Community Networks and Resources

Other Good Local organizations

Internet

Urban Farming

Global movements around food sovereighty

  • ‘Second Green Revolution in Africa’ http://www.etcgroup.org/en/node/611
  • The Future of Food video
  • The Future of Food and Seed Vandana Shiva lecture (google video)
  • The Violence of the Green Revolution: Ecological degradation and political conflict in Punjab Vandana Shiva
  • ‘Towards a Green Food System: How Food Sovereignty Can Save the Environment
  • Two Ears of Corn, Ronald Bunch
  • http://www.farmseed.net/home/
  • Slow Food Movement http://www.slowfood.com/
  • Navdanya foundation and school http://www.navdanya.org/


Seeds

  • Seed to Seed by Suzanne Answorth
  • Breed your own vegetables by Carol Deppe
  • Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners, Suzanne Ashworth.
  • Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties Carol Deppe
  • Enduring Seeds: Native American Agriculture and Wild Plant Conservation, Gary Nabhan
  • Where Our Food Comes From: Retracing Nikolay Vavilov’s Quest to End Famine, Nabhan
  • ‘Join the Revolution in Your Own Backyard’ http://onemilliongarden.ning.com/
  • Seed Savers Exchange, The Flower and Herb Exchange, and Native Seed Search
  • Uprising Seeds- local Bellingham organic open-pollinated heirloom seed farm


Food Systems/Local/Small Scale Good Reads

  • Sharing the Harvest: a citizens guide to CSA.
    by Elizabeth Henderson and Robyn Von Eyk
  • The Botany of Desire or The Omnivore’s Dilemna
    Michael Pollen, New York Times writer and U.C. Berkeley Proffessor of Journalism, Pollan has a truly curious mind and a unique way of exploring his topics without an agenda
  • Marketing and Community Relations by Rebecca Bosch
  • Closing the Food Gap by Mark Winne
  • Food Not Lawns by H.C.Flores
  • “Declining Fruit and Vegetable Nutrient Composition: What Is the Evidence?” Hortscience. (Feb 2009) Vol. 44(1) Davis, Donald R
  • Feed the World’ http://ran.org/fileadmin/materials/rainforest_ag/Towards-Green-Food-System.pdf.
  • The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Michael Pollen
  • International Federation of Organic Agricultural Movements http://www.ifoam.org/
  • Another Turn of the Crank, Wendell Berry
  • The One-Straw Revolution, Masanobu Fukuoka
  • In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto, Michael Pollan
  • Myclieum Running by Paul Stamets


Gardening Guides

  • New Organic Grower by Eliot Coleman, Chelsea Green Press An excellent primer on organic methods, written by a delightful Maine character. Coleman grows vegetables for the Blue Hills Farm in upstate New York, and has written extensively about growing in New England
  • The Four Season Harvest by Elliot Coleman
  • The Winter Harvest Handbook by Elliot Coleman
  • How To Grow More Vegetables by John Jeavons
  • The Elements of Organic Gardening by HRH Prince Charles

Prince Charles’s beautifully photographed third book exploring techniques useful to organic and sustainable gardening, including building healthy soil, returning meadows grounds to their original wildflower state, and nurturing and maintaining garden lawns

  • The Forgotten Pollinators by Gary Paul Nabhan, S. Buchmann, An exploration into the lives of our invertebrate companions, their plight and the diversity of plant- life they support. Facinating narratives about indigenous agriculture, wild bees, humingbirds, butterflies etc.
  • Eat Here by Brian Halweil.
  • Worldwatch Press
  • This Worldwatch researcher, Stanford grad and Slow Food chapter leader in Long Island gives a succinct history of local food traditions that are thriving today in America and elsewhere. Hopeful, well written and available at St. George’s School library.

  • Gardening When It Counts, Steve Soloman

  • Gardening West of the Cascades by Steve Soloman


Permaculture/Edible Landscaping

  • The Complete Guide to Edible Landscaping
    Rosalind Creasy illustrations of garden plans, lovely ideas about espaliered fruit trees, often dwarfed for small spaces. Traditional English gardening style with homespun organic ethic and inspired plant combination suggestions.
  • The Permaculture Garden by Graham Bell
  • Gaia’s Garden by Toby Hemenway, Home-scale Permaculture guide. Permaculture is a design system for creating sustainable landscapes. Hemenway is based in the Northwest, but his plant suggestions would work well in Rhode Island.
  • Permaculture One, Bill Mollison and David Holmgren
  • Permaculture for Renters, Leonard Barrett
  • Max Meyers – fusing permaculture and aquaponics, see Mendocino Ecological Learning Center
  • Edible Forest Gardening 1 & 2


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