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.

Diddly Squat: A Year on the Farm (Diddly Squat, #1)
Diddly Squat: ‘Til The Cows Come Home
Marce Catlett (A Port William Novel)
Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet
Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal: A Food Science Nutrition History Book
Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry
How to Feed the World: A Factful Guide
The Farmer's Wife: My Life in Days
Wastelands: The True Story of Farm Country on Trial
Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them
Old-Fashioned on Purpose: Cultivating a Slower, More Joyful Life
We Are What We Eat: A Slow Food Manifesto
Under the Henfluence: Inside the World of Backyard Chickens and the People Who Love Them
The Lie of the Land
Ein Hof und elf Geschwister
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture
The One-Straw Revolution
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
Dirt to Soil: One Family's Journey Into Regenerative Agriculture
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
Restoration Agriculture
Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit
You Can Farm: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Start & Succeed in a Farming Enterprise
Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations
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
Permaculture: A Designers' Manual
The Market Gardener: A Handbook for Successful Small-Scale Organic Farming
Silent Spring by Rachel CarsonA Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo LeopoldThe Lorax by Dr. SeussThe Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael PollanDesert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
Best Environmental Books
1,092 books — 1,240 voters
The Soul of Soil by Joe SmillieDirt by David R. MontgomeryThe Soil Will Save Us by Kristin OhlsonThe Hidden Half of Nature by David R. MontgomeryWhat Your Food Ate by David R. Montgomery
Soil Health
43 books — 3 voters

Country Ham by Steve CoomesPest Control for Organic Gardening by Amber RichardsTiny Victory Gardens by Acadia TuckerTomatoland by Barry EstabrookClosing the Food Gap by Mark Winne
Sustainable Food System Books
17 books — 22 voters
Back of the Big House by John Michael VlachRunaway Slaves by John Hope FranklinJefferson's Poplar Forest by Barbara J. HeathDwelling Place by Erskine ClarkeSinging the Master by Roger D. Abrahams
plantation (nonfiction)
94 books — 2 voters



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

Victor Hugo
All the human and animal manure which the world wastes, if returned to the land, instead of being thrown into the sea, would suffice to nourish the world.
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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