Book Author
John Ivanko is an award-winning author, co-author or contributor to fifteen books for children and adults.
Below are some of the many titles, including the award-winning ECOpreneuring, Homemade for Sale, Farmstead Chef cookbook and Rural Renaissance, each co-authored with his wife, Lisa Kivirist. His children's photobooks, co-authored with Maya Ajmera, celebrate global cultural diversity and have received numerous awards.
Homemade for Sale
How to Set Up and Market a Food Business from your Home Kitchen
From pies to pickles, wedding cakes to granola, preserves to decorated cookies, fledgling food entrepreneurs now have the freedom to earn, producing non-hazardous foods in their home kitchen.
Homemade for Sale is the first authoritative guide that provides a clear roadmap to go from idea and recipe to final product..
ECOpreneuring
Putting Purpose and the Planet before Profits
The award-winning ECOpreneuring is a fresh and dynamic approach to entrepreneurial thinking, blending passion for the planet with small business pragmatics and smashing the stereotype that "doing good" and "running a business" can't go hand in hand.
Part small business manifesto, part personal finance primer, ECOpreneuring is essential reading for small business owners, prospective entrepreneurs, social entrepreneurs starting non-profit organizations and anyone who dreams of a livelihood based on independence, creativity, passion and a commitment to green practices and sustainability.
Farmstead Chef transforms traditional farmstead cooking skills for the modern kitchen gardener, urban homesteader and homestead cook in all of us. From breakfasts to mouth-watering desserts, Farmstead Chef showcases the creative and budget-friendly side to eating lower on the food chain more often while taking responsibility for the food we put into our bodies -- by growing it, sharing it and savoring it.
After your meal, pull up a chair and enjoy inviting slice-of-life “Kitchen Table Talk” features: interviews with local food heroes and visionaries transforming our food system. Farmstead Chef also shares practical cooking tips and lively short essays.
In these times of change, global awareness based on understanding, respecting and celebrating diversity is essential to successfully sharing our common home, Earth. Since 1996, the Global Fund for Children (GFC) has created books and resource guides for young readers that help expand their appreciation of the multicultural world in which they live; sales of these books support the grant-making work of the Global Fund for Children.
From the very start, John Ivanko has been a contributor to the portfolio of award-winning books, including To Be a Kid, Be My Neighbor and To Be an Artist, published by Charlesbridge in partnership with GFC. John contributed photography to Children from Australia to Zimbabwe before co-authoring the highly acclaimed To Be a Kid which was followed by five additional books, plus several in Spanish editions.
Rural Renaissance
Renewing the Quest for the Good Life
In the '60s it was called the "back to the land" movement, and in Helen and Scott Nearings' day, it was "living the good life." Whatever the term, North Americans have always yearned for a simpler way. Blending inspiration with practical how-to's, Rural Renaissance captures the American dream of country living for contemporary times.
Journey with the authors and experience their lessons, laughter and love for the land as they trade the urban concrete maze for a small organic farm and bed and breakfast, Inn Serendipity, in Wisconsin. Rural living today is a lot more than farming. It's about a creative, nature-based and more self-sufficient lifestyle that combines a love of squash, solar energy, skinny dipping and serendipity.