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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 150 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.19 — 212,280 ratings — published 2006
The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture (Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.33 — 6,948 ratings — published 1977
The One-Straw Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.33 — 9,439 ratings — published 1975
Dirt to Soil: One Family's Journey Into Regenerative Agriculture (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.46 — 2,540 ratings — published
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 69 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.05 — 114,361 ratings — published 2007
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 66 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.06 — 60,479 ratings — published 2001
Restoration Agriculture (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,372 ratings — published 2013
Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,655 ratings — published 2007
You Can Farm: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Start & Succeed in a Farming Enterprise (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,806 ratings — published 1998
Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as agriculture)
avg rating 3.96 — 4,635 ratings — published 2011
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.07 — 120,638 ratings — published 2008
Bringing it to the Table: On Farming and Food (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,042 ratings — published 2009
Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.37 — 921 ratings — published 2017
Permaculture: A Designers' Manual (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.49 — 1,731 ratings — published 1988
Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.41 — 8,327 ratings — published 2020
The Market Gardener: A Handbook for Successful Small-Scale Organic Farming (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.49 — 1,539 ratings — published 2014
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.04 — 472,037 ratings — published 1997
The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food, and Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.08 — 18,423 ratings — published 2010
Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,086 ratings — published 2007
Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.42 — 4,977 ratings — published 2001
Folks, This Ain't Normal: A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,810 ratings — published 2011
The New Organic Grower: A Master's Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market Gardener (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,311 ratings — published 1989
The Soil Will Save Us: How Scientists, Farmers, and Foodies Are Healing the Soil to Save the Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,468 ratings — published 2014
Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as agriculture)
avg rating 3.97 — 10,432 ratings — published 2009
Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,306 ratings — published 1990
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,172 ratings — published 2017
The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.28 — 7,445 ratings — published 2014
Eating Animals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.21 — 81,553 ratings — published 2009
Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.39 — 3,733 ratings — published 2022
Introduction to Permaculture (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,265 ratings — published 1991
How to Grow More Vegetables: And Fruits, Nuts, Berries, Grains and Other Crops Than You Ever Thought Possible on Less Land Than You Can Imagine (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,718 ratings — published 1979
Call of the Reed Warbler: A New Agriculture A New Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.30 — 657 ratings — published 2017
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.50 — 188,820 ratings — published 2013
Silent Spring (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.06 — 57,142 ratings — published 1962
Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,190 ratings — published 2000
Farmers of Forty Centuries: Organic Farming in China, Korea, and Japan (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.05 — 224 ratings — published
For the Love of Soil: Strategies to Regenerate Our Food Production Systems (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 20 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.32 — 367 ratings — published
Stuffed and Starved: Markets, Power and the Hidden Battle for the World Food System (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as agriculture)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,602 ratings — published 2007
The Resilient Farm and Homestead: An Innovative Permaculture and Whole Systems Design Approach (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.37 — 802 ratings — published 2013
Against the Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as agriculture)
avg rating 3.98 — 455 ratings — published 2004
Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,792 ratings — published 1995
Who Really Feeds the World? The Failures of Agribusiness and the Promise of Agroecology (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as agriculture)
avg rating 3.93 — 448 ratings — published 2015
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as agriculture)
avg rating 3.75 — 206,973 ratings — published 2001
Teaming with Microbes: A Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,874 ratings — published 2006
The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.37 — 2,010 ratings — published 2002
The Urban Farmer: Growing Food for Profit on Leased and Borrowed Land (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.25 — 453 ratings — published 2015
Sowing Seeds in the Desert: Natural Farming, Global Restoration, and Ultimate Food Security (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.34 — 734 ratings — published 2012
The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,158 ratings — published 2015
The Backyard Homestead: Produce All the Food You Need on Just a Quarter Acre! (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.14 — 5,711 ratings — published 2009
The Contrary Farmer (Real Goods Independent Living Book)
by (shelved 17 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.24 — 598 ratings — published 1994
“Earthworms will dance”
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“Here are two facts that should not both be true:
- There is sufficient food produced in the world every year to feed every human being on the planet.
- Nearly 800 million people literally go hungry every day, with more than a third of the earth's population -- 2 billion men and women -- malnourished one way or another, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.”
― Rooms in the House of Stone
- There is sufficient food produced in the world every year to feed every human being on the planet.
- Nearly 800 million people literally go hungry every day, with more than a third of the earth's population -- 2 billion men and women -- malnourished one way or another, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.”
― Rooms in the House of Stone
