Below is just some of the books that we will have for sale at the Freedom Farmer's Market at the Carter Center on Saturday morning, May 28, 2022.
The Fruit Forager's Companion by Sara Bir. A readable how-to guide to available in your neighborhood into something tasty.
Fermentation Journeys: Recipes, Techniques & Traditions from Around the World by Sandor Katz. The Anthony Bourdain of fermentation. Details on Bir and Katz can be found on the Destination: Books main page.
Epic Tomatoes: How to Elect & Grow the Best Variety of All Time by Greg LeHoullier. Grow the tomatoes you really want.
The Living Soil Handbook: The No-Tillers Growing Guide to Ecological Market Gardening, Jesse Frost.
Bees: A Journey Back to Nature, Brigit Strawbridge Howard. Part of our Bees & Butterflies online curated list.
Tiny Victory Gardens, Acadia Tucker. Growing food without a yard. A simple practical guide covering a range of topics.
Lawns into Meadows, Owen Wormser. Growing a regenerative landscape. Why mow?
Edible Landscaping with a Permaculture Twist, Michael Judd. Have your yard and eat it too. We also have Judd's book on how to grow pawpaws.
Fresh Food from Small Spaces, The Square Inch Gardener's Guide to Year-Round Growing, Fermenting, and Spouting, R.J. Rupenthal. Great resource for apartment dwellers. See a comparison to other gardening books here.
Farming While Black, Leah Penniman. Soul Fire farm's practical guide to liberation on the land. A 2020 Best Book Read.
The Whole Okra, Chris Smith. A roving and rich collection of okra history, lore, recipes, advice, etc.
The Tao of Vegetable Gardening, Carol Deppe. Cultivating tomatoes, greens, peas, beans, joy and serenity. One of our standard How-To-Garden books, which can be found here.
Books That Cope with Climate Catastrophe
The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson. A rare combination of speculative fiction and a roadmap of what saving the planet could look like. See the review Speculating for the Future on our companion blog. Now in paperback.
The End of the End of the Earth: Essays by Jonathan Franzen. Read a review in the Destination: Books blog. Franzen may be a misanthrope, but he's our misanthrope. This book has a new epilogue, where Franzen offers some useful insights in how to cope.
Electrify: An Optimist's Playbook For Your Clean Energy Future by Saul Griffith. An optimistic, non technical book that proposes a new way of thinking about the climate problem. Read a review in the Destination: Books blog.