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.

Most Read This Week Tagged "Agriculture"

Diddly Squat: A Year on the Farm (Diddly Squat, #1)

The Salt Stones: Seasons of a Shepherd's Life

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

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

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Agriculture Books

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture

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

You Can Farm: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Start & Succeed in a Farming Enterprise

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

Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life

The Market Gardener: A Handbook for Successful Small-Scale Organic Farming

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Lists

The Art of Deception by Kevin D. Mitnick

Best Technology Books

17 books — 6 voters

Florida's Peace River Frontier by Canter Brown Jr.

Florida Cattle Ranching by Robert L. Stone

Olustee and Florida's Cattle Wars by Philip Leigh

A Florida Cattle Ranch by Alfo "Bud" Adams

Florida Cowboys, Crackers, Cattle Men and Women

13 books — 2 voters

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

In the Shadow of Slavery by Judith A. Carney

Ethnobotany

51 books — 13 voters

Minnesota (nonfiction)

29 books — 14 voters

A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo Leopold

The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan

Best Environmental Books

1,082 books — 1,226 voters

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

Modern Science Nonfiction

453 books — 307 voters

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Quotes Tagged “Agriculture”

“ A farmer is a magician who produces money from the mud. ”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

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“ 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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