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
Wendell Berry
Why do farmers farm, given their economic adversities on top of the many frustrations and difficulties normal to farming? And always the answer is: "Love. They must do it for love." Farmers farm for the love of farming. They love to watch and nurture the growth of plants. They love to live in the presence of animals. They love to work outdoors. They love the weather, maybe even when it is making them miserable. They love to live where they work and to work where they live. If the scale of their ...more
Wendell Berry, Bringing it to the Table: On Farming and Food

M.C. Humphreys
With tractors, you just don’t get the feel of tilling that land. So when planting season comes around, I use a hoe. To grow one useful whore, that’s the motto of my pimp farm.
M.C. Humphreys

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