Reccommended reading on sustainable
agriculture, food and saving the planet :
How to Grow More Vegetables*
(and fruits, nuts, berries, grains, and other crops)
*than you ever thought possible on less land than you can imagine
(7th Edition, 2006)
John Jeavons
Gaia's Garden: A Guide
to Home-Scale Permaculture (2000)
Toby Hemenway
Farmers of Forty
Centuries: Organic Farming in China, Korea, and Japan (2004,
first published 1911)
F. H. King
The Omnivore's
Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (2006)
Michael Pollan
Agroecology:
Ecological Processes in Sustainable Agriculture (1997)
Stephen R. Gliessman
From the Good Earth: A Celebration of Growing Food around the World
(1993)
Michael Ableman
Videos
Some interesting films and documentaries :
The Man Who Planted Trees
(1987)
Frédéric Back, story by Jean Giono
The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
(2006)
The Community Solution