Farming


The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food, and Love
The One-Straw Revolution
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
You Can Farm: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Start & Succeed in a Farming Enterprise
Dirt to Soil: One Family's Journey Into Regenerative Agriculture
Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer
The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture
Folks, This Ain't Normal: A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World
The Market Gardener: A Handbook for Successful Small-Scale Organic Farming
The New Organic Grower: A Master's Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market Gardener
Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey
Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front
Restoration Agriculture
Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture
The Backyard Homestead by Carleen MadiganPest Control for Organic Gardening by Amber RichardsThe Dirty Life by Kristin KimballGaia's Garden by Toby HemenwayTiny Victory Gardens by Acadia Tucker
Gardening/Farming/Sustainability
49 books — 44 voters

Animal Farm by George OrwellOld Farm Dogs by David HancockChristmas at Spruce Hill Farm by Kathryn SpringerFifty Acres and a Poodle by Jeanne Marie LaskasThe Organ Bank Farm by John      Boyd
'Farm' in titles
110 books — 4 voters

DIY Hydroponic Gardens by Tyler BarasAquaponic Gardening by Sylvia BernsteinHydroponic Food Production by Howard M. ReshHydroponics by Andy JacobsonField Guide to Urban Gardening by Kevin Espiritu
hydroponics and aquaponics
17 books — 2 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

Sandra Dallas
“ Both of them loved the earth and the things that grew in it. ”
― Sandra Dallas, A Quilt for Christmas

Masanobu Fukuoka
“ I do not particularly like the word 'work.' Human beings are the only animals who have to work, and I think that is the most ridiculous thing in the world. Other animals make their livings by living, but people work like crazy, thinking that they have to in order to stay alive. The bigger the job, the greater the challenge, the more wonderful they think it is. It would be good to give up that way of thinking and live an easy, comfortable life with plenty of free time. I think that the way animal ...more ”
― Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution

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