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41) The food we eat
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Young readers will learn about the hidden problems in our food supply, including the use of chemicals like preservatives and dyes, the poor living conditions for animals that enter the food supply, and the easy access to unhealthy options instead of healthy foods. After learning about these issues, students are encouraged by "Test It!" and "Solve It!" activities to think critically and consider potential environmentally friendly, sustainable solutions...
Author
Pub. Date
©2004
Description
"Amid Mad Cow scares and consumer concerns about how farm animals are bred, fed, and raised, many farmers, homesteaders, and consumers are rediscovering the benefits of pastoral agriculture. In All Flesh Is Grass: The Pleasures and Promises of Pasture Farming, Logsdon explains that well-managed pastures are nutritious and palatable - virtual salads for livestock. Leafy pastures also hold the soil, increase biodiversity, and create lovely landscapes."...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"Find your route to a more sustainable lifestyle with Dick Strawbridge and his son James. We can all take steps to reduce our carbon footprint. For some, that might mean moving and living off the grid. For the rest of us, the reality might involve smaller, but no less important, lifestyle changes: cutting back on plastic or food waste, foraging wild produce, growing a few vegetables, making your own plant-based milks, or keeping a chicken or two....
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Many people enjoy eating meat. But livestock takes up a lot of land and resources. Bugs take less space, water, and food. They are also more nutritious than meat. Eating Bugs as Sustainable Food looks at the science behind raising and eating bugs and why eating bugs might help feed more people around the world. Easy-to-read text, vivid images, and helpful back matter give readers a clear look at this subject.
Author
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
"Call it Zen and the Art of Farming or a Little Green Book, Masanobu Fukuoka's manifesto about farming, eating, and the limits of human knowledge presents a radical challenge to the global systems we rely on for our food. At the same time, it is a spiritual memoir of a man whose innovative system of cultivating the earth reflects a deep faith in the wholeness and balance of the natural world. As Wendell Berry writes in his preface, the book 'is valuable...
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
"Join two children as they explore the inner workings of an outdoor farm and an indoor farm. You’ll see how a variety of amazing machinery like tractors and drones along with innovative farming techniques yield the wonderful food we all love to enjoy." --publisher's website.
Author
Pub. Date
©2010
Description
Growing Roots: The New Generation of Sustainable Farmers, Cooks, and Food Activists is about a new revolution in food that involves young people who are living sustainable lives that revolve around healthy, natural food. The book introduces us to farmers and beekeepers, fishermen and chefs, food activists and cheesemongers, and many, many more. We meet these fascinating young people from all across the nation through first-person profiles, along...
57) Eat green
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Describes how "green" foods can both help protect the environment and maintain a healthy body, and provides ways readers can help by reducing kitchen waste, saving water, and starting a vegetable garden.
Author
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
Foodies and environmentally minded folks often struggle to understand and articulate the fundamental differences between the farming and food systems they endorse and those promoted by Monsanto and friends. With visceral stories and humor from Salatin's half-century as a "lunatic" farmer, Salatin contrasts the differences on many levels: practical, spiritual, social, economic, ecological, political, and nutritional.In today's conventional food-production...
59) The chicken health handbook: a complete guide to maximizing flock health and dealing with disease
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
This essential guide thoroughly addresses every aspect of chicken health, including good nutrition; bacterial, viral, and fungal diseases; parasites and worms; reproductive issues; immune health; metabolic dysfunctions; and much more, with detailed solutions for any health problem your chickens encounter.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Human development is at a crossroads. Societies around the world are searching for a balance between feeding the population, producing an affordable food supply, and being caretakers for the natural world. Not since the transition from hunting and gathering to an agrarian lifestyle has there been an imperative for a paradigm shift in agriculture to meet these challenges. Natural Agriculture is a paradigm shift from the current commercial agricultural...