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The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food, and Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 137 times as farming)
avg rating 4.08 — 18,444 ratings — published 2010
The One-Straw Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as farming)
avg rating 4.33 — 9,470 ratings — published 1975
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 85 times as farming)
avg rating 4.05 — 114,472 ratings — published 2007
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as farming)
avg rating 4.19 — 212,478 ratings — published 2006
You Can Farm: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Start & Succeed in a Farming Enterprise (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as farming)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,805 ratings — published 1998
Dirt to Soil: One Family's Journey Into Regenerative Agriculture (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as farming)
avg rating 4.46 — 2,546 ratings — published
Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as farming)
avg rating 3.97 — 10,437 ratings — published 2009
Folks, This Ain't Normal: A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as farming)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,826 ratings — published 2011
The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as farming)
avg rating 4.33 — 7,029 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 — 1,542 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 4.42 — 1,313 ratings — published 1989
Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as farming)
avg rating 4.41 — 8,381 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 — 2,088 ratings — published 2007
Restoration Agriculture (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as farming)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,376 ratings — published 2013
Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as farming)
avg rating 4.42 — 4,979 ratings — published 2001
Bringing it to the Table: On Farming and Food (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as farming)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,049 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 — 16,570 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 — 805 ratings — published 2013
Mini Farming: Self-Sufficiency on 1/4 Acre (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as farming)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,553 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 — 2,098 ratings — published 2006
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 — 1,332 ratings — published 2009
The Lean Farm: How to Minimize Waste, Increase Efficiency, and Maximize Value and Profits with Less Work (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 32 times as farming)
avg rating 4.25 — 432 ratings — published 2015
Teaming with Microbes: A Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as farming)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,880 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 — 2,263 ratings — published 2013
Permaculture: A Designers' Manual (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as farming)
avg rating 4.49 — 1,734 ratings — published 1988
Pastured Poultry Profits (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as farming)
avg rating 4.40 — 842 ratings — published 1996
The Backyard Homestead: Produce All the Food You Need on Just a Quarter Acre! (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as farming)
avg rating 4.14 — 5,716 ratings — published 2009
Tom Lake (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as farming)
avg rating 3.92 — 552,149 ratings — published 2023
The Four Winds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as farming)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,100,352 ratings — published 2021
The Encyclopedia of Country Living (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as farming)
avg rating 4.43 — 3,174 ratings — published 1977
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 Contrary Farmer (Real Goods Independent Living Book)
by (shelved 28 times as farming)
avg rating 4.23 — 598 ratings — published 1994
Good Husbandry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as farming)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,879 ratings — published 2019
The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as farming)
avg rating 4.28 — 7,460 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 — 1,180 ratings — published 2004
The Sheer Ecstasy of Being a Lunatic Farmer (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as farming)
avg rating 4.26 — 468 ratings — published 2010
The Urban Farmer: Growing Food for Profit on Leased and Borrowed Land (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as farming)
avg rating 4.25 — 457 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 — 161 ratings — published 2009
Made from Scratch: Discovering the Pleasures of a Handmade Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as farming)
avg rating 3.67 — 2,899 ratings — published 2008
Letters to a Young Farmer: On Food, Farming, and Our Future (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as farming)
avg rating 4.19 — 471 ratings — published
Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as farming)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,793 ratings — published 1995
Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as farming)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,308 ratings — published 1990
Growing a Farmer: How I Learned to Live Off the Land (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as farming)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,060 ratings — published 2010
Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as farming)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,791 ratings — published 1995
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 — 1,469 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 — 1,719 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 — 5,874 ratings — published 2011
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 — 1,979 ratings — published 2009
“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. Husbandry is the name of all practices that sustain life by connecting us conservingly to our places and our world; it is the art of keeping tied all the strands in the living network that sustains us.
And so it appears that most and perhaps all of industrial agriculture's manifest failures are the result of an attempt to make the land produce without husbandry.”
― Bringing it to the Table: On Farming and Food
And so it appears that most and perhaps all of industrial agriculture's manifest failures are the result of an attempt to make the land produce without husbandry.”
― Bringing it to the Table: On Farming and Food
“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
