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
The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael PollanIn Defense of Food by Michael PollanFood and Culture by Carole CounihanAn Edible History of Humanity by Tom StandageFood Politics by Marion Nestle
Global Citizenship: Food
68 books — 16 voters
The Backyard Homestead by Carleen MadiganPest Control for Organic Gardening by Amber RichardsThe Dirty Life by Kristin KimballGaia's Garden by Toby HemenwayTiny Victory Gardens by Acadia Tucker
Gardening/Farming/Sustainability
48 books — 42 voters

Back of the Big House by John Michael VlachRunaway Slaves by John Hope FranklinJefferson's Poplar Forest by Barbara J. HeathDwelling Place by Erskine ClarkeSinging the Master by Roger D. Abrahams
plantation (nonfiction)
94 books — 2 voters
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 4-H Harvest by Gabriel N. RosenbergStranger on Big Hickory by Stephen W. MeaderLinoleum, Better Babies & the Modern Farm Woman, 1890-1930 by Marilyn Irvin HoltThe Golden Hour by Niki  SmithLove, Sex, and 4-H by Anne-Marie Oomen
4-H Books
70 books — 2 voters


Daniel Quinn
[Y]our agricultural revolution is not an event like the Trojan War, isolated in the distant past and without relevance to your lives today. The work begun by those neolithic farmers in the Near East has been carried forward from one generation to the next without a single break, right into the present moment. It's the foundation of your vast civilization today in exactly the same way that it was the foundation of the very first farming village. ...more
Daniel Quinn, Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

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

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