Farming


The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food, and Love
The One-Straw Revolution
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
You Can Farm: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Start & Succeed in a Farming Enterprise
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Dirt to Soil: One Family's Journey Into Regenerative Agriculture
Folks, This Ain't Normal: A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World
Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer
The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture
The New Organic Grower: A Master's Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market Gardener
The Market Gardener: A Handbook for Successful Small-Scale Organic Farming
Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey
Restoration Agriculture
Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front
Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture
Back of the Big House by John Michael VlachRunaway Slaves by John Hope FranklinJefferson's Poplar Forest by Barbara J. HeathDwelling Place by Erskine ClarkeSinging the Master by Roger D. Abrahams
plantation (nonfiction)
94 books — 2 voters

From Doctor to Healer by Erica M. ElliottA Blessed Olive Tree by Zain HashmiLoving The Dragon's Daughter by Grace RichardTurn Here Sweet Corn by Atina DiffleyRemembering Vietnam by Warren Robinson
Mystical Realism
8 books — 20 voters

The Great Good Place by Ray OldenburgTiny Victory Gardens by Acadia TuckerWhat Has Nature Ever Done for Us? by Tony JuniperDeepening Community by Paul BornThe Abundant Community by John McKnight
Best Books on Livable Communities
279 books — 26 voters
Making Peace with the Land by Fred BahnsonThe Art of the Commonplace by Wendell BerrySalvation Means Creation Healed by Howard A. SnyderScripture, Culture, and Agriculture by Ellen F. DavisFarming As A Spiritual Discipline by Ragan Sutterfield
Best Agrarian Theology
34 books — 4 voters

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

David Hume
Your corn is ripe today; mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both, that I should labour with you today, and that you should aid me tomorrow. I have no kindness for you, and know you have as little for me. I will not, therefore, take any pains upon your account; and should I labour with you upon my own account, in expectation of a return, I know I should be disappointed, and that I should in vain depend upon your gratitude. Here then I leave you to labour alone; You treat me in the s ...more
David Hume

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