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Making It: Radical Home Ec for a Post-Consumer World
Kelly Coyne, Erik Knutzen · back to the book
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Include books by the same authorPlenty: One Man, One Woman, and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally
Alisa Smith, J.B. MacKinnon · 272 pages
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Michael Pollan · 450 pages
What should we have for dinner?" To one degree or another this simple question assails any creature faced with a wide choice of things to eat. Anthropologists call it the omnivore's dilemma. Choosing from among the countless potential foods nature offers, humans have had to learn what is safe, and what isn't—which mushrooms should be avoided, for example, and which berries we can enjoy. Today, as
Food Not Lawns: How to Turn Your Yard Into a Garden and Your Neighborhood Into a Community
Heather Flores · 344 pages
Happy Snacking, Don't Die!: Foraging and Vegan Recipes with Black Forager (A Cookbook)
Alexis Nikole Nelson · 272 pages
Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer
Novella Carpenter · 276 pages
Urban and rural collide in this wry, inspiring memoir of a woman who turned a vacant lot in downtown Oakland into a thriving farmNovella Carpenter loves cities—the culture, the crowds, the energy. At the same time, she can’t shake the fact that she is the daughter of two back-to-the-land hippies who taught her to love nature and eat vegetables. Ambivalent about repeating her parents’ disastrous mi
Bootstrapper: From Broke to Badass on a Northern Michigan Farm
Mardi Jo Link · 257 pages
"[A] memoir of a mother who, after ending her nineteen-year marriage, staves off a perpetually empty bank account and, with the help of her three young sons, saves her century-old farmhouse from foreclosure, and reclaims her life on to what matters most"--Provided by publisher.
Mycophilia: Revelations from the Weird World of Mushrooms
Eugenia Bone · 358 pages
Food Inc.: A Participant Guide: How Industrial Food is Making Us Sicker, Fatter, and Poorer-And What You Can Do About It
Karl Weber · 321 pages
From the Publisher: Food, Inc. is guaranteed to shake up our perceptions of what we eat. This powerful documentary deconstructing the corporate food industry in America was hailed by Entertainment Weekly as "more than a terrific movie-it's an important movie." Aided by expert commentators such as Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser, the film poses questions such as: Where has my food come from, and
The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon
Kevin Fedarko · 432 pages
In the winter of 1983, the largest El Niño event on record, a series of "superstorms," battered the West. That spring, a massive snowmelt sent runoff racing down the Colorado River toward the Glen Canyon Dam. As the water filled the dam, worried federal officials desperately scrambled to avoid a dramatic dam failure. In the midst of this crisis, a trio of river guides secretly launched a small, ha
Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History
Florence Williams · 338 pages
Did you know that breast milk contains substances similar to cannabis? Or that it’s sold on the Internet for 262 times the price of oil? Feted and fetishized, the breast is an evolutionary masterpiece. But in the modern world, the breast is changing. Breasts are getting bigger, arriving earlier, and attracting newfangled chemicals. Increasingly, the odds are stacked against us in the struggle with
Mad Cowboy: Plain Truth from the Cattle Rancher Who Won't Eat Meat
Howard F. Lyman, Glen Merzer · 223 pages
Former cattle rancher Howard Lyman "blasts through the propaganda of the beef and dairy industries ... and exposes an animal-based diet as the primary cause of cancer, heart disease, and obesity in this country."--Jacket.
The Earth Path: Grounding Your Spirit in the Rhythms of Nature
Starhawk · 250 pages
The Turning Point: Science, Society, and the Rising Culture
Fritjof Capra · 464 pages
The New Organic Grower: A Master's Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market Gardener
Eliot Coleman · 304 pages
Covers soil, farm economics and labor, crop planning, equipment, green manures, tillage, organic fertilizers, pests, and livestock.
Sunshine State: Essays
Sarah Gerard · 359 pages
Sunshine State offers a unique look at Florida, a state whose economically and environmentally imperiled culture serves as a lens through which we can examine some of the most pressing issues haunting our nation.
The Unsettlers: In Search of the Good Life in Today's America
Mark Sundeen · 330 pages
The Unsettlers describes the search for the simple life through stories of diverse Americans living off the grid.
Bread, Wine, Chocolate: The Slow Loss of Foods We Love
Simran Sethi · 350 pages
"Bread, Wine, and Chocolate, part journey to six continents in pursuit of delicious and endangered tastes, part investigation of the loss of biodiversity from soil to plate, tells the story of what we are losing, how we are losing it, and the inspiring people and places that are bringing back the foods we love. Award-winning journalist Simran Sethi travels from wild coffee forests in Ethiopian to
The Feast Nearby: How I lost my job, buried a marriage, and found my way by keeping chickens, foraging, preserving, bartering, and eating locally (all on $40 a week)
Robin Mather · 266 pages
"A charming ode (with recipes) to eating well and locally, on $40 dollars per week, from a recently unemployed food-journalism veteran. In 2009, Robin Mather found herself unemployed. She consequently moved to rural Michigan, where she committed to eating three home-cooked, seasonal, and local meals a day. In essays that chronicle a year of her ambitious project, Mather explores the confusion su
Noma: Time and Place in Nordic Cuisine
Rene Redzepi · 354 pages
Milk skin with grass -- The perfect storm -- René's diary -- Portrait of a Nordic chef -- Time and place -- The weather recipes -- The raw materials -- Everyone at Noma.
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
William Cronon · 530 pages
Argues that the American frontier and city developed together by focusing on Chicago and tracing its roots from Native American habitation to its transformation by white settlement and development.