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Beyond the world of hands-on guides and reference books there are the expositions by our great thinkers. Settle back into a comfortable chair and dive into a book or two guaranteed to challenge and inspire.
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Eco-Philosophy:

Genetic Roulette (DVD)
When the U.S. government ignored repeated warnings by its own scientists and allowed untested genetically modified (GM) crops into our environment and food supply, it was a gamble of unprecedented proportions.

The Future of Food
The Future of Food offers an in-depth investigation into the disturbing truth behind the unlabeled, patented, genetically engineered foods that have quietly filled grocery store shelves for the past decade.

The Intelligent Gardener
This practical step-by-step guide and the accompanying customizable web-based spreadsheets go beyond organic and are essential tools for any serious gardener who cares about the quality of the produce they grow.

The Seed Underground
Janisse Ray brings us the inspiring stories of ordinary gardeners whose aim is to save time-honored open-pollinated varieties that will be lost forever if people don’t grow, save and swap the seeds.

Folks, This Ain't Normal
Joel Salatin urges everyone in Folks, This Ain’t Normal to take a better look at our food: What’s in it, where is it coming from and how did it get to the table?

The Sheer Ecstasy of Being A Lunatic Farmer
50 years of being a “lunatic” farmer, Joel Salatin has plenty of reflective and humorous stories to tell about his beloved Polyface Farm and in defense of a more localized, diversified food system — ammunition to combat conventional farming naysayers.

A Sanctuary of Trees
Gene Logsdon pays a fascinating, practical and loving tribute to the woods, sharing valuable lessons about a wide variety of trees: their distinctive characteristic and their multiple uses and virtues.

The Organic Farming Manual
The know-how to prepare beginning farmers for organic food production or experienced farmers making the transition from traditional farming techniques.

Alcohol Fuel
A guide to small-scale ethanol production that looks at basic equipment needs, fermentation recipes and distillation designs for those wanting to make the switch from gasoline to this renewable fuel.

Holy Shit
Telling the inside story on manure, Logsdon sounds a dire warning that if we don’t start turning manure into fertilizer to help feed a growing population, we will all be in deep trouble.

Meat: A Benign Extravagance
In Meat, the author deconstructs the notion that meat eating is unethical, unhealthy and contributes to global warming and comes to the conclusion that ethical meat eating is entirely dependent upon the means of production.

The World According to Monsanto (book)
Beautifully researched, Robin relates a litany of dire events, all profoundly depressing, all deeply entwined with the fabulous success of this pervasive corporation.

Whole-Farm Planning (book)
Learn how to assess the whole farm so that you can understand what you are managing — including people, money and physical and mental assets; as well as how to analyze the farm ecosystem.

Growing Roots
Meet the new generation of sustainable farmers, cooks and food activists as they share their passionate relationship to food. Also included are 150 simple and delicious recipes.

Local Choices
Local Choices offers an overview of the local foods scene, shares personal experiences from farmers and stories from real people who are eating local foods. Save a farmer: buy local.

Creation Care
Explores the natural laws governing every living thing and provides healing techniques and practical applications in animal husbandry, agriculture and gardening to reverse the devastation to soil, water and air being wreaked every day.

One-Straw Revolution
A manifesto about farming, eating and the limits of human knowledge that presents a radical challenge to the global food systems on which we rely.

4 Newman Turner Classics
Four book set including Fertility Farming, Herdsmanship, Fertility Pastures and Cure Your Own Cattle.

A Beast of Muddy Brain
Drawing upon his own experiences of life in the American countryside of the 1930s and beyond, Charles Walters has crafted a new work of fiction that brings the message of Acres U.S.A. to life in a new way.

A Life in the Day of an Editor
15 years experience of eco-agriculture & economics.

A Walk in the Sun
Travel diary exploring nature from Orient to Europe.

Lessons in Nature
Soil building, planting, growing and pest control.

Nature's Silent Music
Ireland's round towers, magic spots, relationship between the land and people.

Raw Materials Economics
Economic basics presented in understandable lessons.

The Biochar Solution
Bates analyzes our global climate and food predicament and offers techniques for the production and use of biochar and practical carbon farming.

The Permaculture Handbook
A step-by-step, beautifully illustrated guide to creating resilient, prosperous households and neighborhoods by working with the earth and each other to repair the damage of industrial overreach and enrich the living world that sustains us.

Unforgiven
How America exchanged parity agriculture for debt and war.

Food Fight DVD
A fascinating look at the development of American agricultural policy and food culture and how a counter-revolution against big agribusiness was started.

All Flesh Is Grass
The pleasures and promises of pasture farming.

Angels Don't Play This HAARP
United States Government's alarming use of Tesla technology.

Bringing It to the Table
An anthology of essays dealing with the farmer, farming, and food — written by a farmer with conviction and eloquence. Essential reading for people who care about what they eat.


Genetic Roulette (DVD)

Continuous Creation
A biological concept of the nature of matter.

Dirt, The Movie
DIRT! The Movie takes you inside the wonders of the soil. It tells the story of Earth's most valuable and underappreciated source of fertility — from its miraculous beginning to its crippling degradation.

Farmer John's Cookbook
Stories, fresh insights and intriguing.

Farmers of Forty Centuries
View of intensive cultivation that wastes nothing, conserves resources.

Food, Inc.
How much do we really know about the food that we buy at our local supermarkets and feed to our families?

FOWL! Bird Flu: It's Not What You Think!
An investigative report on the health of migratory birds and chickens.

Fresh, The Movie
Do you THINK about what you eat? If not, this movie will make you think twice about what you put in your mouth and where it comes from.

Genetic Roulette
This is the authentic book on genetic modification that the world has been waiting for. What has long been needed are the facts, the unvarnished details that provide the evidence to allow people to make up their own minds.

Genetically Engineered Food — A Self-Defense Guide
Identifying GE foods, where to shop, and foods to avoid.

Gold in the Grass
Rehabilitation of a farm utilizing green manures.

Holistic Management
A process for stewardship decision-making.

Holy Cows and Hog Heaven
The food buyers guide to farm friendly food.

Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money
Investing as if food, farms and fertility mattered.

Management-Intensive Grazing
The grassroots of grass farming.

Night Came to the Farms of the Great Plains
Documents the plight of the American farmer.

On Good Land
Autobiography of an urban farm.

Politically Incorrect Nutrition
Finding reality in the mire of food industry propaganda.

Radical Homemakers
Radical Homemakers shows how we can rebuild a life-serving, socially just and ecologically sustainable economy by casting aside a consumer culture and focusing our lives on family and community.

Renewing America's Food Traditions
Save and savor our endangered food diversity; recipes highlight histories of rare North American plants and animals.

Seeds of Deception
Exposes industry and government lies about the safety of genetically engineered foods.

Slam-Dunking Wal-Mart
How you can stop superstore sprawl in your hometown.

The Food of a Younger Land
A fascinating look at the role food plays in our history and culture from the days of the Great Depression. Featuring authentic recipes and many anecdotes.

The Raw Milk Revolution
This is a highly readable expose that successfully captures how the controversy over raw milk is at the center of a larger battle between the industrial food system and the local food movement.

The Secret Teachings of Plants
Learn the art of medicinal plant use.

The Way of Ignorance
Wendell Berry, one of the country's foremost cultural critics, addresses the menance of our society, responding with hope and intelligence in this series of essays.

The World According to Monsanto DVD
Monsanto, associated with some of the most toxic products ever sold, has a controversial past with misleading reports, pressure tactics, collusion, and attempted corruption.

Where Our Food Comes From
Soaring food prices, shortages, and even riots are signals that we're facing serious limits to our capacity to feed the world. Nabhan retraces Vavilov's quest to end famine.











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