These are a sample of the standard books available at our next pop-up on Saturday morning, May 20th at the Freedom Farmers Market held at the Carter Center in Atlanta.
The Living Soil Handbook: The No-Tillers Growing Guide to Ecological Market Gardening, Jesse Frost. For the serious about soil.
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? A new second edition of his book is now available.
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.
Entangled Species: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Change Our Future by Merlin Sheldrake. A readable fascinating introduction to fungi.
The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms by Amy Stewart (ll things earthworms - funny and informative) and her other book The Drunk Botanist a book where Stewart in her inimitable style writes about plants used for alcohol (like agave).
Plants Are My Favorite People: A Relationship Guide for Plants and Their Parents by Alessa Resta. A colorful, informative guide of turning your apartment into an arboretum.
Farming While Black, Leah Penniman. Soul Fire farm's practical guide to liberation on the land. A 2020 Best Book Read.
Long Form
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.
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.
The Mushroom at the End of the World by Ann Louwenhapt Tsing. This book hits the sweet spot of a Destination: Books offering—the intersection of sustainability, distant places to visit and good writing. Tsing's book is wide in scope and can be challenging at times, but well worth the effort.