Chelsea Green Publishing

Mals, Italy, has long been known as the breadbasket of the Tyrol. But recently the tiny town became known for something else entirely. A Precautionary Tale tells us why, introducing readers to an unlikely group of activists and a forward-thinking...

The inside story of the world’s most fascinating and lucrative crop from gonzo journalist–turned–hemp farmer Doug Fine.Hemp, the non-psychoactive variant of cannabis (or marijuana) and one of humanity’s oldest plant allies, has quietly become the...

Art hacks life when two filmmakers launch a project to cancel more than £1m of high-interest debt from their local community.Bank Job is a white-knuckle ride into the dark heart of our financial system, in which filmmaker and artist duo Hilary Powell...

As inequality grabs headlines, steals the show in presidential debates, and drives deep divides between the haves and have nots in America, class war brews. On one side, the wealthy wield power and advantage, wittingly or not, to keep the system...

A bold new voice in nature writing, from the front lines of Britain's rewilding movementBringing Back the Beaver is farmer-turned-ecologist Derek Gow’s inspirational and often riotously funny firsthand account of how the movement to rewild the British...

New Exclusive Content: Author Albert Bates in conversation with Soil Association’s Head of Horticulture Ben Raskin during the 2019 Hawkwood Seed FestivalAn 800-CEO-READ "Editor's Choice" March 2019How We Can Harness Carbon to Help Solve the Climate...

A groundbreaking look at the role of water in living organisms that ultimately brings us closer to answering the riddle of the etiology of, and therapy and treatment for, cancerWhen President Nixon launched the War on Cancer with the signing of the...

New Exclusive Content: The author in conversation with editors Michael Metivier and Nick Kaye on site at his Christmas tree farmWhen he first envisioned becoming a farmer, author Emmet Van Driesche never imagined his main crop would be Christmas...

“Brilliant, wise, profound and persuasive. Common Sense for the 21st Century will come to be recognized as a classic of political theory.”—George Monbiot, via TwitterAn urgent, essential, and practical call to action from a cofounder of Extinction...

Cut to the facts about coronavirus in Corona, False Alarm?, the runaway German bestseller.In June 2020, Corona, False Alarm? exploded into the German market, selling 200,000 copies and 75,000 e-books in six weeks.No other topic dominates our attention...

Master mythologist Martin Shaw uses timeless story-wisdom to examine our broken relationship with the worldThere is an old legend that says we each have a wild, curious twin that was thrown out the window the night we were born, taking much of our...

In Cows Save the Planet, journalist Judith D. Schwartz looks at soil as a crucible for our many overlapping environmental, economic, and social crises. Schwartz reveals that for many of these problems—climate change, desertification, biodiversity...

Smart metrics, slow thinking, off-label drugs, and a “Moneyball” prescription for fixing modern medicine--by the author of Tripping Over the TruthThe United States is fast becoming the sickest nation in the Western world. Cancer rates continue to...

A naturalist’s passionate dive into the world of bees of all stripes--what she has learned about them, and what we can learn from themBrigit Strawbridge Howard was shocked the day she realised she knew more about the French Revolution than she did...

Gabe Brown didn’t set out to change the world when he first started working alongside his father-in-law on the family farm in North Dakota. But as a series of weather-related crop disasters put Brown and his wife, Shelly, in desperate financial...

A Financial Times "Best Book of 2017: Economics”800-CEO-Read “Best Business Book of 2017: Current Events & Public Affairs”Economics is the mother tongue of public policy. It dominates our decision-making for the future, guides multi-billion-dollar...

In Eager, environmental journalist Ben Goldfarb reveals that our modern idea of what a healthy landscape looks like and how it functions is wrong, distorted by the fur trade that once trapped out millions of beavers from North America’s lakes and...

It’s all but certain that the next fifty years will bring enormous, not to say cataclysmic, disruptions to our present way of life. World oil reserves will be exhausted within that time frame, as will the lithium that powers today’s most sophisticated...

For more than thirty years, Patience Gray—author of the celebrated cookbook Honey from a Weed—lived in a remote area of Puglia in southernmost Italy. She lived without electricity, modern plumbing, or a telephone, grew much of her own food, and...

Bestselling author Sandor Katz--an "unlikely rock star of the American food scene" (New York Times) with over 500,000 books sold--gets personal about the deeper meaning of fermentation.In 2012, Sandor Ellix Katz published The Art of Fermentation,...

A new "farm-to-closet" vision for the clothes we wear--by a leader in the movement for local textile economiesThere is a major disconnect between what we wear and our knowledge of its impact on land, air, water, labor, and human health. Even those who...

“Big ideas that just might save the world”—The GuardianThe founder of the international Transition Towns movement asks why true creative, positive thinking is in decline, asserts that it's more important now than ever, and suggests ways our...

Over millions of years, fig trees have shaped our world, influenced our evolution, nourished our bodies and fed our imaginations. And as author and ecologist Mike Shanahan proclaims, “The best could be yet to come.”Gods, Wasps and Stranglers weaves...

An intimate portrait of the joys and hardships of rural life, as one man searches for community, equality, and tradition in AppalachiaCharles D. Thompson, Jr. was born in southwestern Virginia into an extended family of small farmers. Yet as he came...