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Jim Gerrish

Jim Gerrish grew up on a grain and alfalfa hay farm in south-central Illinois. He spent over 22 years conducting beef-forage systems research and outreach while on the faculty of the University of Missouri. With over 20 years of commercial cattle and sheep production on his family farm in northern Missouri, he also has one foot solidly planted in commercial livestock production. His research at the University of Missouri-Forage Systems Research Center encompassed many aspects of plant-soil-animal interactions and provided the foundation for many…

Books by Jim Gerrish

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Grace Gershuny

Grace Gershuny, in addition to her position on the staff of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Organic Program, has worked for many years as an educator, organizer, and market gardener. She is nationally known in the alternative agriculture movement, is the author of Start With the Soil, and Compost, Vermicompost and Compost Tea: Feeding the Soil on the Organic Farm as well as co-author of The Rodale Book of Composting and The Soul of Soil. She is on the faculties of the Institute for…

Books by Grace Gershuny

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Steve Gilman

Steve Gilman is a NOFA member and a farmer in New York State.

Books by Steve Gilman

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Jean Giono

Jean Giono (1895-1970), the only son of a cobbler and a laundress, was one of France’s greatest writers. He was a pacifist, and he was imprisoned in France for his beliefs during the Second World War. He wrote over thirty novels, scores of short stories, plays, poetry, essays, and filmscripts. Giono won the Prix de Monaco (for the most outstanding collected work by a French writer) among other awards.

Books by Jean Giono

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Ben Goldfarb

Ben Goldfarb is an award-winning environmental journalist who covers wildlife conservation, marine science, and public lands management, as well as an accomplished fiction writer. His work has been featured in Science, Mother Jones, The Guardian, High Country News, VICE, Audubon Magazine, Modern Farmer, Orion, World Wildlife Magazine, Scientific American, Yale Environment 360, and many other publications. He holds a master of environmental management from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and is a 2018 North American Congress for Conservation Biology journalist fellow.

Books by Ben Goldfarb

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David Grant

David Grant is the former president and CEO of the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation in Morristown, New Jersey, where he was responsible for development and evaluation of programs in the foundation’s major areas of giving (Arts, Education, and Environment), as well as the foundation’s major initiatives (Poetry and Nonprofit Capacity Building). Grant now consults with people and organizations that have a social or educational mission, specializing in strategic planning, design of assessment systems, and board development. During his years at the Dodge Foundation, Grant delivered…

Books by David Grant

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Greenhorns

Since 2008 Greenhorns has been dedicated to grass-roots media in support of the incoming generation of young farmers. We produce films, books, educational programming and trans-media happenings.

Books by Greenhorns

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Joann S. Grohman

Home food production was Joann Grohman’s lifelong enthusiasm. She started milking cows in 1975 and could no longer imagine life without one. She declared that health and happiness can’t be teased apart and that your dairy cow supports both. Joann found that the prevailing beliefs about farming and nutrition—which can’t be teased apart either—have been generated by people who have never gotten their hands dirty. Very little of what they teach would survive a year on the farm. Real farming and real food leave you…

Books by Joann S. Grohman

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Adam Grubb

Adam Grubb runs an urban permaculture design and education business called Very Edible Gardens, co-hosts RRR radio’s Greening the Apocalypse, and also co-founded EnergyBulletin.net (now Resilience.org) and the Permablitz movement. He is the co-author (with Annie Raser-Rowland) of The Weed Forager’s Handbook: A Guide to Edible and Medicinal Weeds in Australia (Hyland House, 2012).

Books by Adam Grubb

Stephanie Hafferty

Stephanie Hafferty is a professional organic no dig kitchen gardener, writer and chef, specialising in seasonal plant-based food. She is passionate about sharing her knowledge of growing and cooking good food to feed families and communities. She specialises in making organic, biodegradable, zero plastic, zero waste beautiful products for the home and garden. Her first book, No Dig Organic Home and Garden, co-authored with Charles Dowding, has so far sold over 30,000 copies and won Practical Book of the Year Award at the prestigious Garden…

Books by Stephanie Hafferty

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