Books
Listed below are helpful books & magazines for living a biologically rich life in your Soil, Self, and Spirit
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Many more books can be found be learning from the resources published by the various Agriculture Education companies shared.
SoiL
-Gardening Without Work
Ruth Stout
- How to Not go Broke Ranching
Walt Davis
- The One Straw Revolution – An Introduction to Natural Farming
Masanobu Fukuoka
- Holistic Management – A New Framework for Decision-Making
Allan Savory and Jody Butterfield
- Holistic Management Handbook – Healthy Land, Healthy Profits
Jody Butterfield, Sam Bingham, and Allan Savory
- For the Love of the Land – Global Case Studies of Grazing in Nature’s Image
Jim Howell
- The Soil and Health
Sir Albert Howard
- Teaming with Microbes – Guide to the Soil Food Web
Jeff Lowenfels & Wayne Lewis
- Cows Save the Planet
- Water in Plain Sight
Judith Schwartz
- The Last Ranch
Sam Bingham
- Grass, Soil, and Hope
Courtney White
- The Soil will Save Us
Kristin Ohlson (nice chapter at end about urban soil carbon)
- The Ecology of Care
Didi Pershouse
- The Vegetarian Myth
Lierre Keith
- The Third Plate
Dan Barber
- Grass Productivity
Andre Voisin
- For the Love of Land, Global Case Studies of Grazing in Nature’s Image
Jim Howell
Farmacology: Total Health from the Ground Up
Daphne Miller
- Managing Cover Crops Profitably –
Sustainable Agriculture Network
- Farmacology
Daphne Miller, M.D.
- Kiss the Ground
Josh Tickell
- A Bold Return to Giving a Damn
Will Harris
- Call of the Reed Warbler
Charles Massey
- A Life on Our Planet
David Attenborough
- Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life
- Dirt The Erosion of Civilization
David Montgomery
- The Soil Will Save Us: How Scientists, Farmers, and Foodies Are Healing the Soil to Save the Planet
Kristin Ohlson
Self
* The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan
* Unstoppable by Zen Honeycutt
* Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Weston A. Price, DDS
* Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon
* Nourishing Histories by Sally Fallon Morell
* The Microbiome Breakthrough by Raphael Kellman, MD
* Let's Talk SH!T by Sabine Hazan, MD
* Eat Dirt by Dr. Josh Axe
* Food Plague by Dr. Arden Andersen
* What's Making Our Children Sick by Michelle Perro, MD and Vincanne Adams, PhD
* Animal Vegetable Junk by Mark Bittman
* Our Stolen Future by Theo Colborn, Dianne Dumanoski, John Peterson Myers
* The Invisible Rainbow by Arthur Firstenberg
* Perilous Bounty by Tom Philpott
* The Meat Racket by Christopher Leonard
* The Chain by Ted Genoways
* Defending Beef by Nicolette Hahn Niman
* Food What the Heck Should I Eat (and others) by Dr. Mark Hyman
* Tuning In To Nature by Philip Callahan, PhD
* Science in Agriculture by Dr Arden Andersen
* Secrets of the Soil by Peter Tompkins
* The Secret Life of Plants by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird
BOOKLETS
* Tennesse Forage Planting Guide (Great for Cover Plants!):https://utbeef.tennessee.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/127/2020/11/pb378-1.pdf
* Redmond Salt Soil/Plant Guide:https://redmondagriculture.com/soil
* Sea-90 Salt Soil/Plant Guide: https://www.sea-90.com/pages/application-instructions-hub