Reading list

One of the questions I keep getting asked is ‘What inspired me to take up farming?’. I think the biggest influence has been a lot of reading about the destruction caused by the intensive way of growing food and other aspects of our daily lives. This has definitely raised my consciousness and caused me to move to rural Tamil Nadu to practice natural farming and a simpler way of life.

Natural Farming and Permaculture

Natural Way of Farming – Masanobu Fukuoka
One Straw Revolution – Masanobu Fukuoka
The Vision of Natural Farming – Bharat Mansata
Regenerating Soil : From agronomy to agrology – Claude Borguignon-Farsetto
A Designer’s Manual – Bill Morrison
Saying NO to a Farm-Free Future: The Case For an Ecological Food System and Against Manufactured Foods – Chris Smaje
The Agricultural Dilemma: How Not to Feed the World – Glenn Davis Stone
Mycelium Running – Paul Stamets
Radical Mycology – Peter McCoy

Civilization and Society

Limits to Growth – Donella Meadows
The Sixth Extinction – Elizabeth Kolbert
Sapiens – Yuval Noah Harari
Homo Deus – Yuvah Noah Harari
Guns Germs & Steel – Jared Diamond
A Short History of Nearly Everything – Bill Bryson
After the Grain : A Deep History of the Early States – James Scott
The Story of More : How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here – Hope Jahren

Economics

The Divide – Jason Hickel
Less is More – Jason Hickel
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism – Naomi Klein
Doughnut Economics – Kate Raworth
Violence of the Green Revolution – Vandana Shiva
What Went Wrong With Capitalism – Ruchir Sharma
The Ecology of Commerce Revised Edition: A Declaration of Sustainability – Paul Hawken