Below is some of the inventory that we will have for sale at the Freedom Farmer's Market at the Carter Center, on Saturday morning, December 4, 2021.
Books from Chelsea Green Publishing
For more details about these books go to the Chelsea Green Publishing website. The employee-owned company specializes in books on nature, gardening, and sustainable living.
Defending Beef: The Ecological and Nutritional Case for Meat (2ed.), Nicolette Hahn Namm.
The Living Soil Handbookk: 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.
The Ecological Gardener, Matt Rees-Warren. More about the aesthetical and ecological aspect of gardens instead of vegetable growing.
Tiny Victory Gardens, Acadia Tucker. Growing food without a yard. A simple practical guide covering a range of topics.
The Regenerative Grower's Guide to Garden Amendments, Nigel Palmer. Using locally sourced materials to make mineral and biological extracts and ferments. For the serious.
Year-Round Indoor Salad Gardening, Peter Burke. How to Grow Nutrient-Dense, Soil-Sprouted Greens in Less Than 10 Days.
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. (Sold out)
Fresh Food from Small Spaces, R.J. Rupenthal. The Square Inch Gardener's Guide to Year-Round Growing, Fermenting, and Spouting. Great resource for apartment dwellers.
In Search of Mycotopia, Doug Bierend. Citizen Science, Fungi Fanatics and the Untapped Potential of Mushrooms. A look into the culture of mushroom growers. More about this book and Tradd Cotter's Organic Mushroom Farming and Mycroremediation and be found in the article "Mushroom Variety" on the Destination:Books blog.
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 Seed Underground, Janisse Ray. The importance of sees for our health and food security. A poet writing about seeds.
The Tao of Vegetable Gardening, Carol Deppe. Cultivating tomatoes, greens, peas, beans, joy and serenity.
Other related titles from different publishers:
The Secret History of Food: Strange But True Stories about the Origins of Everything We Eat, Matt Siegal.
Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food From Sustainable to Suicidal, Mark Bittman. Hmmm. A history as opposed to a secret history.
Women on Nature edited by Katherine Norbury. An anthology that collects together the work of women, over the centuries and up to the present day, who have written about the natural world in Britain, Ireland and the outlying islands.
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Change Our Future, Merlin Sheldrake. A Destination: Books standard.
The Comic Book Guide to Growing Food, Joseph Tychonievich and Liz Anna Kozik.
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, Robin Wall Kimmerer. Another book that people talk about when they visit the pop-up booth.
Books That Cope with Climate Catastrophe (with a hint of optimism)
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.
And for children
Big Book of Blooms, Yuval Zommer. Illustrations of the most colorful, flamboyant, and unusual flowers from across the globe.
Honeybee: The Busy Life of API Melifera, Candace Fleming and Eric Rohmann.
Wangara Maathai: The Woman Who Planted Millions of Trees, Franck Prevot and Aurélia Fronty
Books about Books
(keep in mind books take you to new destinations as well)
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu by Joshua Hammer. How some of the world's precious manuscripts were saved by some dedicated and brave librarians in Mali. (Sold out)
Against Amazon and Other Essays by Jorge Carriòn (Reviewed here on our companion blog)
The Book Shopper by Murray Browne
So Many Books by Gabriel Zaid
Bookshops by Jorge Carriòn
When Carriòn writes about book culture you will be transported to faraway book destinations.