🌿 Food & Farming

From seed to plate — books on regenerative agriculture, food systems, and the ethics of what we eat.

Food & Farming

46 books in this category
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Food & Farming
Edible Forest Gardens Vol. 1
Dave Jacke & Eric Toensmeier

The definitive two-volume manual for designing food forest systems — Vol. 1 presents the vision and ecological principles that make forest gardening the most productive sustainable food system available.

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Food & Farming
Growing a Greener World
Joe Lamp'l

The companion book to the PBS television series — a thorough, encouraging guide to organic gardening for the serious home grower.

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Food & Farming
Edible Forest Gardens Vol. 1
Dave Jacke & Eric Toensmeier

The definitive two-volume manual for designing food forest systems — Vol. 1 presents the vision and ecological principles that make forest gardening the most productive sustainable food system available.

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Food & Farming
Growing a Greener World
Joe Lamp'l

The companion book to the PBS television series — a thorough, encouraging guide to organic gardening for the serious home grower.

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Food & Farming
Folks, This Ain't Normal
Joel Salatin

The contrarian Virginia farmer's tour of what industrial food has cost us — and a passionate case for reconnecting with the animals, land, and skills that fed humans for ten thousand years.

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Food & Farming
Four-Season Harvest
Eliot Coleman

The classic guide to year-round vegetable growing for the home gardener — Coleman's most accessible book and still his most widely read.

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Food & Farming
Gaia's Garden
Toby Hemenway

The best introductory guide to home-scale permaculture — how to design a garden that feeds itself, feeds you, and gets richer every year.

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Food & Farming
Restoration Agriculture
Mark Shepard

A Wisconsin farmer's radical vision: replace annual grain agriculture with perennial polyculture systems that mimic the natural ecosystems they replace.

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Food & Farming
The Lean Farm
Ben Hartman

How a young Ohio farmer applied Toyota's manufacturing principles to a two-acre vegetable farm — and cut his workweek in half while doubling profits.

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Food & Farming
The Unsettling of America
Wendell Berry

Wendell Berry's enduring indictment of industrial agriculture — and a vision of what farming could be when it takes care of land, community, and culture together.

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Food & Farming
The Urban Farmer
Curtis Stone

The business case for urban market gardening — how to build a profitable vegetable farm on rented city lots using intensive methods.

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Food & Farming
The Winter Harvest Handbook
Eliot Coleman

The master of four-season growing shows how to harvest fresh vegetables in the coldest months — without heating, just the right structures and plant selection.

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Food & Farming
Folks, This Ain't Normal
Joel Salatin

The contrarian Virginia farmer's tour of what industrial food has cost us — and a passionate case for reconnecting with the animals, land, and skills that fed humans for ten thousand years.

🥬
Food & Farming
Four-Season Harvest
Eliot Coleman

The classic guide to year-round vegetable growing for the home gardener — Coleman's most accessible book and still his most widely read.

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Food & Farming
Gaia's Garden
Toby Hemenway

The best introductory guide to home-scale permaculture — how to design a garden that feeds itself, feeds you, and gets richer every year.

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Food & Farming
Restoration Agriculture
Mark Shepard

A Wisconsin farmer's radical vision: replace annual grain agriculture with perennial polyculture systems that mimic the natural ecosystems they replace.

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Food & Farming
The Lean Farm
Ben Hartman

How a young Ohio farmer applied Toyota's manufacturing principles to a two-acre vegetable farm — and cut his workweek in half while doubling profits.

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Food & Farming
The Unsettling of America
Wendell Berry

Wendell Berry's enduring indictment of industrial agriculture — and a vision of what farming could be when it takes care of land, community, and culture together.

🏙️
Food & Farming
The Urban Farmer
Curtis Stone

The business case for urban market gardening — how to build a profitable vegetable farm on rented city lots using intensive methods.

❄️
Food & Farming
The Winter Harvest Handbook
Eliot Coleman

The master of four-season growing shows how to harvest fresh vegetables in the coldest months — without heating, just the right structures and plant selection.

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Food & Farming
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
Barbara Kingsolver

Barbara Kingsolver's family spends a year eating only food they grow themselves or source locally — and writes one of the most beautiful food memoirs ever published.

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Food & Farming
Dirt to Soil
Gabe Brown

Gabe Brown's account of how he transformed a near-bankrupt North Dakota farm into a regenerative showcase — and the five principles that made it work.

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Food & Farming
Farmers of Forty Centuries
F.H. King

An American agronomist travels through China, Korea, and Japan in 1909 and documents the farming systems that have sustained dense populations on small plots of land for four thousand years.

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Food & Farming
Growing a Revolution
David Montgomery

A geologist visits farms around the world and finds a revolution underway — farmers abandoning tillage and building soil through regenerative practices.

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Food & Farming
Growing Food in a Hotter, Drier Land
Gary Paul Nabhan

Ethnobotanist Gary Paul Nabhan recovers the drought-adapted farming traditions of the American Southwest — a toolkit that will matter increasingly as the climate shifts.

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Food & Farming
The Market Gardener's Toolkit
Jean-Martin Fortier

The companion to The Market Gardener — a focused, practical guide to the specific tools that make small-scale intensive growing possible.

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Food & Farming
The Omnivore's Dilemma
Michael Pollan

Michael Pollan traces four meals from source to table — and in doing so, rewires how you think about every bite you take.

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Food & Farming
Teaming with Microbes
Jeff Lowenfels & Wayne Lewis

The definitive guide to the soil food web — how it works, why it matters, and how gardeners can work with it rather than against it.

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Food & Farming
The Art of Fermentation
Sandor Katz

The definitive encyclopaedia of fermentation — every tradition, every food, every vessel — written by the man who brought fermentation back to the home kitchen.

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Food & Farming
The Market Gardener
Jean-Martin Fortier

How to grow a full-time income on 1.5 acres — Jean-Martin Fortier's practical guide to high-intensity, low-tech market gardening.

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Food & Farming
The Soil Will Save Us
Kristin Ohlson

Kristin Ohlson investigates the scientists and farmers who believe that restoring soil carbon could reverse climate change — and finds the science compelling.

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Food & Farming
The Third Plate
Dan Barber

The chef of Blue Hill at Stone Barns asks what food should look like when it's truly designed around the farm — not the other way around.

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Food & Farming
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
Barbara Kingsolver

Barbara Kingsolver's family spends a year eating only food they grow themselves or source locally — and writes one of the most beautiful food memoirs ever published.

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Food & Farming
Dirt to Soil
Gabe Brown

Gabe Brown's account of how he transformed a near-bankrupt North Dakota farm into a regenerative showcase — and the five principles that made it work.

🌾
Food & Farming
Farmers of Forty Centuries
F.H. King

An American agronomist travels through China, Korea, and Japan in 1909 and documents the farming systems that have sustained dense populations on small plots of land for four thousand years.

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Food & Farming
Growing a Revolution
David Montgomery

A geologist visits farms around the world and finds a revolution underway — farmers abandoning tillage and building soil through regenerative practices.

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Food & Farming
Growing Food in a Hotter, Drier Land
Gary Paul Nabhan

Ethnobotanist Gary Paul Nabhan recovers the drought-adapted farming traditions of the American Southwest — a toolkit that will matter increasingly as the climate shifts.

🛠️
Food & Farming
The Market Gardener's Toolkit
Jean-Martin Fortier

The companion to The Market Gardener — a focused, practical guide to the specific tools that make small-scale intensive growing possible.

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Food & Farming
The Omnivore's Dilemma
Michael Pollan

Michael Pollan traces four meals from source to table — and in doing so, rewires how you think about every bite you take.

🔬
Food & Farming
Teaming with Microbes
Jeff Lowenfels & Wayne Lewis

The definitive guide to the soil food web — how it works, why it matters, and how gardeners can work with it rather than against it.

🫙
Food & Farming
The Art of Fermentation
Sandor Katz

The definitive encyclopaedia of fermentation — every tradition, every food, every vessel — written by the man who brought fermentation back to the home kitchen.

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Food & Farming
The Market Gardener
Jean-Martin Fortier

How to grow a full-time income on 1.5 acres — Jean-Martin Fortier's practical guide to high-intensity, low-tech market gardening.

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Food & Farming
The Soil Will Save Us
Kristin Ohlson

Kristin Ohlson investigates the scientists and farmers who believe that restoring soil carbon could reverse climate change — and finds the science compelling.

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Food & Farming
The Third Plate
Dan Barber

The chef of Blue Hill at Stone Barns asks what food should look like when it's truly designed around the farm — not the other way around.

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Food & Farming
The One-Straw Revolution
Masanobu Fukuoka

A Japanese farmer's radical manifesto for doing less — and growing more — by working with nature rather than against it.

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Food & Farming
The One-Straw Revolution
Masanobu Fukuoka

A Japanese farmer's radical manifesto for doing less — and growing more — by working with nature rather than against it.