Thanks to everyone who sent in ideas for this extended reading list!
Listen
Building Autonomous Food Production and Neighborhood Survival: An Interview With Lobelia Commons (It’s Going Down)
The Largest Farmer Strike in History is Underway in India (Partisan Gardens)
It’s a Good Time to Plant a Garden (Propaganda By The Seed)
Potting Mix: An Ode to the Earth (Mix by Sienna Fekete)
Watch
Chicken Tenders (Sarah Lewison & Carbondale Spring)
Growers and Protectors (Talking Wings Collective)
Sandorkraut (Emily Lobsenz & Ann Husaini)
Escape from Empire: Agroecological Autonomy in European Peripheries (Simon Popay)
Learn
Soil Structure (Angelina Dreem)
The Dirt Gems (Anne Louise Burdett & Chelsea Granger)
Rewilding (Joshua Sterlin)
The Best Regional Books for Plant Identification and Foraging Wild Foods and Herbs (Meghan Gemma, Sarah Sorci, & Juliet Blankespoor)
Notes on Growing Tomatoes (Farmacie Isolde)
Perennial Vegetables: A Neglected Resource for Biodiversity, Carbon Sequestration, and Nutrition (Eric Toensmeier, Rafter Ferguson, & Mamta Mehra)
How to Make Biomass Energy Sustainable Again (Kris De Decker)
Read
The Serviceberry (Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Braiding Sweetgrass and Gathering Moss)
How Ancient Forest Gardens Are Keeping Hunger At Bay (Tesfa-Alem Tekle)
Hope and Mangroves (Dipika Mukherjee)
The Fertilizer Solution Has Become a Major Climate Problem (Emma Bryce)
Planet Farm (Rob Wallace, author of Big Farms Make Big Flu)
The US Agriculture System is a Disaster for Farmworkers and the Planet (Doug Henwood in conversation with Tom Philpott, author of Perilous Bounty: The Looming Collapse of American Farming and How We Can Prevent It)
Small Family Farms Aren’t the Answer (Chris Newman)
How to Plant the Forests of the Future (Lauren E. Oakes)
Tiny Algae and the Political Theater of Planting One Trillion Trees (Benjamin Cooley)
Decision Trees (Jason Rhys Parry)
From the Anthropocene to the Microbiocene (Tobias Rees)
Eating As Dialogue, Food As Technology (Hannah Landecker)
The Gift of Ecological Humility (Leah Penniman, author of Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm's Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land)
This Land Was Made (Ama Codjoe)
The Soil Stripped Bare (Lynne Peskoe-Yang)
In a Shrinking World, What Will We Pass on to Our Children? (Mary Annaïse Heglar)
A Brief History of Consumer Culture (Kerryn Higgs, author of Collision Course: Endless Growth on a Finite Planet)
The Living is Easy (Sarah Jaffe reviews Kate Soper’s Post-Growth Living: For an Alternative Hedonism)
We Must Leave Growth Behind (David Wallace-Wells in conversation with Vaclav Smil, author of Growth: From Microorganisms to Megacities)
Remembering My Friend Barry Lopez (Bob Shacochis)
How to Decolonize the Atmosphere (Holly Jean Buck)
The Inward Migration in Apocalyptic Times (Alexis Wright)
Reindeer at the End of the World (Bathsheba Demuth)
Decolonizing Ecology (Jade Delisle)
Property Does Not Stand Above the Earth (Andreas Malm, author of How to Blow Up a Pipeline)
Slag Heaps (Marion Henry & Brunella Danna-Allegrini)
What Might Mushroom Hunters Teach the Doctors of Tomorrow? (Anna Harris & Lisa Herzog)
Where Nature Ends and Settlements Begin (Jumana Manna)