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

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!

"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 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...

Read the Nature of Fashion by @carrysomers.bsky.social excerpt, Threads of Resistance: The Women Reviving Peru’s Native Colored Cotton, on @bioneers.org bioneers.org/threads-of-r...

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...

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

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

#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…

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,

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 linkin.bio/chelseagreen...

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

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

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.

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.

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...

Happy Publication Day! Grow a New Garden by Becky Searle 🇺🇸🇨🇦 Finding Lights in a Dark Age by @chrissmaje.bsky.social 🇬🇧 #Nonfiction

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...

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 .. ‘

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 bit.ly/3VYNYcG

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...

I finished Eagar: the surprising, secret life of beavers and why they matter by @bengoldfarb.bsky.social ! What an amazing book, one that makes you long for the soggy landscape of America before colonization. Eager was written with a true love of beavers and their place in the ecosystem, covering --

Listen to @robintransition.bsky.social's new episode How to Fall in Love with the Future on How to Train a Happy Mind #podcast www.skepticspath.org/podcast/how-...

A wonderful night to launch #GhostsoftheFarm, & a lovely, lively sell-out crowd in this pertinent setting! Huge thanks Muna Reyal @chelseagreenbooks.bsky.social & @hungerfordbookshop.bsky.social It’s out in the world! Look out for Doris & Julia on their straw-yellow Fordson tractor, Racing Lizzie!

My latest book review looks at @nicolawriting.bsky.social's wonderful "Ghosts of the Farm". It tells the story of Julia White, a woman farmer in the 1940s, together with Nicola's own story and ponders land, gender, politics and much more. Read it. resolutereader.blogspot.com/2025/10/nico...

@nicolawriting.bsky.social writes with poetic intensity, painting indelible portraits of local people and landscape, but at the same time she asks pertinent questions, reflecting on where our society is going...A joy to read." morningstaronline.co.uk/article/when...

@chrissmaje.bsky.social's Vision of a Post-Capitalist Eco-Localism that Works with @davidbollier.bsky.social www.bollier.org/blog/chris-s... david-bollier.simplecast.com/episodes/chr...

Pleased to see Chelsea Green titles here! 🌳Gaia's Garden 🌳The Earth Care Manual 🌳The Edible Forest Gardens 🌳Will Bonsall's Essential Guide to Radical, Self-Reliant Gardening #BookSky

Catherine Habgood compiles the 10 best books on permaculture, featuring recommendations from experts David Holmgren, Claudia Joseph, and Tony Rollison.

Happy Publication Day, @nicolawriting.bsky.social! 💙📚💡 #BookSky

Rediscover the lost words of an ancient land in this new and updated edition of an international bestseller.⁠ #BookSky THIRTY-TWO WORDS FOR FIELD by @manchanmagan.bsky.social is available for preorder now in North America—releasing Feb 24, 2026. ✨ ⁠ www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/812752...

Great to see A SMALL FARM FUTURE by @chrissmaje.bsky.social here!

'Ghosts of the Farm is a bridge between eras, between classes and perhaps, between people. All it takes is an open heart.' Melissa Harrison reviews @nicolawriting.bsky.social’s latest — our September Book of the Month www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/09/nico...

I was thrilled today to receive an early copy of Nicola Chester’s beautiful new book, #GhostsOfTheFarm. The Preface is stunning - I can’t wait to read the rest of it. Thank you, @chelseagreen 🌱❤️ #ruralhistory #sustainability #environment #womeninfarming #farminghistory

Sorry, but book is out next week & promo I must. You know - 3 yrs work & all that, & through some big stuff. And the wonderfully kind @joannacdobson.bsky.social has said this about it; & I’m utterly made up: “there’s a universality about it …I’ve never read anything quite like it.’ #booksky

🌾Oxford Real Farming Conference 2026 tickets are now on sale! 🌾 Join thousands of farmers, activists, policy experts, and scientists who share your vision for a fairer food and farming system on 8-9 January 2026. In-person and online tickets available: orfc.org.uk/book-orfc-20...

I enjoyed talking with Lucy Ridge about my new book 'Finding Lights in a Dark Age' on Agroecology Radio Hour agroecologyradiohour.buzzsprout.com/2402605/epis... #DarkAgeLight

That one of your most favourite poets ever, should say such a thing … am giddy with delight!

Delighted to see my beloved local newspaper giving me a shout out. Lovely words here from Newbury Today/ Newbury Weekly News Launch tix, 3rd October! @hungerfordbookshop.bsky.social www.newburytoday.co.uk/lifestyle/be...

Thrilled that #GhostsoftheFarm is @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social’s BOTM … you can read an extract on The Bedroom Carpet Farm, here:

'I am eight years old. I am a horse. But. I am also its rider.' Read an extract from @nicolawriting.bsky.social's ‘Ghosts of the Farm’ (@chelseagreenbooks.bsky.social) - our September Book of the Month www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/09/nico...

Happy UK Publication Day to THE NATURE OF FASHION by @carrysomers.bsky.social! #BookSky

Happy North American Publication Day to HOW TO FALL IN LOVE WITH THE FUTURE by @robintransition.bsky.social! #BookSky

Not long til #GhostsoftheFarm is launched, in convo with Sarah Langford! Tix here, I'd love to see people. Can't wait to bring these pioneering, forgotten farming women into the light. 1940s, 80s cowgirls, the sound of the northern lights, barn owls, horses & more! It's CINEMATIC IN SCOPE! #booksky

#GhostsoftheFarm had its 1st & early special outing! What an event! A Weekend to Remember on the #HighclereCastle #DowntonAbbey estate we lived & worked on. Thrilled to meet these wonderful women, #DaughtersofBritain Land Girls in their historic garb & their Fordson tractor #booksky Coming soon! 1/3

HOW TO FALL IN LOVE WITH THE FUTURE by @robintransition.bsky.social is a @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social TOP 25 Indie Champion! 🏆 #BookSky 💙💡📚 Order your copy here: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/how-...