How to Make Money Raising Earthworms

Earthworm business opportunities might amaze many people in the world today as to the volumes of information available on the subject. There are several things that a person must know before leaping into the dirt for their first batch of success. Earthworms will work for the right entrepreneur.

The first thing you must assess before starting [more...]

Excerpt: Ten Acres is Enough

INTRODUCTION

The man who feeds his cattle on a thousand hills may possibly see the title of this little volume paraded through the newspapers; but the chances are that he will never think it worthwhile to look into the volume itself. The owner of a hundred acres will scarcely step out of his way to purchase [more...]

Ten Acres is Enough

Recently we have seen a great back-to-the-land movement, with many young professional people returning to small scale farming; thus it is great fun to read about someone who did exactly the same thing in 1864. In that year, Mr. Edmund Morris gave up his business and city life for a farm of ten acres, made a go of mixed farming and then wrote a book about [more...]

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The Day of the Nefilim

The Day of the Nefilim

David Major
370 pages | ISBN: 9780980297683| US $16.95   UK 11.50 GBP

“The Day of The Nefilim is one of the best SF novels I have read since I began reading. Maybe that’s just because all of what I have read until now provided the knowledge and context to [more...]

In praise of the earthworm (Time Magazine, 1941)

In 1906 a young Texas physician and surgeon named George Sheffield Oliver read Darwin’s book on earthworms. A descendant of the James Oliver who invented the steel plow, George Oliver was living on a five-acre plot, and he decided to try earthworm culture on his grounds. Soon earthworms were such a big part of his life that he gave up his medical practice for [more...]

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Review Press publishes new editions of old texts — part of the effort to keep knowledge from the past available, accessible and relevant.  Review Press books have been professionally re-edited, laid out and printed. Future titles will cover organics, farming and gardening, soil health, science, and history. Subscribe to the “All titles” catagory to be [more...]

About Review Press

About Review Press

There are many old books from the latter part of the 1800s, as well as the early twentieth century, that contain information that despite its age — or sometimes because of its age — is still as relevant today as it ever was.

In fact, some of the old cookbooks and [more...]

Excerpt: Friend Earthworm

Friend Earthworm
by George Oliver

INTRODUCTION

There must be something wrong somewhere — Nature’s laws governing these errors — What is wrong when we have so many human ills? — When we have want in a land of plenty? — Why not old age pensions? — Why poultry dies young — The earthworm as [more...]

Friend Earthworm

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The problem facing civilization today is rebuilding the soil and restoring the earth to a form usable for food production. Through the slow processes of nature, it takes 500 to 1,000 years to lay down an inch of topsoil. Under favorable conditions, a task-force of earthworms can do the same job in five [more...]