Eco and Gardening Resources
Eco and Gardening Books and Resources
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Eco and Gardening Books and Resources
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– Learn about the SFG method, gardening initiatives, how to find a Certified Gardening Instructor, and more.
A Short explaining the Square Foot Gardening Method
to connect with a SFG Certified Instructor in your area.
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– A list of resources and a three-hour video featuring a workshop by Will Bonsall, author of Will Bonsall’s Essential Guide to Radical Self-Reliant Gardening.
– Ron Finley plants gardens in South Central Los Angeles. Learn about his alternative version of fast-food, and how he is making a healthy impact in his food-desert community.
– This website provides a wide range of gardening resources and a map of existing gardens by location.
– Get involved with the School Garden Movement, which creates opportunities for kids to learn through gardening.
“” – This article discusses the benefits of eating local food on your health and the environment and why it’s important.
– This proclamation shows the $9 billion annually added to the economy by farmers markets.
– The OTA provides the latest data on everything related to the organic food industry.
– This article explains the benefits of growing your own organic fruits and vegetables.
“” – The T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies 2015 Article on GMOs.
- Written By “Kiss the Ground” documentary filmmaker Josh Tickell, this book focuses on how the food you eat can reverse climate change, heal your body, and ultimately save our world.
- In Call of the Reed Warbler, Charles Massy explores regenerative agriculture and the vital connection between our soil and our health.
- Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, and as a woman, Robin Wall Kimmerer shows how other living beings – asters and goldenrod, strawberries and squash, salamanders, algae, and sweetgrass – offer us gifts and lessons, even if we’ve forgotten how to hear their voices. The awakening of ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgment and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world.
- This book by Leah Penniman is the first comprehensive “how to” guide for aspiring African-heritage growers to reclaim their dignity as agriculturists and for all farmers to understand the distinct, technical contributions of African-heritage people to sustainable agriculture.
- This book by Courtney White tackles an increasingly crucial question: What can we do about the seemingly intractable challenges confronting all of humanity today, including climate change, global hunger, water scarcity, environmental stress, and economic instability
: One Family’s Journey into Regenerative Agriculture By Gabe Brown - As he and his family struggled to keep the farm viable, they found themselves on an amazing journey into a new type of farming: regenerative agriculture.
- By Judith D. Schwartz reveals that for many of these problems--climate change, desertification, biodiversity loss, droughts, floods, wildfires, rural poverty, malnutrition, and obesity –there are positive, alternative scenarios to the degradation and devastation we face. In each case, our ability to turn these crises into opportunities depends on how we treat the soil.
By Judith D. Schwartz - By allying with the water cycle, we can revive lush, productive landscapes, like the river in rural Zimbabwe that now flows miles further than it has in living memory thanks to restorative grazing; the fruit-filled food forest in Tucson, Arizona grown by harvesting urban wastewater; or the mini-oasis in West Texas nourished by dew.
- By Paul Stamets, this manual outlines the mycological rescue of the planet.
By David Montgomery - Dirt, soil, call it what you want--it’s everywhere we go. It is the root of our existence, supporting our feet, our farms, our cities. This fascinating yet disquieting book finds, however, that we are running out of dirt, and it’s no laughing matter.
By David Montgomery -This book draws on visits to farms in the industrialized world and developing world to show that a new combination of farming practices can deliver innovative, cost-effective solutions to problems farmers face today.
By David Montgomery and Anne Biklé - From garden to gut, they show why cultivating beneficial microbiomes holds the key to transforming agriculture and medicine.
By Paul Hawken - In the face of widespread fear and apathy, an international coalition of researchers, professionals, and scientists have come together to offer a set of realistic and bold solutions to climate change.
By Eric Toensmeier - A Global Toolkit of Perennial Crops and Regenerative Agriculture Practices for Climate Change Mitigation and Food Security. With carbon farming, agriculture ceases to be part of the climate problem and becomes a critical part of the solution.
By Kristin Ohlsen - An elegantly argued, passionate case for “our great green hope”--a way in which we can not only heal the land but also turn atmospheric carbon into beneficial soil carbon--and potentially reverse global warming.
By M Kat Anderson - Marvelously detailed and beautifully written, Tending the Wild is an unparalleled examination of Native American knowledge and uses of California’s natural resources that reshapes our understanding of native cultures and shows how we might begin to use their knowledge in our own conservation efforts.
By Daphne Miller, MD - Bridging the traditional divide between agriculture and medicine, Miller shares lessons learned from inspiring farmers and biomedical researchers and artfully weaves their insights and discoveries, along with stories from her patients, into the narrative.
By Mark Shepard - Every single human society that has relied on annual crops for staple foods has collapsed. Restoration Agriculture explains how we can have all of the benefits of natural, perennial ecosystems and create agricultural systems that imitate nature in form and function while still providing for our food, building, fuel, and many other needs - in your own backyard, farm, or ranch.
By Didi Pershouse - The Ecology of Care unfolds a surprising new take on the story of our time: how the germ theory of disease joined with a profit-based economy and unwittingly led to a “sterilization” of medicine, agriculture, and even our social lives. This 150-year detour has brought about the near destruction of our climate as well as a great forgetting of the power of connection.
By Masanobu Fukuoka - Trained as a scientist, Fukuoka rejected both modern agribusiness and centuries of agricultural practice, deciding instead that the best forms of cultivation mirror nature’s own laws. Over the next three decades, he perfected his so-called “do-nothing” technique: commonsense, sustainable practices that all but eliminate the use of pesticides, fertilizer, tillage, and perhaps most significantly, wasteful effort.
- Permaculture (permanent agriculture) is the conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally productive ecosystems which have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems. It is the harmonious integration of landscape and people providing their food, energy, shelter, and other material and non-material needs in a sustainable way.
By Toby Hemenway - Many people mistakenly think that ecological gardening--which involves growing a wide range of edible and other useful plants--can take place only on a large, multi acre scale. As Hemenway demonstrates, it’s fun and easy to create a “backyard ecosystem” By assembling communities of plants that can work cooperatively and perform a variety of functions.
By Jody Butterfield, Sam Bingham, and Allan Savory - Holistic management is a systems-thinking approach developed By biologist Allan Savory to restore the world’s grassland soils and minimize the damaging effects of climate change and desertification on humans and the natural world.
By Deborah L Martin - When the inspiration hits to start an organic garden, many novices could benefit from a guidebook that speaks directly to their enthusiasm, their goals, and, of course, their need for solid information that speaks a newbie’s language--from the most trusted source for organic gardening methods.
By Grace Gershuny and Deborah L. Martin - An essential guide to composting for all gardeners and environmentally conscious people. This revised edition of The Rodale Book of Composting includes all the latest in new techniques, technology, and equipment.
By Allan Savory and Jody Butterfiield - Fossil fuels and livestock grazing are often targeted as major culprits behind climate change and desertification. But Allan Savory, cofounder of the Savory Institute, begs to differ. The bigger problem, he warns, is our mismanagement of resources.
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