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
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
1,082 books — 1,226 voters
The Crimson Rust by C. Bernard RutleySpace Vault by Jeremy  CliftDreamboats for Trudy by Mildred Lawrence
Agroterrorism in Fiction
3 books — 2 voters

Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer by Kelly        JonesBanjo by Graham SalisburyMoos, Mud, Mayhem! by Deborah C. AalbersFarmer Boy by Laura Ingalls WilderMoo by Sharon Creech
#MGCarousel - Books Set on the Farm
16 books — 3 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



Michael Dorris
Here are two facts that should not both be true: - There is sufficient food produced in the world every year to feed every human being on the planet. - Nearly 800 million people literally go hungry every day, with more than a third of the earth's population -- 2 billion men and women -- malnourished one way or another, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. ...more
Michael Dorris, Rooms in the House of Stone

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

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