Texts and references accumulated from the wonderful women on each episode of Women, Land and Food.
Resource Library
Book List
Episode 1:
The Dirty Life, by Kristin Kimball - https://www.kristinkimball.com/
Good Husbandry, by Kristin Kimball - https://www.kristinkimball.com/
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, by Barbara Kingsolver, Steven Hopp, and Camille Kingsolver http://www.animalvegetablemiracle.com/book.htm
Episode 2:
Guns Germs Steel, by Jared Diamond - https://bookshop.org/p/books/guns-germs-and-steel-the-fates-of-human-societies-revised-jared-diamond/7292033?ean=9780393061314&next=t&affiliate=3308
Art and Science of Grazing, by Sarah Flack - https://www.chelseagreen.com/writer/sarah-flack/?
One Straw Revolution, by Masanobu Fukuoka - https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-one-straw-revolution-an-introduction-to-natural-farming-masanobu-fukuoka/11764589?ean=9781590173138&next=t
Episode 5:
Spell of the Sensuous; by David Abram - https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-spell-of-the-sensuous-perception-and-language-in-a-more-than-human-world-david-abram/6730793?ean=9780679776390&next=t
The Smell of Rain on Dust; by Martín Prechtel - https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-smell-of-rain-on-dust-grief-and-praise-martin-prechtel/580429?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=dsa_nonbrand&utm_content={adgroupname}&utm_term=aud-1187518993648:dsa-19959388920&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=12440232635&gbraid=0AAAAACfld40qfG_Sb18XncQqeZEzCfPJn&gclid=Cj0KCQjw1JjDBhDjARIsABlM2StRzJlI6f3lAm3fNnpwmtaelfE1AOWrxHy94PjGT_sW8I1eSs15hnEaAhdlEALw_wcB
Episode 7:
All we can save; By Arianna Elizabeth Johnson and Katherine K - https://bookshop.org/p/books/all-we-can-save-truth-courage-and-solutions-for-the-climate-crisis-ayana-elizabeth-johnson/18834354?ean=9780593237083&next=t
Flight Behavior; by Barbara Kingsolver - https://bookshop.org/p/books/flight-behavior-barbara-kingsolver/6430798?ean=9780062124302&next=t
Animal Vegetable Miracle; by Barbara Kingsolver - https://bookshop.org/p/books/animal-vegetable-miracle-tenth-anniversary-edition-a-year-of-food-life-barbara-kingsolver/6439160?ean=9780062653055&next=t
Episode 8:
Unsettling of America, by Nick Offerman - https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Unsettling-of-America-Audiobook/1980080399?source_code=ASSGB149080119000H&share_location=pdp
https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-unsettling-of-america-culture-agriculture-wendell-berry/17272798?ean=9781619025998&next=t
Digital Articles
Episode 1:
Approx. 1% of the US population grows food in the US
https://www.trustinfood.com/2024/04/18/the-one-percenters/
Problems that we face
Resources for Eating Locally
https://www.localharvest.org/organic-farms/ | https://www.localfarmfinder.com/ | https://www.usdalocalfoodportal.com/
Episode 2:
Who Will Own America’s Farmland? The Land Crisis in U.S. Agriculture - https://medium.com/@bobbypulte/who-will-own-americas-farmland-the-land-crisis-in-u-s-agriculture-06e021a3620f
Episode 3:
Schools receiving federal funding for school lunch are required to reduce sodium content - https://www.fns.usda.gov/cn/school-nutrition-standards-updates/sodium
Ancestral cooperation with indigenous people bc of common interest in medicinal plants - https://unitedplantsavers.org/the-original-medicinal-plant-gatherers-conservationists/
Milk prices same as in 1930 - https://www.in2013dollars.com/Fresh-whole-milk/price-inflation/1939-to-2025?amount=0.26
% of Vermont dairy farms that are small scale - https://www.vermontpublic.org/show/vermont-edition/2025-04-21/new-commisoned-study-shows-americans-consuming-more-dairy-vermont-is-in-the-forefront
Episode 4:
Vanilla bean cost in Madagascar via natural disasters - https://emeraldreview.com/2022/10/when-vanilla-became-more-expensive-than-silver/
Dan Barber, ecology of Hedonism - https://onbeing.org/programs/dan-barber-driven-by-flavor/
Episode 5:
Negative isotopes near the ocean, effect of mental health - https://www.healthline.com/health/negative-ions
The sound of grazing animals is calling to the human nervous system - https://socialwork.nyu.edu/news/2024/cow-cuddling-shows-promise-for-therapy.html
Indigenous influence on regenerative farming - https://nfu.org/2020/10/12/the-indigenous-origins-of-regenerative-agriculture/
Episode 6:
Alice Waters - https://www.masterclass.com/classes/alice-waters-teaches-the-art-of-home-cooking
Episode 7:
Women's land ownership in the us - https://healfoodalliance.org/key-takeaways-from-the-latest-usda-census-of-agriculture/#:~:text=Although%20Black%20land%20ownership%20increased%20in%20the,without%20a%20formal%20property%20title%20or%20will).
GLAAD Awards Talk by Glenonn Doyle and Abby Wombach - https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHwlKasy5Li/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
Microplastics researcher looking for plastic free oyster harvesting methods - https://www.deerisleoysterco.com/plastic-free-sea-farming
Brene Brown "Failure Conference" Ted Talk - https://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_listening_to_shame?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare
Episode 1:
5 Fingers of Food - the five parts of every meal: 1. the soil where the food is grown, 2. the conditions that the food was grown in like the weather and season, 3. the farmer and the skills brought to the raising of that thing, 4. the cook and how skillfully can you turn that food into a thing on a plate, 5. the eater and their ability to approach the plate mindfully in a way that they can be fully nourished by it
Episode 2:
Types of Grass - https://naturalhistory.si.edu/research/botany/research/grass-research
Food Security - https://www.wfp.org/stories/food-security-what-it-means-and-why-it-matters
Sustainable Agriculture - https://www.sierraclub.org/sites/default/files/sce/iowa-chapter/Ag-CAFOs/SustainableAgGlossary.pdf
Woofing - https://wwoof.net/
4H - https://4-h.org/