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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 143 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.19 � 207,982 ratings � published 2006
The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.34 � 6,306 ratings � published 1977
The One-Straw Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.34 � 8,785 ratings � published 1975
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 73 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.05 � 111,771 ratings � published 2007
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 66 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.06 � 58,121 ratings � published 2001
Restoration Agriculture (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.29 � 1,277 ratings � published 2013
Dirt to Soil: One Family's Journey Into Regenerative Agriculture (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.46 � 2,179 ratings � published
Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as agriculture)
avg rating 3.95 � 4,475 ratings � published 2011
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.07 � 118,035 ratings � published 2008
You Can Farm: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Start & Succeed in a Farming Enterprise (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.31 � 1,720 ratings � published 1998
Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.04 � 1,537 ratings � published 2007
Bringing it to the Table: On Farming and Food (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.18 � 2,007 ratings � published 2009
Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.36 � 851 ratings � published 2017
The Market Gardener: A Handbook for Successful Small-Scale Organic Farming (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.49 � 1,475 ratings � published 2014
Folks, This Ain't Normal: A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.20 � 4,484 ratings � published 2011
Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.19 � 1,985 ratings � published 2007
The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food, and Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.08 � 17,911 ratings � published 2010
The Soil Will Save Us: How Scientists, Farmers, and Foodies Are Healing the Soil to Save the Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.15 � 1,393 ratings � published 2014
Permaculture: A Designers' Manual (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.49 � 1,713 ratings � published 1988
Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as agriculture)
avg rating 3.97 � 10,310 ratings � published 2009
Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.41 � 4,856 ratings � published 2001
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.04 � 438,020 ratings � published 1997
Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.30 � 2,293 ratings � published 1990
The New Organic Grower: A Master's Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market Gardener (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.42 � 1,270 ratings � published 1989
Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.42 � 7,172 ratings � published 2020
Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.40 � 3,125 ratings � published 2022
The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.28 � 7,127 ratings � published 2014
Eating Animals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.21 � 79,594 ratings � published 2009
The Resilient Farm and Homestead: An Innovative Permaculture and Whole Systems Design Approach (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.36 � 780 ratings � published 2013
Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.21 � 1,769 ratings � published 1995
Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.10 � 1,158 ratings � published 2000
Farmers of Forty Centuries: Organic Farming in China, Korea, and Japan (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.06 � 212 ratings � published
Stuffed and Starved: Markets, Power and the Hidden Battle for the World Food System (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as agriculture)
avg rating 3.93 � 2,544 ratings � published 2007
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.12 � 4,455 ratings � published 2017
Against the Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as agriculture)
avg rating 3.98 � 437 ratings � published 2004
Introduction to Permaculture (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.35 � 1,239 ratings � published 1991
How to Grow More Vegetables: And Fruits, Nuts, Berries, Grains and Other Crops Than You Ever Thought Possible on Less Land Than You Can Imagine (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.08 � 1,708 ratings � published 1979
The Contrary Farmer (Real Goods Independent Living Book)
by (shelved 20 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.23 � 587 ratings � published 1994
Call of the Reed Warbler: A New Agriculture A New Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.31 � 600 ratings � published 2017
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as agriculture)
avg rating 3.75 � 206,069 ratings � published 2001
The Lean Farm: How to Minimize Waste, Increase Efficiency, and Maximize Value and Profits with Less Work (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 18 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.25 � 399 ratings � published 2015
The Urban Farmer: Growing Food for Profit on Leased and Borrowed Land (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.25 � 444 ratings � published 2015
Who Really Feeds the World? The Failures of Agribusiness and the Promise of Agroecology (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as agriculture)
avg rating 3.95 � 407 ratings � published 2015
Sowing Seeds in the Desert: Natural Farming, Global Restoration, and Ultimate Food Security (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.35 � 705 ratings � published 2012
Edible Forest Gardens, Vol. 1: Ecological Vision and Theory for Temperate Climate Permaculture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.47 � 663 ratings � published 2005
The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.36 � 1,930 ratings � published 2002
For the Love of Soil: Strategies to Regenerate Our Food Production Systems (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 17 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.34 � 300 ratings � published
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.52 � 149,738 ratings � published 2013
Teaming with Microbes: A Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.40 � 1,755 ratings � published 2006
Silent Spring (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as agriculture)
avg rating 4.05 � 52,065 ratings � published 1962
“All the human and animal manure which the world wastes, if returned to the land, instead of being thrown into the sea, would suffice to nourish the world.”
― Les Misérables
― Les Misérables
“How could a large land empire thrive and dominate in the modern world without reliable access to world markets and without much recourse to naval power?
Stalin and Hitler had arrived at the same basic answer to this fundamental question. The state must be large in territory and self-sufficient in economics, with a balance between industry and agriculture that supported a hardily conformist and ideologically motivated citizenry capable of fulfilling historical prophecies - either Stalinist internal industrialization or Nazi colonial agrarianism. Both Hitler and Stalin aimed at imperial autarky, within a large land empire well supplies in food, raw materials, and mineral resources. Both understood the flash appeal of modern materials: Stalin had named himself after steel, and Hitler paid special attention to is production. Yet both Stalin and Hitler understood agriculture as a key element in the completion of their revolutions. Both believed that their systems would prove their superiority to decadent capitalism, and guarantee independence from the rest of the world, by the production of food.
p. 158”
― Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
Stalin and Hitler had arrived at the same basic answer to this fundamental question. The state must be large in territory and self-sufficient in economics, with a balance between industry and agriculture that supported a hardily conformist and ideologically motivated citizenry capable of fulfilling historical prophecies - either Stalinist internal industrialization or Nazi colonial agrarianism. Both Hitler and Stalin aimed at imperial autarky, within a large land empire well supplies in food, raw materials, and mineral resources. Both understood the flash appeal of modern materials: Stalin had named himself after steel, and Hitler paid special attention to is production. Yet both Stalin and Hitler understood agriculture as a key element in the completion of their revolutions. Both believed that their systems would prove their superiority to decadent capitalism, and guarantee independence from the rest of the world, by the production of food.
p. 158”
― Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
