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
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootStiff by Mary RoachA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonThe Disappearing Spoon by Sam KeanThe Poisoner's Handbook by Deborah Blum
Modern Science Nonfiction
443 books — 299 voters
The 4-H Harvest by Gabriel N. RosenbergStranger on Big Hickory by Stephen W. MeaderLinoleum, Better Babies & the Modern Farm Woman, 1890-1930 by Marilyn Irvin HoltThe Golden Hour by Niki  SmithLove, Sex, and 4-H by Anne-Marie Oomen
4-H Books
70 books — 2 voters

Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer by Kelly        JonesBanjo by Graham SalisburyFarmer Boy by Laura Ingalls WilderMoo by Sharon CreechCharlie Changes Into a Chicken by Sam Copeland
#MGCarousel - Books Set on the Farm
15 books — 2 voters
The Radium Girls by Kate  MooreA Place at the Nayarit by Natalia MolinaTriangle by David von DrehleAutobiography of Mother Jones by Mary Harris JonesWe Just Keep Running the Line by Laguana Gray
Women's Labor Histories
148 books — 34 voters



Wendell Berry
It is possible, I think, to say that... a Christian agriculture [is] formed upon the understanding that it is sinful for people to misuse or destroy what they did not make. The Creation is a unique, irreplaceable gift, therefore to be used with humility, respect, and skill.
Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture

In our day, there are stresses and fractures of the human-animal bond, and some forces at work would sever it once and for all. They pull us in the wrong direction and away from the decent and honorable code that makes us care for creatures who are entirely at our mercy. Especially within the last two hundred years, we've come to apply an industrial mind-set to the use of animals, too often viewing them as if they were nothing but articles of commerce and the raw material of science, agriculture ...more
Wayne Pacelle, The Bond: Our Kinship with Animals, Our Call to Defend Them

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