Favorite Readings

  • Animal Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life. Barbara Kingsolver, HarperCollins Publishers, 2007.
  • A Safe and Sustainable World: The Promise of Ecological Design. Nancy Jack Todd, Island Press, 2005.
  • Care of the Soul. Thomas Moore, HarperCollins Books, 1994.
  • Centering. M.C. Richards, In: Pottery, Poetry and the Person, Wesleyan University Press, 1989.
  • Food and Faith. Edited and compiled by Michael Schut, Living the Good News, 2002.
  • From Eco-Cities to Living Machines: Principles of Ecological Design. Nancy Jack Todd and John Todd, North Atlantic Books, 1993.
  • Full Moon Feast. Jessica Prentice, Chelsea Green Publishing, 2006.
  • Garlic, Nature's Super Healer. Joan Wilen and Lydia Wilen, PrenticeHall, 1997.
  • Grub, Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen. Anna Lappe and Bryant Terry, Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin Publishing, 2006.
  • Harvest For Hope, A Guide to Mindful Eating. Jane Goodall, Warner Books, 2005.
  • Hollistic Management. Alan Savory, Island Press, 1999.
  • In Praise of Slowness: Challenging the Cult of Speed. Carl Honore, HarperCollins Publishers, 2004.
  • It'a A Long Road to a Tomatoe. Keith Stewart, Marlowe and Company, 2006.
  • Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World. Paul Stamets, Ten Speed Press, 2005.
  • Omnivour's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals. Michael Pollan, Penguin Press, 2006.
  • Permaculture One & Permaculture Two. William Mollison, Corgi, 1978.
  • Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands. Brad Lancaster, Rainsource Press, 2006
  • Secrets of the Soil. Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird, Harper and Row, 1989.
  • Seeds of Deception. Jeffrey M. Smith, Chelsea Green Publishing. 2006.
  • The Barn At The End of The World. Mary Rose O'Reilley, Milkweed Editions, 2002.
  • The Definitive Donkey, A Textbook on the Modern Ass. Betsy and Paul Hutchins, Hee Haw Book Service, 1981, 2005.
  • The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture. Wendell Barry, Sierra Club Books, 1977.
  • The Sacred Balance, Rediscovering our Place in Nature. David Suzuki, Greystone Books, 1997, 2002.
  • Worms Eat My Garbage. Mary Appelhof, Flower Press, 1997.

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