Updated and expanded from the first edition, the Specialty and Minor Crops Handbook contains 63 crop profiles, a comprehensive bibliography, a glossary of Asian vegetables, and an index to common and scientific crop names. Cost: $35 plus tax and shipping.
by Desmond Jolly, director, Small Farm Program The American dairy farm, perhaps more than any other type of farming operation, has typified the popular image of the American family farm.
2005 $16.95 plus tax, shipping, and handling. Outstanding in their Fields profiles seventeen women farmers and ranchers who dramatize the pioneering spirit, creativity and courage that animates much of the kinds of artisanal agriculture where women are leading the way.
The Project: This project, funded by the CDFA Specialty Crop Block Grant Program and coordinated by the UC Small Farm Program, brought together three agritourism associations to learn from each other and to work with three marketing, tourism and economic development experts to create or strengthen F...
A brand-new, revised edition of the Small Farm Handbook is now available from the University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources. The 2011 edition is a collection of expertise from 31 University of California authors, including farm advisors and specialists.
Small Farm Prepared by: Richard H. Molinar, UC Cooperative Extension Farm Advisor, Fresno County Michael Yang, UC Agricultural Assistant, Fresno County Karen M. Klonsky, UC Cooperative Extension Specialist, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Davis Richard L.
Lemongrass - (Cymbopogan citratus): probably originated in either Malaysia or India. It is a perennial grass propagated entirely vegetatively from stems as seed is seldom produced.