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
Marce Catlett (A Port William Novel)
The Farmer's Wife: My Life in Days
Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry
Sea of Grass: The Conquest, Ruin, and Redemption of Nature on the American Prairie
Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet
How to Feed the World: A Factful Guide
Under the Henfluence: Inside the World of Backyard Chickens and the People Who Love Them
Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains
Le sens du bétail. Vous ne mangerez plus jamais de la même façon
The Lie of the Land
The World of Sugar: How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment over 2,000 Years
Old-Fashioned on Purpose: Cultivating a Slower, More Joyful Life
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture
The One-Straw Revolution
Dirt to Soil: One Family's Journey Into Regenerative Agriculture
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
Restoration Agriculture
Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations
You Can Farm: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Start & Succeed in a Farming Enterprise
Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit
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
Country Ham by Steve CoomesPest Control for Organic Gardening by Amber RichardsTiny Victory Gardens by Acadia TuckerTomatoland by Barry EstabrookClosing the Food Gap by Mark Winne
Sustainable Food System Books
18 books — 23 voters
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall KimmererWicked Plants by Amy  StewartIn the Shadow of Slavery by Judith A. CarneyGinseng Dreams by Kristin JohannsenPapyrus by John Gaudet
Ethnobotany
51 books — 13 voters

The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael PollanIn Defense of Food by Michael PollanFood and Culture by Carole CounihanAn Edible History of Humanity by Tom StandageFood Politics by Marion Nestle
Global Citizenship: Food
69 books — 17 voters
The Soul of Soil by Joe SmillieDirt by David R. MontgomeryThe Soil Will Save Us by Kristin OhlsonThe Hidden Half of Nature by David R. MontgomeryWhat Your Food Ate by David R. Montgomery
Soil Health
43 books — 3 voters



Wendell Berry
The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life.
Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture

Winston S. Churchill
How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its digni ...more
Winston Churchill, The River War

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