🌿 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 categoryThe 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.
The companion book to the PBS television series — a thorough, encouraging guide to organic gardening for the serious home grower.
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.
The companion book to the PBS television series — a thorough, encouraging guide to organic gardening for the serious home grower.
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.
The classic guide to year-round vegetable growing for the home gardener — Coleman's most accessible book and still his most widely read.
The best introductory guide to home-scale permaculture — how to design a garden that feeds itself, feeds you, and gets richer every year.
A Wisconsin farmer's radical vision: replace annual grain agriculture with perennial polyculture systems that mimic the natural ecosystems they replace.
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.
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.
The business case for urban market gardening — how to build a profitable vegetable farm on rented city lots using intensive methods.
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.
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.
The classic guide to year-round vegetable growing for the home gardener — Coleman's most accessible book and still his most widely read.
The best introductory guide to home-scale permaculture — how to design a garden that feeds itself, feeds you, and gets richer every year.
A Wisconsin farmer's radical vision: replace annual grain agriculture with perennial polyculture systems that mimic the natural ecosystems they replace.
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.
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.
The business case for urban market gardening — how to build a profitable vegetable farm on rented city lots using intensive methods.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A geologist visits farms around the world and finds a revolution underway — farmers abandoning tillage and building soil through regenerative practices.
Ethnobotanist Gary Paul Nabhan recovers the drought-adapted farming traditions of the American Southwest — a toolkit that will matter increasingly as the climate shifts.
The companion to The Market Gardener — a focused, practical guide to the specific tools that make small-scale intensive growing possible.
Michael Pollan traces four meals from source to table — and in doing so, rewires how you think about every bite you take.
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.
The definitive encyclopaedia of fermentation — every tradition, every food, every vessel — written by the man who brought fermentation back to the home kitchen.
How to grow a full-time income on 1.5 acres — Jean-Martin Fortier's practical guide to high-intensity, low-tech market gardening.
Kristin Ohlson investigates the scientists and farmers who believe that restoring soil carbon could reverse climate change — and finds the science compelling.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A geologist visits farms around the world and finds a revolution underway — farmers abandoning tillage and building soil through regenerative practices.
Ethnobotanist Gary Paul Nabhan recovers the drought-adapted farming traditions of the American Southwest — a toolkit that will matter increasingly as the climate shifts.
The companion to The Market Gardener — a focused, practical guide to the specific tools that make small-scale intensive growing possible.
Michael Pollan traces four meals from source to table — and in doing so, rewires how you think about every bite you take.
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.
The definitive encyclopaedia of fermentation — every tradition, every food, every vessel — written by the man who brought fermentation back to the home kitchen.
How to grow a full-time income on 1.5 acres — Jean-Martin Fortier's practical guide to high-intensity, low-tech market gardening.
Kristin Ohlson investigates the scientists and farmers who believe that restoring soil carbon could reverse climate change — and finds the science compelling.
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.
A Japanese farmer's radical manifesto for doing less — and growing more — by working with nature rather than against it.
A Japanese farmer's radical manifesto for doing less — and growing more — by working with nature rather than against it.