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Sustainable Agriculture
See also: CSAs, Farms & Farmers Markets
Sustainable agriculture is agriculture that takes care of the land (without poisoning it with pesticides and depleting the soil) and its inhabitants. It preserves biodiversity of crops and provides a prosperous life for the farm community.
Astyk, Sharon & Aaron Newton
A Nation of Farmers: Defeating the Food Crisis on American Soil
HD9005.A88 2009x
How city farmers, backyard chicken enthusiasts, victory gardeners, small family farms, kids in edible schoolyards, cooks in their kitchens and passionate eaters everywhere can overthrow our destructive industrial agriculture, and give us hope for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness in a changing world.
A Nation of Farmers: Defeating the Food Crisis on American Soil
HD9005.A88 2009x
How city farmers, backyard chicken enthusiasts, victory gardeners, small family farms, kids in edible schoolyards, cooks in their kitchens and passionate eaters everywhere can overthrow our destructive industrial agriculture, and give us hope for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness in a changing world.
Duram, Leslie A.
Good Growing: Why Organic Farming Works
S605.5.D87 2005
Over the past decade, organic products have become the fastest growing sector of agriculture. This book explains why organic production and consumption have seen such phenomenal growth in recent years-and, even more important, why they should.
Good Growing: Why Organic Farming Works
S605.5.D87 2005
Over the past decade, organic products have become the fastest growing sector of agriculture. This book explains why organic production and consumption have seen such phenomenal growth in recent years-and, even more important, why they should.
Farming With Nature: The Science And Practice Of Ecoagriculture
Edited By Sara J. Scherr, Jeffrey A. McNeely.
Farming with Nature is a unique collaboration among renowned agriculture and ecological scientists, leading field conservationists, and farm and community leaders. It offers the state of current knowledge of ecoagriculture.
Edited By Sara J. Scherr, Jeffrey A. McNeely.
Farming with Nature is a unique collaboration among renowned agriculture and ecological scientists, leading field conservationists, and farm and community leaders. It offers the state of current knowledge of ecoagriculture.
Fatal Harvest: The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture
Kimbrell, Andrew (Editor)
q S589.75.F38 2002
Essays by 40-plus environmental thinkers illustrate the current state of America's agricultural crisis, revealing industrial food production as fatal to consumers because of pesticides and new diseases, fatal to the landscape because of chemical runoff from factory farms, and fatal to rural communities being wiped out by corporate farms.
Kimbrell, Andrew (Editor)
q S589.75.F38 2002
Essays by 40-plus environmental thinkers illustrate the current state of America's agricultural crisis, revealing industrial food production as fatal to consumers because of pesticides and new diseases, fatal to the landscape because of chemical runoff from factory farms, and fatal to rural communities being wiped out by corporate farms.
Fukuoka, Masanobu
The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming
S604 .F8413
This Japanese guide to no-tillage farming was published first in 1975, based on Mr. Fukoka's 40 years of experience as a natural farmer. It is a philosophical treatise about living in harmony with nature.
The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming
S604 .F8413
This Japanese guide to no-tillage farming was published first in 1975, based on Mr. Fukoka's 40 years of experience as a natural farmer. It is a philosophical treatise about living in harmony with nature.
Hamilton, Lisa M.
Deeply Rooted: Unconventional Farmers in the Age of Agribusiness
HD8039.F32 U646 2009
"Journalist and photographer Hamilton presents a multicultural snapshot of the American sustainable agriculture movement, profiling a Texas dairyman, a New Mexican rancher and a North Dakotan farmer, all who have converted from conventional to sustainable agriculture for economic and personal reasons." -- Publishers Weekly
Deeply Rooted: Unconventional Farmers in the Age of Agribusiness
HD8039.F32 U646 2009
"Journalist and photographer Hamilton presents a multicultural snapshot of the American sustainable agriculture movement, profiling a Texas dairyman, a New Mexican rancher and a North Dakotan farmer, all who have converted from conventional to sustainable agriculture for economic and personal reasons." -- Publishers Weekly
Ikerd, John E.
Crisis and Opportunity: Sustainability in American Agriculture
S494.5.S86 I38 2008
With the decline of family farms and rural communities and the rise of corporate farming and the resulting environmental degradation, American agriculture is in crisis. Ikerd, one of the most influential proponents of sustainable agriculture, outlines the consequences of agricultural industrialization, then details the methods that can restore economic viability, ecological soundness, and social responsibility to our agricultural system and thus ensure sustainable agriculture as the foundation of a sustainable food system and a sustainable society.
Crisis and Opportunity: Sustainability in American Agriculture
S494.5.S86 I38 2008
With the decline of family farms and rural communities and the rise of corporate farming and the resulting environmental degradation, American agriculture is in crisis. Ikerd, one of the most influential proponents of sustainable agriculture, outlines the consequences of agricultural industrialization, then details the methods that can restore economic viability, ecological soundness, and social responsibility to our agricultural system and thus ensure sustainable agriculture as the foundation of a sustainable food system and a sustainable society.
The New Agrarianism: Land, Culture, And The Community Of Life
Edited By Eric T. Freyfogle.
HD205.N49 2001
Fiction and nonfiction writings gathered here reveal the resurgence of agrarian values and practices in rural areas, suburbs, and even cities. Many of the selections illustrate agrarianism in action, describing people restoring prairies, promoting community farms, and reshaping the built environment. Other selections critique contemporary American culture and its depletion of natural resources.
Edited By Eric T. Freyfogle.
HD205.N49 2001
Fiction and nonfiction writings gathered here reveal the resurgence of agrarian values and practices in rural areas, suburbs, and even cities. Many of the selections illustrate agrarianism in action, describing people restoring prairies, promoting community farms, and reshaping the built environment. Other selections critique contemporary American culture and its depletion of natural resources.
Pfeiffer, Dale Allen
Eating Fossil Fuels: Oil, Food And The Coming Crisis In Agriculture
HD9000.5.P44 2006
Without fossil fuels, artificial fertilizer, pesticides and energy to irrigate, the US can sustain only about two thirds of its present population. Independent journalist and geologist Pfeiffer analyzes the experiences of Cuba and North Korea with agriculture not based on hydrocarbon resources to come up with alternative scenarios for the U.S.
Eating Fossil Fuels: Oil, Food And The Coming Crisis In Agriculture
HD9000.5.P44 2006
Without fossil fuels, artificial fertilizer, pesticides and energy to irrigate, the US can sustain only about two thirds of its present population. Independent journalist and geologist Pfeiffer analyzes the experiences of Cuba and North Korea with agriculture not based on hydrocarbon resources to come up with alternative scenarios for the U.S.
Pyle, George B.
Raising Less Corn, More Hell: Why Our Economy, Ecology and Security Demand the Preservation of the Independent Farm
HD1476.U5 P95 2005
The industrialization of agriculture, with its concomitant economic, geographic, and genetic concentration of plants and animals, not only doesn't serve the interests of small, independent farmers or consumers, it threatens significant national security and environmental dangers.
Raising Less Corn, More Hell: Why Our Economy, Ecology and Security Demand the Preservation of the Independent Farm
HD1476.U5 P95 2005
The industrialization of agriculture, with its concomitant economic, geographic, and genetic concentration of plants and animals, not only doesn't serve the interests of small, independent farmers or consumers, it threatens significant national security and environmental dangers.
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Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture
PASA's Mission is to promote profitable farms that produce healthy food for all people while respecting the natural environment. Check here to find a farm near you.
PASA's Mission is to promote profitable farms that produce healthy food for all people while respecting the natural environment. Check here to find a farm near you.
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American Community Garden Association
Their mission is to promote community gardening because: "community gardening improves people’s quality of life by providing a catalyst for neighborhood and community development, stimulating social interaction, encouraging self-reliance, beautifying neighborhoods, producing nutritious food, reducing family food budgets, conserving resources and creating opportunities for recreation, exercise, therapy and education." -
ATTRA - National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service
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Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)
"CSA consists of a community of individuals who pledge support to a farm operation so that the farmland becomes, either legally or spiritually, the community's farm, with the growers and consumers providing mutual support and sharing the risks and benefits of food production. Typically, members or "share-holders" of the farm or garden pledge in advance to cover the anticipated costs of the farm operation and farmer's salary. In return, they receive shares in the farm's bounty throughout the growing season, as well as satisfaction gained from reconnecting to the land and participating directly in food production." This website from the National Agricultural Library includes an information center and a database of CSA farms. -
Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture
a non-profit member based organization actively promoting sustainable agriculture in Pennsylvania and the northeast. -
Pennsylvania State University: Sustaining Pennsylvania Agriculture
A sustainable agriculture information center for Pennsylvania. -
Robyn Van En Center Center for CSA Resources
This is a resource center for Community Supported Agriculture, in which community members buy a share of a farm and in return get weekly produce. It is located at Wilson College in the Fulton Center for Sustainable Living, in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. -
Sustainable Agriculture Network (SAN)
SAN is the communications and outreach arm of the Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) program. SARE is a U.S. Department of Agriculture-funded initiative that sponsors competitive grants for sustainable agriculture research and education in a regional process nationwide-
Northeast Region USDA SARE
covering the 12 states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia and Washington, D.C.
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Northeast Region USDA SARE
