Agriculture & Food
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Green Gold: The Avocado’s Remarkable Journey from Humble Superfood to Toast of a Nation
$29.00 Add to cartA lively and engrossing cultural history of the avocado and the people who transformed it into an American obsession
“Whether you’re a history buff or just enjoy a chip full of guacamole, you’ll be t- Author: Allaback, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1640096760
- Language: English
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Foreign Fruit: A Personal History of the Orange
$27.99 Add to cartPer person, oranges are the most consumed fruit in the world. Across the world, no matter how remote or cold or incongruous a climate is, oranges will be there.
What stories could I unravel from the … [more below]
- Author: Goh, Katie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 196310823X
- Language: English
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Sweet and Deadly: How Coca-Cola Spreads Disinformation and Makes Us Sick
$29.95 Add to cartHow Coca-Cola makes Americans sick–and makes sure we don’t know it.
If we knew that Coca-Cola was among the deadliest products in our diet, would we continue drinking it in such great quantities? The- Author: Carpenter, Murray
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0262049503
- Language: English
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The Painful Truth about Hunger in America: Why We Must Unlearn Everything We Think We Know–And Start Again
$34.95 Add to cartA radical and urgent new approach to how we can solve the problems of hunger and poverty in the US.
Most people think hunger has to do with food: researchers, policymakers, and advocates focus on prom- Series: Food, Health, and the Environment
- Author: Chilton, Mariana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0262048302
- Language: English
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Land Rich, Cash Poor: My Family’s Hope and the Untold History of the Disappearing American Farmer
$32.99 Add to cartThe hidden history of an economic and cultural catastrophe that is threatening our very food supply–the disappearance of the American farmer.
Taking on this story of heart and hardship, award-winnin- Author: Reisinger, Brian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1510779981
- Language: English
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Who Really Feeds the World?: The Failures of Agribusiness and the Promise of Agroecology
$14.95 Add to cartDebunking the notion that our current food crisis must be addressed through industrial agriculture and genetic modification, author and activist Vandana Shiva argues that those forces are in fact the … [more below]
- Author: Shiva, Vandana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 28 2016
- ISBN10: 1623170621
- Language: English
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Sixty Harvests Left: How to Reach a Nature-Friendly Future
$30.00 Read more‘The warnings are coming thick and fast now and Lymbery’s are clear, concise and truly frightening … But we have solutions that we must implement now’ Chris Packham
‘Philip Lymbery pulls no punches- Author: Lymbery, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 358
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1526619326
- Language: English
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Jesus for Farmers and Fishers: Justice for All Those Marginalized by Our Food System
$26.99 Read moreClimate disasters, tariff wars, extractive technologies, and deepening debts are plummeting American food producers into what is quickly becoming the most severe farm crisis of the last half-century.
- Author: Nabhan, Gary Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: March 30 2021
- ISBN10: 1506465064
- Language: English
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Perilous Bounty: The Looming Collapse of American Farming and How We Can Prevent It
$17.00 Read moreNew York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
An unsettling journey into the disaster-bound American food system, and an exploration of possible solutions, from leading food politics commentator and form- Author: Philpott, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1635578450
- Language: English
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Why Food Matters
$17.00 Read moreFrom the author of Ten Restaurants That Changed America, an exploration of food’s cultural importance and its crucial role throughout human history
“A rich and fascinating narrative that reaches deep- Series: Why X Matters
- Author: Freedman, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 0300268084
- Language: English
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Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey
$28.99 Read moreThe acclaimed chronicle of the regeneration of one family’s traditional English farm
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Winner of the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing * Named “Nature Book of the Year” by the Sun
- Author: Rebanks, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 03 2021
- ISBN10: 0063073277
- Language: English
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Letters to a Young Farmer: On Food, Farming, and Our Future
$21.95 Read moreLetters to a Young Farmer is for everyone who appreciates good food grown with respect for the earth, people, animals, and community. Three dozen esteemed writers, farmers, chefs, activists, and visio… [more below]
- Author: Stone Barns Center for Food and Agricult
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 07 2017
- ISBN10: 1616895306
- Language: English
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Foodtopia: Communities in Pursuit of Peace, Love, & Homegrown Food
$28.95 Read more“Insightful…empathetic…a thoughtful consideration of a topic that will have a substantial impact on our future.”–Booklist
Readable Feast, Book Award Winner for Socially Conscious Writing * Civil- Author: Kelley, Margot Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: August 09 2022
- ISBN10: 1567927300
- Language: English
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Saying No to a Farm-Free Future: The Case for an Ecological Food System and Against Manufactured Foods
$19.95 Read more“Everyone in the food business needs to read this book. . . . [A] lively and superbly written polemic.”–Joel Salatin, co-founder of Polyface Farm
*Named the Inc. Non-Obvious Book Awards “Best Books o
- Author: Smaje, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1915294169
- Language: English
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Eating to Extinction: The World’s Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them
$30.00 Read moreA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
What Saladino finds in his adventures are people with soul-deep relationships to their food. This is not the decadence or the preciousness we might associa- Author: Saladino, Dan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0374605327
- Language: English
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The Seed Detective: Uncovering the Secret Histories of Remarkable Vegetables
$22.00 Add to cartMeet the Indiana Jones of vegetables and join him on his quest to save our heritage produce.
*Named BBC Radio 4’s The Food Programme “Book of the Year”
*2023 GardenComm Media Awards Silver Laurel Meda
- Author: Alexander, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1915294088
- Language: English
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Dodge County, Incorporated: Big AG and the Undoing of Rural America
$24.95 Add to cartIn 2014 Sonja Trom Eayrs’s parents filed the first of three lawsuits against Dodge County officials and their neighbors, one of the few avenues available to them to challenge installation of a corpora… [more below]
- Author: Trom Eayrs, Sonja
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: November 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1496234995
- Language: English
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The Impactful Vegan: How You Can Save More Lives and Make the Biggest Difference for Animals and the Planet
$27.95 Add to cartFrom New York Times bestselling author Robert Cheeke comes a new way of thinking about helping animals and the environment–and making the biggest impact possible with the resources already available … [more below]
- Author: Cheeke, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 1637744587
- Language: English
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Letters to a Young Farmer: On Food, Farming, and Our Future
$21.95 Read moreLetters to a Young Farmer is for everyone who appreciates good food grown with respect for the earth, people, animals, and community. Three dozen esteemed writers, farmers, chefs, activists, and visio… [more below]
- Author: Stone Barns Center for Food and Agricult
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 07 2017
- ISBN10: 1616895306
- Language: English
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On Farms and Rural Communities: An Agricultural Ethic for the Future
$16.95 Read moreA clarion call to recognize the importance of rural farming communities and to build a new agriculture policy for our future
In a twenty-first-century landscape marked by unprecedented challenges, t… [more below]- Series: Speaker’s Corner
- Author: Apps, Jerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1682754642
- Language: English
