Farm to Table

Recommended Reading
The following books are available from Piedmont College Libraries in digital or print editions.
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The Agrarian Vision: Sustainability and Environmental Ethics

Paul B. Thompson
University Press of Kentucky, 2010

American Environmental Leaders: From Colonial Times to the Present

Anne Becher and Joseph Richey
Grey House Pub., 2008

American Grown: The Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America
Michelle Obama
Crown Publishers, 2012

American Wasteland: How America Throws Away Nearly Half

of Its Food (and What We Can Do About It)
Jonathan Bloom
Da Capo Press, 2010

The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart,

Applebee’s, Farm Fields, and the Dinner Table
Tracie McMillan
Scribner, 2012

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

Barbara Kingsolver, with Steven L. Hopp and Camille
Kingsolver
HarperPerennial, 2008

Appetite for Change: How the Counterculture Took on the

Food Industry
Warren J. Belasco
Cornell University Press, 2007

At Nature's Pace: Farming and the American Dream

Gene Logsdon
Pantheon Books, 1994

Blood, Bones and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef

Gabrielle Hamilton
Random House, 2011
Characteristics and Influential Factors of Food Deserts
Paula Dutko, Michele Ver Ploeg, and Tracey Farrigan
U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, 2012

Consulting the Genius of the Place: An Ecological Approach to a New Agriculture

Wes Jackson
Counterpoint, 2011

A Continuous Harmony: Essays Cultural and Agricultural

Wendell Berry
Counterpoint, 2012

Cultivating an Ecological Conscience: Essays from a Farmer

Philosopher
Frederick Kirschenmann
University Press of Kentucky, 2010

Cultivating Food Justice: Race, Class, and Sustainability

Alison Hope Alkon and Julian Agyeman, eds.
MIT Press, 2011

Darwinian Agriculture: How Understanding Evolution Can

Improve Agriculture
R. Ford Denison
Princeton University Press, 2012

Eating Animals
Jonathan Safran Foer
Little, Brown and Co., 2009

Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste: The Social Science of Garbage

Carl A. Zimring and William L. Rathje, eds.
SAGE, 2012

Encyclopedia of Sustainability
Robin Morris Collin and Robert William Collin
Greenwood Press, 2010

Farm Anatomy: The Curious Parts and Pieces of Country Life

Julia Rothman
Storey Pub., 2011

Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

Eric Schlosser
Perennial, 2002
The First Farmers: The Origins of Agricultural Societies
Peter Bellwood
Blackwell, 2005

Food and Agriculture Security: An Historical, Multidisciplinary Approach

Justin Kastner
Praeger, 2011

Food Security, Nutrition and Sustainability

Geoffrey Lawrence, Kristen Lyons, and Tabatha Wallington
Earthscan, 2010

Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature,

and the Shaping of the American Nation
Andrea Wulf
Knopf, 2011

From the Farm to the Table: What All Americans Need to

Know About Agriculture
Gary H. Holthaus
University Press of Kentucky, 2006

The Future of Life

Edward O. Wilson
Vintage Books, 2003

Good Growing: Why Organic Farming Works

Leslie A. Duram
University of Nebraska Press, 2005

Great Wealth, Poor Health: Contemporary Issues in Eating and Living

David Farrell, ed.
Nottingham University Press, 2010

Green Illusions: The Dirty Secrets of Clean Energy and the Future of Environmentalism
Ozzie Zehner
University of Nebraska Press, 2012

Green Plans: Blueprint for a Sustainable Earth

Huey D. Johnson
University of Nebraska Press, 2008

Greening the Academy: Ecopedagogy Through the Liberal Arts

Samuel Day Fassbinder, et al., eds.
Sense Publishers, 2012
How America Eats: A Social History of U.S. Food and Culture
Jennifer Jensen Wallach
Rowman & Littlefield, 2013

Imagining Sustainable Food Systems: Theory and Practice

Alison Blay-Palmer, ed.
Ashgate, 2010

Kitchen Literacy: How We Lost Knowledge of Where Food Comes

From and Why We Need to Get It Back
Ann Vileisis
Island Press/Shearwater Books, 2008

Let Them Eat Junk: How Capitalism Creates Hunger and Obesity
Robert Albritton
Pluto Press, 2009

Locavore Adventures: One Chef’s Slow Food Journey

Jim Weaver
Rutgers University Press, 2012

Managing Food Safety Practices from Farm to Table

Leslie A. Pray
National Academies Press, 2009

Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril

Kathleen Dean Moore and Michael P. Nelson, eds.; foreword by Desmond Tutu
Trinity University Press, 2010

The Nature Principle: Reconnecting with Life in a Virtual Age

Richard Louv
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2012

A New Turn in the South

Hugh Acheson
Clarkson Potter, 2011

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

Michael Pollan
Penguin Press, 2006

Our Roots Run Deep as Ironweed: Appalachian Women and the

Fight for Environmental Justice
Shannon Elizabeth Bell
University of Illinois Press, 2013
Pharsalia: An Environmental Biography of a Southern Plantation, 1780-1880
Lynn A. Nelson
University of Georgia Press, 2007

The Philosophy of Food

David M. Kaplan, ed.
University of California Press, 2012

Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (streaming video)

Neil Goodwin and Judy Crichton, producers
PBS Video, 1993

Rebels for the Soil: The Rise of the Global Organic Food and Farming Movement
Matthew Reed
Earthscan, 2010

Relish: My Life in the Kitchen

Lucy Knisley
First Second, 2013

Remaking the North American Food System: Strategies for

Sustainability
C. Clare Hinrichs and Thomas A. Lyon, eds.
University of Nebraska Press, 2007

A Sand County Almanac and Other Writings on Ecology and

Conservation
Aldo Leopold; Curt Meine, ed.
Library of America, 2013

The School Bus Doesn't Stop Here Anymore: Life and Times on
a Rural Route
Noreen Olson; foreword by Will Ferguson
D & M Publishers, 2012

Shamanic Gardening: Timeless Techniques for the Modern

Sustainable Garden
Melinda Joy Miller
Process, 2013

Sick Planet: Corporate Food and Medicine

Stan Cox
Pluto Press, 2008
Simple Green Pest and Disease Control
Bob Flowerdew
Skyhorse Pub., 2012

Smoke & Pickles: Recipes and Stories from a New Southern Kitchen
Edward Lee
Artisan, 2013

Soils and Food Security

R.E. Hester and R.M. Harrison, eds.
Royal Society of Chemistry, 2012

The Southerner's Handbook: A Guide to Living the Good Life

David DiBenedetto and the Editors of Garden & Gun
HarperWave, 2013

Sustainable Gardens
Rob Cross and Roger Spencer
CSIRO, 2009

What’s Wrong with My Vegetable Garden?: 100%

Organic Solutions for All Your Vegetables, from
Artichokes to Zucchini
David C. Deardoff
Timber Press, 2011

The World Without Us

Alan Weisman
Thomas Dunne Books, 2007

Walden, or, Life in the Woods (and other works)

Henry David Thoreau
Library of America, 1985

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