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The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food, and Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 137 times as farming)
avg rating 4.08 — 18,406 ratings — published 2010
The One-Straw Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as farming)
avg rating 4.33 — 9,419 ratings — published 1975
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 85 times as farming)
avg rating 4.05 — 114,245 ratings — published 2007
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as farming)
avg rating 4.19 — 212,093 ratings — published 2006
You Can Farm: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Start & Succeed in a Farming Enterprise (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as farming)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,804 ratings — published 1998
Dirt to Soil: One Family's Journey Into Regenerative Agriculture (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as farming)
avg rating 4.46 — 2,527 ratings — published
Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as farming)
avg rating 3.97 — 10,431 ratings — published 2009
Folks, This Ain't Normal: A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as farming)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,804 ratings — published 2011
The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as farming)
avg rating 4.33 — 6,934 ratings — published 1977
The Market Gardener: A Handbook for Successful Small-Scale Organic Farming (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as farming)
avg rating 4.49 — 1,538 ratings — published 2014
The New Organic Grower: A Master's Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market Gardener (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as farming)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,311 ratings — published 1989
Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as farming)
avg rating 4.42 — 8,277 ratings — published 2020
Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as farming)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,081 ratings — published 2007
Restoration Agriculture (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as farming)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,368 ratings — published 2013
Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as farming)
avg rating 4.42 — 4,971 ratings — published 2001
Bringing it to the Table: On Farming and Food (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as farming)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,039 ratings — published 2009
The Shepherd's Life: A People's History of the Lake District (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as farming)
avg rating 4.14 — 16,420 ratings — published 2015
The Resilient Farm and Homestead: An Innovative Permaculture and Whole Systems Design Approach (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as farming)
avg rating 4.37 — 801 ratings — published 2013
Mini Farming: Self-Sufficiency on 1/4 Acre (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as farming)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,541 ratings — published 2006
Barnheart: The Incurable Longing for a Farm of One's Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as farming)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,569 ratings — published 2011
Hit by a Farm: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Barn (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as farming)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,092 ratings — published 2006
The Lean Farm: How to Minimize Waste, Increase Efficiency, and Maximize Value and Profits with Less Work (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 33 times as farming)
avg rating 4.26 — 427 ratings — published 2015
The Winter Harvest Handbook: Four Season Vegetable Production Using Deep-Organic Techniques and Unheated Greenhouses (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as farming)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,330 ratings — published 2009
Teaming with Microbes: A Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as farming)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,869 ratings — published 2006
Gaining Ground: A Story Of Farmers' Markets, Local Food, And Saving The Family Farm (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as farming)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,259 ratings — published 2013
The Backyard Homestead: Produce All the Food You Need on Just a Quarter Acre! (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as farming)
avg rating 4.14 — 5,710 ratings — published 2009
Permaculture: A Designers' Manual (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as farming)
avg rating 4.49 — 1,731 ratings — published 1988
Pastured Poultry Profits (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as farming)
avg rating 4.40 — 842 ratings — published 1996
The Encyclopedia of Country Living (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as farming)
avg rating 4.43 — 3,173 ratings — published 1977
The Contrary Farmer (Real Goods Independent Living Book)
by (shelved 29 times as farming)
avg rating 4.23 — 596 ratings — published 1994
Tom Lake (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as farming)
avg rating 3.92 — 541,297 ratings — published 2023
Sepp Holzer's Permaculture: A Practical Guide to Small-Scale, Integrative Farming and Gardening (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as farming)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,177 ratings — published 2004
Five Acres and Independence: A Handbook for Small Farm Management (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as farming)
avg rating 3.98 — 548 ratings — published 1972
The Four Winds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as farming)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,079,699 ratings — published 2021
Good Husbandry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as farming)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,873 ratings — published 2019
The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as farming)
avg rating 4.28 — 7,430 ratings — published 2014
The Sheer Ecstasy of Being a Lunatic Farmer (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as farming)
avg rating 4.26 — 467 ratings — published 2010
Made from Scratch: Discovering the Pleasures of a Handmade Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as farming)
avg rating 3.67 — 2,899 ratings — published 2008
The Urban Farmer: Growing Food for Profit on Leased and Borrowed Land (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as farming)
avg rating 4.25 — 454 ratings — published 2015
The Backyard Homestead Guide To Raising Farm Animals (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as farming)
avg rating 4.25 — 714 ratings — published 2011
The Organic Farmer's Business Handbook: A Complete Guide to Managing Finances, Crops, and Staff - and Making a Profit (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as farming)
avg rating 4.07 — 159 ratings — published 2009
Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as farming)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,790 ratings — published 1995
Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as farming)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,305 ratings — published 1990
Letters to a Young Farmer: On Food, Farming, and Our Future (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as farming)
avg rating 4.19 — 470 ratings — published
Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as farming)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,784 ratings — published 1995
Growing a Farmer: How I Learned to Live Off the Land (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as farming)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,059 ratings — published 2010
The Soil Will Save Us: How Scientists, Farmers, and Foodies Are Healing the Soil to Save the Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as farming)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,463 ratings — published 2014
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 23 times as farming)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,718 ratings — published 1979
The Bucolic Plague: How Two Manhattanites Became Gentlemen Farmers: An Unconventional Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as farming)
avg rating 4.07 — 5,865 ratings — published 2011
Salad Bar Beef (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as farming)
avg rating 4.36 — 408 ratings — published 1996
“More grass means less forest; more forest less grass. But either-or is a construction more deeply woven into our culture than into nature, where even antagonists depend on one another and the liveliest places are the edges, the in-betweens or both-ands..... Relations are what matter most.”
― The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
― The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
“A farmer, as one of his farmer correspondents once wrote to Liberty Hyde Bailey, is "a dispenser of the 'Mysteries of God.'"
The husband, unlike the "manager" or the would-be objective scientist, belongs inherently to the complexity and the mystery that is to be husbanded, and so the husbanding mind is both careful and humble.”
― Bringing it to the Table: On Farming and Food
The husband, unlike the "manager" or the would-be objective scientist, belongs inherently to the complexity and the mystery that is to be husbanded, and so the husbanding mind is both careful and humble.”
― Bringing it to the Table: On Farming and Food
