For book lovers, seekers, health enthusiasts and thinkers
The Education of an Urban Farmer by Novella Carpenter An entertaining adventure in raising livestock in the inner city This book tells two stories: Novella Carpenter’s education in urban farming and what it’s like living in an Oakland ghetto. However, the focus is on livestock, not gardening. Carpenter and her boyfriend Bill move from Seattle [...]
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Inside America’s Underground Food Movements by Sandor Ellix Katz A great book looking for a better title Sandor Katz writes about the many avenues available for procurement of food, such as buying locally at farmers’ markets, joining underground co-ops, growing our own, foraging for wild plants, reclaiming vacant city lots to garden in, saving seeds, [...]
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By Paul A. Stitt Nutrition and atruism not found in the center aisles of your grocery store Paul Stitt, a biochemist working for Tenneco with a desire to end world hunger, sets out to create an economically feasible process whereby protein from bacteria can be grown on natural gas. Tenneco was happy to advertise this [...]
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Plain Truth from the Cattle Rancher Who Won’t Eat Meat by Howard F. Lyman Personal account of a cattle rancher This is an excellent book by a fourth-generation Montana cattle rancher turned vegetarian. Lyman writes about how he inherited his father’s farm and destroyed it through chemical agricultural practices he learned in college. Right before [...]
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