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)
The Salt Stones: Seasons of a Shepherd's Life
Diddly Squat: ‘Til The Cows Come Home
Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry
The Spinach King: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey
We Are Eating the Earth: The Race to Fix Our Food System and Save Our Climate
How to Feed the World: A Factful Guide
Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them
We Are What We Eat: A Slow Food Manifesto
The Farmer's Wife: My Life in Days
Wastelands: The True Story of Farm Country on Trial
Food Fix: How to Save Our Health, Our Economy, Our Communities, and Our Planet-One Bite at a Time
Rewilding: The Radical New Science of Ecological Recovery
Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal: A Food Science Nutrition History Book
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
The One-Straw Revolution
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
Dirt to Soil: One Family's Journey Into Regenerative Agriculture
Restoration Agriculture
Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit
You Can Farm: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Start & Succeed in a Farming Enterprise
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

Timothy Snyder
How could a large land empire thrive and dominate in the modern world without reliable access to world markets and without much recourse to naval power? Stalin and Hitler had arrived at the same basic answer to this fundamental question. The state must be large in territory and self-sufficient in economics, with a balance between industry and agriculture that supported a hardily conformist and ideologically motivated citizenry capable of fulfilling historical prophecies - either Stalinist inter ...more
Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

Masanobu Fukuoka
Food and medicine are not two different things: they are the front and back of one body. Chemically grown vegetables may be eaten for food, but they cannot be used as medicine.
Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution

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