Online Resources

Amy's Farm, Ontario, Ca.
amysfarm.com

Tri-City Community Garden, Pomona, Ca.
tricitycommunitygarden.blogspot.com/

Pomona Farm, Pomona College, Claremont, Ca
http://www.pomonaea.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=81&Itemid=131

Regenerative Cooperative, Pomona, Ca.
www.regen.org/

South Central Farmers Cooperative
www.southcentralfarmers.com

Food Not Lawns
www.foodnotlawns.com/

Path to Freedom Urban Homestead, Pasadena, Ca.
urbanhomestead.org/

Los Angeles Cornfields
notacornfield.com

Recommended Book List

Berry, W. (2009). Bringing it to the table: On farming and food. Berkely, CA: Counterpoint.

Berry, W. (2002). The art of the commonplace: The agrarian essays of Wendell Berry. Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint.

Bittman, M. (2009). Food matters: A guide to conscious eating. New York: Simon & Schuster.

Cooper, A. (2006). Lunch lessons: Changing the way we feed our children. New York: HarperCollins.

Coyne, K. & Knutzen, E. (2008). The urban homestead: Your guide to self-sufficient living in the hart of the city. Port Townsend, WA: Process Media.

Davidson, E. A. (2000). You can’t eat the GNP: Economics as if ecology mattered. Cambridge, M: Perseus.

Hamilton, L. (2009). Deeply rooted: Unconventional farmers in the age of agribusiness. Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint.

Hinrichs, C.C. & Lyson, T., eds. (2007). Remaking the North American food system: Strategies for sustainability. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press.

Jackson, W., Berry, W., & Colman, B. eds. (1984). Meeting the expectations of the land: Essays in sustainable agriculture and stewardship. San Francisco: North Point Press.

Kimbrell, A. ed. (2002). The fatal harvest reader: The tragedy of industrial agriculture. Washington, DC: Island Press.

Kingsolver, B. (2007). Animal, vegetable mineral: A year of food life. New York: HarperCollins. Listen to Kingsolver @ http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/programs/ethicsofeating/index.shtml

Lyson, T. (2004). Civic agriculture: Reconnecting farm, food, and community. Medford, MA: Tufts University Press.

McKibben, B. (2007). Deep economy: The wealth of communities and the durable future. New York: Henry Holt.

Nestle, M. (2002). Food politics: How the food industry influences nutrition and health. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

Pollan, M. (2008). In defense of food: An eater’s manifesto. New York: Penguin Press.

Pollan, M. (2006). The omnivore’s dilemma: A natural history of four meals. New York: Penguin Press.

Pollan, M. (2009). The omnivore’s dilemma (young readers edition): The secrets behind what you eat. New York: Penguin Press.

Schlosser, E. & Wilson, C. (2006). Chew on this: Everything you don’t want to know about fast food. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Schlosser, E. (2002). Fast food nation: the dark side of the all-American meal. New York: HarperCollins.

Shiva, V. ed., (2007). Manifestos on the future of food & seed. Cambridge, MA: South End Press.

Shiva, V. (2000). Stolen harvest: The hijacking of the global food supply. Cambridge, MA: South End Press.

Shiva, V. (1991). The violence of the Green Revolution: Third world agriculture, ecology, and politics. New York: Zed Books Ltd.

Waters, A. (2008). Edible schoolyard: A universal idea. San Francisco: Chronicle Books.

Weber, K. ed. (2009). Food Inc.: A participant’s guide – How industrial food is making us sicker, fatter, and poorer and what you can do about it. New York: Participant Media/Public Affairs.

Winne, M. (2008). Closing the food gap: Resetting the table in the land of plenty. Boston: Beacon Press.

Wirzba, N. ed. (2004). The essential agrarian reader. Shoemaker & Hoard.

Literature on Food Politics and Urban Farming

Ableman, M. (n.d.) “Agriculture’s next frontier: How urban farms could feed the world.” http://www.fieldsofplenty.com/writings/frontier.php

Berry, W (2001, Winter). “The idea of a local economy,” Orion. http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/299/

Berry, W. (1990). “The pleasure of eating,” in What are people for? New York: North Point press. http://www.ecoliteracy.org/publications/rsl/wendell-berry.html

Berry, W. (1987). “Two economies,” in Home Economics. New York: North Point Press.

Bybee, R. (2009, Feb. 13). “Growing power in an urban food desert,” YES! Magazine. http://yesmagazine.org/issues/food-for-everyone/growing-power-in-an-urban-food-desert/

Caires, A. (2008, April 24). “Really Green Living: A Pasadena family finds change can start in your own backyard,” Pasadena Weekly. [photo copy, page numbers unavailable.]

Daly, H.E. (2004). “Sustainable economic development: Definitions, principles, policies,” in N. Wirzba, ed. The essential agrarian reader. Shoemaker & Hoard. http://books.google.com/books?id=sH7anDCtwn4C&pg=PA62&lpg=PA62&dq=%22sustainable+economic+development%22+Herman+daly&source=bl&ots=RofZek2Gyy&sig=CirRxbTgTPOVya5yd6zAf6ivc24&hl=en&ei=tAOSSpr-DYLgsQP_1qwM&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2#v=onepage&q=%22sustainable%20economic%20development%22%20Herman%20daly&f=false

Dowie, M. (2009, August). “Food among the ruins,” Guernica. http://www.guernicamag.com/spotlight/1182/food_among_the_ruins/

Esteva, G. (1992). “Re-embedding food in agriculture,” Culture & Agriculture. (48), 2-13.

Holt-Gimenez, E. (2009, July-August). “From food crisis to food sovereignty: The challenge of social movements.” Monthly Review, pp. 142-156.

http://www.foodfirst.org/files/pdf/142-156%20Holt-Gimenez+MR.pdf

Jackson, D. (1984). “The sustainable garden,” in W. Jackson, W. Berry, & B. Colman, eds. (1984). Meeting the expectations of the land: Essays in sustainable agriculture and stewardship. San Francisco: North Point Press.

Jusinski, C. (2008, July 14). “How to eat: Interview with Mark Winne,” Santa Fe Reporter. http://www.sfreporter.com/stories/how_we_eat/3740/

Korten, D. (2001). “The Growth Illusion,” in When corporations rule the world. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc. http://books.google.com/books?id=G738BK-Ur-kC&pg=RA1-PA43&dq=The+Growth+Illusion#v=onepage&q=&f=false

Lyson, T. (2000, Fall). “Moving toward civic agriculture,” CHOICES: The Magazine of Food, Farm, and Resource Issues. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0HIC/is_3_15/ai_75714051/ (NOTE: You need to click on the 1,2,3,4,5,6 buttons to get the whole article.)

Lyson, T. (2005). “Civic agriculture and community problem solving,” Culture and Agriculture. (27)2, 92-98.

McLaughlin, L. (2008, July 24). “Inner-city farms,” Time. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1826271,00.html

McMillan, T. (2007, July). Soil to stoops: Local food movement hits Oakland,” Plenty. http://www.mnn.com/food/farms-gardens/stories/soil-to-stoops-local-food-movement-hits-oakland

Norberg-Hodge, H. (2002). “Global monoculture: The worldwide destruction of diversity,” in The fatal harvest reader: The tragedy of industrial agriculture. Washington, DC: Island Press. http://books.google.com/books?id=plTcVDph_SQC&pg=PA58&lpg=PA58&dq=global+monocultures&source=bl&ots=__wOuJwbV6&sig=AylgNfS3U5TiajNlxJ9Bvf7h6tA&hl=en&ei=R_yRSqPFBoeOtAOXq60O&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7#v=onepage&q=global%20monocultures&f=false

Pollan, M. (2008, October 9). “Farmer in chief,” The New York Time Magazine. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/magazine/12policy-t.html

Pollan, M. (2009, July). “Out of the kitchen, onto the couch,” The New York Times Magazine. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/02/magazine/02cooking-t.html

Pollan, M. (2007). “You are what you grow,” in V. Shiva, ed., Manifestos on the future of food & seed. Cambridge, MA: South End Press.

Robinson, J. (2007, January 25). “O’ pioneers in Pasadena,” Los Angeles Times. [photo copy, page numbers unavailable.]

Shiva, V. (2004). “Globalization and the war against farmers and the land,” in N. Wirzba, ed. The essential agrarian reader. Shoemaker & Hoard.

Stair, P., Wotteh, H., & Raimi, M. (2008). “Goal 4: Provide safe, convenient access to healthy foods for all residents,” in How to create and implement healthy general plans: A toolkit for building healthy, vibrant communities through land use policy change. Public Health Law & Policy is a project of the Public Healthy Institute. Raimi + Associates: the nature of community.

Stephey, M.J. (2008, June 26). “That incredible, edible front lawn,” TIME. http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1816764,00.html

Stern, A. & Nochi, K. (2009, February 13). “New crop of farmers,” YES! Magazine. http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/food-for-everyone/new-crop-of-farmers (NOTE: Be sure to click on the different pictures to read about the various young farmers.)

Stevenson, G.W., Ruhf, K., Lezberg, S., & Clancy, K. (2007). “Warrior, builder, and weaver work: Strategies for changing the food system.” in C.C. Hinrichs & T. Lyson, eds. Remaking the North American food system. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press.

Walsh, B: (2009, August 21). “Getting real about the high price of cheap food,” TIME. http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1917458,00.html

Waters, A. (2002). “The ethics of eating,” in A. Kimbrell, ed. (2002). The fatal harvest reader: The tragedy of industrial agriculture. Washington, DC: Island Press http://wholeearth.com/issue/2090/article/24/the.ethics.of.eating

Wright, A. (1984). “Innocents abroad: American agricultural research in Mexico,” in W. Jackson, W. Berry, & B. Colman, eds. (1984). Meeting the expectations of the land: Essays in sustainable agriculture and stewardship. San Francisco: North Point Press.