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!

The Agrarian Vision: Sustainability and Environmental Ethics

Paul B. Thompson

University Press of Kentucky, 2010

American Environmental Leaders: From Colonial Times to the Present

Anne Becher and Joseph Richey

Grey House Pub., 2008

American Grown: The Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America

Michelle Obama

Crown Publishers, 2012

American Wasteland: How America Throws Away Nearly Half of Its Food (and What We Can Do About It)

Jonathan Bloom

Da Capo Press, 2010

The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee's, Farm Fields,

and the Dinner Table

Tracie McMillan

Scribner, 2012

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

Barbara Kingsolver, with Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver

HarperPerennial, 2008

Appetite for Change: How the Counterculture Took on the Food Industry

Warren J. Belasco

Cornell University Press, 2007

At Nature's Pace: Farming and the American Dream

Gene Logsdon

Pantheon Books, 1994

Blood, Bones and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef

Gabrielle Hamilton

Random House, 2011

Characteristics and Influential Factors of Food Deserts

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

Cultivating an Ecological Conscience: Essays from a Farmer Philosopher

Frederick Kirschenmann

University Press of Kentucky, 2010

Cultivating Food Justice: Race, Class, and Sustainability

Alison Hope Alkon and Julian Agyeman, eds.

MIT Press, 2011

Darwinian Agriculture: How Understanding Evolution Can Improve Agriculture

R. Ford Denison

Princeton University Press, 2012

Eating Animals

Jonathan Safran Foer

Little, Brown and Co., 2009

Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste: The Social Science of Garbage

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

SAGE, 2012

Encyclopedia of Sustainability

Robin Morris Collin and Robert William Collin

Greenwood Press, 2010

Farm Anatomy: The Curious Parts and Pieces of Country Life

Julia Rothman

Storey Pub., 2011

Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

Eric Schlosser

Perennial, 2002

The First Farmers: The Origins of Agricultural Societies

Peter Bellwood

Blackwell, 2005

Food and Agriculture Security: An Historical, Multidisciplinary Approach

Justin Kastner

Praeger, 2011

Food Security, Nutrition and Sustainability

Geoffrey Lawrence, Kristen Lyons, and Tabatha Wallington

Earthscan, 2010

Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation
Andrea Wulf
Knopf, 2011

From the Farm to the Table: What All Americans Need to Know About Agriculture

Gary H. Holthaus

University Press of Kentucky, 2006

The Future of Life

Edward O. Wilson

Vintage Books, 2003

Good Growing: Why Organic Farming Works

Leslie A. Duram

University of Nebraska Press, 2005

Great Wealth, Poor Health: Contemporary Issues in Eating and Living

David Farrell, ed.

Nottingham University Press, 2010

Green Illusions: The Dirty Secrets of Clean Energy and the Future of Environmentalism

Ozzie Zehner

University of Nebraska Press, 2012

Green Plans: Blueprint for a Sustainable Earth

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

How America Eats: A Social History of U.S. Food and Culture

Jennifer Jensen Wallach

Rowman & Littlefield, 2013

Imagining Sustainable Food Systems: Theory and Practice

Alison Blay-Palmer, ed.

Ashgate, 2010

Kitchen Literacy: How We Lost Knowledge of Where Food Comes From and Why We Need to Get It Back

Ann Vileisis

Island Press/Shearwater Books, 2008

Let Them Eat Junk: How Capitalism Creates Hunger and Obesity

Robert Albritton

Pluto Press, 2009

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

Managing Food Safety Practices from Farm to Table

Leslie A. Pray

National Academies Press, 2009

Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril

Kathleen Dean Moore and Michael P. Nelson, eds.

Foreword by Desmond Tutu

Trinity University Press, 2010

The Nature Principle: Reconnecting with Life in a Virtual Age

Richard Louv

Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2012

A New Turn in the South

Hugh Acheson

Clarkson Potter, 2011

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

Michael Pollan

Penguin Press, 2006

Our Roots Run Deep as Ironweed: Appalachian Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice

Shannon Elizabeth Bell

University of Illinois Press, 2013

Pharsalia: An Environmental Biography of a Southern Plantation, 1780-1880

Lynn A. Nelson

University of Georgia Press, 2007

The Philosophy of Food

David M. Kaplan, ed.

University of California Press, 2012

Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (streaming video)

Neil Goodwin and Judy Crichton, producers

PBS Video, 1993

Rebels for the Soil: The Rise of the Global Organic Food and Farming Movement

Matthew Reed

Earthscan, 2010

Relish: My Life in the Kitchen

Lucy Knisley

First Second, 2013

Remaking the North American Food System: Strategies for Sustainability

C. Clare Hinrichs and Thomas A. Lyon, eds.

University of Nebraska Press, 2007

A Sand County Almanac and Other Writings on Ecology and Conservation

Aldo Leopold; Curt Meine, ed.

Library of America, 2013

The School Bus Doesn't Stop Here Anymore: Life and Times on a Rural Route

Noreen Olson; foreword by Will Ferguson

D & M Publishers, 2012

Shamanic Gardening: Timeless Techniques for the Modern Sustainable Garden

Melinda Joy Miller

Process, 2013

Sick Planet: Corporate Food and Medicine

Stan Cox

Pluto Press, 2008

Simple Green Pest and Disease Control

Bob Flowerdew

Skyhorse Pub., 2012

Smoke & Pickles: Recipes and Stories from a New Southern Kitchen

Edward Lee

Artisan, 2013

Soils and Food Security

R.E. Hester and R.M. Harrison, eds.

Royal Society of Chemistry, 2012

The Southerner's Handbook: A Guide to Living the Good Life

David DiBenedetto and the Editors of Garden & Gun

HarperWave, 2013

Sustainable Gardens

Rob Cross and Roger Spencer

CSIRO, 2009

What’s Wrong with My Vegetable Garden?: 100% Organic Solutions for All Your Vegetables, from Artichokes to Zucchini

David C. Deardoff

Timber Press, 2011

The World Without Us
Alan Weisman

Thomas Dunne Books, 2007

Walden, or, Life in the Woods (and other works)

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