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.