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• The Chef's Garden

  a Modern Guide to Common and Unusual Vegetables--with Recipes

  Jones, Lee, 1961-

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  "An approachable, comprehensive guide to the modern world of vegetables from the leading grower of specialty vegetables in the country, with 115 recipes, brought to you by Farmer Lee Jones.

• We Are Each Other's Harvest

  Celebrating African American Farmers, Land, and Legacy

  Baszile, Natalie,

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  "In this impressive anthology, Natalie Baszile brings together essays, poems, photographs, quotes, conversations, and first-person stories to examine black people's connection to the American land from Emancipation to today. In the 1920s,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Call to Farms

  Reconnecting to Nature, Food, and Community in a Modern World

  Grayson, Jennifer,

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  "The rising movement of regenerative agriculture--a holistic approach to growing food that restores soil and biodiversity and could even reverse global warming--holds great promise for transforming our food system while reclaiming…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Grain by Grain

  a Quest to Revive Ancient Wheat, Rural Jobs, and Healthy Food

  Quinn, Bob, 1947-

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  "When Bob Quinn was a kid, a stranger at a county fair gave him a few kernels of an unusual grain. Little did he know, that grain would change his life. Years later, after finishing a PhD in plant biochemistry and returning to his family's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Bold Return to Giving a Damn

  One Farm, Six Generations, and the Future of Food

  Harris, Will, III,

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  "From a pioneer of the regenerative agriculture movement, a memoir-meets-manifesto on betting the farm on a better future for our food, animals, land, local communities, and our climate. Featured in Food and Country, premiering at Sundance…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Pig Years

  Gaydos, Ellyn,

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  "As a seasonal farmer in upstate New York and Vermont-living hand-to-mouth, but in love with the land and its creatures-Ellyn Gaydos understands the delicate balance between loss and gain. Choosing such work instead of moving to the city…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Many Hands Make a Farm

  47 Years of Questioning Authority, Feeding a Community, and Building An Organic Movement

  Kittredge, Jack, 1944-

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  "In this heartfelt and unflinching memoir, two activists recount the nearly half century they've spent questioning authority while raising a family, building a self-reliant community, starting an organic farm, leading a farming…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Wisdom of Sheep

  Observations From a Family Farm

  Young, Rosamund,

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  "A touching, wise and surprising chronicle of the rich inner lives of animals, drawn from Rosamund Young's extraordinary lifetime as an organic farmer We talk a lot about sheep: following the herd, counting sheep to fall asleep and looking…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Lost Flock

  Rare Wool, Wild Isles and One Woman's Journey to Save Scotland's Original Sheep

  Cooper, Jane (Sheep farmer),

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  "The Lost Flock is the story of the remarkable and rare little horned sheep, known as Orkney Boreray, and the wool-obsessed woman who moved to one of Scotland's wildest islands to save them. It was Jane Cooper's passion for knitting that…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Our Little Farm

  Adventures in Sustainable Living

  Wohlleben, Peter, 1964-

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  "Peter and Miriam moved from the city to a remote forest lodge in the early nineties. Amidst juggling careers and raising a young family, they learned how to plant and rotate crops, harvest and preserve nature's bounty, and tend to the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lentil Underground

  Renegade Farmers and the Future of Food in America

  Carlisle, Liz,

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  "Forty years ago, corporate agribusiness launched a campaign to push small grain farmers to modernize or perish, or as Nixon's secretary of agriculture Earl Butz put it, "get big or get out." But 27-year-old David Oien decided to take a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Farmer's Wife

  My Life in Days

  Rebanks, Helen,

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  "Helen Rebanks's beautifully written memoir takes place across a single day on her working farm in the Lake District of England. Weaving past and present, through a journey of self-discovery, the book takes us from the farmhouse table of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Little Bit of Land

  Gigot, Jessica,

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  "From midwifing new lambs to harvesting basil, Jessica Gigot invites the reader into her life on a small farm and the uncommon road that led her there. Fascinated by farming and the burgeoning local food movement, she spent her twenties…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Farm Life

  Observations From Fields and Forests

  Hoffstot, Daryln Brewer,

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  "Daryln Brewer Hoffstot has observed the fields and forests of her Pennsylvania farm for 35 years. Her essays explore animals, fungi, trees, and other aspects of the natural world. She is a keen observer who delights in sharing what she…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Vanishing Rural America

  Life Then and Now on a Small Farm : a Memoir

  Matzen, Deon,

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  "Adventures and misadventures moving to and growing up in a small farm town in western Washington State. Vignettes of country life in the 1950s until today. Stories about growing up with farm animals, growing gardens, dealing with…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Secret Harvests

  a Hidden Story of Separation and the Resilience of a Family Farm

  Masumoto, David Mas,

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  "A family separated by racism against Japanese Americans and the discrimination of people with developmental disabilities--reunited seventy years later, returning to their roots on a farm and bound by family secrets."

• The Tiny but Mighty Farm

  Cultivating High Yields, Community, and Self-sufficiency From a Home Farm

  Ragan, Jill,

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  "Discover how to turn a typical suburban property into a food-growing machine in The Tiny But Mighty Farm. Feed your family and maybe even turn a profit."

• Soil and Spirit

  Cultivation and Kinship in the Web of Life

  Chaskey, Scott,

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  "As a farmer with decades spent working in fields, Scott Chaskey has been shaped by daily attention to the earth. A leader in the international Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) movement, he has combined a longstanding commitment to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Farmer's Lawyer

  the North Dakota Nine and the Fight to Save the Family Farm

  Vogel, Sarah,

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  "In the early 1980s, farmers were suffering through the worst economic crisis to hit rural America since the Great Depression. Land prices were down, operating costs and interest rates were up, and severe weather devastated crops. Instead…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Farmer's Son

  Calving Season on a Family Farm

  Connell, John, 1986-

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  "For fans of The Shepherd's Life, a poignant memoir -- and #1 Irish bestseller -- about a wayward son's return home to his family's farm, and how he found a new beginning in an age-old world Farming has been in John Connell's family for…Read moreRead more of this annotation