We explore diverse perspectives to create a wide context for understanding our relationship
with food and the environment.
Beekeeping
The Food Initiative manages apiaries at the Campus Garden and River and Field Campus,
and trains students to become beekeepers in an annual spring course.
Books
- Attracting Native Pollinators
- The Beekeeper's Handbook
- A Book of Bees
- Dancing with Bees
- Honeybee Biology and Beekeeping
- Honeybee Democracy
- Honeybee: Lessons from an Accidental Beekeeper
- Natural Beekeeping
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Films
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Composting and Soil Health
Organics recycling is a pillar of our zero waste commitment and advocacy.
Books
- Community-Scale Composting Systems
- Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations
- The Hidden Half of Nature
- The Humanure Handbook
- The Rodale Book of Composting
- Worms Eat My Garbage
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Films
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Culture
We explore how our culture evolved as we seek a new paradigm for food.
Books
- A Language Older Than Words
- A Small Place
- An Island Out of Time
- Collapse
- The Culture of Make Believe
- Deep Green Resistance
- The Dorito Effect
- The End of Nature
- Endgame, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2
- Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal
- Food of a Younger Land
- Founding Gardeners
- The Good Life
- Guns, Germs, and Steel
- Ishmael
- Kitchen Literacy
- The McDonaldization of Society
- The Monkey Wrench Gang
- Nickel and Dimed
- Reindeer Moon
- Robert Cole’s World
- Project Animal Farm
- Sapiens
- Secrets of the Talking Jaguar
- The Story of B
- The Town That Food Saved
- The Unsettling of America
- Upstream
- Walden and Civil Disobedience
- Working in the Shadows
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Films
- The Atomic Cafe
- Baraka
- The Corporation
- Earth 2100
- Everything’s Cool
- The End of the Line
- The End of Poverty?
- Home
- Human Footprint
- Just Eat It
- Koyaanisqatsi
- Life and Debt
- Manufacturing Consent
- Merchants of Doubt
- Planet in Peril
- Radiant City
- Samsara
- Trashed
- The Unforeseen
- Waste Land
- What a Way to Go
- The Yes Men Fix the World
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Ecology
Books
- A Sand County Almanac
- Anthill: A Novel
- Braiding Sweetgrass
- Cows Save the Planet
- Desert Solitaire
- Eaarth
- The Ecology of Commerce
- Kinship with All Life
- The Lost Language of Plants
- The Myth of Progress
- Nature Wars
- Oceans
- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
- Sacred Cow
- Silent Spring
- The Spell of the Sensuous
- The Tracker
- Tree: A Life Story
- The Weather Makers
- The World Without Us
- What We Leave Behind
- Where the Wild Things Were
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Films
- Blue Gold: World Water Wars
- Chasing Coral
- Chasing Ice
- Dirt! The Movie
- Fantastic Fungi
- Flow
- Life After People
- Sacred Cow
- Sacred Planet
- Sharkwater
- Tapped
- Years of Living Dangerously
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Education and Learning
Books
- The Biology of Belief
- Dumbing Us Down
- The Earth Has a Soul
- The Hero with a Thousand Faces
- Into the Forest: A Novel
- Into the Wild
- Last Child in the Woods
- Listening to the Land
- My Ishmael
- The Nature Principle
- Rewild or Die
- Unlearn, Rewild
- The Unschooling Unmanual
- Walking on Water
- The Writer’s Journey
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Films
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Energy and Technology
Technology makes us human, and our focus in the Food Initiative is using appropriate
modern technology to support human and environmental health.
Books
- The Artificial Ape
- Beyond Oil
- Cradle to Cradle
- EMF*D
- Enough
- The Home Energy Diet
- Homeowner’s Guide to Renewable Energy
- The Road to Wigan Pier
- Solar Water Heating
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Films
- The 11th Hour
- Bag It
- Blind Spot
- Blood And Oil
- Blue Vinyl
- Crash Course
- A Crude Awakening
- Crude Impact
- The End of Suburbia
- Fuel
- Gasland
- The Last Mountain
- Manufactured Landscapes
- No Impact Man
- Powaqqatsi – Life in Transformation
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Fermentation, Curing, and Microbes
Books
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- The Noma Guide to Fermentation
- Sacred and Herbal Healing Beers
- Salumi: The Craft of Italian Dry Curing
- Wild Fermentation
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Food Access and Social Justice
Books
- Closing the Food Gap
- The Essential Gandhi
- Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal
- Farming While Black
- Forces for Good
- The Local Economy Solution
- Locally Laid
- Peace Is Every Step
- Rebuilding the Foodshed
- The Seed Underground
- The Social Profit Handbook
- The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved
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Films
- Farmageddon
- Fed Up
- Food, Inc.
- The Future of Food
- Ingredients
- King Corn
- Our Daily Bread
- We Feed the World
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Evolution, Health, and Nutrition
Books
- Adaptogens
- Adrenal Fatigue
- The Big Fat Surprise
- Born to Run
- Breath
- The Bulletproof Diet
- The Carnivore Diet
- The Coconut Oil Miracle
- Could It Be B12?
- The Complete Guide to Fasting
- Cure Tooth Decay
- The Dental Diet
- Diet and Nutrition
- Deep Nutrition
- The Dirt Cure
- Eat Rich, Live Long
- Eating on the Wild Side
- Edible
- Fast Food Nation
- Grain Brain
- Heal Your Body, Cure Your Mind
- Human Heart, Cosmic Heart
- The Inflammation Spectrum
- Keto.
- Lies My Doctor Told Me
- Long Way on a Little
- Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
- The Omnivore’s Dilemma
- The One-Straw Revolution
- The Paleo Approach
- The Paleo Thyroid Solution
- The Plant Paradox
- The Salt Fix
- The Story of the Human Body
- The Wahls Protocol
- Wheat Belly
- Why We Sleep
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Films
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Foraging
The Food Initiative works with wild foods on a routine basis. We recommend reading multiple books and working with a mentor
when learning how to forage.
Books
- Backyard Foraging
- Botany in a Day
- Edible Wild Plants
- Invasive Plant Medicine
- The Forager’s Harvest
- Foraged Flavor
- Foraging and Feasting
- Identifying and Harvesting Edible and Medicinal Plants
- Incredible Wild Edibles
- Native American Food Plants
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- The New Wildcrafted Cuisine
- Stalking the Wild Asparagus
- Stalking the Healthful Herbs
- The Wild Wisdom of Weeds
- Nature’s Garden
- Northeast Foraging
- The Quick Guide to Wild Edible Plants
- Weeds of the Northeast
Film
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Horticulture
Books
- The Backyard Berry Book
- The Backyard Homestead
- Botany for Gardeners
- Botany in a Day
- Bringing Nature Home
- Chesapeake Gardening and Landscaping
- Edible Forest Gardens
- Edible Wild Plants
- Free-Range Chicken Gardens
- Gardening When It Counts
- The Holistic Orchard
- How to Survive the End of the World
- The Living Landscape
- Mediterranean Vegetables
- Noah’s Garden
- Planting in a Post-Wild World
- Pollinators of Native Plants
- The Resilient Gardener
- Seed to Seed
- The Small-Scale Poultry Flock
- Tending the Wild
- Uncommon Fruits for Every Garden
- Wicked Plants
- Will Bonsall’s Gardening
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Films
- The Botany of Desire
- What Plants Talk About
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Permaculture and Regenerative Living
Books
- 5 Acres & A Dream
- Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
- Build Your Own Earth Oven
- The Carbon-Free Home
- Dirt to Soil
- The Dirty Life
- Introduction to Permaculture
- Farming on the Wild Side
- Farming the Woods
- Gaia’s Garden: Home-Scale Permaculture
- The Garden Awakening
- Getting Food from Water
- Goodbye, Things
- Holistic Management
- Integrated Forest Gardening
- The Lean Farm
- The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up
- Miraculous Abundance
- Natural Remodeling for the Not-So-Green House
- The New Ecological Home
- The Nourishing Homestead
- Radical Homemakers
- The Resilient Farm and Homestead
- Paradise Lot
- The Permaculture City
- The Permaculture Handbook
- Practical Permaculture
- Sepp Holzer’s Permaculture
- The Solar House
- The Straw Bale House
- Toolbox for Sustainable City Living
- The Transition Handbook
- Water Storage
- You Can Farm
- Your Money or Your Life
- Zen in the Art of Permaculture Design
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Films
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