The family’s year long experience leads them through a season of planting, pulling weeds, expanding their kitchen skills, harvesting their own animals, joining the effort to save heritage crops from extinction, and learning the time-honored rural art of unloading excess zucchini.
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Personal Story
Gathering: Memoir Of A Seed Saver
This is the story about Seed Savers Exchange that began humbly as a simple exchange of seeds among passionate gardeners and how the membership has grown from a small circle of people to more than thirteen thousand.
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At Mesa’s Edge
At Mesa’s Edge is the witty, candid, often moving story of ranch restoration and of struggles with defiant skunks, barbed wire, marauding cows, and loneliness.
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Alice Waters and Chez Panisse
Together, Alice Waters and Chez Panisse have revolutionized how we think about food, how its grown, how we cook, and how we eat.
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Everything I Want To Do is Illegal
Drawing upon 40 years’ experience as an ecological farmer and marketer, Joel Salatin explains in Everything I Want To Do is Illegal, with humor and passion, why Americans do not have the freedom to choose the food they purchase and eat.
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The Dirty Life: A Memoir of Farming, Food, and Love
The Dirty Life is a wonderfully told tale of one of the most interesting farms in the country.
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Plenty: Eating Locally on the 100-mile Diet
The remarkable, amusing and inspiring adventures of a Canadian couple who make a year-long attempt to eat foods grown and produced within a 100-mile radius of their apartment.
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