aggieterpkatie
Swiss Army Wife
I'm heading to the library after work (at 3:30) and plan on finally getting Animal, Vegetable, Miracle. What other books would y'all recommend? I've got a long weekend and plan to get some reading time in! 
What are some good books?
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Are you looking for similar themes to Animal Vegetable Miracle?
I enjoyed Farm City. I also liked Still Life with Chickens. Just a few off the top of my head.
I enjoyed Farm City. I also liked Still Life with Chickens. Just a few off the top of my head.
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aggieterpkatie
Swiss Army Wife
Any good books will do! 
framing fowl
On a mission
Anything by Wendell Berry ~sophisticated prose and philosophical. I also started reading the Foxfire series in the evening with my DH which we've both been enjoying.
Buster
Lovin' The Homestead
Best books I have read over the last couple of years...
Fiction:
The Thirteenth Tale, by Diane Setterfield.
The Convalescent, by Jessica Anthony.
The Inheritance of Loss, by Kiren Desai.
Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro.
Gillead, by Marilynne Robinson.
The Sojourner by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (excellent companion book for AVM)
Nonfiction:
No Impact Man: The Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to Save the Planet, and the Discoveries He Makes About Himself and Our Way of Life in the Process, by Colin Beavan
Eating Animals, by Jonathan Safran Foer
Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan. (excellent nonfiction companion book for AVM)
And of course, anything by my guru Joel Salatin.
Fiction:
The Thirteenth Tale, by Diane Setterfield.
The Convalescent, by Jessica Anthony.
The Inheritance of Loss, by Kiren Desai.
Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro.
Gillead, by Marilynne Robinson.
The Sojourner by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (excellent companion book for AVM)
Nonfiction:
No Impact Man: The Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to Save the Planet, and the Discoveries He Makes About Himself and Our Way of Life in the Process, by Colin Beavan
Eating Animals, by Jonathan Safran Foer
Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan. (excellent nonfiction companion book for AVM)
And of course, anything by my guru Joel Salatin.
If you want some food for thought, try "13 Things That Don't Make Sense". Unless you've taken quite a bit of physics, some of it is thick reading, but it's the kind of book that sticks with you and makes you go "hmmmmm?"
me&thegals
A Major Squash & Pumpkin Lover
Totally agree!framing fowl said:
I also like the Michael Pollan books, especially the Omnivore's Dilemma.
urban dreamer
I wanna farm
The Self Sufficient Life and How to Live it. I LOVE this book!
lorihadams
Always doing laundry
There's another Michael Pollan book....dang what it the title....had Food in the name. Guess I'm not much help huh?
how about the little house series?
how about the little house series?
Buster
Lovin' The Homestead
In Defense of Food, written partly as an antidote to Omnivore. People were afraid to eat anything out of fear of harming animals or contributing the growing co-opting of food by big business or eating something bad for them.lorihadams said:
"Then what CAN I eat???"
This one gives the answer.
Best point he makes is about the evils and unintended consequences of what he calls "nutritionism".
