Agriculture
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Pest Control for Organic Gardening: Natural Methods for Pest and Disease Control for a Healthy Garden
by:
Amber Richards
3.72 avg rating — 90 ratings 
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Growing Perennial Foods: A Field Guide to Raising Resilient Herbs, Fruits, and Vegetables
by:
Acadia Tucker
4.39 avg rating — 131 ratings 7. 
The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Secrets Behind What You Eat
by:
Richie Chevat
4.03 avg rating — 3,513 ratings 7. 
The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
by:
Wendell Berry
4.33 avg rating — 6,466 ratings 
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Picturing California's Other Landscape: The Great Central Valley
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Haggin Museum
4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings 10. 
Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front
by:
Joel Salatin
4.19 avg rating — 2,009 ratings 10. 
Growing Good Food: A Citizen's Guide to Backyard Farming
by:
Acadia Tucker
4.32 avg rating — 113 ratings 14. 
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The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History
by:
Thor Hanson
4.10 avg rating — 3,014 ratings 16. 
Godforsaken Grapes: A Slightly Tipsy Journey through the World of Strange, Obscure, and Underappreciated Wine
by:
Jason Wilson
4.12 avg rating — 468 ratings 
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Monet's Palate Cookbook: The Artist & His Kitchen Garden At Giverny
by:
Aileen Bordman
4.40 avg rating — 85 ratings 19. 
For All the Tea in China: Espionage, Empire and the Secret Formula for the World's Favourite Drink
by:
Sarah Rose
3.78 avg rating — 4,227 ratings 20. 
The Intimate Bond: How Animals Shaped Human History
by:
Brian M. Fagan
3.52 avg rating — 251 ratings 
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Johnny Appleseed and the American Orchard: A Cultural History
by:
William Kerrigan
3.82 avg rating — 51 ratings 
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Agritourism and Nature Tourism in California, 2nd Edition
by:
Holly George
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
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Chasing the Harvest: Migrant Workers in California Agriculture
by:
Gabriel Thompson
4.48 avg rating — 73 ratings 22. 
Brave Old World: A Practical Guide to Husbandry, or the Fine Art of Looking After Yourself
by:
Tom Hodgkinson
3.72 avg rating — 155 ratings 22. 
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
by:
Michael Pollan
4.06 avg rating — 58,655 ratings 22. 
The West without Water: What Past Floods, Droughts, and Other Climatic Clues Tell Us about Tomorrow
by:
B. Lynn Ingram
4.07 avg rating — 148 ratings 
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Growing Joy: The Plant Lover's Guide to Cultivating Happiness
by:
Maria Failla
3.92 avg rating — 272 ratings 22. 
Adasiyyih: The Story of 'Abdu'l-Baha's Model Farming Community
by:
Paul Hanley
4.80 avg rating — 10 ratings 36. 
Imported and American Varieties of Dates in the United States
by:
Donald R. Hodel
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
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Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water
by:
Marc Reisner
4.28 avg rating — 11,660 ratings 
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Folks, This Ain't Normal: A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World
by:
Joel Salatin
4.21 avg rating — 4,556 ratings 
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Farmstead and Artisan Cheeses: A Guide to Building a Business
by:
Barbara Reed
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 41. 
I Am Not a Tractor!: How Florida Farmworkers Took On the Fast Food Giants and Won
by:
Susan L. Marquis
4.32 avg rating — 44 ratings 41. 
Blood in the Fields: Ten Years Inside California's Nuestra Familia Gang
by:
Julia Reynolds
4.11 avg rating — 363 ratings 46. 
The Garden of the World (Western Literature and Fiction Series)
by:
Lawrence Coates
4.12 avg rating — 33 ratings 
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Pests of the Garden and Small Farm: A Grower's Guide to Using Less Pesticide really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 20 ratings
49. 
The Fruit Forager's Companion: Ferments, Desserts, Main Dishes, and More from Your Neighborhood and Beyond
by:
Sara Bir
4.37 avg rating — 41 ratings 
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Natural Enemies Handbook: The Illustrated Guide to Biological Pest Control 4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Muck and Merlot: A Book about Food, Wine and Muddy Boots
by:
Tom Doorley
3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings 52. 
Gardening for the Homebrewer: Grow and Process Plants for Making Beer, Wine, Gruit, Cider, Perry, and More
by:
Wendy Tweten
4.37 avg rating — 19 ratings 
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The Harvest Gypsies: On the Road to The Grapes of Wrath
by:
John Steinbeck
3.94 avg rating — 1,495 ratings 60. 
Weeds of California and Other Western States (2-Volume Set) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Saving Tarboo Creek: One Family’s Quest to Heal the Land
by:
Scott Freeman
3.99 avg rating — 239 ratings 60. 
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A History of Georgia Agriculture, 1732–1860
by:
James C. Bonner
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 
66. 
The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World
by:
Larry Zuckerman
3.61 avg rating — 556 ratings 66. 
Hippie Homesteaders: Arts, Crafts, Music and Living on the Land in West Virginia really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 55 ratings
69. 
Retail Garden Center Manual (University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources, 3492) 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Common Ground on Hostile Turf: Stories from an Environmental Mediator
by:
Lucy Moore
3.72 avg rating — 29 ratings 69. 
Corn Palaces and Butter Queens: A History of Crop Art and Dairy Sculpture 3.37 avg rating — 19 ratings
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The Home Orchard: Growing Your Own Deciduous Fruit and Nut Trees
by:
Chuck A. Ingels
4.32 avg rating — 31 ratings 72. 
The Amazing Monarch: The Secret Wintering Grounds of an Endangered Butterfly
by:
Windle Turley
3.69 avg rating — 29 ratings 72. 
Water at the Roots: Poems and Insights of a Visionary Farmer
by:
Philip Britts
4.01 avg rating — 72 ratings 
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Growing a Better America: Smart, Strong and Sustainable
by:
Chuck Leavell
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings 77. 
The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food
by:
Janisse Ray
4.20 avg rating — 496 ratings 78. 
Seedtime: On the History, Husbandry, Politics and Promise of Seeds
by:
Scott Chaskey
4.02 avg rating — 52 ratings 79. 
Seeds of Change: Six Plants That Transformed Mankind
by:
Henry Hobhouse
3.82 avg rating — 621 ratings 80. 
Saving Seeds, Preserving Taste: Heirloom Seed Savers in Appalachia
by:
Bill Best
3.91 avg rating — 23 ratings 
82. 
Tastes Like Chicken: A History of America's Favorite Bird
by:
Emelyn Rude
3.83 avg rating — 135 ratings 83. 
The Longest Trail: Writings on American Indian History, Culture, and Politics 4.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Lesser Beasts: A Snout-to-Tail History of the Humble Pig
by:
Mark Essig
4.15 avg rating — 861 ratings 85. 
The Populist Moment: A Short History of the Agrarian Revolt in America (Galaxy Books)
by:
Lawrence Goodwyn
3.80 avg rating — 332 ratings 86. 
Garlic, an Edible Biography: How the World's Most Pungent Food Changed the Course of History, Medicine, and Cuisine
by:
Robin Cherry
3.65 avg rating — 106 ratings 
88. 
Pumpkin: The Curious History of an American Icon (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)
by:
Cindy Ott
3.60 avg rating — 116 ratings 
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The Art of Managing Longleaf: A Personal History of the Stoddard-Neel Approach (Wormsloe Foundation Nature Books)
by:
Albert G. Way
4.23 avg rating — 22 ratings 
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The New Farm: Our Ten Years on the Front Lines of the Good Food Revolution
by:
Brent Preston
4.30 avg rating — 915 ratings 
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The Takeover: Chicken Farming and the Roots of American Agribusiness 3.70 avg rating — 10 ratings
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This Blessed Earth: A Year in the Life of an American Family Farm
by:
Ted Genoways
3.84 avg rating — 1,267 ratings 100. 
Mercy For Animals: One Man's Quest to Inspire Compassion and Improve the Lives of Farm Animals
by:
Nathan Runkle
4.54 avg rating — 309 ratings