Links to Resources on Sustainable Agriculture

In The Coming Aristocracy, Oliver DeMille details America’s trend toward aristocracy and its dire consequences.

Perhaps no other industry is as aristocratic as industrial food production.

As a Georgics-loving, passionate gardener and an advocate of locavorism and sustainable agriculture, I’ve been studying this topic for a couple years.

I’ll be publishing more articles on the topic in the future, but for now I wanted to share the following links with the community.

If nothing else, exploring these resources will make you a more aware citizen. If you feel mission-driven toward sustainable agriculture systems, I encourage you to explore these in depth.

Books:

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• Everything I Want to Do is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front by Joel Salatin
• In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto by Michael Pollan
• The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan
• Wisdom of the Last Farmer by David Mas Masumoto
• The Other Greeks: The Small Family Farm & the Agrarian Roots of Western Civilization by Victor Davis Hanson
• The End of Food by Paul Roberts
• Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver

Films & Television

• Food, Inc.
• The Future of Food
• Fresh
• King Corn
• Supersize Me
• The Garden
• Homegrown
• Homegrown Revolution
• Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution
• Food Matters
• The World According to Monsanto
• Simply Raw
• Bad Seed: The Truth About Our Food

Urban Food Production

• Urban Homestead
• Backyard Farming
• Urban Homesteading
• Backyard Food Production

Sustainable Agriculture Thought Leaders

• Jules Dervaes
• Joel Salatin
• Michael Pollan
• Will Allen
• Alice Waters
• Anna Lappe
• Raj Patel
• Eliot Coleman

Seeds

• Seed Savers
• Freedom Seeds

Local Involvement & Gardening Resources

• Shared Earth
• Urban Gardening Help
• Sustainable Table
• Square Foot Gardening
• Earth Box

Organizations/Associations

• Growing Power
• Organic Consumers
• Small Planet
• Land Institute

Farms

• Polyface Farms
• Four Seasons Farm
• Pine View Farms

Online Forum

• Freedom Gardens

Online Store

• Peddler’s Wagon

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Stephen Palmer is a book writer for mission-driven leaders, a small business lead generation website design architect and persuasive website copywriter, a co-founder of The Center for Social Leadership, and the author of Uncommon Sense: A Common Citizen’s Guide to Rebuilding America.

He co-authored the New York Times bestseller Killing Sacred Cows: Overcoming the Financial Myths that are Destroying Your Prosperity, as well as Hub Mentality: Shifting from Business Transactions to Community Interaction.

He is a liberal-arts graduate of George Wythe University and a graduate and faculty member of the “non-traditional business school” Wizard Academy.

Stephen resides in Round Rock, Texas with his gorgeous wife Karina, awesome son Alex, and princess daughters Libby, Avery, and Laela.

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