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The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food, and Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 134 times as farming)
avg rating 4.08 — 18,187 ratings — published 2010
The One-Straw Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as farming)
avg rating 4.34 — 9,124 ratings — published 1975
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 84 times as farming)
avg rating 4.05 — 113,003 ratings — published 2007
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as farming)
avg rating 4.19 — 210,074 ratings — published 2006
You Can Farm: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Start & Succeed in a Farming Enterprise (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as farming)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,761 ratings — published 1998
Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as farming)
avg rating 3.97 — 10,384 ratings — published 2009
Folks, This Ain't Normal: A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as farming)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,642 ratings — published 2011
Dirt to Soil: One Family's Journey Into Regenerative Agriculture (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as farming)
avg rating 4.46 — 2,371 ratings — published
The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as farming)
avg rating 4.33 — 6,689 ratings — published 1977
The New Organic Grower: A Master's Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market Gardener (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as farming)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,289 ratings — published 1989
The Market Gardener: A Handbook for Successful Small-Scale Organic Farming (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as farming)
avg rating 4.49 — 1,507 ratings — published 2014
Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as farming)
avg rating 4.42 — 7,807 ratings — published 2020
Restoration Agriculture (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as farming)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,339 ratings — published 2013
Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as farming)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,036 ratings — published 2007
Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as farming)
avg rating 4.41 — 4,924 ratings — published 2001
Bringing it to the Table: On Farming and Food (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as farming)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,021 ratings — published 2009
The Shepherd's Life: A People's History of the Lake District (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as farming)
avg rating 4.14 — 15,628 ratings — published 2015
The Resilient Farm and Homestead: An Innovative Permaculture and Whole Systems Design Approach (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as farming)
avg rating 4.36 — 795 ratings — published 2013
Mini Farming: Self-Sufficiency on 1/4 Acre (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as farming)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,474 ratings — published 2006
Barnheart: The Incurable Longing for a Farm of One's Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as farming)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,560 ratings — published 2011
Hit by a Farm: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Barn (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as farming)
avg rating 3.85 — 2,080 ratings — published 2006
The Lean Farm: How to Minimize Waste, Increase Efficiency, and Maximize Value and Profits with Less Work (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 34 times as farming)
avg rating 4.26 — 411 ratings — published 2015
The Winter Harvest Handbook: Four Season Vegetable Production Using Deep-Organic Techniques and Unheated Greenhouses (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as farming)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,326 ratings — published 2009
The Backyard Homestead: Produce All the Food You Need on Just a Quarter Acre! (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as farming)
avg rating 4.14 — 5,663 ratings — published 2009
Permaculture: A Designers' Manual (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as farming)
avg rating 4.49 — 1,723 ratings — published 1988
Pastured Poultry Profits (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as farming)
avg rating 4.39 — 815 ratings — published 1996
Teaming with Microbes: A Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as farming)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,827 ratings — published 2006
Gaining Ground: A Story Of Farmers' Markets, Local Food, And Saving The Family Farm (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as farming)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,222 ratings — published 2013
The Encyclopedia of Country Living (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as farming)
avg rating 4.43 — 3,152 ratings — published 1977
The Contrary Farmer (Real Goods Independent Living Book)
by (shelved 29 times as farming)
avg rating 4.23 — 593 ratings — published 1994
Made from Scratch: Discovering the Pleasures of a Handmade Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as farming)
avg rating 3.67 — 2,898 ratings — published 2008
Tom Lake (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as farming)
avg rating 3.93 — 488,434 ratings — published 2023
Good Husbandry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as farming)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,827 ratings — published 2019
The Urban Farmer: Growing Food for Profit on Leased and Borrowed Land (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as farming)
avg rating 4.25 — 450 ratings — published 2015
Sepp Holzer's Permaculture: A Practical Guide to Small-Scale, Integrative Farming and Gardening (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as farming)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,165 ratings — published 2004
Five Acres and Independence: A Handbook for Small Farm Management (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as farming)
avg rating 3.99 — 546 ratings — published 1972
Letters to a Young Farmer: On Food, Farming, and Our Future (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as farming)
avg rating 4.20 — 468 ratings — published
The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as farming)
avg rating 4.28 — 7,286 ratings — published 2014
The Backyard Homestead Guide To Raising Farm Animals (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as farming)
avg rating 4.26 — 700 ratings — published 2011
The Sheer Ecstasy of Being a Lunatic Farmer (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as farming)
avg rating 4.27 — 455 ratings — published 2010
The Organic Farmer's Business Handbook: A Complete Guide to Managing Finances, Crops, and Staff - and Making a Profit (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as farming)
avg rating 4.09 — 156 ratings — published 2009
The Four Winds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as farming)
avg rating 4.30 — 962,291 ratings — published 2021
Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as farming)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,297 ratings — published 1990
Growing a Farmer: How I Learned to Live Off the Land (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as farming)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,052 ratings — published 2010
Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as farming)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,788 ratings — published 1995
The Bucolic Plague: How Two Manhattanites Became Gentlemen Farmers: An Unconventional Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as farming)
avg rating 4.07 — 5,844 ratings — published 2011
Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as farming)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,762 ratings — published 1995
A Thousand Acres (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as farming)
avg rating 3.82 — 72,221 ratings — published 1991
How to Grow More Vegetables: And Fruits, Nuts, Berries, Grains and Other Crops Than You Ever Thought Possible on Less Land Than You Can Imagine (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as farming)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,714 ratings — published 1979
Salad Bar Beef (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as farming)
avg rating 4.36 — 399 ratings — published 1996
“Good farmers, who take seriously their duties as stewards of Creation and of their land's inheritors, contribute to the welfare of society in more ways than society usually acknowledges, or even knows. These farmers produce valuable goods, of course; but they also conserve soil, they conserve water, they conserve wildlife, they conserve open space, they conserve scenery.”
― Bringing it to the Table: On Farming and Food
― Bringing it to the Table: On Farming and Food
“To husband is to use with care, to keep, to save, to make last, to conserve. Old usage tells us that there is a husbandry also of the land, of the soil, of the domestic plants and animals - obviously because of the importance of these things to the household. And there have been times, one of which is now, when some people have tried to practice a proper human husbandry of the nondomestic creatures in recognition of the dependence of our households and domestic life upon the wild world. Husbandry is the name of all practices that sustain life by connecting us conservingly to our places and our world; it is the art of keeping tied all the strands in the living network that sustains us.
And so it appears that most and perhaps all of industrial agriculture's manifest failures are the result of an attempt to make the land produce without husbandry.”
― Bringing it to the Table: On Farming and Food
And so it appears that most and perhaps all of industrial agriculture's manifest failures are the result of an attempt to make the land produce without husbandry.”
― Bringing it to the Table: On Farming and Food
