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, September 25, 2021. Our Destination: Van is being loaded...
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 Handback: 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.
Grounded, Liz Zorab. A British gardener's (4 year) journey to abundance and self-sufficiency.
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.
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.
Burn, Albert Bates and Kathleen Draper. Innovative thinking and experimentation for turning carbon from nemesis to ally.
The Tao of Vegetable Gardening, Carol Deppe. Cultivating tomatoes, greens, peas, beans, joy and serenity.
Other related titles from different publishers:
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest, Suzanne Simard.
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Change Our Future, Merlin Sheldrake.
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, Robin Wall Kimmerer.
Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food From Sustainable to Suicidal, Mark Bittman.
Books That Cope with Climate Catastrophe
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.
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.
And for children
The Comic Book Guide to Growing Food, Joseph Tychonievich and Liz Anna Kozik
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.
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.