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• A Feather and a Fork

  Wahpepah, Crystal,

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• Farming While Black

  Soul Fire Farm's Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land

  Penniman, Leah

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• Reaping What She Sows

  How Women Are Rebuilding Our Broken Food System

  Matsumoto, Nancy,

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• Cultivating Food Justice

  Race, Class, and Sustainability

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• The Overstory

  a Novel

  Powers, Richard, 1957-

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  Not a gardening book, but more environmental advocacy wrapped in a story about place and human interconnection. Recommended by Leisel Whitlock Petersen/ ANV Exec. Dir.

• Golden Gate Gardening

  the Complete Guide to Year-round Food Gardening in the San Francisco Bay Area & Coastal California

  Peirce, Pam,

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• Golden Gate Gardening

  the Complete Guide to Year-round Food Gardening in the San Francisco Bay Area and Coastal California

  Peirce, Pam

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  Foundational guide that helps gardeners understand how to grow food year-round in the unique climate of coastal California, with practical, region-specific advice. Its importance in urban farming lies in empowering city growers to maximize small…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Six Seasons

  A New Way with Vegetables

  McFadden, Joshua • Holmberg, Martha

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  This book reimagines how we cook and eat vegetables by organizing them around six micro-seasons and highlighting how their flavors evolve throughout the year. Its importance in urban farming lies in teaching growers and eaters to align with seasonal…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• We Are Each Other's Harvest

  Celebrating African American Farmers, Land, and Legacy

  Baszile, Natalie,

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  A powerful collection of essays, stories, and poems that uplift the voices, history, and resilience of Black farmers in the United States. Its importance in urban farming lies in centering land justice, cultural legacy, and community stewardship,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Serviceberry

  Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World

  Kimmerer, Robin Wall,

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  Recommended by Sara Allan.

• Lentil Underground

  Renegade Farmers and the Future of Food in America

  Carlisle, Liz

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  Recommended by Sara Allan.

• One Little Lot

  The 1-2-3s of an Urban Garden

  Mullen, Diane C. • Vidal, Oriol

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  This is a picture book that I love to use to introduce the concept of an urban community garden to kids! My daughter and I read it regularly. Recommended by Sydney Dvorak.

• Epitaph for a Peach

  Four Seasons on My Family Farm

  Masumoto, David Mas

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  Recommended by Esmee Fong Chew.

• A Seed Is Sleepy

  Aston, Dianna Hutts

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  A very sweet picture book that shows what seeds look like all around the world. I used to read this to elementary school students in garden classes before making them act out what a seed looks like when it grows into a plant. VERY CUTE! .…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Nature Anatomy

  the Curious Parts & Pieces of the Natural World

  Rothman, Julia

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  An illustrated nature dictionary that is beautiful and always teaches me something new. Recommended by Merav Dale.