnv.nl/cgi-bin/autoframe.pl?snp=/snips/framesets/autoframe-int.snp&frame=/international/policy/plant/organic/notippo01uk.htm Irish Food Board, Bord Bia, is the state-funded promoter of Ireland's £ 5.5 billion, food export industry. They have an organic report on their website www.bordbia.ie for which, however, you will need Adobe Acrobat to download and, of course, the time to do it and the space to store it. A text version on-line would be useful. Hard-copy £ 20.00. The contacts for organic food within the Board are, Padhraig Brennan and Una Fitzgibbon. Tel. 01 668 5155 (Dublin).
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