Agriculture

Agriculture, also called farming or husbandry, is the cultivation of animals, plants, fungi, and other life forms for food, fiber, biofuel, medicinals and other products used to sustain and enhance human life.

Diddly Squat: A Year on the Farm (Diddly Squat, #1)
The Salt Stones: Seasons of a Shepherd's Life
The Spinach King: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
Diddly Squat: ‘Til The Cows Come Home
Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey
Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them
The Farmer's Wife: My Life in Days
Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry
Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet
How to Feed the World: A Factful Guide
We Are Eating the Earth: The Race to Fix Our Food System and Save Our Climate
Wastelands: The True Story of Farm Country on Trial
The Lie of the Land: Who Really Cares for the Countryside?
Land Rich, Cash Poor: My Family's Hope and the Untold History of the Disappearing American Farmer
Rewilding: The Radical New Science of Ecological Recovery
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
The One-Straw Revolution
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
Dirt to Soil: One Family's Journey Into Regenerative Agriculture
Restoration Agriculture
Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit
You Can Farm: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Start & Succeed in a Farming Enterprise
Bringing it to the Table: On Farming and Food
Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life
Permaculture: A Designers' Manual
The Market Gardener: A Handbook for Successful Small-Scale Organic Farming
Pest Control for Organic Gardening by Amber RichardsTiny Victory Gardens by Acadia TuckerTomatoland by Barry EstabrookClosing the Food Gap by Mark WinneFood For The City - A Future For The Metropolis by Brigitte van der Sande
Sustainable Food System Books
16 books — 14 voters
The Flower Farmer by Lynn ByczynskiFloret Farm's Cut Flower Garden by Erin BenzakeinFloret Farm's Discovering Dahlias by Erin BenzakeinCool Flowers by Lisa Mason ZieglerSlow Flowers by Debra Prinzing
Books for Flower Farmers
19 books — 6 voters



What we must think about is an agriculture with a human face. We must give standing to the new pioneers, the homecomers bent on the most important work for the next century - a massive salvage operation to save the vulnerable but necessary pieces of nature and culture and to keep the good and artful examples before us. It is time for a new breed of artists to enter front and center, for the point of art, after all, is to connect. This is the homecomer I have in mind: the scientist, the accountan ...more
Wes Jackson, Becoming Native to This Place

Masanobu Fukuoka
When it is understood that one loses joy and happiness in the attempt to possess them, the essence of natural farming will be realized. The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.
Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution

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