Recommended Reading
There are many places to go to find information on sustainable agriculture. Below is a list of resources that you might find useful.
Community Supported Agriculture
- Sharing the Harvest by Elizabeth Henderson with Robyn Van En. 1999. Chelsea Green.
- Farms of Tomorrow Revisited by Steven McFadden and Trauger Groh. 1997. Biodynamic Association, Kimberton, PA.
Ethics and Philosophy of Sustainable Agriculture
- The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture or any other book of essays by Wendell Berry.
- The Botany of Desire (2002), The Omnivore’s Dilemma (2006), and In Defense of Food (2008), by Michael Pollan.
- Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life, by Barbara Kingsolver. 2007. Harper Collins.
- Fatal Harvest: The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture, edited by Andrew Kimbrell. 2002. Foundation for Deep Ecology.
Organic Farming and Gardening Techniques
- The New Organic Grower by Eliot Coleman. 1995. Second Edition. Chelsea Green.
- How to Grow More Vegetables by John Jeavons. 1995. Fifth Edition. Ten Speed Press.
- Rodale’s Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening, Rodale Press.