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Letters from an American farmer
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J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur |
Written by an emigrant French aristocrat turned farmer, the Letters from an American Farmer (1782) posed the famous question: "What, then, is the American, this new man?," as a new nation took shape … |
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The sheer ecstasy of being a lunatic farmer
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Joel Salatin |
Foodies and environmentally minded folks often struggle to understand and articulate the fundamental differences between the farming and food systems they endorse and those promoted by Monsanto and f… |
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Blessing the hands that feed us
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Vicki Robin |
Documents the author's efforts to eat food produced within ten miles of her home in Puget Sound, Washington, exposing the cause-and-effect consequences of a processed-foods diet while sharing the sto… |
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Animal, vegetable, miracle
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Barbara Kingsolver |
"When Kingsolver and her family move from suburban Arizona to rural Appalachia, they take on a new challenge: to spend a year on a locally produced diet, paying close attention to the provenance of a… |
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The third plate
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Dan Barber |
"Renowned chef Dan Barber introduces a new kind of cuisine that represents the future of American dining in THE THIRD PLATE. Barber explores the evolution of American food from the "first plate," or … |
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Chasing the harvest
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Gabriel Thompson |
"'The Grapes of Wrath' brought national attention to the condition of California's migrant farmworkers in the 1930s. Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers' grape and lettuce boycotts captured the … |
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Letter to a young farmer
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Gene Logsdon |
"In his final book of essays--completed just weeks before he died--self-described 'contrary farmer' Gene Logsdon addresses the next generation of small-scale 'garden farmers' seeking a better way of … |
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The new farmers almanac 2017
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Severine Von Tscharner Fleming |
This volume explores the theme of The Commons, drawing from folklore, mathematical projections, empirical, emotional, and geographical observations of theory and praxis. Farmers hold space in many in… |
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Old farmer's almanac 2014
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Robert Bailey Thomas |
The timeless reference book returns with weather-forecast maps; weather predictions; astronomical data; gardening advice; recipes; articles on fishing, raising animals, laughter, and more; ideas, hin… |
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From the Farm to the Table
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Gary H. Holthaus |
In From the Farm to the Table, over forty farm families from America's heartland detail the practices and values that relate to their land, work, and communities. Their stories reveal that those who … |
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