Resources
About Hawthorne Valley Farm:
Food and Culture:
- Culture and Horticulture by Wolf D. Storl - a great intro and more about Biodynamics
- Wild Fermentation by Sandor Katz
- Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
- The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan, or anything by Michael Pollan
- Consumed: Why Americans Love, Hate and Fear Food by Michelle Stacey
- Field Notes From a Catastrophe: Man, Nature and Climate Change by Elizabeth Kolbert
- Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky
- Why Grassfed is Best by Jo Robinson
- Cabbage: Cures to Cuisine by Judith Hiatt
- Nutrition and Health: Two Lectures to Workmen by Rudolf Steiner
- One United Harvest: Creative Recipes from America's Community Supported Farms collected by Julie Sochaki
Vegetable Growing:
- Any of the books by Elliot Coleman
- Anything written by Vernon Grubringer - University of Vermont Vegetable Extension Agent
- Knott's Handbook for Vegetable Growers, a classic, standard reference tool for growing vegetables
- The Northeast Cover Crop Handbook by Marianne Sarrantonio
- Biodynamic Greenhouse Management by Heinz Grotzke
- All About Weeds by Edwin Rollin Spencer
- Seed to Seed by Suzanne Ashworth
- Sharing the Harvest: A Guide to Community Supported Agriculture by Elizabeth Henderson
Agriculture:
- Animals Make Us Human by Temple Grandin, or anything by Temple Grandin
- Secrets of the Soil by Christopher Tompkins and Peter Byrd
- The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture by Wendell Berry
- Biodynamic Agriculture by Willy Schilthuis
- Principles of Biodynamic Spray and Compost Preparations by Manfred Klett
- Soil Fertility by E. Pfeiffer
- Extraordinary Plant Qualities for Biodynamics by Jochen Bochemuhl and Kari Jarvinen
- Awakening to Landscape by Jochen Bockemuhl
- Agriculture by Rudolf Steiner
- The Fatal Harvest Reader: The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture edited by Andrew Kimbrell
- Biodynamic Agriculture: Practical Applications of the Biodynamic Method by Koepf, Petterson, Schaumann
- The Biodynamic Farm by Herbert H. Koepf
- Weather and Cosmos by Dennis Klocek
Miscellaneous:
- The E-Myth by Michael Gerber
- The Legal Guide For Direct Farm Marketing by Neil D. Hamilton at the Drake University Agricultural Law Center in Iowa
- Sermons in Stone: The Stone Walls of New England by Susan Allport
- Written in Stone: A Geological History of the Northeastern United States by Chet Raymo
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