Farming & Gardening
The New Organic Grower by Eliot Coleman (1989)
Pay Dirt: How To Make $10,000 a Year From Your Backyard by John Tullock (2010)
The Winter Harvest Handbook by Eliot Coleman (2009)
Breaking Through Concrete: Building an Urban Farm Revival by David Hanson and Edwin Marty (2011)
Complete Guide to Midwest Gardening by Denny McKeown (1985)
Missouri Gardener’s Guide by Mike Miller (2005)
The Gardener’s Weather Bible by Sally Roth (2003)
All New Square Foot Gardening by Mel Bartholomew (2006)
Microgreens: A Guide to Growing Nutrient-Packed Greens by Eric Franks and Jasmine Richardon (2009)
An Encyclopedia of Garden Plants and Techniques by Andrew Mikolajski (2002)
Chick Days: An Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Raising Chickens by Jenna Woginrich (2011)
The Biggle Orchard Book by Jacob Biggle (2014)
* Farming While Black by Leah Penniman (2018)
Grow a Living Wall: Create Vertical Gardens with Purpose by Shawna Coronado (2015)
Flowers, Perennials, & Soil
The Herb Book by Arabella Boxer and Philippa Back (1980)
Sage Cottage Herb Garden Cookbook by Dorry Baird Norris (1995)
The Shaker Herb and Garden Book by Rita Buchanan (1996)
Time-Life Gardener’s Guide: Perennials by Janet Cave (1999)
The Big Book of Flower Gardening by Time-Life, Books (1997)
Teaming with Microbes by Jeff Lowenfels and Wayne Lewis (2006)
Food Justice, Ecology, & more
* Food Justice by Richard Gottlieb and Anupama Joshi (2010)
* Cultivating Food Justice: Race, Class, and Sustainability by Alison Hope Alkon and Julian Agyeman (2011)
* The Color of Food: Race, Resilience, and Farming by Natasha Bowens
Food Justice Now! : Deepening the Roots of Social Struggle by Joshua Sbicca
* Black Food Geographies by Ashanté M. Reese (2019)
* Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and Black Freedom by Monica M. White (2018)
More than Just Food: Food Justice and Community Change by Garrett Broad (2016)
The New American Farmer by Laura Minkoff-Zern (2019)
Black, White, and Green: Farmers Markets, Race, Green Economy by Alison Hope Alkon (2012)
* The Cooking Gene: African American Culinary History in the Old South by Michael Twitty (2018)
Nutrition for Foodservice and Culinary Professionals by Karen Eich Drummond and Lisa M. Brefere (2016)
Handbook of Biophilic City Planning & Design by Timothy Beatley (2017)
The Vertical Farm: Feeding the World in the 21st Century by Dickson Despommier (2010)
Effective Fundraising for Nonprofits by Ilona Bray (2005)
Food for Thought: An Indiana Harvest by David Hoppe (2012)
Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit by Barry Estabrook (2011)
Food Fight: The Citizen’s Guide to the Next Food and Farm Bill by David Imhoff (2012)
The New American Landscape: Leading Voices on the Future of Sustainable Gardening edited by Thomas Christopher (2011)
Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food by Peter Greenberg (2010)
Food, Inc.: How Industrial Food is Making Us Sicker, Fatter, and Poorer-And What You Can Do About It by Karl Weber (2009)
Everything I want To Do is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front by Joel Salatin (2007)
Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis by Al Gore (2008)
Farmer Jane: Women Changing the Way We Eat by Temra Costa (2010)
Revolution Detroit: Strategies for Urban Reinvention by John Gallagher (2013)
In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto by Michael Pollan (2008)
* Books written by Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC)
