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
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
Dirt to Soil: One Family's Journey Into Regenerative Agriculture
The Unsettling of America: Culture and 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
The Meat Racket by Christopher   LeonardThe End of Animal Farming by Jacy Reese AnthisThe Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael PollanAnimal Liberation by Peter SingerSlaughterhouse by Gail A. Eisnitz
Best Books about Industrial Farming
40 books — 9 voters

Click, Clack, Moo by Doreen CroninBarnyard Dance by Sandra BoyntonBig Red Barn by Margaret Wise BrownGiggle, Giggle, Quack by Doreen CroninFooling Ewe by Mike Demers
Farmyard Fun
430 books — 107 voters

Masanobu Fukuoka
The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.
Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution

Olivier Magny
Studying wine taught me that there was a very big difference between soil and dirt: dirt is to soul what zombies are to humans. Soil is full of life, while dirt is devoid of it.
Olivier Magny, Into Wine: An Invitation to Pleasure

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