Taking Root Student Symposium – Suggested Reading

Attending the Taking Root Student Symposium?

We are happy to share some reading ideas to get you excited and prepare you for the range of topics covered at Taking Root on October 28th at UVM – take a look! For more information about the Symposium, please refer to last week’s post.

• Suggested Reading – Printable
• Suggested Reading – Digital

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Books

Name Author The Town that Food Saved Ben Hewitt Keeping Supper Safe Ben Hewitt Family Drives (Poetry) Leland Kinsey Northern Borders (Fiction) Howard Frank Mosher Farm to Table: The Essential Guide to Sustainable Food Systems for Students, Professionals, and Consumers Lyndon Virkler Darryl Benjamin Making Modern Meals: How Americans Cook Today Amy B. Trubek Animal, Vegetable, Miracle Barbara Kingsolver The Dirty Life Kristen Kimball This Organic Life: Confessions of a Suburban Homesteader Joan Dye Gussow Diet for a New America: How Your Food Choices Affect Your Health, Happiness, and the Future of Life on Earth John Robbins Hope’s Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet Anna Lappe Lunch Lessons: Changing the Way We Feed Our Children Ann Cooper The Third Plate Dan Barber Gaia’s Garden Toby Hemenway Cooked Michael Pollan The One Straw Revolution Masanobu Fukuoka   Articles & Short Readings Name Author The Real Work (Poem) Wendell Berry Marshall Washer (Poem) Hayden Carruth The Pleasures of Eating Wendell Berry How School Food Purchases Are Moving The Needle For The Local Food Movement Nicole Rasul Get real: an analysis of student preference for food Jennifer Porter David Conner Jane Kolodinsky Amy Trubek Vermont’s Farm to Table Strategic Plan   New England Food Vision   Contemporary Studies in Environmental and Indigenous Pedagogies       Films Name Broken Limbs Temple Grandin (2010) The Farm Bill Food Battle The Greenhorns Queen of the Sun The Real Dirt on Farmer John   Podcasts Name Host For the Wild Ayana Young Regenerative Agriculture John Kempf Farmer to Farmer Chris Blanchard How I Built This Guy Raz