Chelsea Green Publishing
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Foraging Ideas. Cultivating Change. Leading publisher of books on the politics and practice of sustainable living.
Happy North American Pub Day to Finding Lights in a Dark Age by @chrissmaje.bsky.social and Green Crime by @drjuliashaw.bsky.social! 🎉 New #Nonfiction #Booksky
November 11, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Happy North American Pub Day to Finding Lights in a Dark Age by @chrissmaje.bsky.social and Green Crime by @drjuliashaw.bsky.social! 🎉 New #Nonfiction #Booksky
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Lovely warm welcome from the @waterstones.bsky.social Romsey crowd… & a really wonderful interview from @julia-in-between.bsky.social. So glad I managed to hobble & make it!
November 10, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Lovely warm welcome from the @waterstones.bsky.social Romsey crowd… & a really wonderful interview from @julia-in-between.bsky.social. So glad I managed to hobble & make it!
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"The agrarian localist future, along with its attendant cultural habits and political and community structures, are systems we ought to be creating now—collapse or no collapse—simply because they are the most convivial and sustainable way of living on this earth and are the right things to do." 💚
Finding Lights in a Dark Age by @chrissmaje.bsky.social is 'a guidebook (or a guiding light) to navigate the “dark ages” ahead and to journey toward localist agrarian flourishing'
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Building an Agrarian Localist Present: A Review of Finding Lights in a Dark Age - Front Porch Republic
A vision of the future.
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November 8, 2025 at 10:54 PM
"The agrarian localist future, along with its attendant cultural habits and political and community structures, are systems we ought to be creating now—collapse or no collapse—simply because they are the most convivial and sustainable way of living on this earth and are the right things to do." 💚
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Finding Lights in a Dark Age feels like a gentle hand guiding me through uncertainty. It reminds me that even in darkness, we can cultivate hope and community. Such an inspiring read! #booksky #books
Finding Lights in a Dark Age by @chrissmaje.bsky.social is 'a guidebook (or a guiding light) to navigate the “dark ages” ahead and to journey toward localist agrarian flourishing'
#BookSky
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Building an Agrarian Localist Present: A Review of Finding Lights in a Dark Age - Front Porch Republic
A vision of the future.
www.frontporchrepublic.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Finding Lights in a Dark Age feels like a gentle hand guiding me through uncertainty. It reminds me that even in darkness, we can cultivate hope and community. Such an inspiring read! #booksky #books
Finding Lights in a Dark Age by @chrissmaje.bsky.social is 'a guidebook (or a guiding light) to navigate the “dark ages” ahead and to journey toward localist agrarian flourishing'
#BookSky
www.frontporchrepublic.com/2025/11/buil...
#BookSky
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Building an Agrarian Localist Present: A Review of Finding Lights in a Dark Age - Front Porch Republic
A vision of the future.
www.frontporchrepublic.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Finding Lights in a Dark Age by @chrissmaje.bsky.social is 'a guidebook (or a guiding light) to navigate the “dark ages” ahead and to journey toward localist agrarian flourishing'
#BookSky
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#BookSky
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Read the Nature of Fashion by @carrysomers.bsky.social excerpt, Threads of Resistance: The Women Reviving Peru’s Native Colored Cotton, on @bioneers.org
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Threads of Resistance: The Women Reviving Peru’s Native Colored Cotton - Bioneers
In northern Peru, a group of women defied poverty, bureaucracy, and monoculture to bring their ancestors’ vibrant native cotton back to life.
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November 4, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Read the Nature of Fashion by @carrysomers.bsky.social excerpt, Threads of Resistance: The Women Reviving Peru’s Native Colored Cotton, on @bioneers.org
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bioneers.org/threads-of-r...
New releases out today in North America and the UK! 💙📚💡
November 4, 2025 at 5:14 PM
New releases out today in North America and the UK! 💙📚💡
Ghosts of the Farm by @nicolawriting.bsky.social chosen as a @thespectator1828.bsky.social Book of the Year! www.spectator.co.uk/article/book...
Books of the Year I – chosen by our regular reviewers
Antony Beevor In Captives and Companions (Allen Lane, £35), Justin Marozzi has brought together a scholarly yet vivid history of slavery in the Islamic world in all its varied forms. Everything is cov...
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October 30, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Ghosts of the Farm by @nicolawriting.bsky.social chosen as a @thespectator1828.bsky.social Book of the Year! www.spectator.co.uk/article/book...
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Can’t wait to chatter all things #GhostsoftheFarm at Romsey Waterstones 6th Nov, then @foldedorset.bsky.social on the 13th. Rural women, farmgatekeeping, WWII Homefront, horses, cowgirls, farm wildlife, barn owls, the SOUND & sight of the northern lights, climate & land justice… & ghosts! #booksky
October 30, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Can’t wait to chatter all things #GhostsoftheFarm at Romsey Waterstones 6th Nov, then @foldedorset.bsky.social on the 13th. Rural women, farmgatekeeping, WWII Homefront, horses, cowgirls, farm wildlife, barn owls, the SOUND & sight of the northern lights, climate & land justice… & ghosts! #booksky
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Join me @waterstones.bsky.social Romsey, Thursday 6th November, when I’ll be chatting about discovering some incredible, forgotten, rural women, cowgirls, farm wildlife & what happened when the farmgate was shut on women 80yrs ago. #GhostsoftheFarm @chelseagreenbooks.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Join me @waterstones.bsky.social Romsey, Thursday 6th November, when I’ll be chatting about discovering some incredible, forgotten, rural women, cowgirls, farm wildlife & what happened when the farmgate was shut on women 80yrs ago. #GhostsoftheFarm @chelseagreenbooks.bsky.social
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#GhostsOfTheFarm by @nicolawriting.bsky.social is an outstanding fusion of memoir and creative historical non-fiction. It is tender and sentiment-filled, without ever being sentimental, and strikes a deeply painful, elegiac note without losing hope…
October 23, 2025 at 8:55 AM
#GhostsOfTheFarm by @nicolawriting.bsky.social is an outstanding fusion of memoir and creative historical non-fiction. It is tender and sentiment-filled, without ever being sentimental, and strikes a deeply painful, elegiac note without losing hope…
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Join Good Grief Network founders LaUra Schmidt and Aimee Lewis-Reau online in conversation Rob Hopkins, about his new book, How to Fall in Love with the Future.
Monday 10 November 2025
12pm -1.30pm EST | 9am - 11.30am PST | 5pm - 6.30pm GMT
Free or by donation, register here, bit.ly/3IyoKyz,
Monday 10 November 2025
12pm -1.30pm EST | 9am - 11.30am PST | 5pm - 6.30pm GMT
Free or by donation, register here, bit.ly/3IyoKyz,
October 20, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Join Good Grief Network founders LaUra Schmidt and Aimee Lewis-Reau online in conversation Rob Hopkins, about his new book, How to Fall in Love with the Future.
Monday 10 November 2025
12pm -1.30pm EST | 9am - 11.30am PST | 5pm - 6.30pm GMT
Free or by donation, register here, bit.ly/3IyoKyz,
Monday 10 November 2025
12pm -1.30pm EST | 9am - 11.30am PST | 5pm - 6.30pm GMT
Free or by donation, register here, bit.ly/3IyoKyz,
A bold, timely history by leading Black farmer Michael Carter, Jr. illuminating the massive contributions to US agriculture made by African expertise and innovation.
#NewBookAlert AFRICULTURE is available for preorder—releasing May 2026. #BookSky #Nonfiction
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#NewBookAlert AFRICULTURE is available for preorder—releasing May 2026. #BookSky #Nonfiction
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October 21, 2025 at 2:57 PM
A bold, timely history by leading Black farmer Michael Carter, Jr. illuminating the massive contributions to US agriculture made by African expertise and innovation.
#NewBookAlert AFRICULTURE is available for preorder—releasing May 2026. #BookSky #Nonfiction
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#NewBookAlert AFRICULTURE is available for preorder—releasing May 2026. #BookSky #Nonfiction
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Just in from lovely @cauverymadhavan.bsky.social “When you have an intense love for the rural landscape & everything it represents: history geography, the human spirit - good and bad, then a book like this is sublime, a panacea for what ails us now. Read it & you’ll feel it too!” #GhostsoftheFarm
October 17, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Just in from lovely @cauverymadhavan.bsky.social “When you have an intense love for the rural landscape & everything it represents: history geography, the human spirit - good and bad, then a book like this is sublime, a panacea for what ails us now. Read it & you’ll feel it too!” #GhostsoftheFarm
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Taunton / Somerset peeps! Am at #TauntonLiteraryFestival with the lovely @brendonbooks.bsky.social & in an incredible line up. Would LOVE to see you for all things #GhostsoftheFarm @chelseagreenbooks.bsky.social #booksky
October 16, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Taunton / Somerset peeps! Am at #TauntonLiteraryFestival with the lovely @brendonbooks.bsky.social & in an incredible line up. Would LOVE to see you for all things #GhostsoftheFarm @chelseagreenbooks.bsky.social #booksky
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I’m thrilled to announce that my debut memoir, HOLY MOTHER!, will be published in fall 2027 by @chelseagreenbooks.bsky.social. If you love books about spiritual rabbit holes or cults, this is for you.
Endless thanks to my incredible agent @lmscovel.bsky.social, who made this dream a reality.
Endless thanks to my incredible agent @lmscovel.bsky.social, who made this dream a reality.
October 15, 2025 at 4:08 PM
I’m thrilled to announce that my debut memoir, HOLY MOTHER!, will be published in fall 2027 by @chelseagreenbooks.bsky.social. If you love books about spiritual rabbit holes or cults, this is for you.
Endless thanks to my incredible agent @lmscovel.bsky.social, who made this dream a reality.
Endless thanks to my incredible agent @lmscovel.bsky.social, who made this dream a reality.
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These insights come from both his wide academic understanding and his own experience of living in various shapes of community and producing food and fuel for local needs; theory grounded in practice. And as ever there is a kindness in his writing, and a gentle humour, which I find endearing.
October 10, 2025 at 8:55 PM
These insights come from both his wide academic understanding and his own experience of living in various shapes of community and producing food and fuel for local needs; theory grounded in practice. And as ever there is a kindness in his writing, and a gentle humour, which I find endearing.
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My book 'Finding Lights in a Dark Age' is published in the UK today. I'm looking forward to seeing its travels in the world.
Order information here: chrissmaje.com/book/finding...
Short blog post here: chrissmaje.com/2025/10/find...
Order information here: chrissmaje.com/book/finding...
Short blog post here: chrissmaje.com/2025/10/find...
Finding Lights in a Dark Age | Chris Smaje
My new book Finding Lights in a Dark Age is being published in the UK in October 2025 and the US in November 2025. Global society is unquestionably heading into a period of grave crisis, when the mode...
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October 14, 2025 at 9:20 AM
My book 'Finding Lights in a Dark Age' is published in the UK today. I'm looking forward to seeing its travels in the world.
Order information here: chrissmaje.com/book/finding...
Short blog post here: chrissmaje.com/2025/10/find...
Order information here: chrissmaje.com/book/finding...
Short blog post here: chrissmaje.com/2025/10/find...
Happy Publication Day!
Grow a New Garden by Becky Searle 🇺🇸🇨🇦
Finding Lights in a Dark Age by @chrissmaje.bsky.social 🇬🇧
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Grow a New Garden by Becky Searle 🇺🇸🇨🇦
Finding Lights in a Dark Age by @chrissmaje.bsky.social 🇬🇧
#Nonfiction
October 14, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Happy Publication Day!
Grow a New Garden by Becky Searle 🇺🇸🇨🇦
Finding Lights in a Dark Age by @chrissmaje.bsky.social 🇬🇧
#Nonfiction
Grow a New Garden by Becky Searle 🇺🇸🇨🇦
Finding Lights in a Dark Age by @chrissmaje.bsky.social 🇬🇧
#Nonfiction
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Grateful to @lauraparker.bsky.social for this wonderful full page review of #GhostsoftheFarm @chelseagreenbooks.bsky.social in www.countrylife.co.uk 8 Oct. ‘The author is at her best when immersed in rural detail… Mrs Chester has found something truly haunting.’ #booksky
October 10, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Grateful to @lauraparker.bsky.social for this wonderful full page review of #GhostsoftheFarm @chelseagreenbooks.bsky.social in www.countrylife.co.uk 8 Oct. ‘The author is at her best when immersed in rural detail… Mrs Chester has found something truly haunting.’ #booksky
#Nonfiction Author of GREEN CRIME, @drjuliashaw.bsky.social's new mini-series with TEDxLondon Climate Curious Podcast tedxlondon.com/podcasts/wha...
What is a green crime? With Dr. Julia Shaw - TEDxLondon
Criminal psychologist Dr. Julia Shaw joins Climate Curious co-hosts Ben Hurst and Maryam Pasha to explain Green Crimes.
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October 10, 2025 at 2:15 PM
#Nonfiction Author of GREEN CRIME, @drjuliashaw.bsky.social's new mini-series with TEDxLondon Climate Curious Podcast tedxlondon.com/podcasts/wha...
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Place of work, home & mode of transport, 1988, 1989. High River & Bragg Creek, Alberta. #GhostsoftheFarm @chelseagreenbooks.bsky.social Turning up treasures in a house move to the strains of ‘Four strong winds that blow lonely .. ‘
October 9, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Place of work, home & mode of transport, 1988, 1989. High River & Bragg Creek, Alberta. #GhostsoftheFarm @chelseagreenbooks.bsky.social Turning up treasures in a house move to the strains of ‘Four strong winds that blow lonely .. ‘
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In the rather swish Absolutely Berkshire Magazine with #GhostsoftheFarm #booksky ‘We ask an awful lot from our farmers, in a way we don’t from other people’s jobs. But we need farming to work for all of us. Farmers, consumers, climate & wildlife are the 4 legs holding up the table we eat from.’
October 8, 2025 at 7:15 AM
In the rather swish Absolutely Berkshire Magazine with #GhostsoftheFarm #booksky ‘We ask an awful lot from our farmers, in a way we don’t from other people’s jobs. But we need farming to work for all of us. Farmers, consumers, climate & wildlife are the 4 legs holding up the table we eat from.’
How do some plants live for thousands of years? Which adaptations & evolutionary strategies allow them to thrive in some of the harshest places on the planet for so long—and so well?
#NewBookAlert IN BOTANICAL TIME is available for preorder—releasing Feb 2026. #BookSky #Nonfiction
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#NewBookAlert IN BOTANICAL TIME is available for preorder—releasing Feb 2026. #BookSky #Nonfiction
bit.ly/3VYNYcG
October 8, 2025 at 2:54 PM
How do some plants live for thousands of years? Which adaptations & evolutionary strategies allow them to thrive in some of the harshest places on the planet for so long—and so well?
#NewBookAlert IN BOTANICAL TIME is available for preorder—releasing Feb 2026. #BookSky #Nonfiction
bit.ly/3VYNYcG
#NewBookAlert IN BOTANICAL TIME is available for preorder—releasing Feb 2026. #BookSky #Nonfiction
bit.ly/3VYNYcG
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Enjoying "Finding Lights in a Dark Age" by that @chrissmaje.bsky.social which arrived a good week before the official publication date, but I need to stop reading now and go to the allotment...
You can buy it and support your local bookshop at Hive: www.hive.co.uk/Product/Chri...
You can buy it and support your local bookshop at Hive: www.hive.co.uk/Product/Chri...
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October 7, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Enjoying "Finding Lights in a Dark Age" by that @chrissmaje.bsky.social which arrived a good week before the official publication date, but I need to stop reading now and go to the allotment...
You can buy it and support your local bookshop at Hive: www.hive.co.uk/Product/Chri...
You can buy it and support your local bookshop at Hive: www.hive.co.uk/Product/Chri...