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Berry, Wendell. The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1977.

Coleman, Eliot. The New Organic Grower: A Master’s Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market Gardener. Halifax: Nimbus Publishing, 1995.

———. Four Season Harvest. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing, 1999.

———. The Winter Harvest Handbook: Year-Round Vegetable Production Using Deep Organic Techniques and Unheated Greenhouses. White River Junction,VT: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2009.

Desmarais, Annette A. La Via Campesina: Globalization and the Power of Peasants. Halifax: Fernwood Publishing, 2007.

Diamond, Jared M. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. Los Angeles: Viking Press, 2005.

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Gershuny, Grace, and Joe Smillie. The Soul of Soil: A Soil Building Guide for Master Gardeners and Farmers. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing, 1999.

Gilkeson, Linda. Natural Insect, Weed and Disease Control. Indiana: Trafford Publishing, 2006.

Herriot, Carolyn. The Zero Mile Diet: A year round guide to growing organic food. Madeira Park, BC: Harbour Publishing, 2010.

Heyasson, D.G. The Vegetable Expert. London: Expert, 1997.

Howard, Ronald J., J. Allen Garland, and W. Lloyd Seaman. Diseases and Pests of Vegetable Crops in Canada. The Canadian Phytopathological Society and The Entomological Society of Canada, 1994.

Jason, Dan. The Whole Organic Foods Cookbook: Safe, Healthy Harvest from your Garden to your Plate. Vancouver, BC: Raincoast Books, 2001.

Jeavons, John. How to Grow More Vegetables Than you ever Thought Possible on Less Land Than you can Imagine. San Francisco: Ten Speed Press, 1979.

Kingsolver, Barbara. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life. Toronto: HarperCollins Publishers, 2007.

Lappe, Frances Moore. Diet for a Small Planet. New York: Ballantine Books, 1971.

Matthias, Laura. ExtraVeganZa: Original Recipes from Phoenix Organic Farm. Gabriola Island, BC: New Society Publishers, 2006.

Mollison, Bill. Introduction to Permaculture. Tasmania: Tagari Press, 1991 (reprinted 2002).

———. Permaculture: A Designers’ Manual. Tasmania: Tagari Press, 1997.

Nestle, Marion. Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.

Patel, Raj. Stuffed and Starved: Markets, Power, and the Hidden Battle for the World’s Food System. Toronto: HarperCollins Publishers, 2007.

Pollan, Michael. The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals. New York: Penguin, 2006.

———. In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto. New York: Penguin, 2008.

Salatin, Joel. You Can Farm: The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Start and Succeed in a Farming Enterprise. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing, 1998.

———. Pastured Poultry Profit$. Swoope, VA: Polyface Press, 1996.

———. Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal: War Stories From the Local Food Front. Swoope, VA: Polyface Press, 2007.

Schlosser, Eric. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal. Toronto: Houghton Mifflin, 2001.

Shiva, Vandana. Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply. Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2000.

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Solomon, Steve. Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades. Seattle: Sasquatch Books, 1989.

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Films

El Contrato

Food, Inc.

Fresh: New Ideas on what we Eat

From Seed to Seed

The Future of Food (futureoffood.com)

Island on the Edge (dvcuisine.com/dvds/island-on-the-edge)

King Corn (kingcorn.net)

Living Lightly

Outstanding in her Field, 1994. (youtube.com/watch?v=ibOBBSO9M5k&feature=related)

The Real Dirt on Farmer John (angelicorganics.com/therealdirt/)

Seeds of Change (seedsofchangefilm.org)