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

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

Michael Dorris
Here are two facts that should not both be true: - There is sufficient food produced in the world every year to feed every human being on the planet. - Nearly 800 million people literally go hungry every day, with more than a third of the earth's population -- 2 billion men and women -- malnourished one way or another, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. ...more
Michael Dorris, Rooms in the House of Stone

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