 | Local Flavors: Cooking and Eating from America's Farmers' Markets by Deborah Madison
Buy used from: $11.07 350 recipes for the seasonal, sustainably grown produce you'll find at your local market.
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 | Coming Home to Eat: The Pleasures and Politics of Local Foods by Gary Paul Nabhan
Buy used from: $3.91 The author's experience of a year spent trying to eat foods grown, fished, or gathered within 250 miles of his Arizona home.
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 | Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet by Frances Moore Lappe
Buy used from: $3.70 Great vegetarian recipes, plus inspiring stories about how the choices we make in the food we buy can positively change the economy and our health.
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 | Farms of Tomorrow Revisited: Community Supported Farms Farm Supported Communities by Trauger Groh
Buy used from: $43.80 An exploration of the philosophies and practices of the community supported agriculture movement.
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 | Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health (California Studies in Food and Culture) by Marion Nestle
Buy used from: $4.66 How agribusiness influences what we eat and affects our health.
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 | Fatal Harvest: The Tragedy Of Industrial Agriculture
Buy used from: $122.50 Luminaries like Wendell Berry and Wes Jackson write on the differences between agrarian and industrial agriculture, and their vision for a new, sustainable agrarianism.
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 | Stalking The Wild Asparagus by Euell Gibbons
Buy new: $11.90 / Used from: $6.50 The longest Gibbons lived exclusively on wild food was five years. He's a charming writer, and he knows what's free to eat and how to cook it.
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 | Reclaiming the Commons: Community Farms and Forests in a New England Town by Brian Donahue
Buy new: $20.00 / Used from: $3.39 How to create a vibrant community garden in the suburbs.
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 | The Complete Book of Edible Landscaping: Home Landscaping with Food-Bearing Plants and Resource-Saving Techniques by Rosalind Creasy
Buy used from: $19.99 Rosalind Creasy is the mother of edible landscaping--see her other wonderful books too!
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 | Chickens In Your Backyard: A Beginner's Guide by Rick Luttmann
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $2.98 Fresh eggs right outside your kitchen.
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 | Storey's Guide to Raising Dairy Goats: Breeds, Care, Dairying by Jerry Belanger
Buy new: $12.89 / Used from: $9.99 For those of us who dream of making our own goat cheese...
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 | Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture by Toby Hemenway
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $14.58 How to create an edible garden with the complexity and resiliancy of a natural ecosystem.
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 | How to Make a Forest Garden by Patrick Whitefield
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $19.99 Turn your backyard into an intensive food forest of fruit and nut trees, berry bushes, fruit-producting vines, perennial herbs, and salad greens.
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 | Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply by Vandana Shiva
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $6.50 The effects of globalized, corporate agriculture on small farmers, the environment, and the quality of the food we eat.
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 | On Good Land: The Autobiography of an Urban Farm by Michael Ableman
Buy used from: $5.24 The story of one man's success in saving from urban sprawl the 12 acres of farmland that have become the Fairview Gardens Center for Urban Agriculture.
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 | Bringing the Food Economy Home: Local Alternatives to Global Agribusiness by Helena Norberg-Hodge
Buy new: $17.05 / Used from: $12.30 |
 | Living Seasonally: The Kitchen Garden and the Table at North Hill by Joe Eck
Buy used from: $7.00 A beautifully written, inspiring account of eating from a gorgeous kitchen garden.
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 | How to Grow More Vegetables: And Fruits, Nuts, Berries, Grains, and Other Crops Than You Ever Thought Possible on Less Land Than You Can Imagine by John Jeavons
Buy used from: $11.00 Updated edition of the classic text on biointensive gardening.
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 | Gardening for the Future of the Earth by Howard-Yana Phd Shapiro
Buy used from: $9.61 Terrific overview of sustainable organic growing techniques and philosophies, from the Seeds of Change organic seed company.
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