Urban Farm Favorite Books

Most of the titles on the Urban Farm book list can be found at the bookstore.

Agrarian Societal Issues

• The Gift of Good Land (Wendell Berry)
• The Unsettling of America (Wendell Berry)
• What Are People For? (Wendell Berry)
• Bringing it to the Table (Wendell Berry)
• New Roots of Agriculture (Wes Jackson)
• Becoming Native to This Place (Wes Jackson)
• Epitaph for a Peach (Mas Masumoto)
• The Contrary Farmer (Gene Logsdon)
• The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)

Ecology / Nature of Plants

• A Sand County Almanac (Aldo Leopold)
• Silent Spring (Rachel Carson)
• Living Downstream (Sandra Steingraber)
• Our Stolen Future (Colborn, Dumanoski and Myers)
• Restoring the Earth (Kenny Ausubel)
• A Green History of the World (Clive Punting)
• Dirt,The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth (William Bryant Logan)
• Botany of Desire (Michael Pollan)
• Planting Noah’s Garden (Sara Stein)
• One Straw Revolution or The Road Back to Nature (Masanobu Fukuoka)
• The Organic Front (JL Rodale)

Back to the Land

• Enduring Seeds (Gary Nabhan)
• Living The Good Life (Helen and Scott Nearing)
• Noah’s Garden (Sara Stein)
• Family Farming (Marty Strange)
• Second Nature (Michael Pollan)
• Animal, Vegetable, Miracle (Barbara Kingsolver)

Food Issues / Urban Agriculture

• Food Rules, An Eater’s Manual (Michael Pollan)
• The Omnivore’s Dilemma (Michael Pollan)
• On Good Land (Michael Ableman)
• Farm City (Novella Carpenter)
• City Bountiful, a Century of Community Gardening in America (Laura Lawson)
• Greening Cities, Growing Communities: Learning from Seattle’s Urban Community Gardens (Jeffery Hou, Julie Johnson, Laura Lawson)
• Civic Agriculture (Thomas Lyson)
• Public Produce (Darrin Nordahl)
• Together at the Table (Patricia Allen)
• Coming Home to Eat (Gary Nabhan)