7 must-read health books like The Rooted Life: Cultivating Health and Wholeness Through Growing Your Own Food by Justin Rhodes

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The Rooted Life: Cultivating Health and Wholeness Through Growing Your Own Food

By: Justin Rhodes

4.31

Format: None pages, Audiobook

A permaculture expert and popular YouTube Homesteader shares the skills and the delights of becomin…

If you liked the health plot in The Rooted Life: Cultivating Health and Wholeness Through Growing Your Own Food by Justin Rhodes , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. The Backyard Homestead: Produce All the Food You Need on Just a Quarter Acre!

By: Carleen Madigan

4.14

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

This comprehensive guide to homesteading provides all the information you need to grow and preserve… read more

Similar categories in Carleen Madigan's The Backyard Homestead: Produce All the Food You Need on Just a Quarter Acre! book and Justin Rhodes's The Rooted Life: Cultivating Health and Wholeness Through Growing Your Own Food

  • gardening
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • nature
Cover of Father and I Were Ranchers (Little Britches, #1) by Ralph Moody

2. Father and I Were Ranchers (Little Britches, #1)

By: Ralph Moody

4.27

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

Ralph was eight years old in 1906 when his family moved from New Hampshire to a Colorado ranch. Thr… read more

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  • nonfiction
"There are only two kinds of men in this world: Honest men and dishonest men. There are black men and white men and yellow men and red men, but nothing counts except whether they're honest men or dish…"

-Ralph Moody, Father and I Were Ranchers (Little Britches, #1)

"You know, Son, sometimes a fellow has to take a licking for doing the right thing. A licking only lasts a short while, even if it's a hard one, but failing to do the right thing will often make a mar…"

-Ralph Moody, Father and I Were Ranchers (Little Britches, #1)

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3. 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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  • food
  • nonfiction
  • nature
"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

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4. Microadventures: Local Discoveries for Great Escapes

By: Alastair Humphreys

4.00

Format: 158 pages, Paperback

'Enthusiastic, pleasingly madcap' Geographical Adventure - something that's new and exhilarating, o… read more

Similar categories in Alastair Humphreys's Microadventures: Local Discoveries for Great Escapes book and Justin Rhodes's The Rooted Life: Cultivating Health and Wholeness Through Growing Your Own Food

  • nonfiction
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5. Pastured Poultry Profits

By: Joel Salatin , None , None

3.24

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

A couple working six months per year for 50 hours per week on 20 acres can net $25,000-$30,000 per … read more

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  • gardening
  • food
  • nonfiction
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6. The Cut Flower Garden

By: Erin Benzakein , Michele M. Waite , None

4.64

Format: None pages, Hardcover

read more

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  • gardening
  • nonfiction
  • nature

7. You Can Farm: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Start & Succeed in a Farming Enterprise

By: Joel Salatin

3.45

Format: 94 pages,

read more

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  • gardening
  • food
  • nonfiction
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8. The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food, and Love

By: Kristin Kimball

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"This book is the story of the two love affairs that interrupted the trajectory of my life: one wit… read more

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  • gardening
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • nature

9. Folks, This Ain't Normal: A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World

By: Joel Salatin

4.89

Format: 78 pages, Hardcover

From farmer Joel Salatin's point of view, life in the 21st century just ain't normal. In FOLKS, THI… read more

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10. 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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11. Gap Creek

By: Robert Morgan

3.88

Format: None pages,

Young Julie Harmon works "hard as a man," they say, so hard that at times she's not sure she can st… read more

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12. Dirt to Soil: One Family's Journey Into Regenerative Agriculture

By: Gabe Brown

4.46

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Gabe Brown didn't set out to change the world when he first started working alongside his father-in… read more

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  • gardening
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • nature
Cover of Really Very Crunchy: A Beginner's Guide to Removing Toxins from Your Life without Adding Them to Your Personality by Emily Morrow

13. Really Very Crunchy: A Beginner's Guide to Removing Toxins from Your Life without Adding Them to Your Personality

By: Emily Morrow

4.20

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Find your Inner Crunchy without becoming that person with this helpful guide from social media star… read more

Similar categories in Emily Morrow's Really Very Crunchy: A Beginner's Guide to Removing Toxins from Your Life without Adding Them to Your Personality book and Justin Rhodes's The Rooted Life: Cultivating Health and Wholeness Through Growing Your Own Food

  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • health
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14. Good Husbandry

By: Kristin Kimball

4.23

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Kristin Kimball describes the delicious highs and sometimes excruciating lows of life on Essex Farm… read more

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  • gardening
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • nature
"Farmers are professional hopers."

-Kristin Kimball, Good Husbandry

"Everything ends. The natural order of things is immutable. Seed, flower, fruit, decline, death, decay. Seed. Each stage has its own drama and its own particular beauty. If you can see it, you can acc…"

-Kristin Kimball, Good Husbandry

"I suspected that most marriages were more complicated than couples tended to let on. That summer, it seemed like every week brought news of another pair in our community who were splitting up. They w…"

-Kristin Kimball, Good Husbandry

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15. Old-Fashioned on Purpose: Cultivating a Slower, More Joyful Life

By: Jill Winger

4.42

Format: None pages, ebook

"In a world where so many of us are craving a life of simplicity and meaning, Old-Fashioned on Purp… read more

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  • gardening
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • health
Cover of The First-Time Homesteader: A complete beginner's guide to starting and loving your new homestead by Jessica Sowards

16. The First-Time Homesteader: A complete beginner's guide to starting and loving your new homestead

By: Jessica Sowards

4.56

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Are you striving for improved self-reliance and self-sufficiency for yourself and your family? Auth… read more

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  • gardening
  • food
  • nonfiction
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17. The First-Time Gardener: Growing Vegetables: All the know-how and encouragement you need to grow - and fall in love with! - your brand new food garden (Volume 1) (The First-Time Gardener's Guides, 1)

By: Jessica Sowards

4.67

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

You’re excited to plant your first vegetable garden—but where to start? In The First-Time Growing … read more

Similar categories in Jessica Sowards's The First-Time Gardener: Growing Vegetables: All the know-how and encouragement you need to grow - and fall in love with! - your brand new food garden (Volume 1) (The First-Time Gardener's Guides, 1) book and Justin Rhodes's The Rooted Life: Cultivating Health and Wholeness Through Growing Your Own Food

  • gardening
  • food
  • nonfiction
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18. The Rooted Life: Cultivating Health and Wholeness Through Growing Your Own Food

By: Justin Rhodes

4.31

Format: None pages, Audiobook

A permaculture expert and popular YouTube Homesteader shares the skills and the delights of becomin… read more

Similar categories in Justin Rhodes's The Rooted Life: Cultivating Health and Wholeness Through Growing Your Own Food book and Justin Rhodes's The Rooted Life: Cultivating Health and Wholeness Through Growing Your Own Food

  • health
  • gardening
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • education
  • nature
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19. We Are What We Eat: A Slow Food Manifesto

By: Alice Waters

3.89

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

From chef and food activist Alice Waters, an impassioned plea for a radical reconsideration of the … read more

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  • food
  • nonfiction
  • health
"In the United States alone, about 30 to 40 percent of our entire food supply is wasted every year, according to estimates from the USDA. I find that particularly sad."

-Alice Waters, We Are What We Eat: A Slow Food Manifesto

"When all we care about is cheapness, we don't ask how long things will last or how well they are made--and in truth, we don't particularly care. Because when a product is cheap, it becomes disposable…"

-Alice Waters, We Are What We Eat: A Slow Food Manifesto

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20. Flat Broke with Two Goats

By: Jennifer McGaha

3.26

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Jennifer McGaha never expected to own a goat named Merle. Or to be setting Merle up on dates and na… read more

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  • nonfiction
"When I was growing up, my parents had created for my brother and me the perfect upper middle-class lifestyle. We had everything we needed, and most things we wanted. We took piano lessons. We went to…"

-Jennifer McGaha, Flat Broke with Two Goats

"I realized that if someone told me right then that I could go back 10 years, have my old life back exactly as it was, a life where I never saw my husband, where our lives were always about becoming i…"

-Jennifer McGaha, Flat Broke with Two Goats

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21. Habits for a Sacred Home: 9 Practices from History to Anchor and Restore Modern Families (Helping Moms Experience Peace & Return to Simple Daily Rhythms from Historic Christians like St. Benedict)

By: Jennifer Pepito

4.14

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Frightened by the chaos in society, many parents fear for their children's futures--and end up rais… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Under the Henfluence: Inside the World of Backyard Chickens and the People Who Love Them by Tove Danovich

22. Under the Henfluence: Inside the World of Backyard Chickens and the People Who Love Them

By: Tove Danovich

4.21

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

An immersive blend of chicken-keeping memoir and animal welfare reporting by a journalist who accid… read more

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  • food
  • nonfiction
  • nature
Cover of A Bold Return to Giving a Damn: One Farm, Six Generations, and the Future of Food by Will Harris

23. A Bold Return to Giving a Damn: One Farm, Six Generations, and the Future of Food

By: Will Harris

4.52

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

"If I could have one wish it is that every eater in America would read this book." —Ruth Reichl Fr… read more

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  • food
  • nonfiction
  • health
"The food that came out of the [industrialized] system was artifically cheap - the price was subsidized by the environment, our wildlife and aquatic life, and our bad health. We just couldn’t see thos…"

-Will Harris, A Bold Return to Giving a Damn: One Farm, Six Generations, and the Future of Food

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24. Building a Better World in Your Backyard - Instead of Being Angry at Bad Guys

By: Paul Wheaton

4.04

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

Luxuriant Environmentalism Make a huge, positive, global difference from your own home! Prioritize… read more

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  • gardening
  • nonfiction
  • nature
"Nurture nature and nature nurtures us all"

-Paul Wheaton, Building a Better World in Your Backyard - Instead of Being Angry at Bad Guys

"The stuff they put in household cleaners is incredibly dangerous. It is also mostly unnecessary."

-Paul Wheaton, Building a Better World in Your Backyard - Instead of Being Angry at Bad Guys

"For me, nearly all of our problems are solved with a recipe composed mostly of homesteading and permaculture."

-Paul Wheaton, Building a Better World in Your Backyard - Instead of Being Angry at Bad Guys

"If the goal is to save energy, the power company would save a lot more energy providing you with a clothesline."

-Paul Wheaton, Building a Better World in Your Backyard - Instead of Being Angry at Bad Guys

Cover of Homestead Tsunami: Good for Country, Critters, and Kids by Joel Salatin

25. Homestead Tsunami: Good for Country, Critters, and Kids

By: Joel Salatin

4.56

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

From his 66-year farm, food, and family experience, Joel Salatin explains why thousands of American… read more

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Cover of A Healthier Home: The Room by Room Guide to Make Any Space A Little Less Toxic by Shawna Holman

26. A Healthier Home: The Room by Room Guide to Make Any Space A Little Less Toxic

By: Shawna Holman

4.23

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

“If you are looking for a tangible, stress-free guide to protect you and your family from everyday … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • health
Cover of It Wasn't Roaring, It Was Weeping: Interpreting the Language of Our Fathers Without Repeating Their Stories by Lisa-Jo Baker

27. It Wasn't Roaring, It Was Weeping: Interpreting the Language of Our Fathers Without Repeating Their Stories

By: Lisa-Jo Baker

4.58

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An honest and lyrical coming-of-age memoir of growing up in South Africa at the height of apartheid… read more

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  • nonfiction

28. Polyface Micro: Success with Livestock on a Homestead Scale

By: Joel Salatin

4.52

Format: 402 pages, Paperback

"I love your ideas, but I only have a few acres. How do I do this at my scale?" Success with dom… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Adrenal Transformation Protocol: A 4-Week Plan to Release Stress Symptoms and Go from Surviving to Thriving by Izabella Wentz

29. Adrenal Transformation Protocol: A 4-Week Plan to Release Stress Symptoms and Go from Surviving to Thriving

By: Izabella Wentz

4.11

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A recovery plan to heal and reverse adrenal dysfunction, from the #1 New York Times bestselling aut… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • health
Cover of Think Like An Ecosystem: An Introduction to Permaculture, Water Systems, Soil Science and Landscape Design by Amélie des Plantes

30. Think Like An Ecosystem: An Introduction to Permaculture, Water Systems, Soil Science and Landscape Design

By: Amélie des Plantes

3.95

Format: 196 pages, Kindle Edition

Do you want to provide fresh produce for your family through backyard gardening?Do you wish to buil… read more

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  • gardening
  • nonfiction
Cover of Sacred Strides: The Journey to Belovedness in Work and Rest by Justin McRoberts

31. Sacred Strides: The Journey to Belovedness in Work and Rest

By: Justin McRoberts

4.37

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

In this fresh look at finding balance between work and sabbath rest, Justin McRoberts leads readers… read more

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  • nonfiction

27 must-read nonfiction books like The Rooted Life: Cultivating Health and Wholeness Through Growing Your Own Food by Justin Rhodes

Transform Your Habits

The Backyard Homestead: Produce All the Food You Need on Just a Quarter Acre!

Carleen Madigan

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Father and I Were Ranchers (Little Britches, #1)

Ralph Moody

4.27

Transform Your Habits

The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture

Wendell Berry

4.34

Transform Your Habits

Microadventures: Local Discoveries for Great Escapes

Alastair Humphreys

4.00

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22 best-selling nonfiction books like Building a Better World in Your Backyard - Instead of Being Angry at Bad Guys by Paul Wheaton

Transform Your Habits

The One-Straw Revolution

Masanobu Fukuoka

4.34

Transform Your Habits

Sepp Holzer's Permaculture: A Practical Guide to Small-Scale, Integrative Farming and Gardening

Sepp Holzer , Anna Sapsford-Francis

4.37

Transform Your Habits

The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture

Wendell Berry

4.34

Transform Your Habits

Life After Life: The Investigation of a Phenomenon - Survival of Bodily Death

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross , Raymond A. Moody Jr. , Melvin Morse

4.10

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