Recommended Reading
Books
The Project relies on a long list of authors that guide our agricultural practices and institutional knowledge. We recommend the following books to anyone writing a paper or pursuing an interest in home gardening, sustainable agriculture, food politics, or the culinary arts.
HOW TO FARM
Eliot Coleman, The New Organic Grower
Ron L.Engeland, Growing Great Garlic
Deborah L.Martin and Grace Gershuny, The Rodale Book of Composting
Pauline Pears, Rodale’s Illustrated Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening
Alex Podolinsky, Bio Dynamic Agriculture (Introductory Lectures Vol.1)
Rudolf Steiner, What is Biodynamics?
We also have a handy three-page guide to starting your own windowsill garden [PDF].
HOW TO COOK AND BAKE
Annie Berthold-Bond, The Green Kitchen Handbook
Maggie Glezer, Artisan Baking
Jeffrey Hamelman, Bread: A Baker’s Book of Techniques and Recipes
Deborah Madison, Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone
Judy Rodgers and George Asher, The Zuni Café Cookbook: A Compendium of Recipes and Cooking Lessons From San Francisco’s Beloved Restaurant
William Rubel, The Magic of Fire: Hearth Cooking
Alice Waters, The Art of Simple Food
HOW TO THINK ABOUT FOOD POLICY
Kelly Brownell, Food Fight
Kelly Brownell, Rebecca Puhl, Marlene Schwartz, and Leslie Rudd, Weight Bias
Ann Cooper, Bitter Harvest
Trauger Groh and Steve McFadden, Farms of Tomorrow Revisited: Community Supported Farms—Farm Supported Communities
Daniel Imhoff, Food Fight: The Citizen’s Guide to a Food and Farm Bill
Andrew Kimbrell, The Fatal Harvest Reader
Marion Nestle, Food Politics
Marion Nestle, What To Eat
Michael Pollan, The Omnivore’s Dilemma
Joel Salatin, Salad Bar Beef
Louis Bernard Schmidt and Earle Dudley Ross, Readings in the Economic History of American Agriculture
Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation
HOW TO LIVE
Louis Bromfield, Malabar Farm
Louis Bromfield, Pleasant Valley
Scott Chaskey, This Common Ground: Seasons on an Organic Farm
Joan Dye Gussow, This Organic Life
Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A year of food life
Corby Kummer, The Pleasures of Slow Food
David Mas Masumoto, Epitaph for a Peach
Links
If you would like to continue exploring the connections between food, farming, and education, we recommend perusing the websites of the following people and organizations. Each offers the opportunity to become further informed and more involved in sustainable agriculture.
Yale Resources
Agrarian Studies
Food from the Earth
Harvest
Marsh Botanical Gardens
Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Office of Sustainability
Program in Environmental Studies
Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity
School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
Urban Resources Initiative
Yale University Dining Services
New Haven Resources
CitySeed
New Haven Ecology Project
New Haven Land Trust
Resources for Food, Agriculture, and Education
Chef Ann Cooper
Chef Michel Nischan
Chez Panisse Foundation
Community Food Security Coalition
Edible Schoolyard
Farm School
Food Project
Four Season Farm
NOFA Connecticut
NOFA Interstate
Ross School
Slow Food International
Slow Food USA
Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture
