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Farming Books
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The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food, and Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 134 times as farming)
avg rating 4.08 — 18,129 ratings — published 2010
The One-Straw Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as farming)
avg rating 4.34 — 9,066 ratings — published 1975
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 84 times as farming)
avg rating 4.05 — 112,820 ratings — published 2007
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as farming)
avg rating 4.19 — 209,679 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 — 1,751 ratings — published 1998
Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as farming)
avg rating 3.97 — 10,375 ratings — published 2009
Dirt to Soil: One Family's Journey Into Regenerative Agriculture (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as farming)
avg rating 4.46 — 2,340 ratings — published
Folks, This Ain't Normal: A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as farming)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,619 ratings — published 2011
The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as farming)
avg rating 4.33 — 6,625 ratings — published 1977
The New Organic Grower: A Master's Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market Gardener (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as farming)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,286 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 — 1,498 ratings — published 2014
Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as farming)
avg rating 4.42 — 7,704 ratings — published 2020
Restoration Agriculture (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as farming)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,327 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 — 2,032 ratings — published 2007
Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as farming)
avg rating 4.41 — 4,913 ratings — published 2001
Bringing it to the Table: On Farming and Food (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as farming)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,018 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 — 15,468 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 — 793 ratings — published 2013
Mini Farming: Self-Sufficiency on 1/4 Acre (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as farming)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,465 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 — 1,558 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 — 2,078 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 4.25 — 408 ratings — published 2015
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 — 5,649 ratings — published 2009
Permaculture: A Designers' Manual (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as farming)
avg rating 4.49 — 1,720 ratings — published 1988
The Winter Harvest Handbook: Four Season Vegetable Production Using Deep-Organic Techniques and Unheated Greenhouses (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as farming)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,324 ratings — published 2009
Pastured Poultry Profits (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as farming)
avg rating 4.39 — 811 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 — 1,818 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 — 2,220 ratings — published 2013
The Encyclopedia of Country Living (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as farming)
avg rating 4.43 — 3,150 ratings — published 1977
The Contrary Farmer (Real Goods Independent Living Book)
by (shelved 29 times as farming)
avg rating 4.23 — 592 ratings — published 1994
Made from Scratch: Discovering the Pleasures of a Handmade Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as farming)
avg rating 3.67 — 2,901 ratings — published 2008
Good Husbandry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as farming)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,818 ratings — published 2019
The Urban Farmer: Growing Food for Profit on Leased and Borrowed Land (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as farming)
avg rating 4.24 — 449 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 — 1,160 ratings — published 2004
Five Acres and Independence: A Handbook for Small Farm Management (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as farming)
avg rating 3.99 — 545 ratings — published 1972
Tom Lake (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as farming)
avg rating 3.94 — 478,152 ratings — published 2023
Letters to a Young Farmer: On Food, Farming, and Our Future (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as farming)
avg rating 4.20 — 465 ratings — published
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 4.26 — 450 ratings — published 2010
The Four Winds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as farming)
avg rating 4.30 — 943,598 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 — 2,294 ratings — published 1990
The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as farming)
avg rating 4.28 — 7,258 ratings — published 2014
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
The Organic Farmer's Business Handbook: A Complete Guide to Managing Finances, Crops, and Staff - and Making a Profit (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as farming)
avg rating 4.08 — 155 ratings — published 2009
Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as farming)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,785 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 — 5,840 ratings — published 2011
Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as farming)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,764 ratings — published 1995
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 — 1,712 ratings — published 1979
Salad Bar Beef (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as farming)
avg rating 4.35 — 392 ratings — published 1996
Goat Song: A Seasonal Life, A Short History of Herding, and the Art of Making Cheese (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as farming)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,931 ratings — published 2009
“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 farming is small enough, they like to work in the company of their children and with the help of their children. They love the measure of independence that farm life can still provide. I have an idea that a lot of farmers have gone to a lot of trouble merely to be self-employed to live at least a part of their lives without a boss.”
― Bringing it to the Table: On Farming and Food
― Bringing it to the Table: On Farming and Food
“When it is understood that one loses joy and happiness in the attempt to possess them, the essence of natural farming will be realized. The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.”
― The One-Straw Revolution
― The One-Straw Revolution












