Reading Suggestions


Community Gardening (Brooklyn Botanic Garden All-Region Guide)
By Elizabeth Tehle Peters (Editor), Ellen Kirby (Editor)

City Bountiful: A Century of Community Gardening in America By Laura J. Lawson

Growing Stuff: An Alternative Guide to Gardening by Black Dog Publishing

Slow Food Nation: Why Our Food Should Be Good, Clean, And Fair by Carlo Petrini

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

The Omnivore's Dilemma for Kids: The Secrets Behind What You Eat by Michael Pollan

Second Nature: A Gardener's Education by Michael Pollan

In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan

Food Inc.: A Participant Guide: How Industrial Food is Making Us Sicker, Fatter, and Poorer-And What You Can Do About It by Participant Media (Editor), Karl Weber (Editor)

Animal Factory: The Looming Threat of Industrial Pig, Dairy, and Poultry Farms to Humans and the Environment by David Kirby

Closing the Food Gap: Resetting the Table in the Land of Plenty By Mark Winne

Eat Where You Live: How to Find and Enjoy Fantastic Local and Sustainable Food No Matter Where You Live by Lou Bendrick

Grace from the Garden: Changing the World One Garden at a Time by Debra Landwehr Engle