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Beyond the world of hands-on guides and reference books there are the expositions by our great thinkers. Settle back into a comfortable chair and dive into a book or two guaranteed to challenge and inspire.
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Eco-Philosophy:

The Organic Farming Manual
The know-how to prepare beginning farmers for organic food production or experienced farmers making the transition from traditional farming techniques.

The Sheer Ecstasy of Being A Lunatic Farmer
50 years of being a “lunatic” farmer, Joel Salatin has plenty of reflective and humorous stories to tell about his beloved Polyface Farm and in defense of a more localized, diversified food system -- ammunition to combat conventional farming naysayers.

Alcohol Fuel
A guide to small-scale ethanol production that looks at basic equipment needs, fermentation recipes and distillation designs for those wanting to make the switch from gasoline to this renewable fuel.

4 Newman Turner Classics
Four book set including Fertility Farming, Herdsmanship, Fertility Pastures and Cure Your Own Cattle.

A Beast of Muddy Brain
Drawing upon his own experiences of life in the American countryside of the 1930s and beyond, Charles Walters has crafted a new work of fiction that brings the message of Acres U.S.A. to life in a new way.

A Walk in the Sun
Travel diary exploring nature from Orient to Europe.

Lessons in Nature
Soil building, planting, growing, pest control.

Nature's Silent Music
Ireland's round towers, magic spots, relationship between the land & people.

Raw Materials Economics
Economic basics presented in understandable lessons.

Unforgiven
How America exchanged parity agriculture for debt and war.

Wir Wollen Deutsche Bleiben
History of Volga Germans that migrated from Russia.

Food Fight DVD
A fascinating look at the development of American agricultural policy and food culture and how a counter-revolution against big agribusiness was started.

A Perfect Harmony
Intertwining lives of animals & humans throughout history.

All Flesh Is Grass
The pleasures and promises of pasture farming.

Angels Don't Play This HAARP
U.S. Government's alarming use of Tesla technology.

Bringing It to the Table
An anthology of essays dealing with the farmer, farming, and food – written by a farmer with conviction and eloquence. Essential reading for people who care about what they eat.

Bug Busters
At a time when literally thousands of adults and children are treated yearly for pesticide mishaps, Bug Busters provides important information for anyone who is concerned with safe and intelligent pest control.

Chefs on the Farm
Discover why Quillisascut, a tiny goat-cheese farm named for a nearby creek, is at the forefront of a national movement known as 'sustainable food'.

Deeply Rooted
Three remarkable farmers share their surprising stories and give credence to the case that to correct what has gone wrong with our food system, we must first bring farmers back to the table.

Dirt, the Movie
DIRT! The Movie takes you inside the wonders of the soil. It tells the story of Earth's most valuable and underappreciated source of fertility--from its miraculous beginning to its crippling degradation.

Ecological Medicine
Healing the earth, healing ourselves

Farmer John's Cookbook
Stories, fresh insights and intriquing

Farmers of Forty Centuries
View of intensive cultivation that wastes nothing, conserves resources.

Fields That Dream
A Journey to the Roots of Our Food

Food, Inc.
How much do we really know about the food that we buy at our local supermarkets and feed to our families?

FOWL! Bird Flu: It's Not What You Think!
An investigative report on the health of migratory birds and chickens.

Fresh The Movie
Do you THINK about what your eat? If not, this movie will make you think twice about what you put in your mouth and where it comes from.

Genetic Roulette
This is the authentic book on genetic modification that the world has been waiting for. What has long been needed are the facts, the unvarnished details that provide the evidence to allow people to make up their own minds.

Genetically Engineered Food — A Self-Defense Guide
Identifying GE foods, where to shop, foods to avoid.

Gold in the Grass
Rehabilitation of a farm utilizing green manures.

Harvest
A year in the life of an organic farm.

Holistic Management
A process for stewardship decision-making.

Holy Cows and Hog Heaven
The food buyers guide to farm friendly food.


The Organic Farming Manual

Holy Cows and Hog Heaven (CASE)
The food buyers guide to farm friendly food.

Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money
Investing as if food, farms and fertility mattered.

King Corn DVD
King Corn is an award-winning feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation.

Management-Intensive Grazing
The grassroots of grass farming.

New Good Food
Consumers have never been more ready for a practical and well researched guide on organics, whole foods, and buying local. Offering one-stop advice, New Good Food is that book plus more.

Night Came to the Farms of the Great Plains
Documents the plight of the American farmer.

On Good Land
Autobiography of an urban farm.

Politically Incorrect Nutrition
Finding reality in the mire of food industry propaganda.

Radical Homemakers
Radical Homemakers shows how we can rebuild a life-serving, socially just and ecologically sustainable economy by casting aside a consumer culture and focusing our lives on family and community.

Renewing America's Food Traditions
Save and savor our endangered food diversity; recipes highlight histories of rare North American plants and animals.

Seeds of Deception
Exposes industry & government lies about the safety of genetically engineered foods.

Silent Spring
Revolutionary changes in laws for air, land, water.

Slam-Dunking Wal-Mart
How you can stop superstore sprawl in your hometown.

Small is Possible
Subtitled Life in a Local Economy this book paints a loving and evocative picture of a community where local needs meet with local resources.

Squeezed What You Don't Know About Orange Juice
Find out what 100% pure orange juice means today!

Sustainable Capitalism A Matter of Common Sense
In the past half century, U.S. society has mutated into an impersonal, mechanistic and exploitive capitalist economy according to the author.

The Farmer and the Grill
A Guide to Grilling, Barbecuing and Spit-Roasting Grassfed Meat and for saving the planet one bite at a time.

The Food of a Younger Land
A fascinating look at the role food plays in our history and culture from the days of the Great Depression. Featuring authentic recipes and many anecdotes.

The Future of Food DVD
An in-depth investigation into the truth behind unlabeled GMO products.

The Omnivore's Dilemma
As a culture we seem to have arrived at a place where whatever native wisdom we may once have possessed about eating has been replaced by confusion and anxiety.

The Raw Milk Revolution
This is a highly readable expose that successfully captures how the controversy over raw milk is at the center of a larger battle between the industrial food system and the local food movement.

The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved
Inside America's Underground Food Movement

The Secret Teachings of Plants
Learn the art of medicinal plant use.

The Transition Document
Subtitled, Toward a Biologically Resilient Agriculture, with insightful discussion on the research and discoveries of innovative people who have shaped the course of biologically resilient agriculture over the last 30 years.

The War on Bugs
Learn the secret history of pesticides and how the public has once again been duped by the government.

The Way of Ignorance
Wendell Berry, one of the country's foremost cultural critics, addresses the menance of our society, responding with hope and intelligence in this series of essays.

Tinkering with Eden
A natural history of exotics in America.

Toolbox for Sustainable City Living
More than a how-to manual, Toolbox is packed with accessible and relevant tools to help move our communities from envisioning a sustainable future toward living it.

Web of Debt
If there is one book, one newspaper, one blog, one article, that one should read to understand the current economic crisis, to understand the root of the problem, and to understand its solution, it is Web of Debt.

Where Our Food Comes From
Soaring food prices, shortages, and even riots are signals that we're facing serious limits to our capacity to feed the world. Nabhan retraces Vavilov's quest to end famine.











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