The following readings have been shared with students in the Introduction to Sustainable Food and Farming Seminar and may be useful as you explore the intellectual background of the discipline of Sustainable Food and Farming:

• The Agrarian Standard – Wendell Berry
• Two Mindsets – Two Visions of Sustainable Agriculture – Donella Meadows
• Sustainable Agriculture is NOT Optional – John Ikerd
• Fifty Million Farmers – Richard Heinberg
• Sustaining India’s Agriculture – Vandana Shiva
• How Sustainable Agriculture Can Address the Environmental and Human Health Harms of Industrial Agriculture – John Hopkins
• A Call for a Revolution in Agriculture – Wes Jackson
• Sustainability is Dead – Long Live Sustainability – Alan AtKisson
• Why Sustainability Education Needs Pedagogies of Reflection and Contemplation
• A Deeper Revolution – Local Food by Michael Brownlee
• Saving the World – One Clothespin at a Time – John Gerber

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• Suggested resources from STOCKSCH 265 – Sustainable Agriculture Class

In addition, there are many essays written by John Gerber available on my “Changing the Story” blog page in the following broad categories:

• Sustainability Education
• Sustainable Farming
• Global Sustainability
• The “Homegrown” Food Revolution
• Local Food Systems
• Religion/Spirituality
• Systems Thinking