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The Art of the Commonplace by Wendell Berry
Subtitle: The Agrarian Essays Published: 2002 Genre: nonfiction essays on agriculture Length: 329 pages Interest: It was one of the books recommended at the end of Depletion and Abundance. Besides,...
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How to Pick a Peach by Russ Parsons
Subtitle: The Search for Flavor from Farm to Table Published: 2007 Genre: nonfiction, agriculture Length: 393 pages Interest: I think it was “The Splendid Table” that did an interview with the author...
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The Contrary Farmer by Gene Logsdon
Published: 1994 Genre: nonfiction, agriculture Length: 237 pages Interest: It’s spring, and the gardening bug has hit hard. Unfortunately, the weather isn’t cooperating. The next best thing to getting...
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The Children’s Blizzard by David Laskin
Published: 2004 Genre: U.S. nonfiction history Length: 271 pages of story, 307 with indices Setting: Midwest, 1888 Interest: I can’t remember how I became aware of the book, but the story sounded quite...
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Let Us All Praise Famous Men by James Agee
Published: 1939 Genre: nonfiction farm life Length: 416 pages Setting: rural Alabama, 1930s Interest: It was recommended at the end of The Contrary Farmer Summary: The book is Agee’s attempt to...
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The Resilient Gardener by Carol Deppe
Subtitle: Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times Published: 2010 Genre: nonfiction, gardening Length: 287 pages of text, 323 pages with appendices Interest: I can’t remember why I put...
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Another Turn of the Crank by Wendell Berry
Published: 1995 Genre: nonfiction, sustainability Length: 109 pages Interest: Wendell Berry was coming to speak nearby and some of my colleagues were rhapsodizing over his...
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Oh Give Me a Home by Adam Rakunas
Published: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction July/August 2013 Genre: science fiction Length: 24 pages Setting: California, near future Interest: It was published in the 2014 Campbellian...
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Folks, This Ain’t Normal by Joel Salatin
This book has been at the top of my To Be Read list for a long time (more than a year). I finally got tired of staring at it each time I went to choose a new book. Subtitle: A … Continue reading →
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Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell
This is one of the Time Top 100 novels that happened to be at my library when I was in need of a book. Published: 1932 Genre: fiction Length: 184 pages Setting: near Augusta, Georgia, 1920s Summary: We...
View ArticleBecoming Native to This Place by Wes Jackson
This book was discussed in The Contrary Farmer and has been sitting on my TBR list for five years. I decided it was finally time to get it off the TBR list and onto the read list. Published: 1992...
View ArticleThe Fate of Food by Amanda Little
Gretchen Rubin interviewed the author. I put it on my TBR because it was about two of my nonfiction interests – food and climate change. Subtitle: What We’ll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World...
View ArticleBringing it to the Table by Wendell Berry
My first new book of the year! At the end of the year, I decided to read the top book on my TBR. It was a Wendell Berry book recommended from The Constant Farmer. My library didn’t have that book, …...
View ArticleBarn 8 by Deb Olin Unferth
I was looking for a U author at the big public library (it’s one of the few letters I have left in my Alphabet Reading Challenge). I was hooked when I read “chicken heist” on the back copy. Published:...
View ArticleEating to Extinction by Dan Saladino
I heard Saladino interviewed on The Splendid Table and thought the book he was promoting sounded interesting. Subtitle: The World’s Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them Published: 2021 Genre:...
View ArticleWild Fermentation by Sander Ellix Katz
I’ve been interested in adding more fermented food to my diet and this is the classic book on how to do it. I bought it at the local Mother Earth News Fair. It’s definitely something I’d want to have...
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