from Julie Burkey

How/To- Guide Books:
Bartholomew, Mel. Square Foot Gardening. 978-0-7603-6285-3
Madigan, Carleen, ed. The Backyard Homestead. 978-1-60342-138-6
Smith, Edward C. The Vegetable Gardener’s Bible. 978-1-60342-475-2

-Storey Publishing. hachettebookgroup.com/imprint/… — an extensive library of guides on everything homestead

Reading For Awareness Books:
Dooley, Beth. In Winter’s Kitchen. 978-1-5713-1361-4
Foer, Jonathan Safran. We Are The Weather; saving the planet begins at breakfast. 978-1-2507-5797-5
Kingsolver, Barbara. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle; a year of food life. 978-0-0608-5255-9
Lappe, Frances Moore & Anna Lappe. Hope’s Edge; the next diet for a small planet. 978-1-5854-2149-7
Lohman, Sarah. Endangered Eating. 978-1-3240-0466-0
McMillian, Tracie. The American Way of Eating: undercover at Walmart, Applebee’s, farm fields and the dinner table. 978-1-4391-7195-0
Pollen, Michael. In Defense of Food. 978-1-5942-0145-5 (actually, ALL of Pollen’s titles)

For Native Plant restoration, which is crucial to saving our soil and insects in order to grow food:
Small, Nancy Cutbirth & Tom Small. Using Native Plants to Restore Community in SW Michigan & Beyond. 978-0-6155-2993-6 ( I actually had the great honor of working with them for a year.)

Also, many of the local farmers offer CSAs, list from PFC: pfcmarkets.com/csas/
PFC is a great resource for classes, info, etc.