Alice Waters
Alice Waters is the visionary chef and owner of Chez Panisse in Berkeley, California. She is the author of four cookbooks, including Chez Panisse Vegetables and Fanny at Chez Panisse. In 1994 she founded the Edible schoolyard at Berkeley’s Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School, a model curriculum that integrates organic gardening into academic classes and into the life of the school; it will soon incorporate a school lunch program in which students will prepare, serve, and share food they grow themselves, augmented by organic dairy products, grains, fruits, vegetables, meat, and fish – all locally and sustainably produced.
Chez Panisse Vegetables
Chez Panisse Café Cookbook
In the Green Kitchen: Techniques to Learn by Heart
Eliot Coleman
Eliot Coleman is one of America’s leading practitioners of organic gardening and farming. He has pioneered a “plant-positive” approach to horticulture that surpasses chemical-dependent agriculture in every way??producing vegetables that are exceptionally nutritious, delicious, and healthy. His Chelsea Green books include The New Organic Grower and Four-Season Harvest. With his wife Barbara Damrosch he farms in Harborside, Maine, on land that was part of the homestead of Helen and Scott Nearing.
The Winter Harvest Handbook: Year Round Vegetable Production Using Deep Organic Techniques and Unheated Greenhouses
The New Organic Grower: A Master’s Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market Gardener (A Gardener’s Supply Book)
Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long
Elizabeth Henderson
At age 36, Henderson retired from the university and started to farm. “I had been making my living by teaching at a university,” Henderson recalls. “Instead, I wanted to live in a way that was in concert with my beliefs about the environment and community.” Henderson spent about eight years in a homesteading-like arrangement at Unadilla Farm in Gill, Mass., a period she describes as an apprenticeship in learning how to grow vegetables. She and her partner grew a range of garden crops on about four acres of raised beds, keeping many for their own use but also marketing to restaurants, food co-ops, farmers markets and directly to neighbors.
Sharing the Harvest: A Citizen’s Guide to Community Supported Agriculture, Revised and Expanded
Whole Farm Planning: Ecological Imperatives, Personal Values, and Economics
Joan Dye Gussow
Joan Dye Gussow, EdD, is Mary Swartz Rose Professor emerita and former chair of the Nutrition Education Program at Teachers College, Columbia University, where she has been a long-time analyst and critic of the U.S. food system. In her classic 1978 book The Feeding Web: Issues in Nutritional Ecology, which tracked the environmental hazards of an increasingly globalizing food system, she foreshadowed by several decades the current interest in relocalizing the food supply.
Growing, Older: A Chronicle of Death, Life, and Vegetables
This Organic Life: Confessions of a Suburban Homesteader
Chicken Little, Tomato Sauce and Agriculture: Who Will Produce Tomorrow’s Food? (Toes Book)
Joel Salatin
Joel Salatin is a fourth-generation farmer and co-founder of Polyface Farm Inc. He is the author of “$alad Bar Beef”, “You Can Farm”, “Pastured Poultry Profit$”, and “Family Friendly Farming”.
You Can Farm: The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Start & Succeed in a Farming Enterprise
Pastured Poultry Profits
Salad Bar Beef
Family Friendly Farming: A Multi-Generational Home-Based Business Testament
John Ikerd
Professor Emeritus of Agricultural Economics
University of Missouri Columbia
College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources
Crisis and Opportunity: Sustainability in American Agriculture (Our Sustainable Future)
Sustainable Capitalism: A Matter of Common Sense
A Return to Common Sense
Michael Pollan
Michael Pollan is the author of five books: Second Nature, A Place of My Own, The Botany of Desire, which received the Borders Original Voices Award for the best nonfiction work of 2001 and was recognized as a best book of the year by the American Booksellers Association and Amazon, and the national bestsellers, The Omnivore’s Dilemma, and In Defense of Food. A longtime contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine, Pollan is also the Knight Professor of Journalism at UC Berkeley. His writing on food and agriculture has won numerous awards, including the Reuters/World Conservation Union Global Award in Environmental Journalism, the James Beard Award, and the Genesis Award from the American Humane Association.
The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto
The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World
Neal Kinsey
Neal Kinsey travels around the world consulting in and teaching the Albrecht methods of soil fertility balancing. His understanding of macro- and micronutrient balance in the soil is unmatched. Always presents practical, hands-on information.
Shannon Hayes
Shannon Hayes writes and farms with three generations of her family on Sap Bush Hollow Farm in West Fulton, NY, where she grew up. The family raises all-natural grassfed lamb, beef, pork, and poultry. She holds a BA in creative writing from Binghamton University, and a Masters and PhD in Sustainable Agriculture and Community Development from Cornell.
Radical Homemakers: Reclaiming Domesticity from a Consumer Culture
The Farmer and the Grill: A Guide to Grilling, Barbecuing and Spit-Roasting Grassfed Meat…and for saving the planet one bite at a time
The Grassfed Gourmet Cookbook: Healthy Cooking & Good Living with Pasture Raised Foods
Dr. Vandana Shiva
A world-renowned environmental leader and recipient of the 1993 Alternative Nobel Peace Prize (the Right Livelihood Award), Shiva has authored several bestselling books, most recently Earth Democracy. Activist and scientist, Shiva leads, with Ralph Nader and Jeremy Rifkin, the International Forum on Globalization. Before becoming an activist, Shiva was one of India’s leading physicists.
Monocultures of the Mind: Perspectives on Biodiversity and Biotechnology
Staying Alive: Women, Ecology, and Development (South End Press Classics)
Woody Tasch
Woody Tasch is Chairman and Founder of Slow Money, a 501(c)3 non-profit formed in 2008 to catalyze the flow of investment capital to small food enterprises and to promote new principles of fiduciary responsibility to support sustainable agriculture and the emergence of a restorative economy. Tasch is Chairman Emeritus of Investors’ Circle, a nonprofit network of investors that has facilitated the flow of $130 million to 200 sustainability minded, early stage companies and venture funds. He is an experienced venture-capital investor and entrepreneur, he has served on numerous for-profit and non-profit boards, and was founding chairman of the Community Development Venture Capital Alliance, which supports venture investing in economically disadvantaged regions.
Inquiries Into the Nature of Slow Money: Investing as if Food, Farms, and Fertility Mattered
