There are so many good books to read about Food, agriculture, and sustainability that it would be impossible to list them all. Here’s a list of the ones we’ve found most inspirational, or useful as references.
Philosophy
- The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture, Wendell Berry
- The One-Straw Revolution, Masanobu Fukuoka
Farming and Agribusiness
- How to Grow More Vegetables, John Jeavons
- The Organic Farmer’s Business Handbook, Richard Wiswall
- You Can Farm, Joel Salatin
- Sharing the Harvest: A Citizens Guide to Community Supported Agriculture, Elizabeth Henderson & Robyn Van En
Food, Health, & Nutrition
- The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, Michael Pollan
- Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal, Eric Schlosser
Movies (for those of you with only 2 hours of attention span)
- Food, Inc. (2008)
- Super Size Me (2004)
- The Real Dirt on Farmer John (2005)
- King Corn (2007)
- Vanishing of the Bees (2009)