51 books
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Farming Books
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The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food, and Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 135 times as farming)
avg rating 4.08 — 18,301 ratings — published 2010
The One-Straw Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as farming)
avg rating 4.33 — 9,323 ratings — published 1975
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 84 times as farming)
avg rating 4.05 — 113,743 ratings — published 2007
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 — 1,797 ratings — published 1998
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as farming)
avg rating 4.19 — 211,372 ratings — published 2006
Dirt to Soil: One Family's Journey Into Regenerative Agriculture (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as farming)
avg rating 4.46 — 2,473 ratings — published
Folks, This Ain't Normal: A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as farming)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,742 ratings — published 2011
Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as farming)
avg rating 3.97 — 10,402 ratings — published 2009
The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as farming)
avg rating 4.33 — 6,844 ratings — published 1977
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 — 1,303 ratings — published 1989
The Market Gardener: A Handbook for Successful Small-Scale Organic Farming (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as farming)
avg rating 4.49 — 1,526 ratings — published 2014
Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as farming)
avg rating 4.42 — 8,120 ratings — published 2020
Restoration Agriculture (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as farming)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,359 ratings — published 2013
Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as farming)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,071 ratings — published 2007
Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as farming)
avg rating 4.41 — 4,944 ratings — published 2001
Bringing it to the Table: On Farming and Food (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as farming)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,032 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 — 16,126 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 — 800 ratings — published 2013
Mini Farming: Self-Sufficiency on 1/4 Acre (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as farming)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,514 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 — 1,568 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 — 2,086 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 4.25 — 421 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 — 1,331 ratings — published 2009
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 — 5,700 ratings — published 2009
Permaculture: A Designers' Manual (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as farming)
avg rating 4.49 — 1,726 ratings — published 1988
Pastured Poultry Profits (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as farming)
avg rating 4.39 — 838 ratings — published 1996
Teaming with Microbes: A Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as farming)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,859 ratings — published 2006
Gaining Ground: A Story Of Farmers' Markets, Local Food, And Saving The Family Farm (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as farming)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,239 ratings — published 2013
The Encyclopedia of Country Living (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as farming)
avg rating 4.43 — 3,164 ratings — published 1977
The Contrary Farmer (Real Goods Independent Living Book)
by (shelved 29 times as farming)
avg rating 4.23 — 598 ratings — published 1994
Tom Lake (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as farming)
avg rating 3.93 — 520,304 ratings — published 2023
The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as farming)
avg rating 4.28 — 7,383 ratings — published 2014
Sepp Holzer's Permaculture: A Practical Guide to Small-Scale, Integrative Farming and Gardening (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as farming)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,172 ratings — published 2004
Five Acres and Independence: A Handbook for Small Farm Management (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as farming)
avg rating 3.99 — 546 ratings — published 1972
Made from Scratch: Discovering the Pleasures of a Handmade Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as farming)
avg rating 3.67 — 2,898 ratings — published 2008
The Four Winds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as farming)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,038,965 ratings — published 2021
Good Husbandry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as farming)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,853 ratings — published 2019
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 — 711 ratings — published 2011
The Sheer Ecstasy of Being a Lunatic Farmer (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as farming)
avg rating 4.26 — 463 ratings — published 2010
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 4.08 — 157 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 — 1,786 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 — 2,303 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 — 469 ratings — published
Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as farming)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,777 ratings — published 1995
Growing a Farmer: How I Learned to Live Off the Land (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as farming)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,056 ratings — published 2010
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 — 1,714 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 — 5,857 ratings — published 2011
Salad Bar Beef (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as farming)
avg rating 4.35 — 406 ratings — published 1996
Goat Song: A Seasonal Life, A Short History of Herding, and the Art of Making Cheese (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as farming)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,968 ratings — published 2009
“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
“Teaching kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an education.”
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