Including information on cattle, pigs, poultry, sheep, and goats, and exotics like bison, rabbits, elk, and deer

How can anyone from a backyard hobbyist to a large-scale rancher go about raising and selling ethically produced meats directly to consumers, restaurants, and butcher shops? With the rising consumer interest in grass-fed, pasture-raised, and antibiotic-free meats, how can farmers most effectively tap into those markets and become more profitable? The regulations and logistics can be daunting enough to turn away most would-be livestock farmers, and finding and keeping their customers challenges the rest.

Farmer, consultant, and author Rebecca Thistlethwaite (Farms with a Future) and her husband and coauthor, Jim Dunlop, both have extensive experience raising a variety of pastured livestock in California and now on their homestead farm in Oregon. The New Livestock Farmer provides pasture-based production essentials for a wide range of animals, from common farm animals (cattle, poultry, pigs, sheep, and goats) to more exotic species (bison, rabbits, elk, and deer).

Each species chapter discusses the unique requirements of that animal, then delves into the steps it takes to prepare and get them to market. Profiles of more than fifteen meat producers highlight some of the creative ways these innovative farmers are raising animals and direct-marketing superior-quality meats.

In addition, the book contains information on a variety of vital topics:

• Governmental regulations and how they differ from state to state;

• Slaughtering and butchering logistics, including on-farm and mobile processing options and sample cutting sheets;

• Packaging, labeling, and cold-storage considerations;

• Principled marketing practices; and

• Financial management, pricing, and other business essentials.

This book is must reading for anyone who is serious about raising meat animals ethically, outside of the current consolidated, unsustainable CAFO (Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations) system. It offers a clear, thorough, well-organized guide to a subject that will become increasingly important as the market demand for pasture-raised meat grows stronger.

LE BLE EN HERBE - COLETTE - Flammarion

An unlikely friendship between Colette Lafia and a silent monk at the Abbey of Gethsemani, where Thomas Merton lived, comes to life through seven years of shared letters. Lafia's palpable openness and warm storytelling lead readers through the same compassionate process that led the author to accept herself, find peace with life, and strive for an ever-deepening relationship with God.

Folded within the deep friendship cultivated through letters exchanged between Colette Lafia, a spiritual director and retreat leader, and Brother René, a Trappist monk, is Lafia's struggle with infertility, insomnia, the loss of her sister, the declining health and eventual death of her father, and her role as caregiver. Brother René's compassion and guidance throughout these trials—and Lafia's responses—provide a template for helping readers to surrender to God in their own struggles.

Readers will find simple exercises and profound advice for living a more conscious and intentional life, with tips such as, "look at yourself through God's eyes," "notice when fear arrives at your door," and "trust all is well." Readers will ultimately discover a new attitude of acceptance and letting go.

Hayden Mundy Moore is an expert on everything chocolate, helping clients develop new products and revamp recipes until they're irresistible. But sometimes, a dash of murder finds its way into the mix. . .

Hayden Mundy Moore has bushwhacked through African jungles and haggled in exotic markets to find the finest cacao beans and the most flavorful blends. It's thrilling work but rarely dangerous--until a colleague turns up dead at the exclusive chocolate-themed Lemaître resort spa in San Francisco.

Adrienne Dowling's heart attack is blamed on an accidental overdose of the secret ingredient used in Lemaître Chocolates' new line. Hayden can't believe that conscientious Adrienne would make that mistake. And between chocolate body scrubs, cocoa mud baths, and a non-stop frenzy of chocolate-based treats, Hayden starts to suspect that she, not Adrienne, was the intended target. Finding a killer among the rival chocolatiers and potential suspects won't just be satisfying--it might save her life. . .

I know her inside out. I know what she’s thinking, I know what she wants. So I can’t give up on her, she knows I never will.

Some friendships fizzle out. Rachel and Clara promised theirs would last forever.

They met in high school when Rachel was the shy, awkward new girl and Clara was the friend everyone wanted. Instantly, they fell under one another’s spell and nothing would be the same again. Now in their late twenties Rachel has the television career, the apartment and the boyfriend, while Clara’s life is spiraling further out of control. Yet despite everything, they remain inextricably bound. Then Rachel’s news editor assigns her to cover a police press conference, and she is shocked when she arrives to learn that the subject is Clara, reported missing. Is it abduction, suicide or something else altogether?

Imagine discovering something about your oldest friend that forces you to question everything you’ve shared together. The truth is always there. But only if you choose to see it.

I know her inside out. I know what she’s thinking, I know what she wants. So I can’t give up on her, she knows I never will.

Some friendships fizzle out. Rachel and Clara promised theirs would last forever.

They met in high school when Rachel was the shy, awkward new girl and Clara was the friend everyone wanted. Instantly, they fell under each other’s spell, and nothing would be the same again. Now they are in their late twenties, and Rachel has the television career, the apartment, and the boyfriend, while Clara’s life is spiraling out of control. Despite everything, they remain inextricably bound. Then Rachel’s news editor assigns her to cover a police press conference, and she is shocked when she arrives to learn that the subject is Clara, who has been reported missing. Is it an abduction, a suicide, or something else altogether?

Imagine discovering something about your oldest friend that forces you to question everything you’ve shared together. The truth is always there. But only if you choose to see it.

In Colette McBeth’s mesmerizing debut, the story of a friendship and a missing person investigation are expertly wound tighter and tighter from the opening lines until the final, stunning conclusion.

Un'inedita e struggente Colette si racconta in questa raccolta, pubblicata per la prima volta nel 1946, lungo frammenti scritti con la cura e la sofisticatezza a cui ormai ha abituato i suoi lettori e di cui è diventata maestra; gli avvenimenti e le osservazioni della vita quotidiana; i capricci di primavera; i viavai del compagno; le visite che riceve; le audizioni per la riduzione teatrale de 'La Seconde'; l'impegno a raccogliere tutte le sue opere per il progetto 'Oeuvre complète' per l'editore Le Fleuron; l'Académie Française. Ormai immobilizzata dalla vecchiaia, dal peso e dall'artrosi, osserva il cielo, il succedersi al giorno della luna o del vespro nel quadrato ritagliato dalle finestre della sua grande casa a Palais-Royal. Leggiamo una Colette malinconica e meditativa, chiusa nel suo appartamento, in cui riceve, mangia, scrive e legge: evoca i ricordi dai tempi della guerra, medita sulla sua condizione di invalidità e i suoi nuovi rapporti con il mondo da scrittrice 'nota e riconosciuta' e, amabilmente, conversa con le sue care presenze, con gli esseri da lei sempre amati - appassionatamente o teneramente - come la madre Sido; la figlia di cui evoca il ricordo della nascita nel 1913; Bertrand; l'ex marito Henry de Jouvenel; Polaire; il migliore amico nonché terzo e ultimo marito Maurice Goudeket; il giovane reporter che va a intervistarla...

Nessun altro lo consuma che questa sete d'immensità e di solitudine. Questo glielo da il deserto del quale conosce le più piccole sinuosità. Eppure, è bastato lo sguardo di una sconosciuta perche il cuore di uomo solitario s'infiammi. Lo aveva lentamente preparato a questo incontro il deserto? Mistero della vita, la magia agirà e il cuore di questo rude carovaniere si aprirà all'amore. Non dimenticherà pertanto le radici che ha piantato nelle dune di sabbia?

Attraverso le immagini corredate di brevi testi, i bambini scopriranno le più belle storie dell'Antico e del Nuovo Testamento. Un regalo per parlare di Dio con parole semplici. Età di lettura: da 6 anni.

Niente è come sembra in questi racconti usciti dalla penna di Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette. L'amore, specialmente quello coniugale, è spesso il protagonista, con le sue tenerezze, complicità, consuetudini, eppure non bisogna mai dare nulla per scontato. Nemmeno di fronte a una felicità manifesta. È sufficiente la maschera di un costume da Pierrot o una mano nascosta dallo schienale di una poltrona per scardinare l'illusoria immagine di tranquilla quotidianità e introdurci nel mondo delle possibilità, dell'azzardo inteso come 'tutto può succedere, basta lasciarsi andare'. Ma ciò che si rompe - un equilibrio, un ritmo, un'abitudine - non sempre può essere riparato. Alcune volte rimane il segno, altre tornare indietro non è più possibile, e c'è solo fallimento, solitudine, morte. In questi racconti, tuttavia, ci sono anche l'amore per la libertà, il rimpianto per il passato e il rammarico per il presente, un caleidoscopio di emozioni a cui il lettore non riuscirà a sottrarsi, perché Colette lo prende per mano accompagnandolo nelle sue storie.

Alain, giovane e viziato figlio unico di ricca famiglia borghese, ama sopra ogni cosa la sua gatta Saha, una bellissima Certosina dai riflessi argentei, con la quale ha un rapporto quasi simbiotico. Pur decidendo di sposarsi con Camille, ragazza graziosa e dai gusti moderni, Alain è turbato all'idea di lasciare la casa di famiglia e, soprattutto, la gatta adorata. Dopo il matrimonio, Saha comincia a deperire e Alain decide di portarla nell'appartamento della coppia. In un crescendo di tensione e gelosia, la presenza dell'animale mina irrimediabilmente il ménage, e Alain sarà costretto a scegliere: o l'una o l'altra. Ribelle e trasgressiva, Colette fu una convinta amante dei gatti: 'A frequentare un gatto - disse - si rischia soltanto di arricchirsi...'. Spesso fotografata con loro, li osserva, li accarezza e li descrive con straordinaria complicità ed empatia.

L'inconscio rimosso della nevrosi Freud ha creduto di trovarlo 'a cielo aperto' nella psicosi, manifesto e tuttavia intrattabile, chiuso all'intervento. Decenni più tardi, Jacques Lacan forgia per gli psicoanalisti un comandamento: non arretrare davanti alla psicosi. È più che una sfida, più che il rifiuto di ogni segregazione della malattia mentale. È un'incitazione a concepire i fenomeni della follia come parte integrante del destino dell'essere parlante. Il testo esplora le vie aperte dall'insegnamento lacaniano nell'approccio a soggetti che sono in preda a fenomeni di linguaggio così singolari che Lacan li definisce 'martiri' del linguaggio, e tali da costituire un insegnamento per lo psicoanalista.

A powerful new collection from an award-winning poet

In the early twentieth century, abolitionists sought to stamp out sex work by penalizing all involved. In the generation that followed, neo-abolitionists looked at the sex industry from a feminist perspective, claiming that workers were victims caught in a patriarchal matrix. Yet both agreed that the industry was a destructive and corrupting force that should be eliminated. In this radical volume, five academics and activists convey their vision of prostitution as work, reclaiming the place of sex workers in the discussion of their lives and their work, and opposing discourses that position them as merely victims without agency.

A collection of Colette's best writings that have never before appeared in English.

Non c'è bambino che non dica di voler fare lo stesso mestiere del papà o della mamma, diventare insegnante o guidare un razzo! Grazie a questo libro, il bambino scopre più di 300 mestieri di vari settori: la ricerca, l'automobile, il turismo, il commercio, la moda, la televisione... e chissà che non scopra una nuova vocazione! Età di lettura: da 7 anni.

For decades it has been nearly universal dogma among environmentalists that livestock—goats, sheep, and others, but especially cattle—are Public Enemy Number One. They erode soils, pollute air and water, damage riparian areas, and decimate wildlife populations. The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization bolstered the credibility of this notion with its 2007 report that declared livestock to be the single largest contributor to human-generated climate-change emissions.

But is the matter really so clear cut? Hardly. In her new book, Defending Beef, environmental lawyer turned rancher Nicolette Hahn Niman argues that cattle are not inherently bad for the Earth. The impact of grazing can be either negative or positive, depending on how livestock are managed. In fact, with proper oversight livestock can actually play an essential role in maintaining grassland ecosystems by performing the same functions as the natural herbivores that once roamed and grazed there. Grounded in empirical scientific data, Defending Beef builds the most comprehensive and convincing argument to date that cattle could actually serve as the Earth’s greatest environmental benefactors by helping to build carbon-sequestering soils and prevent desertification.

Defending Beef is simultaneously a book about big issues and ideas and the personal tale of the author, who starts out as a skeptical vegetarian and eventually becomes involved with sustainable ranching. She shows how dispersed, grass-based, smaller-scale farms can and should become the basis for American food production. And while no single book could definitively answer the thorny question of how to feed the Earth’s growing population, Defending Beef makes the case that, whatever the world’s future food system looks like, livestock can and must be part of the solution.

The metropolis in southern Germany is one of the Federal Republic’s most prominent hotbeds of architecture. The stellar ascent of Munich to the capital of Bavaria began in 1158 when it was granted the status of market town. Its architectural landmarks range from the Cathedral of Our Dear Lady and the Residence to the Allianz-Arena and the BMW World, the most famous examples of recent architecture. The experts Nicolette Baumeister and Chris van Uffelen take readers on a journey of discovery across all architectural eras. In addition to the most important 300 buildings in Munich itself, the book also presents around 90 architectural masterpieces in Upper Bavaria, one of Germany’s most popular tourist destinations. The chronologically structured chapters and the colored illustrations vividly present the characteristic features of each era. In addition to individual buildings, important ensembles and the key architects of Munich are featured.