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Agriculture

Agriculture, also called farming or husbandry, is the cultivation of animals, plants, fungi, and other life forms for food, fiber, biofuel, medicinals and other products used to sustain and enhance human life.

Diddly Squat: A Year on the Farm (Diddly Squat, #1)
The Farmer's Wife: My Life in Days
Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey
Diddly Squat: ‘Til The Cows Come Home
We Are What We Eat: A Slow Food Manifesto
Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry
Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal: A Food Science Nutrition History Book
The Scientist and the Spy: A True Story of China, the FBI, and Industrial Espionage
Under the Henfluence: Inside the World of Backyard Chickens and the People Who Love Them
Salmon: A Fish, the Earth, and the History of a Common Fate
Sacred Cow: The Case for (Better) Meat: Why Well-Raised Meat Is Good for You and Good for the Planet
Ten Tomatoes that Changed the World: A History
Through the Groves: A Memoir
Thank a Farmer
Food Fix: How to Save Our Health, Our Economy, Our Communities, and Our Planet-One Bite at a Time
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
The One-Straw Revolution
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
Restoration Agriculture
Dirt to Soil: One Family's Journey Into Regenerative Agriculture
Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
You Can Farm: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Start & Succeed in a Farming Enterprise
Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations
Bringing it to the Table: On Farming and Food
Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life
The Market Gardener: A Handbook for Successful Small-Scale Organic Farming
Folks, This Ain't Normal: A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World

Masanobu Fukuoka
Food and medicine are not two different things: they are the front and back of one body. Chemically grown vegetables may be eaten for food, but they cannot be used as medicine.
Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution

In our day, there are stresses and fractures of the human-animal bond, and some forces at work would sever it once and for all. They pull us in the wrong direction and away from the decent and honorable code that makes us care for creatures who are entirely at our mercy. Especially within the last two hundred years, we've come to apply an industrial mind-set to the use of animals, too often viewing them as if they were nothing but articles of commerce and the raw material of science, agriculture ...more
Wayne Pacelle, The Bond: Our Kinship with Animals, Our Call to Defend Them

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