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R. Janke
Appendix: Recommended Reading
All of these categories contain partial lists of books that have been published on these topics. In addition, see the Notes sections of the chapters, and the National Agriculture Library lists of sustainable books in print. Exclusion of a particular book or author is not intentional, but simply due to lack of space.
Early writers and influence (pre1980):
Farmers of Forty Centuries, F.H. King, 1911, Harcourt, Brace Agriculture.
A Course of Eight Lectures, Rudolf Steiner, 1924 An Agricultural Testament, Sir Albert Howard, 1940, Oxford University Press
The Living Soil, Lady Evelyn Balfour, 1943, Faber and Faber
Plowman’s Folly, E.H. Faulkner, 1943, Grossett and Dunlap
Pay Dirt: Farming and Gardening with Composts, J.I. Rodale, 1945, Devin Adair Co.
Malabar Farm, Louis Bromfield, 1947, Harper
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There, Aldo Leopold, 1949, Oxford University Press
Silent Spring, Rachel Carson, 1962.
Living the Good Life, Helen (and Scott) Nearing, 1970.
The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture, by Wendell Berry. 1977. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books. (also author of numerous books since then, this is his classic).
International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM), 1st Conference Proceedings: Toward a Sustainable Agriculture.” 1978. J.M. Besson and H. Vogtmann, eds.
Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times, Jim Hightower, 1978, Transaction Publishers
How to Grow More Vegetables Than You ever Thought Possible on Less Land Than You Can Imagine, J. Jeavons, 1979
New Roots for Agriculture, Wes Jackson, 1980, Univ. Nebraska Press.
Books written by farmers or from their point of view:
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle – A year of food life. By Barbara Kingsolver. Harper Collins, 2007
Women of the Harvest – Inspiring storied of contemporary Farmers, by Holly L. Bollinger and Cathy Phillips. Voyageur Press, 2007
This Common Ground: Seasons on an Organic Farm, by Scott Chaskey. 2005. Viking Press.
Fields of Plenty: A Farmer’s Journey in Search of Real Food and the People Who Grow It, byMichael Ableman, 2005. Chronicle Books. (previous books by Ableman also include On Good Land: The Autobiography of an Urban Farm, 1998, and From the Good Earth: A Celebration of Growing Food Around the World, 1993.
Harvest: A Year in the Life of an Organic Farm, by Nicole Smith and Goeff Hansen, 2004. The Lyons Press. (about their neighbors in Vermont)
Four Seasons in Five Senses: Things Worth Savoring, by David Masumoto. 2004. W.W. Norton and Company. (previous books by Masumoto also include: Letter to the Valley: A Harvest of Memories, 2004, Harvest Son: Planting Roots in American Soil, 1999, and Epitaph for a Peach: Four Seasons on My Family Farm, 1996.)
Clearing Land – Legacies of the American Farm, by Jane Brox. 2004. North Point Press.
Micro EcoFarming – Prospering from Backyard to Small Acreage in Partnership with the Earth. By Barbara Adams, 2004. New World Publishing.
Fields Without Dreams: Defending the Agrarian Ideal, by Victor Davis Hanson. 1997. Free Press. (California farmer)
The Contrary Farmer, by Gene Logsdon. 1995. Chelsea Green.
The Orchard – a Memoir. 1995. by Adele Crockett Robertson. Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt & Company, Inc. NY. (about a woman trying to save the family orchard from 1932-1934, near Ipswich, MA).
Future Harvest: Pesticide-free Farming, by Jim Bender. 1994. University of Nebraska Press. (organic grain farmer in Nebraska)
The Farming Game, by Bryan Jones. 1987. Ballantine Books.
The Natural Way of Farming: the Theory and Practice of Green Philosophy. Masanobu Fukuoka, 1985, Japan Publications
Books about dangers/politics in the food system (a small sample):
The Omnivores’ Dilemma – a natural history of four meals, by Michael Pollen, Penguin 2007 (paperback version)
Raising Less Corn, More Hell, by George Pyle, 2005. Public Affairs.
Diet for a Dead Planet – How the Food Industry is Killing Us, by Christopher Cook. 2004. The New Press.
Fatal Harvest, by Andrew Kimbrell, 2002, Island Press
Food Politics, by Marion Nestle. 2002. University of California Press Fast Food Nation – the Dark Side of the All American Meal, by Eric Schlosser,2001. Houghton Mifflin Company.
Hungry for Profit – The Agribusiness Threat to Farmers, Food, and the Environment, Ed. By Fred Magdoff, John Bellamy Foster, and Frederick H. Buttel. 2000. Monthly Review Press.
Mad Cowboy – Plain Truth from the Cattle Rancher who Won’t Eat Meat, by Howard Lyman, with Glen Merzer. 1998. Scribner.
Books that are hopeful, or present a plan:
Blessed Unrest – How the largest movement in the world came into being and why no one saw it coming, by Paul Hawken, Viking, 2007
Good Growing – Why Organic Farming Works. By Leslie Duram. 2005. University of Nebraska Press. (includes interviews with 5 farmers)
Agrarian Dreams – the Paradox of Organic Farming in California, by Julie Guthman,2004, University of California Press.
Women and Sustainable Agriculture—Interviews with 14 Agents of Change. 2004. Anna Anderson. McFarland and Company.
Rural Renaissance: Renewing the Quest for the Good Life, by John Ivanko and Lisa Kivirist. 2004. New Society Publishers.
Eat Here – Reclaiming Homegrown Pleasures in a Global Supermarket, by Brian Halweil, 2004. W.W. Norton & Company.
Ecoagriculture: Strategies to Feed the World and Save Wild Biodiversity, by Jeffrey McNeely and Sara Scherr. 2002. Island Press.
Farm as Natural Habitat, by Laura Jackson and Dana Jackson. 2002, Island Press.
New Agrarianism – Land, Culture, and the Community of Life, by Eric T. Freyfogle, 2001 Island Press.
French Fries and the Food System – A Year-round Curriculum Connecting Youth with Farming and Food, by Sara Coblyn and the Food Project Community, 2000, The Food Project.
Other books that could be used as text books in sustainable agriculture classes
Agroecology – The ecology of sustainable food systems, 2nd. Ed. By Stephen R. Gliessman, CRC Press, 2007
Developing and Extending Sustainable Agriculture – a new social contract. Charles A. Francis, Raymond P. Poincelot and George W. Bird, Editors. Haworth Food & Agriculture Products Press, 2006
Science-Based Organic Farming 2006: Toward Local and Secure Food Systems, Charles Francis, Katja Koehler-Cole, Twyla Hansen, Peter Skelton, Eds. University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension Division, Center for Applied Rural Innovation. Published on-line at: www.cari.unl.edu/
Teaching Organic Farming & Gardening: Resources for Instructors, UC Santa Cruz Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems. 2003. http://casfs.ucsc.edu/education/instruction/tofg/index.html#order
The Next Green Revolution – Essential steps to a healthy, Sustainable Agriculture. By James E. Horne and Maura McDermott, Food Products Press, 2001
Agroecology; the Science of Sustainable Agriculture. Miguel Altieri. 1995. Westview Press, 2nd ed..
Introduction to Permaculture, By Bill Mollison, 1991, Tagari Publications, Australia.
Sustainable Agriculture in the Temperate Zones, Charles A. Francis, Cornelia Butler Flora and Larry D. King, Editors. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1990.
R. Janke
Appendix: Recommended Reading
All of these categories contain partial lists of books that have been published on these topics. In addition, see the Notes sections of the chapters, and the National Agriculture Library lists of sustainable books in print. Exclusion of a particular book or author is not intentional, but simply due to lack of space.
Early writers and influence (pre1980):
Farmers of Forty Centuries, F.H. King, 1911, Harcourt, Brace Agriculture.
A Course of Eight Lectures, Rudolf Steiner, 1924 An Agricultural Testament, Sir Albert Howard, 1940, Oxford University Press
The Living Soil, Lady Evelyn Balfour, 1943, Faber and Faber
Plowman’s Folly, E.H. Faulkner, 1943, Grossett and Dunlap
Pay Dirt: Farming and Gardening with Composts, J.I. Rodale, 1945, Devin Adair Co.
Malabar Farm, Louis Bromfield, 1947, Harper
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There, Aldo Leopold, 1949, Oxford University Press
Silent Spring, Rachel Carson, 1962.
Living the Good Life, Helen (and Scott) Nearing, 1970.
The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture, by Wendell Berry. 1977. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books. (also author of numerous books since then, this is his classic).
International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM), 1st Conference Proceedings: Toward a Sustainable Agriculture.” 1978. J.M. Besson and H. Vogtmann, eds.
Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times, Jim Hightower, 1978, Transaction Publishers
How to Grow More Vegetables Than You ever Thought Possible on Less Land Than You Can Imagine, J. Jeavons, 1979
New Roots for Agriculture, Wes Jackson, 1980, Univ. Nebraska Press.
Books written by farmers or from their point of view:
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle – A year of food life. By Barbara Kingsolver. Harper Collins, 2007
Women of the Harvest – Inspiring storied of contemporary Farmers, by Holly L. Bollinger and Cathy Phillips. Voyageur Press, 2007
This Common Ground: Seasons on an Organic Farm, by Scott Chaskey. 2005. Viking Press.
Fields of Plenty: A Farmer’s Journey in Search of Real Food and the People Who Grow It, byMichael Ableman, 2005. Chronicle Books. (previous books by Ableman also include On Good Land: The Autobiography of an Urban Farm, 1998, and From the Good Earth: A Celebration of Growing Food Around the World, 1993.
Harvest: A Year in the Life of an Organic Farm, by Nicole Smith and Goeff Hansen, 2004. The Lyons Press. (about their neighbors in Vermont)
Four Seasons in Five Senses: Things Worth Savoring, by David Masumoto. 2004. W.W. Norton and Company. (previous books by Masumoto also include: Letter to the Valley: A Harvest of Memories, 2004, Harvest Son: Planting Roots in American Soil, 1999, and Epitaph for a Peach: Four Seasons on My Family Farm, 1996.)
Clearing Land – Legacies of the American Farm, by Jane Brox. 2004. North Point Press.
Micro EcoFarming – Prospering from Backyard to Small Acreage in Partnership with the Earth. By Barbara Adams, 2004. New World Publishing.
Fields Without Dreams: Defending the Agrarian Ideal, by Victor Davis Hanson. 1997. Free Press. (California farmer)
The Contrary Farmer, by Gene Logsdon. 1995. Chelsea Green.
The Orchard – a Memoir. 1995. by Adele Crockett Robertson. Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt & Company, Inc. NY. (about a woman trying to save the family orchard from 1932-1934, near Ipswich, MA).
Future Harvest: Pesticide-free Farming, by Jim Bender. 1994. University of Nebraska Press. (organic grain farmer in Nebraska)
The Farming Game, by Bryan Jones. 1987. Ballantine Books.
The Natural Way of Farming: the Theory and Practice of Green Philosophy. Masanobu Fukuoka, 1985, Japan Publications
Books about dangers/politics in the food system (a small sample):
The Omnivores’ Dilemma – a natural history of four meals, by Michael Pollen, Penguin 2007 (paperback version)
Raising Less Corn, More Hell, by George Pyle, 2005. Public Affairs.
Diet for a Dead Planet – How the Food Industry is Killing Us, by Christopher Cook. 2004. The New Press.
Fatal Harvest, by Andrew Kimbrell, 2002, Island Press
Food Politics, by Marion Nestle. 2002. University of California Press Fast Food Nation – the Dark Side of the All American Meal, by Eric Schlosser,2001. Houghton Mifflin Company.
Hungry for Profit – The Agribusiness Threat to Farmers, Food, and the Environment, Ed. By Fred Magdoff, John Bellamy Foster, and Frederick H. Buttel. 2000. Monthly Review Press.
Mad Cowboy – Plain Truth from the Cattle Rancher who Won’t Eat Meat, by Howard Lyman, with Glen Merzer. 1998. Scribner.
Books that are hopeful, or present a plan:
Blessed Unrest – How the largest movement in the world came into being and why no one saw it coming, by Paul Hawken, Viking, 2007
Good Growing – Why Organic Farming Works. By Leslie Duram. 2005. University of Nebraska Press. (includes interviews with 5 farmers)
Agrarian Dreams – the Paradox of Organic Farming in California, by Julie Guthman,2004, University of California Press.
Women and Sustainable Agriculture—Interviews with 14 Agents of Change. 2004. Anna Anderson. McFarland and Company.
Rural Renaissance: Renewing the Quest for the Good Life, by John Ivanko and Lisa Kivirist. 2004. New Society Publishers.
Eat Here – Reclaiming Homegrown Pleasures in a Global Supermarket, by Brian Halweil, 2004. W.W. Norton & Company.
Ecoagriculture: Strategies to Feed the World and Save Wild Biodiversity, by Jeffrey McNeely and Sara Scherr. 2002. Island Press.
Farm as Natural Habitat, by Laura Jackson and Dana Jackson. 2002, Island Press.
New Agrarianism – Land, Culture, and the Community of Life, by Eric T. Freyfogle, 2001 Island Press.
French Fries and the Food System – A Year-round Curriculum Connecting Youth with Farming and Food, by Sara Coblyn and the Food Project Community, 2000, The Food Project.
Other books that could be used as text books in sustainable agriculture classes
Agroecology – The ecology of sustainable food systems, 2nd. Ed. By Stephen R. Gliessman, CRC Press, 2007
Developing and Extending Sustainable Agriculture – a new social contract. Charles A. Francis, Raymond P. Poincelot and George W. Bird, Editors. Haworth Food & Agriculture Products Press, 2006
Science-Based Organic Farming 2006: Toward Local and Secure Food Systems, Charles Francis, Katja Koehler-Cole, Twyla Hansen, Peter Skelton, Eds. University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension Division, Center for Applied Rural Innovation. Published on-line at: www.cari.unl.edu/
Teaching Organic Farming & Gardening: Resources for Instructors, UC Santa Cruz Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems. 2003. http://casfs.ucsc.edu/education/instruction/tofg/index.html#order
The Next Green Revolution – Essential steps to a healthy, Sustainable Agriculture. By James E. Horne and Maura McDermott, Food Products Press, 2001
Agroecology; the Science of Sustainable Agriculture. Miguel Altieri. 1995. Westview Press, 2nd ed..
Introduction to Permaculture, By Bill Mollison, 1991, Tagari Publications, Australia.
Sustainable Agriculture in the Temperate Zones, Charles A. Francis, Cornelia Butler Flora and Larry D. King, Editors. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1990.
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