Suggested books re: food justice and community resilience

• This list of non-fiction books is intended to complement the issues raised in my recent post regarding challenges of improving community-level food access while existing in a capitalist hellscape.

• It is not an inclusive list of all books related to food justice: additional suggestions are welcome!

• List ordered by alphabetized by authors’ last names.

• Wherever possible, links are to the books’ pages on Bookshop, which allows your purchase to support the Noire Reading Room. When a book is not available through Bookshop, a link to the book on Better World Books or Thriftbooks is provided instead.

• You can also check for them through your local library and library apps such as Libby and SimplyE.

• We Are Each Other’s Harvest: Celebrating African American Farmers, Land, and Legacy, Natalie Baszile

• The Food Activist Handbook: Big and Small Things You Can Do to Help Provide Fresh Food for Your Community, Ali Berlow

• A Voice That Could Stir an Army: Fannie Lou Hamer and the Rhetoric of the Black Freedom Movement, Maegan Parker Brooks

• Nature’s Garden for Victory and Peace, George Washington Carver

• Rebirth of the Small Family Farm: A Handbook for Starting a Successful Organic Farm Based on the Community Supported Agriculture Concept, Bob and Bonnie Gregson

• The Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer: To Tell It Like It Is, Fannie Lou Hamer (ed. by Maegan Parker Brooks and Davis W. Houck)

• Sharing the Harvest: A Citizen’s Guide to Community Supported Agriculture, Elizabeth Henderson and Robyn Van En

• The Farm as Natural Habitat: Reconnecting Food Systems with Ecosystems, Dana L. Jackson and Laura L. Jackson (editors)

• How to Grow More Vegetables than You Ever Thought Possible on Less Land than You Can Imagine, John Jeavons

• Practical Skills, Gene Logdon

• Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm's Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land, Leah Penniman

• Other Avenues Are Possible: Legacy of the People’s Food System of the San Francisco Bay Area, Shanta Nimbark Sacharoff

• Food Justice Now! Deepening the Roots of Social Struggle, Joshua Sbicca

• Seeds of Resistance: The Fight to Save Our Food Supply, Mark Schapiro

• Feed the Resistance: Recipes and Ideas for Getting Involved, Julia Turshen

• Good Food, Strong Communities: Promoting Social Justice through Local and Regional Food Systems, Steve Ventura and Martin Bailkey (eds.)

• Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement, Monica M. White

• Plowing with Pigs and Other Creative, Low-Budget Homesteading Solutions, Oscar H. Will III and Karen K. Will