A Culinary Institute of America degree armed Sara Bir with cooking expertise, but it’s her clever writing and inquisitive, experimental mind that make The Fruit Forager’s... Read More

Civilization befell humanity in spurts of luck and cleverness: managing fire, sharing food, affection communicated in the gift of a flower, speech, discovering that a bunch of... Read More

Focusing on a region of the Alps where farming has been a mainstay for millennia, this book examines a successful grassroots movement to ban pesticides. The town of Mals,... Read More

This deliberate and meticulous biography chronicles the life of a remarkable food writer whose self-sufficiency and love of nature placed her ahead of her time. Patience Gray,... Read More

The wave of interest in artisanal and fermented foods has made locally crafted cheeses, beers, and pickles a hot commodity at restaurants and farmers markets. Now preserved... Read More

This engaging, conversational book dispenses life advice for farmers and others who seek to live close to the earth. *Letter to a Young Farmer *is an accumulation of wisdom with... Read More

Heart disease is a national crisis, and the most common treatments don’t lower the risk of death in most cases. Rather than despair, Thomas Cowan meets these devastating... Read More

Rogosa explains how the various kinds of wheat that once flourished across Europe were gradually homogenized. While wheat continues to serve as an important part of the Western... Read More

Two Percent Solutions for the Planet takes a clever approach to environmental problems. Rather than look at overarching solutions, Courtney White compiles fifty examples of... Read More

The Occidental Arts and Ecology Center (formerly the Farallones Institute, and then the Center for Seven Generations) has been pioneering the American organic agriculture... Read More

Independent publishing owes its edgy, authentic reputation to a handful of fiercely original publishers like Chelsea Green, the indisputable leader in crafting beautifully... Read More

Schapiro’s analysis puts science to use in everyday life to reinforce the threat of climate change on the global economy. The costs of climate change are often talked about in... Read More