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)
Diddly Squat: ‘Til The Cows Come Home
The Farmer's Wife: My Life in Days
The Salt Stones: Seasons of a Shepherd's Life
Marce Catlett (A Port William Novel)
Sea of Grass: The Conquest, Ruin, and Redemption of Nature on the American Prairie
Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry
Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal: A Food Science Nutrition History Book
Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them
How to Feed the World: A Factful Guide
Old-Fashioned on Purpose: A Homesteading Manifesto—Rediscovering Simplicity and Meaning Through the Lost Arts of the Past such as Gardening, Canning and More
Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet
Iwigara: The Kinship of Plants and People: American Indian Ethnobotanical Traditions and Science
Under the Henfluence: Inside the World of Backyard Chickens and the People Who Love Them
Rooted: Stories of Life, Land and a Farming Revolution
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
You Can Farm: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Start & Succeed in a Farming Enterprise
Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit
Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
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

Daniel Quinn
This is considered almost holy work by farmers and ranchers. Kill off everything you can't eat. Kill off anything that eats what you eat. Kill off anything that doesn't feed what you eat." "It IS holy work, in Taker culture. The more competitors you destroy, the more humans you can bring into the world, and that makes it just about the holiest work there is. Once you exempt yourself from the law of limited competition, everything in the world except your food and the food of your food becomes a ...more
Daniel Quinn, Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

Masanobu Fukuoka
Food and medicine are not two different things: they are the front and back of one body. Chemically grown vegetables may be eaten for food, but they cannot be used as medicine.
Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution

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