Thursday, April 17, 2014

Earth Day 2014: Farm to Table




On Tuesday, April 22nd, the Athens Campus will host an event called "Farm to Table" in celebration of Earth Day. A free lunch is included for everyone who attends!

The following books--compiled for this event--are available from our libraries in print and digital editions.

Click here for a PDF handout of the list, which also links to our catalog.

Contact us for other recommended readings and resources!



Paul B. Thompson
University Press of Kentucky, 2010

Anne Becher and Joseph Richey
Grey House Pub., 2008

Michelle Obama
Crown Publishers, 2012

Jonathan Bloom
Da Capo Press, 2010

Tracie McMillan
Scribner, 2012

Barbara Kingsolver, with Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver
HarperPerennial, 2008

Warren J. Belasco
Cornell University Press, 2007

Gene Logsdon
Pantheon Books, 1994

Gabrielle Hamilton
Random House, 2011

Paula Dutko, Michele Ver Ploeg, and Tracey Farrigan
U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, 2012

Consulting the Genius of the Place: An Ecological Approach to a New Agriculture
Wes Jackson
Counterpoint, 2011

A Continuous Harmony: Essays Cultural and Agricultural
Wendell Berry
Counterpoint, 2012

Frederick Kirschenmann
University Press of Kentucky, 2010

Alison Hope Alkon and Julian Agyeman, eds.
MIT Press, 2011

R. Ford Denison
Princeton University Press, 2012

Jonathan Safran Foer
Little, Brown and Co., 2009

Carl A. Zimring and William L. Rathje, eds.
SAGE, 2012

Robin Morris Collin and Robert William Collin
Greenwood Press, 2010

Julia Rothman
Storey Pub., 2011

Eric Schlosser
Perennial, 2002

Peter Bellwood
Blackwell, 2005

Justin Kastner
Praeger, 2011

Geoffrey Lawrence, Kristen Lyons, and Tabatha Wallington

Gary H. Holthaus
University Press of Kentucky, 2006

Edward O. Wilson
Vintage Books, 2003

Leslie A. Duram
University of Nebraska Press, 2005

David Farrell, ed.
Nottingham University Press, 2010

Huey D. Johnson
University of Nebraska Press, 2008

Greening the Academy: Ecopedagogy Through the Liberal Arts
Samuel Day Fassbinder, Anthony J. Nocella, and Richard Kahn, eds.
Sense Publishers, 2012

Jennifer Jensen Wallach
Rowman & Littlefield, 2013

Alison Blay-Palmer, ed.
Ashgate, 2010

Ann Vileisis
Island Press/Shearwater Books, 2008

Robert Albritton
Pluto Press, 2009

Locavore Adventures: One Chef's Slow Food Journey
Jim Weaver
Rutgers University Press, 2012

Leslie A. Pray
National Academies Press, 2009

Kathleen Dean Moore and Michael P. Nelson, eds.
Foreword by Desmond Tutu
Trinity University Press, 2010

Richard Louv
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2012

Hugh Acheson
Clarkson Potter, 2011

Michael Pollan
Penguin Press, 2006

Shannon Elizabeth Bell
University of Illinois Press, 2013

Lynn A. Nelson
University of Georgia Press, 2007

David M. Kaplan, ed.
University of California Press, 2012

Neil Goodwin and Judy Crichton, producers
PBS Video, 1993

Matthew Reed
Earthscan, 2010

Lucy Knisley
First Second, 2013

C. Clare Hinrichs and Thomas A. Lyon, eds.
University of Nebraska Press, 2007

Aldo Leopold; Curt Meine, ed.
Library of America, 2013
Noreen Olson; foreword by Will Ferguson
D & M Publishers, 2012

Melinda Joy Miller
Process, 2013

Stan Cox
Pluto Press, 2008

Bob Flowerdew
Skyhorse Pub., 2012

Edward Lee
Artisan, 2013

R.E. Hester and R.M. Harrison, eds.
Royal Society of Chemistry, 2012

David DiBenedetto and the Editors of Garden & Gun
HarperWave, 2013

Rob Cross and Roger Spencer
CSIRO, 2009

David C. Deardoff
Timber Press, 2011

The World Without Us
Alan Weisman
Thomas Dunne Books, 2007

Henry David Thoreau
Library of America, 1985

* image of Winona LaDuke from the White Earth Land Recovery Project; the quote is from her TEDxTC talk, "Seeds of our Ancestors, Seeds of Life" (June 2011), available on YouTube