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  • From: Keith Johnson <keithdj@mindspring.com>
  • To: BPG <bloomingtonpermacultureguild@lists.riseup.net>, openpermaculture <permaculture@openpermaculture.org>, Permaculture ibiblio <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [permaculture] books and resources on food (from relocalization.net)
  • Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 12:29:31 -0400

Enriching the Earth: Fritz Haber, Carl Bosch and the Transformation of World Food Production by Vaclav Smil, Cambridge, Massachussets: MIT Press.

From the Ground up: Rethinking Industrial Agriculture by Peter Goering, Helena Norberg-Hodge and John Page, London: Zed Books Ltd.

Bringing the Food Economy Home: Local Alternatives to Global Agribusiness by Helena Norberg-Hodge, Todd Merrifield and Steven Gorelick, London: Zed Books Ltd.

The Subsistence Perspective: Beyond the Globalized Economy by Veronika Bennholdt-Thomsen and Maria Mies, London: Zed Books Ltd.

Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet by Frances Moore Lappe and Anna Lappe, New York: Penguin Putnam Inc.

Eat Here: Homegrown Pleasures in a Global Supermarket by Brian Halweil, New York: W.W. Norton & Company.

Coming Home to Eat: The Pleasures and Politics of Local Goods by Gary Paul Nabhan, Norton Paperbacks.

Why Some Like it Hot: Food, Genes and Cultural Diversity by Gary Paul Nabhan, Washington D.C.: Island Press.

-Slow Food-

Slow Food: Collected Thoughts on Taste, Tradition, and the Honest Pleasures of Food by Slow Food Movement (Corporate Author), Carlo Petrini (Editor), Benjamin Watson (Editor) Slow Food Movement. 2001. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing.

In Praise of Slowness: How a Worlwide Movement is Challenging the Cult of Speed by Carl Honore 2004. Toronto: Vintage Canada.
<http://www.relocalize.net/resources/food#Contents>
-Community Supported Agriculture-

Farms of Tomorrow Revisited: Community Supported Farms Farm Supported Communities by Trauger Groh and Steven McFadden. Junction City, OR: Biodynamic Farming and Gardening Association. (www.biodynamics.com <http://www.biodynamics.com>)

DVDs

The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil - Community Solutions

The Future of Food -- by Deborah Koons Garcia

Click here <http://www.relocalize.net/resources/outreach/screenings> to view resources for organizing screenings.

Web
General

Slow Food International <http://www.slowfood.com>
www.slowfood.com

Organic Consumers Association <http://www.organicconsumers.org>
www.organicconsumers.org

National Center for Home Food Preservation <http://www.uga.edu/nchfp/index.html>
www.uga.edu/nchfp

EarthSave International <http://earthsave.org> - EarthSave promotes a shirt to a healthy plant-based diet.
earthsave.org

The Soil Association <http://www.soilassociation.org> - The UK's leading environmental charity promoting sustainable, organic farming and championing human health. Browse relevant info on organic, local produce, farmers markets and other related issues.
www.soilassociation.org

Local Harvest <http://www.localharvest.org/> - A network of local farmers, farmers markets, grocers, restaurants, and cooperatives across the United States www.localharvest.org

Cooperative Grocers' Information Network <http://www.cgin.coop/> - A collaborative initiative formed by U.S. retail food coops to help them share information and resources www.localharvest.org

NEW!
Click here <http://www.cgin.coop/manual.pdf> to download the PDF copy of an excellent guide by the Cooperative Grocers' Information Network on How to Start a Food Coop.

-Community Food Security-
Community Food Security Coalition <http://www.foodsecurity.org>
www.foodsecurity.org

FoodRoutes <http://foodroutes.org>
www.foodroutes.org

US National Farm to School Program <http://www.farmtoschool.org>
www.farmtoschool.org

List Serves
Living on the Land <http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/livingontheland>
A healthy soil and sustainable growing listserve.
http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/livingontheland

--
Keith Johnson
Permaculture Activist Magazine
PO Box 5516
Bloomington, IN 47408
(812) 335-0383
http://www.permacultureactivist.net
also Patterns for Abundance Design & Consulting
also APPLE-Bloomington (Alliance for a Post-Petroleum Local Economy)
It's a small world after oil.

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