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Gardening

•    The Market Gardener: A Successful Grower's Handbook for Small-Scale Organic Farming by Jean-Martin Fortier
•    The Seed Garden: The Art and Practice of Seed Saving by Lee Buttala, Sanyn Siegel, and Jared Zystro
•    The Winter Harvest Handbook: Year Round Vegetable Production Using Deep-Organic Techniques and Unheated Greenhouses
     by Eliot Coleman
•    Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long by Eliot Coleman
•    Sustainable Market Farming: Intensive Vegetable Production on a Few Acres by Pam Dawling
•    How to Grow a School Garden: A Complete Guide for Parents and Teachers by Arden Bucklin-Sporer and Rachel Pringle
•    The Backyard Homestead: Produce all the food you need on just a quarter acre! by Carleen Madigan
•    All New Square Foot Gardening: Grow More in Less Space by Mel Bartholomew
•    Food Not Lawns: How to turn Your Yard into a Garden and Your Neighborhood into a Community by Toby Hemenway
•    Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture by Toby Hemenway
•    Down & Dirty: 43 Fun & Funky First-Time Projects and Activities to Get You Gardening by Ellen Zachos


Food & Food Justice

•    Closing the Food Gap:  Resetting the Table in the Land of Plenty by Mark Winn
•    Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
•    Wild Fermentation: The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-Culture Foods by Sandor Ellix Katz
•    Simply in Season: World Community Cookbook by Mary Beth Lind and Cathleen Hockman-Wert
•    Harvesting Justice: Transforming Food, Land, and Agricultural Systems in the Americas by Tory Field and Beverly Bell
•    The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
•    Simply in Season Leader's Study Guide by Rachel Miller-Moreland (available as a free download)
•    Food and Faith: Justice, Joy and Daily Bread by Michael Schut, ed.
•    Food for Life: The Spirituality and Ethics of Eating by L. Shannon Jung
•    This Organic Life: Confessions of a Suburban Homesteader by Joan Dye Gussow
•    Ending Hunger Now: A Challenge to Persons of Faith by George S. McGovern


Justice Issues

•    Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
•    The Color of Food: Stories of Race, Resilience and Farming by Natasha Bowen
•    Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities by Rebecca Solnit
•    What Every Church Member Should Know About Poverty by Bill Ehlig and Ruby Payne
•    365 Ways to Change the World:  How to Make a Difference-One Day at A Time by Michael Norton
•    The Working Poor: Invisible in America by David K. Shipler
•    Building Communities from the Inside Out: A Path Toward Finding and Mobilizing a Community's Assets by John P. Kretzmann and
     John L. McKnight
•    God's Renewed Creation: Call to Hope and Action Study Guides and study guides by Council of Bishops


Worship Resources

•    Earth Prayers From Around the World by Elizabeth Roberts and Elias Amidon, eds.
•    The Green Bible published by Harper Collins Publishers
•    Harvest for the World:  A Worship Anthology on Sharing in the World of Creation by Geoffrey Duncan, ed.
•    Hunger for the World: Lectionary Reflections on Food and Justice, Years A, B, & C by Larry Holler
•    On Frequent Journeys: Worship Resources on Uprooted Peoples by Rebekah Chevalier, ed.

 

Children & Youth

•    Before We Eat: From Farm to Table by Pat Brisson & Mary Azarian
•    Compost Stew: An A to Z Recipe for the Earth by Mary McKenna Siddals
•    To Market, To Market by Nikki McClure
•    Wiggling Worms at Work by Wendy Pfeffer
•    The Kids Guide to Social Action by Barbara Lewis
•    Herb, The Vegetarian Dragon by Jules Bass and Debbie Harter
•    What Do You Stand For, for Teens: A Guide to Building Character by Barbara Lewis
•    What Do You Stand For, for Kids: A Guide to Building Character by Barbara Lewis
•    God Speaks to Us in Feeding Stories by Mary Ann Getty-Sullivan
•    Everybody Cooks Rice by Norah Dooley
•    Simply in Season: Children's Cookbook by Mark Beach and Julie Kauffman
•    The Beeman by Laurie Krebs and Valeria Cis
•    A World of Faith:  Introducing Spiritual Traditions for Teens by Carolyn Pogue
•    Ready Set Grow by Deborah Lock
•    Inch by Inch: The Garden Song by David Mallett
•    Kids Garden: The Anytime, Anyplace Guide to Sowing and Growing Fun by Avery Hart and Paul Mantell
•    Kids Care!: 75 Ways to Make a Difference for People, Animals & the Environment by Rebecca Olien
•    Our Community Garden by Barbara Pollak
•    Living Simply with Children by Marie Sherlock
•    Beatrice's Goat by Page McBrier