Landrace Gardening: Food Security through Biodiversity and Promiscuous Pollination
By: Joseph Lofthouse
4.40
Format: 156 pages, Paperback
Bringing dynamic back into vegetable gardening, seed saving, and breeding of plants and animals. A …
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1. The One-Straw Revolution
By: Masanobu Fukuoka
4.34
Format: 181 pages, Paperback
Fukuoka demonstrates how the way we look at farming influences the way we look at health, the schoo… read more
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"Wajah alam merupakan sesuatu yang tidak dapat dikenal"-Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution
"Orang sekarang ini makan dengan pikiran mereka, tidak dengan tubuh mereka"-Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution
"Kebudayaan yang benar dilahirkan di alam, sederhana, rendah hati, dan murni"-Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution
"I wonder how it is that people's philosophies have come to spin faster than the changing seasons."-Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution
2. The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
By: Wendell Berry
4.34
Format: 246 pages, Paperback
Since its publication by Sierra Club Books in 1977, The Unsettling of America has been recognized a… read more
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- environment
- agriculture
"The crisis of community has its source in the corruption of character."-Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
"If we do not live where we work and when we work we are wasting our lives and our work too."-Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
"If we removed the status and compensation from the destructive exploits we classify as “manly,"-Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
"The specialists are profiting too well from the symptoms, evidently, to be concerned about cures—just as the myth of imminent cure (by some “breakthrough"-Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
3. Practical Permaculture: for Home Landscapes, Your Community, and the Whole Earth
By: Jessi Bloom , None , Dave Boehnlein , Paul Kearsley
4.14
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
“This permaculture primer is fresh and vibrant. Bring it on!” — Permaculture Magazine Permaculture… read more
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- gardening
- science
- environment
- agriculture
4. The Resilient Gardener: Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times
By: Carol Deppe
4.25
Format: None pages, Paperback
Scientist/gardener Carol Deppe combines her passion for organic gardening with newly emerging scien… read more
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- gardening
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5. The Soil Will Save Us: How Scientists, Farmers, and Foodies Are Healing the Soil to Save the Planet
By: Kristin Ohlson
3.52
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Thousands of years of poor farming and ranching practices--and, especially, modern industrial agric… read more
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- science
- environment
- agriculture
6. Teaming with Nutrients: The Organic Gardener’s Guide to Optimizing Plant Nutrition
By: Jeff Lowenfels
3.99
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A 2014 Garden Writers Association Media Award Winner Just as he demystified the soil food web in hi… read more
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- gardening
- science
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7. Lolly Willowes
By: Sylvia Townsend Warner , Alison Lurie
3.50
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
In Lolly Willowes, an ageing spinster rebels against her role as the universal aunt, at everybody's… read more
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8. Let it Rot!: The Gardener's Guide to Composting
By: Stu Campbell
4.20
Format: None pages, Paperback
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9. Creating a Forest Garden: Working with Nature to Grow Edible Crops
By: Martin Crawford
3.67
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Offering inspiration for all gardeners, this book features beautiful color photographs and illustra… read more
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10. Gardening Without Work
By: Ruth Stout
3.97
Format: None pages, Paperback
With this delightful book, you can garden with hardly any labor except planting and picking. The St… read more
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11. Restoration Agriculture
By: Mark Shepard
4.89
Format: 78 pages, Paperback
Around the globe most people get their calories from annual agriculture - plants that grow fast for… read more
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12. Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations
By: David R. Montgomery
3.57
Format: 271 pages, Hardcover
Dirt, soil, call it what you want--it's everywhere we go. It is the root of our existence, supporti… read more
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13. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
By: Charles C. Mann
4.23
Format: 11 pages, Paperback
A groundbreaking study that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival o… read more
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14. Pawpaw: In Search of America's Forgotten Fruit
By: Andrew Moore
4.19
Format: 45 pages, Hardcover
The largest edible fruit native to the United States tastes like a cross between a banana and a man… read more
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15. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
By: Merlin Sheldrake
4.35
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
There is a lifeform so strange and wondrous that it forces us to rethink how life works…Neither pla… read more
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- environment
- science
"I have tried to find ways to enjoy the ambiguities that fungi present, but it's not always easy to be comfortable in the space created by open questions. Agoraphobia can set in. It's tempting to hide…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
"Anthropomorphism is usually thought of as an illusion that arises like a blister in soft human minds: untrained, undisciplined, unhardened. There are good reasons for this: when we humanise the world…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
"Fungi make worlds. They also unmake them. There are lots of ways to catch them in the act. When you cook mushroom soup, or just eat it. When you go out gathering mushrooms, or buy them. When you ferm…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
16. Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity
By: Peter Attia
4.37
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A groundbreaking manifesto on living better and longer that challeng… read more
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- science
17. Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
By: Jessica Bruder
4.03
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
An alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780393356311 can be found here. From the beet fields of Nort… read more
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"a vast majority of us vandwellers are white. The reasons range from obvious to duh, but then there’s this."-Jessica Bruder, Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
"Some call them "homeless." The new nomads reject that label. Equipped with both shelter and transportation, they've adopted a new word. They refer to themselves, quite simply, as "houseless"-Jessica Bruder, Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
"The most widely accepted measure for calculating income inequality is a century-old formula called the Gini coefficient. It's a gold standard for economists around the globe, along with the World ban…"-Jessica Bruder, Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
18. Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
By: Suzanne Simard
4.22
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
From the world's leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their conne… read more
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- science
"Plants are attuned to one another's strengths and weaknesses, elegantly giving and taking to attain exquisite balance. There is grace in complexity, in actions cohering, in sum totals."-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
"Such a marvel, the tenacity of the buds to surge with life every spring, to greet the lengthening days and warming weather with exuberance, no matter what hardships were brought by winter."-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
"This Mother Tree was the central hub that the saplings and seedlings nested around, with threads of different fungal species, of different colors and weights, linking them, layer upon layer, in a str…"-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
"I was lucky to become one of the first in the new generation of women in the logging industry, but what I found was not what I had grown up to understand. Instead I discovered vast landscapes cleared…"-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
19. Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life
By: David R. Montgomery
4.36
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Finalist for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award "A call to action that underscore… read more
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- gardening
- science
- environment
- agriculture
"In many ways, soil degradation set the long-wavelenght pattern of history, as wars, natural disasters, and climate shifts pulled the trigger on environmental guns loaded by soil loss and degradation."-David R. Montgomery, Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life
"People tend to assume that organic farming and sustainability go hand in hand. But that's not necessarily the case - and it hasn't been for most of history. While going organic has some big advantage…"-David R. Montgomery, Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life
20. The Regenerative Grower's Guide to Garden Amendments: Using Locally Sourced Materials to Make Mineral and Biological Extracts and Ferments
By: Nigel Palmer
4.10
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Revitalize your garden―and go beyond compost―by making your own biologically diverse inoculants and… read more
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- science
- agriculture
"There's no such thing as good and bad bacteria or fungi. It's not good and bad. It's just whether there's too much of it or too little of it and things are out of balance, so the 'bad things' have an…"-Nigel Palmer, The Regenerative Grower's Guide to Garden Amendments: Using Locally Sourced Materials to Make Mineral and Biological Extracts and Ferments
21. The Seed Keeper
By: Diane Wilson
4.30
Format: 372 pages, Paperback
A haunting novel spanning several generations, The Seed Keeper follows a Dakota family's struggle t… read more
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"My father traveled now with the stars, returned to the vast mystery that had so fascinated him all his life."-Diane Wilson, The Seed Keeper
"What the white settlers called progress was a storm of fury thundering its way across the land, and none of us were strong enough to withstand it."-Diane Wilson, The Seed Keeper
"I decided to give Rosie all the facts I could—because that's how the corporations work against us, twisting the truth till we're at war with each other."-Diane Wilson, The Seed Keeper
"I thought about the aftermath of the 1862 war, when thirty-eight hastily condemned warriors had been hung in Mankato, in the country's largest-ever mass execution. Their bodies were buried in shallow…"-Diane Wilson, The Seed Keeper
22. The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer
By: Janelle Monáe
3.76
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
In The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer, singer-songwriter, actor, fashion ico… read more
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"Dreams aren't memories. They are memories' voices."-Janelle Monáe, The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer
"Some days Artis had to remind himself that his dad actually existed, that his mother was not a phantom. Remembering the dead was hard work."-Janelle Monáe, The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer
"Hearing her name, she gathered herself within the span of normalcy, just barely escaping the extra beat that would have made it weird. "Hey," she said. "I'm good, good."-Janelle Monáe, The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer
"Grandpapa and even Artis's friends believed that New Dawn was the most dangerous thing in their world. But Artis knew that wasn't true. Hope was. Having too much, having too little. Trying to work ou…"-Janelle Monáe, The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer
23. Upright Women Wanted
By: Sarah Gailey
3.61
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
“That girl’s got more wrong notions than a barn owl’s got mean looks.” Esther is a stowaway. She… read more
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"Just because he needed killing doesn't mean I can sleep easy."-Sarah Gailey, Upright Women Wanted
"You really believe all that? About how there’s only one end in sight for people like you?"-Sarah Gailey, Upright Women Wanted
"When there's people around that we don't trust, we let them think we're the kinds of people who are allowed to exist. And the only kind of Librarian that's allowed to exist is one who answers to she."-Sarah Gailey, Upright Women Wanted
"Good," Esther said back, echoing Cye's words automatically because she didn't know what else to say, because you have a freckle on your bottom lip seemed like the wrong thing to say but it was the on…"-Sarah Gailey, Upright Women Wanted
24. Building a Non-Anxious Life
By: John Delony
4.25
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
"Why are my anxiety alarms going off all the time?" "Why do I feel like I'm in an endless cycle … read more
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25. The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery
By: Adam Gopnik
3.12
Format: 256 pages, ebook
"[W]ise, companionable, and often extremely funny.” ―Oliver Burkeman, The Atlantic Best-selling … read more
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26. Trees of Power: Ten Essential Arboreal Allies
By: Akiva Silver
4.57
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
The organic grower's guide to planting, propagation, culture, and ecology Trees are our allies in h… read more
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- science
- environment
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27. Compost Everything: The Good Guide to Extreme Composting (The Good Guide to Gardening Book 5)
By: David The Good
4.43
Format: 110 pages, Kindle Edition
If you’re ready to throw out the rule book and return as much as you can to the soil, Compost Every… read more
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28. Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties: The Gardener's and Farmer's Guide to Plant Breeding and Seed Saving
By: Carol Deppe
4.47
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
All gardeners and farmers should be plant breeders, says author Carol Deppe. Developing new vegetab… read more
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- science
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29. Landrace Gardening: Food Security through Biodiversity and Promiscuous Pollination
By: Joseph Lofthouse
4.40
Format: 156 pages, Paperback
Bringing dynamic back into vegetable gardening, seed saving, and breeding of plants and animals. A … read more
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30. Grocery Row Gardening: The Exciting New Permaculture Gardening System
By: David The Good
4.64
Format: 83 pages, Kindle Edition
Imagine creating a garden where apples and asparagus thrive beside beans and broccoli. Picture beau… read more
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31. Minimalist Gardening: The Good Guide to Growing Food with Less
By: David The Good
4.64
Format: 158 pages, Kindle Edition
Are you a normal person who wants to grow food? When you search online, it all seems too complicate… read more
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