Most Read This Week In 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.

Most Read This Week Tagged "Agriculture"

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
The Spinach King: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry
Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet
The Farmer's Wife: My Life in Days
How to Feed the World: A Factful Guide
We Are What We Eat: A Slow Food Manifesto
Old-Fashioned on Purpose: A Homesteading Manifesto—Rediscovering Simplicity and Meaning Through the Lost Arts of the Past such as Gardening, Canning and More
Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them
Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal: A Food Science Nutrition History Book
We Are Eating the Earth: The Race to Fix Our Food System and Save Our Climate
Wastelands: The True Story of Farm Country on Trial
Land Rich, Cash Poor: My Family's Hope and the Untold History of the Disappearing American Farmer
Iwigara: The Kinship of Plants and People: American Indian Ethnobotanical Traditions and Science
Rooted: Stories of Life, Land and a Farming Revolution
Through the Groves: A Memoir
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
Salmon Wars: The Dark Underbelly of Our Favorite Fish
Bet the Farm: The Dollars and Sense of Growing Food in America
Pig Years
The World of Sugar: How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment over 2,000 Years
The Lie of the Land: Who Really Cares for the Countryside?
Ein Hof und elf Geschwister
Oceans of Grain: How American Wheat Remade the World
Thank a Farmer
How to Be a Farmer: An Ancient Guide to Life on the Land (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers)
Resetting the Table: Straight Talk About the Food We Grow and Eat
Land Healer: How Farming Can Save Britain’s Countryside
The Monsanto Papers: Deadly Secrets, Corporate Corruption, and One Man’s Search for Justice
Building Your Permaculture Property: A Five-Step Process to Design and Develop Land (Mother Earth News Wiser Living Series)
Healing Grounds: Climate, Justice, and the Deep Roots of Regenerative Farming
We Are Each Other's Harvest: Celebrating African American Farmers, Land, and Legacy
Planet Palm: How Palm Oil Ended Up in Everything — And Endangered the World

Wendell Berry
To husband is to use with care, to keep, to save, to make last, to conserve. Old usage tells us that there is a husbandry also of the land, of the soil, of the domestic plants and animals - obviously because of the importance of these things to the household. And there have been times, one of which is now, when some people have tried to practice a proper human husbandry of the nondomestic creatures in recognition of the dependence of our households and domestic life upon the wild world. Husbandr ...more
Wendell Berry, Bringing it to the Table: On Farming and Food

Timothy Snyder
How could a large land empire thrive and dominate in the modern world without reliable access to world markets and without much recourse to naval power? Stalin and Hitler had arrived at the same basic answer to this fundamental question. The state must be large in territory and self-sufficient in economics, with a balance between industry and agriculture that supported a hardily conformist and ideologically motivated citizenry capable of fulfilling historical prophecies - either Stalinist inter ...more
Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

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