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
The Salt Stones: Seasons of a Shepherd's Life
Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry
Marce Catlett (A Port William Novel)
Sea of Grass: The Conquest, Ruin, and Redemption of Nature on the American Prairie
How to Feed the World: A Factful Guide
Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet
Wastelands: The True Story of Farm Country on Trial
Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal: A Food Science Nutrition History Book
We Are Eating the Earth: The Race to Fix Our Food System and Save Our Climate
Old-Fashioned on Purpose: Cultivating a Slower, More Joyful Life
Ein Hof und elf Geschwister
The Farmer's Wife: My Life in Days
We Are What We Eat: A Slow Food Manifesto
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
Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations
Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit
You Can Farm: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Start & Succeed in a Farming Enterprise
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
Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey

Wendell Berry
The word agriculture, after all, does not mean "agriscience," much less "agribusiness." It means "cultivation of land." And cultivation is at the root of the sense both of culture and of cult. The ideas of tillage and worship are thus joined in culture. And these words all come from an Indo-European root meaning both "to revolve" and "to dwell." To live, to survive on the earth, to care for the soil, and to worship, all are bound at the root to the idea of a cycle. It is only by understanding th ...more
Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

Wendell Berry
The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life.
Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture

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