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Exploring community history seriesBerry, Wendell
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 630.973 BERSummary: Fresh celebrates the farmers, thinkers and business people across America who are re-inventing our food system. Forging healthier, sustainable alternatives, they offer a practical vision for a future of our food and our planet. Among others, Fresh features urban farmer and activist Will Allen, sustainable farmer and entrepreneur Joel Salatin, and supermarket owner David Ball.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ripple Effect Productions 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FREHurt, R. Douglas.
Summary: "A how-to-do-it book for local historians...for writing the history of a farm." Discusses oral history, using photographs, and the importance of farm architecture. Suggests major sources, appropriate techniques for research at libraries and state historical societies, and how to write the history.--Book jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Krieger Pub. Co. 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 907.2 HURKelley, Margot Anne
Summary: "Ever wonder if there's a better way to live, work, and eat? You're not alone. Here is the story of five back-to-the-land movements, from 1840 to present day, when large numbers of utopian-minded people in the United States took action to establish small-scale farming as an alternative to mainstream agriculture. Then and now, it's the story of people striving to live freely and fight injustice,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Godine 2022
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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: 334 KELHanson, Victor Davis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 630 HANBerry, Wendell
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint Press 1981
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Since 1842, American Agriculturist has served Northeast producers with information to help them maximize their productivity and profitability. Each issue is packed with information, ideas, news and analysis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [American Agriculturist] 1976
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Bittman, Mark
Summary: "From hunting and gathering to GMOs and ultraprocessed foods, this expansive tour of human history rewrites the story of our species-and points the way to a better future"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 394.1 BITCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Food Bittman 2021Friedman, Andrew
Summary: On a typical evening, in a contemporary American restaurant, a table orders their dinner from a server. It’s an exchange that happens dozens, or hundreds, of times a night—the core transaction that keeps the place churning. In this book, acclaimed chef writer Andrew Friedman slows down time to focus on a single dish at Chicago’s Wherewithall restaurant, following its production and provenances...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 647.95 FRIBarber, Dan
Summary: "Renowned chef Dan Barber introduces a new kind of cuisine that represents the future of American dining in THE THIRD PLATE. Barber explores the evolution of American food from the "first plate," or industrially-produced, meat-heavy dishes, to the "second plate" of grass-fed meat and organic greens, and says that both of these approaches are ultimately neither sustainable nor healthy. Instead,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.302 BARHenderson, Elizabeth
Contents: What is Community Supported Agriculture? -- CSA and the global supermarket -- Creating a CSA -- Choosing a farm or farmer -- The land -- Nurturing a solid core group -- Labor -- Sharers on the farm -- Money matters for CSAs -- Legalities -- To certify or not to certify? -- Community and communications -- Growing the food -- Handling the harvest -- Distributing the harvest -- The weekly share --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea Green 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 334.6830 HENCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 334.6830 HenJager, Ronald.
Summary: The Fate of Family Farming employs a hands-on approach, with much local New England detail, in its exploration of the history and future of American family farming, both as an idea and as an ongoing way of life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of New England 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.16 JAGElmore, Bartow J.
Summary: "A deeply researched and eye-opening history that shows how Monsanto came to have outsized influence over our food system. This is the definitive history of Monsanto, a St. Louis chemical firm that became the world's largest genetically engineered seed enterprise. Monsanto merged with German pharma-biotech giant Bayer in 2018, but its Roundup Ready seeds, introduced twenty-five years ago, are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.7 ELMAnderson, Stephanie (Stephanie Renee)
Summary: "An exploration of the women driving transformative change in America's food system"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "The New Farmer's Almanac Volume VI: Adjustments and Accommodations seeks to recognize our own collective agency in the face of sizable uncertainties. The morphing climate, ongoing culture of land dispossession, continuing global pandemic, shifting and intensifying weather patterns, and migrations of all species--spurned by political and environmental upheaval--are considered within. There is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenhorns 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 630.973 NEWGarcés, Leah
Summary: "The story of factory farmers, rescued farm animals, and rural communities standing up to big corporations and constructing their own new world that will change the way we eat"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Whatley, Booker T.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regenerative Agriculture Association 1987
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Wherever you live - farm, suburb, or even city - The Homesteading Handbook will show you how to embrace a more self-sufficient lifestyle. Learn to plan, plant, and harvest your own organic garden. Enjoy fruits and vegetables year-round by canning, drying, and freezing. Build and install alternate energy devices such as solar panels or geothermal heat pumps. Who doesn't want to shrink their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2014
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 640 GEHGardner, Frank D. (Frank Duane)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 630 GARHesterman, Oran B.
Summary: Describes the dysfunctions in the current food system, from chemical runoff to inhumane treatment of animals, and presents new principles and concrete steps to restructure how food is grown, packaged, delivered, marketed, and sold.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.1 HESGriffith, Nathan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cobblemead Publications 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 630 GRIGayeton, Douglas.
Summary: Educates, engages, and asks people to pay closer attention to how they eat, what they buy, and their responsibly for creating a healthier, safer food system in America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.1 GAYSummary: Crop Dusting promo film for Southern plantation owners; two harshly stereotyped sharecroppers shuffle around in racist caricatures
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1920
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Rich, Sarah.
Summary: Profiles sixteen urban farms located in major metropolitan areas across the country, each operated by individuals and communities committed to sustainable and innovative agriculture.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams 2012