 Any Wendell Berry, especially:
Farming: A Handbook
Given (Our namesake book of poems)
The Long-Legged House (Be sure to get to the last three essays)
The Gift of Good Land
What Are People For?
Home Economics
Hannah Coulter
Jayber Crow
Remembering
The Unsettling of America
and just keep on going with the Wendell...but also try: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life, by Barbara Kingsolver Nourishing Traditions, by Sally Fallon
Simply in Season: (A World Community Cookbook), by Mary Beth Lind and Cathleen Hockman-Wert
Real Food, by Nina Planck
The New Organic Grower, by Eliot Coleman
The Omnivore's Dillema, by Michael Pollan
You Can Farm, by Joel Salatin
The Contrary Farmer, by Gene Logsdon
Links:
www.practicalfarmers.org : Practical Farmers of Iowa
www.landstewardshipproject.org : The Land Stewarship Project, MN
www.iowafreshfood.com : Northeast Iowa, Buy Fresh Buy Local
www.westonaprice.org : The Weston A. Price Foundation
www.mosesorganic.org : The Midwest Organic Sustainable Education Service |
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