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.

Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey
Wastelands: The True Story of Farm Country on Trial
Field Guide to Urban Gardening: How to Grow Plants, No Matter Where You Live: Raised Beds • Vertical Gardening • Indoor Edibles • Balconies and Rooftops • Hydroponics
The Garden Jungle: or Gardening to Save the Planet
Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet
The Fate of Food: What We'll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World
The Growing Season: How I Saved an American Farm--And Built a New Life
A Short History of the World According to Sheep
Oceans of Grain: How American Wheat Remade the World
Ten Tomatoes that Changed the World: A History
Formerly Known As Food: How the Industrial Food System Is Changing Our Minds, Bodies, and Culture
Food Fix: How to Save Our Health, Our Economy, Our Communities, and Our Planet-One Bite at a Time
Good Husbandry
The Wizard and the Prophet
Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains
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
Restoration Agriculture
Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
Bringing it to the Table: On Farming and Food
Dirt to Soil: One Family's Journey Into Regenerative Agriculture
You Can Farm: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Start & Succeed in a Farming Enterprise
Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations
Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front
Folks, This Ain't Normal: A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World
Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer
The Illustrated Herbal Handbook for Everyone by Juliette De Bairacli LevyA Field Guide to Caterpillars of Butterflies and Moths in Bri... by D.J. CarterGood Bug Bad Bug by Jessica WalliserDon't Throw It, Grow It! by Deborah PetersonHow To Control Garden Pests Organically by Peter  Davies
Horticulture
159 books — 9 voters
The Dirty Life by Kristin KimballAnimal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara KingsolverFarm City by Novella CarpenterHit by a Farm by Catherine FriendGoat Song by Brad Kessler
Farming Memoir
78 books — 51 voters

Silent Spring by Rachel CarsonA Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo LeopoldThe Lorax by Dr. SeussThe Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael PollanDesert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
Best Environmental Books
1,007 books — 1,173 voters

Comment tout peut s'effondrer  by Pablo ServigneUne autre fin du monde est possible by Pablo ServignePetit manuel de résistance contemporaine by Cyril DionDormez tranquilles jusqu’en 2100 by Jean-Marc JancoviciVers la sobriété heureuse by Pierre Rabhi
Effondrement et Résilience
37 books — 4 voters
Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer by Kelly        JonesBanjo by Graham SalisburyFarmer Boy by Laura Ingalls WilderMoo by Sharon CreechCharlie Changes Into a Chicken by Sam Copeland
#MGCarousel - Books Set on the Farm
15 books — 2 voters


Frances Moore Lappé
The real cause of hunger is the powerlessness of the poor to gain access to the resources they need to feed themselves.
Frances Moore Lappe

Winston S. Churchill
How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its digni ...more
Winston Churchill, The River War

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