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

What we must think about is an agriculture with a human face. We must give standing to the new pioneers, the homecomers bent on the most important work for the next century - a massive salvage operation to save the vulnerable but necessary pieces of nature and culture and to keep the good and artful examples before us. It is time for a new breed of artists to enter front and center, for the point of art, after all, is to connect. This is the homecomer I have in mind: the scientist, the accountan ...more
Wes Jackson, Becoming Native to This Place

Wendell Berry
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. Husbandr ...more
Wendell Berry, Bringing it to the Table: On Farming and Food

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