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Books on Ecological Agriculture

New Agriculture Books

The Farm as Natural Habitat: Reconnecting Food Systems with Ecosystems

Jackson, Dana L., Island Press, 2002, paperback

Fatal Harvest: The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture

Kimbrell, Andrew, Island Press, 2002, paperback

Books on Permaculture

Biodynamic Agriculture

Schilthuis, Willy, Anthroposophic Press, 1994, paperback

Bring Back the Buffalo!: A Sustainable Future for America's Great Plains

Callenbach, Ernest, University of California Press, 2000, paperback

The Cycle of the Year as Breathing Process of the Earth:

Steiner, Rudolf, Anthroposophic Press, 1984,

Earth User's Guide to Permaculture:

Morrow, Rosemary, Simon & Schuster Books, 2000, paperback

The Farm as Natural Habitat: Reconnecting Food Systems with Ecosystems

Jackson, Dana L., Island Press, 2002, paperback

Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture

Hemenway, Toby, Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 2001, paperback

Hepburn Permaculture Gardens: Ten Years of Sustainable Living

Holmgren, David, Aatec Publications, 2002, paperback

Permaculture in a Nutshell:

Whitefield, Patrick, Permanent Publications, 2000, paperback

Books on Ecological Agriculture

Altars of Unhewn Stone: Science and the Earth by Wes Jackson

Shows how recent scientific findings support traditional attitudes about farming.

Another Turn of the Crank by Wendell Berry

Addresses the value of communities and the ways in which we can strengthen them.

Becoming Native to this Place by Wes Jackson

Lays the foundation for a new farming economy grounded in ecological principles.

Biopiracy by Vandana Shiva

A learned, clear and passionately stated objection to the ways in which Western businesses expropriate natural processes and traditional knowledge.

Bring Back the Buffalo! by Ernest Callenbach

Outlines the benefits that would result from replacing cattle with buffalo on the Great Plains.

The Desert Smells Like Rain by Gary Paul Nabhan

Portrays the desert-adapted way of life of the Papago Indians.

Enduring Seeds: Native American Agriculture and Wild Plant Conservation by Gary Paul Nabhan

Describes the precarious survival of Native American plants.

Forest Gardening by Robert Hart

Describes the benefits of agroforestry and explains how to create a forest garden.

The Forgotten Pollinators by Stephen L. Buchmann and Gary Paul Nabhan

Explores the vital relationships between plants and the animals and shows how plant-pollinator relationships are threatened by destruction of ecosystems.

The Gift of Good Land by Wendell Berry

Describes traditional agricultural practices in the highlands of Peru, the deserts of southern Arizona, and Amish Ohio.

Home Economics by Wendell Berry

An indictment of our present economic system and the foolish squandering of resources that it fosters.

Oranges by John McPhee

Discusses orange farming.

Shattering: Food, Politics, and the Loss of Genetic Diversity by Cary Fowler and Pat Mooney

Addresses the political aspects of modern agricultural techniques.

Tough Choices: Facing the Challenge of Food Scarcity by Lester R. Brown

Presents unsettling facts and figures showing that we are entering a new era of food scarcity.

The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture by Wendell Berry

Argues that today's agribusiness takes farming out of its cultural context, and is destructive to the lives of farmers and to our culture as a whole.

Books on Organic Agriculture

The New Organic Grower: A Master's Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market Gardener

Coleman, Eliot, Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 1995, paperback

Successful Small-Scale Farming: An Organic Approach

Schwenke, Karl, Storey Books, 1991, paperback

Straight-Ahead Organic: A Step-By-Step Guide to Growing Great Vegetables in a Less-Than-Perfect World

Ogden, Shepherd, Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 1999, paperback

Books on Soil

Fatal Harvest: The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture

Kimbrell, Andrew, Island Press, 2002, paperback

The Fertile Earth

Schauberger, Viktor, Gateway, 2001, paperback

Local Agriculture

Coming Home to Eat: The Pleasures and Politics of Local Foods

Nabhan, Gary Paul, W. W. Norton & Company, 2002, paperback

Coming Home to Eat: The Pleasures and Politics of Local Foods

Nabhan, Gary Paul, W. W. Norton & Company, 2001, hardcover

Slow Food: Collected Thoughts on Taste, Tradition, and the Honest Pleasures of Food

Petrini, Carlo, Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 2001, paperback

Local Flavors: Cooking & Eating from America's Farmers' Markets

Madison, Deborah, Broadway Books, 2002, hardcover

Bringing the Food Economy Home: Local Alternatives to Global Agribusiness

Norberg-Hodge, Helena, Zed Books Ltd., 2002, paperback

Local Flavors: Cooking & Eating from America's Farmers' Markets

Madison, Deborah, Broadway Books, 2002, hardcover

Books on Community Supported Agriculture

Farms of Tomorrow Revisited: Community Supported Farms, Farm Supported Communities

Groh, Trauger M., Bio-Dynamic Farming & Gardening Association, Incorporated, 1998, paperback

Sharing the Harvest: A Guide to Community Supported Agriculture

Henderson, Elizabeth, Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 1999, paperback

Books on the Culture of Farming

Cultures in Habitat: On Nature, Culture, and Story

Nabhan, Gary Paul, Treasure Chest Books, 1998, paperback

Another Turn of the Crank

Berry, Wendell, Counterpoint Press, 1996, paperback

Farming, a Hand Book:

Berry, Wendell, Harcourt, 1971

I'll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition

Rubin, Louis D., Louisiana State University Press, 1977, paperback

Living at Nature's Pace: Farming and the American Dream

Logsdon, Gene, Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 2000, paperback

Books on Agricultural Politics

The Greening of the Revolution: Cuba's Experiment with Organic Farming

Rosset, Peter, Ocean Press (AU), 1995, paperback

Hungry for Profit: The Agribusiness Threat to Farmers, Food, and the Environment.

Magdoff, Fred, New York University Press, 1999, paperback

A New Green Revolution for Africa?: Myths and Realities of Agriculture, Technology and Development

Rosset, Peter, Food First, 2002

The Next Green Revolution:

Horne, James E., Haworth Press, 2002, paperback

From the Ground Up: Rethinking Industrial Agriculture

Norberg-Hodge, Helena, Zed Books Ltd., 2001, paperback

The Doubly Green Revolution: Food for All in the Twenty-First Century

Conway, Gordon, Cornell University Press, 1999, paperback

Feeding the Ten Billion: Plants and Population Growth

Evans, L. T., Cambridge University Press, 1999, paperback

Food for the Future

Tudge, Colin, Dorling Kindersley Publishing, 2002, paperback

Food's Frontier: The Next Green Revolution

Manning, Richard, University of California Press, 2001, paperback

Full House: Reassessing the Earth's Population Carrying Capacity

Brown, Lester R., W. W. Norton & Company, 1994

Full House: Reassessing the Earth's Population Carrying Capacity

Brown, Lester R., W. W. Norton & Company, 1994

Home Economics: Fourteen Essays

Berry, Wendell, North Point Press, 1987, paperback

Books on Agricultural History

The Emergence of Agriculture:

Smith, Bruce D., W.H. Freeman & Company, 1998

Enriching the Earth: Fritz Haber, Carl Bosch, and the Transformation of World Food Production

Smil, Vaclav, MIT Press, 2001, hardcover

Books on Native Agriculture

Enduring Seeds: Native American Agriculture and Wild Plant Conservation

Nabhan, Gary Paul, University of Arizona Press, 2002, paperback

Agricultural Toxics

Fatal Harvest: The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture

Kimbrell, Andrew, Island Press, 2002, paperback

Fateful Harvest: The True Story of a Small Town, a Global Industry, and a Toxic Secret

Wilson, Duff, HarperCollins Publishers, 2001, hardcover

Death of Ramon Gonzalez: The Modern Agricultural Dilemma

Wright, Angus, University of Texas Press, 1992, paperback

A Green and Permanent Land: Ecology and Agriculture in the Twentieth Century

Beeman, Randal S., University Press of Kansas, 2001, hardcover

The Hemp Manifesto: 108 Ways That Hemp Can Save Our World

Robinson, Rowan, Inner Traditions International, 1997, paperback

Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge

Shiva, Vandana, South End Press, 1997, paperback

The Doubly Green Revolution: Food for All in the Twenty-First Century

Conway, Gordon, Cornell University Press, 1999, paperback

The Earth Manual: How to Work on Wild Land Without Taming It (Rev)

Margolin, Malcolm, Heyday Books, 1985, paperback

Earth User's Guide to Permaculture:

Morrow, Rosemary, Simon & Schuster Books, 2000, paperback

Earth from Above

Arthus-Bertrand, Yann, Harry N. Abrams, 1999

Against the Grain: Biotechnology and the Corporate Takeover of Your Food

Lappe, Marc, Common Courage Press, 1998, paperback

How Many People Can the Earth Support?:

Cohen, Joel E., W. W. Norton & Company, 1996, paperback

Lords of the Harvest: Biotech, Big Money, and the Future of Food

Charles, Daniel, Perseus Books Group, 2001, hardcover

Monocultures of the Mind: Perspectives on Biodiversity and Biotechnology

Shiva, Vandana, Palgrave MacMillan, 1993, paperback

The Ecological Risks of Engineered Crops:

Rissler, Jane, MIT Press, 1996, paperback

Permaculture
Organic Agriculture
Agricultural History
Soil
Food Politics
Agricultural Toxics
Genetic Engineering
Community-supported Agriculture
Local Agriculture
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