Farming


The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food, and Love
The One-Straw Revolution
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
You Can Farm: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Start & Succeed in a Farming Enterprise
Dirt to Soil: One Family's Journey Into Regenerative Agriculture
Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer
Folks, This Ain't Normal: A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World
The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture
The Market Gardener: A Handbook for Successful Small-Scale Organic Farming
The New Organic Grower: A Master's Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market Gardener
Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey
Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front
Restoration Agriculture
Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture
Silent Spring by Rachel CarsonCradle to Cradle by William McDonoughThe Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael PollanThe Urban Homestead by Kelly CoyneThe Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
Being "Green"
392 books — 244 voters
Animal Farm by George OrwellOld Farm Dogs by David HancockChristmas at Spruce Hill Farm by Kathryn SpringerFifty Acres and a Poodle by Jeanne Marie LaskasThe Organ Bank Farm by John      Boyd
'Farm' in titles
110 books — 4 voters

Soul Can You by Lisa  GilbertA Blessed Olive Tree by Zain HashmiLoving The Dragon's Daughter by Grace RichardTurn Here Sweet Corn by Atina DiffleyRemembering Vietnam by Warren Robinson
Mystical Realism
8 books — 11 voters
The Flower Farmer by Lynn ByczynskiFloret Farm's Cut Flower Garden by Erin BenzakeinFloret Farm's Discovering Dahlias by Erin BenzakeinCool Flowers by Lisa Mason ZieglerSlow Flowers by Debra Prinzing
Books for Flower Farmers
19 books — 6 voters


Wendell Berry
“ A farmer, as one of his farmer correspondents once wrote to Liberty Hyde Bailey, is "a dispenser of the 'Mysteries of God.'" The husband, unlike the "manager" or the would-be objective scientist, belongs inherently to the complexity and the mystery that is to be husbanded, and so the husbanding mind is both careful and humble. ...more ”
― Wendell Berry, Bringing it to the Table: On Farming and Food

Joel Salatin
“ The same teen who can't legally operate a four-wheeler, or [ATV]...in a farm lane workplace environment can operate a jacked-up F-250 pickup on a crowded urban expressway. By denying these [farm work] opportunities to bring value to their own lives and the community around them, we've relegated our young adults to teenage foolishness. Then as a culture we walk around shaking our heads in bewilderment at these young people with retarded maturity. Never in life do people have as much energy as in ...more ”
― Joel Salatin, Folks, This Ain't Normal: A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World

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