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

Barbara Kingsolver
The longer I think about a food industry organized around an animal that cannot reproduce itself without technical assistance, the more I mistrust it. Poultry, a significant part of the modern diet, is emblematic of the whole dirty deal. Having no self-sustaining bloodlines to back up the industry is like having no gold standard to underpin paper currency. Maintaining a natural breeding poultry flock is a rebellion, at the most basic level, against the wholly artificial nature of how foods are p ...more
Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

Daniel Quinn
[Y]our agricultural revolution is not an event like the Trojan War, isolated in the distant past and without relevance to your lives today. The work begun by those neolithic farmers in the Near East has been carried forward from one generation to the next without a single break, right into the present moment. It's the foundation of your vast civilization today in exactly the same way that it was the foundation of the very first farming village. ...more
Daniel Quinn, Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

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