Books and Videos

VIDEOS
Southern Foodways Alliance Video Resource:
Documentaries About Farmers and Food
From Century Farm Orchards:
Pruning Apple and Pear Trees

BOOKS
Bookshelf:
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food
Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet
The Dirty Life: A Memoir of Farming, Food, and Love

Bees and Beekeeping:
Fruitless Fall: The Collapse of the Honey Bee and the Coming Agricultural Crisis
The Queen Must Die: And Other Affairs of Bees and Men
First Lessons in Beekeeping
Natural Beekeeping: Organic Approaches to Modern Apiculture

Farming:
All Flesh Is Grass: Pleasures & Promises Of Pasture Farming
Gene Logsdon’s Practical Skills: A Revival of Forgotten Crafts, Techniques, and Traditions
How to Build Animal Housing: 60 Plans for Coops, Hutches, Barns, Sheds, Pens, Nestboxes, Feeders, Stanchions, and Much More

Gardening:
Gaia’s Garden, Second Edition: A Guide To Home-Scale Permaculture
Tasha Tudor’s Garden
Jekka’s Herb Cookbook
The New Organic Grower: A Master’s Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market Gardener (A Gardener’s Supply Book)
Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long
The Garden Primer: Second Edition

Fruit Trees:
The Holistic Orchard: Tree Fruits and Berries the Biological Way
The Apple Grower: A Guide for the Organic Orchardist
Old Southern Apples, Revised & Expanded: A Comprehensive History and Description of Varieties for Collectors, Growers, and Fruit Enthusiasts

Chickens:
The Small-Scale Poultry Flock: An All-Natural Approach to Raising Chickens and Other Fowl for Home and Market Growers–With information on building … feed, and working with poultry in the garden
Free-Range Chicken Gardens: How to Create a Beautiful, Chicken-Friendly Yard

Sheep:
Living with Sheep: Everything You Need to Know to Raise Your Own Flock
Natural Sheep Care

Wendell Berry Books:
What Are People For?: Essays
Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essays
The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture
The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry

Magazines, Journals:
Acres U.S.A.
Stockman Grassfarmer
Heirloom Gardener
The Small Farmer’s Journal

Seed Catalogs:
Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds
Abundant Life Seeds
Wild Garden Seed
Johnny’s Selected Seeds
Botanical Interests