Growing Minds
Composting
Appelhof, Mary - Worms Eat My Garbage, 1982
Minnich, Jerry - The Earthworm Book, How to Raise and Use Earthworms for Your Farm or Garden, Rodale Press, 1977
Cookbooks: Southwestern, Solar & Grass-Fed
Albert-Matesz, Rachel and Matesz, Don - The Garden of Eating, a Produce-Dominated Diet & Cookbook. Learn the benefits of fruits, vegetables, and wild or grass-fed animal products. 250 recipes, 2004
Anderson, Lorraine and Palkovic, Rick – Cooking with Sunshine. The complete guide to solar cuisine with 150 easy sun-cooked recipes. Includes a great history of solar cooking and how to chapter as well as resources and instructions for building a simple box cooker. 2006, first edition 1994.
Boutenko, Victoria – Green for Life. In search of a healing human diet, the author whose family struggled with and overcame rheumatoid arthritis, obesity, chronic fatigue, asthma, allergies and diabetes, the chronic illnesses of our times, compares the Standard American Diet with the diet of wild chimpanzees who share 99.4% of genes with humans. These animals possess extremely strong natural immunity to AIDS, hepatitis C, cancer and other human illnesses have a diet dramatically different from ours as they eat mostly green leaves and fresh fruits. Victoria developed the green smoothie, also seen on Oprah, to enable anyone to consume the necessary amount of greens in a very convenient and palatable way. Includes green smoothie recipes. 2005
Curtis, Susan - The Santa Fe School of Cooking Cookbook, 1995
Curtis, Susan and Ammerman, Nicole Curtis - Southwest Flavors, Santa Fe School of Cooking, 2006
English, Sandal - Fruits of the Desert, 350 Ways to use the fruits and nuts of the Sonoran Desert plus history, food lore etc., 1981
Fallon, Sally - Nourishing Traditions, The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats, 1999
Frank, Lois Ellen - Foods of the Southwest Indian Nations, 2002
Halacy, Beth and Dan - Cooking with the Sun: How to Build and Use Solar Cookers. Includes detailed plans for building a solar oven that can reach temperatures up to 400 degrees, cooking a 12-pound turkey in 3 hours & a solar hot plate that perks coffee and cooks steak, bacon and eggs, hot cakes and other stove-top meals. 90 recipes. 1992, first edition 1978.
Hayes, Shannon - The Grassfed Gourmet Cookbook, Healthy Cooking & Good Living with Pasture-Raised Foods, 2004
Kern, Rose - The Solar Chef: Southwestern Recipes for Solar Cooking. 80 recipes from the Solar Ranch out of Arabela, New Mexico, blending culinary art with sustainable living attitudes.
Madison, Deborah - Local Flavors, Cooking and Eating From America's Farmers Markets
Native Seeds/SEARCH's - Healthy Traditions, A Cookbook for Native Americans, (traditonal foods beneficial for diabetics)
Niethammer, Carolyn - American Indian Cooking, Recipes from the Southwest, 1974
Niethammer, Carolyn - The Prickly Pear Cookbook, 2004
Rayner, Lisa - The Sunny Side of Cooking: Solar cooking and other ecologically friendly cooking methods for the 21st century. More than 100 vegetarian solar recipes and tips. How to create a year-round sustainable cooking system that combines the use of solar cookers, fireless cookers, pressure cookers, and biomass-fueled stoves and earth ovens.
Desert Gardening
Dahl, Kevin - Native Harvest, Authentic Southwestern Gardening, 2006
Gerard, Robert - Gardening the Arid Land, 1997, growing food in the high desert of southern New Mexico
Owens, Dave - Extreme Gardening - How to Grow Organic in the Hostile Deserts
Desert Foods & Medicinal Plants
Dahl, Kevin - Wild Foods of the Sonoran Desert, 1995
Hodgson, Wendy - Food Plants of the Sonoran Desert, 2001
Kane, Charles - Herbal Medicine of the American Southwest, 2006
Moore, Michael - Medicinal Plants of the Desert and Canyon West, 1989, Museum of New Mexico Press.
Nabhan, Gary Paul - The Desert Smells Like Rain, A naturalist in Papago Indian Country, 1982
Nabhan, Gary Paul - Gathering the Desert, 1985
Direct Farm Marketing
Corum, Vance, Rosenzweig, Marcie & Gibson, Eric - The New Farmers Market, Farm-Fresh Ideas for Producers, Managers & Communities, 2001
Gibson, Eric - Sell What you Sow! The Growers' Guide to Successful Produce Marketing
Nabhan, Gary Paul, West, Patty and Pirog, Rich - Linking Arizona's Sense of Place to a Sense of Taste: Marketing the Heritage Value of Arizona's Place-Based Foods, 2005
Tronstad, Russell - Western Profiles of Innovative Agricultural Marketing, Examples from Direct Farm marketing & Agri-Tourism Enterprises, UA Cooperative Extension, 2003
Local Food
Goodall, Jane - Harvest for Hope, A Guide to Mindful Eating, 2005
Gussow, Joan Dye - This Organic Life, Confessions of a Suburban Homesteader, 2001
Kingsolver, Barbara - Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, A Year of Food Life, 2007
Nabhan, Gary Paul - Coming Home to Eat, The Pleasures & Politics of Local Foods, 2002
Editors: Friederici, Peter and Houk, Rose - A New Plateau, Sustaining the Lands and Peoples of Canyon County, 2004
Pollan, Michael - The Omnivore's Dilemma, A Natural History of Four Meals, 2006
In Defense of Food, An Eater's Manifesto, 2008
Schlosser, Eric - Fast Food Nation, the Dark Side of the All-American Meal, 2001
Chew On This, Everything You Don't Want to Know about Fast Food, 2006
Lunar Gardening
Stella Natura Sidereal Calendar - www.stellanatura.com
The Biodynamic Sowing and Planting Calendar - Maria Thun (sidereal system) www.biodynamics.com
Meats
Salatin, Joel - Salad Bar Beef, 1995
Holy Cows & Hog Heaven, The Food Buyer's Guide to Farm Friendly Food, Foreword by Michael Pollan, 2004
Editors: Silbert, Shelley, Chanler, M. Gay and Nabhan, Gary Paul - Five Ways to Value the Working Landscapes of the West, 2007 Article by Dennis Moroney of Cross U Ranch. |
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Rain Water Harvesting
Lancaster, Brad - Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands, Vol. 1 Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain into Your Life and Landscape, 2006, www.harvestingrainwater.com
Vegetable Gardening
Danaan, Clea - Sacred Land: Intuitive Gardening for Personal, Political, & Environmental Change
Denckla, Tanya L. K. - The Gardener's A-Z Guide to Growing Organic Food
Engle, Debra Landwehr - Grace From the Garden ~ Changing the world one garden at a time
Hemenway, Toby - Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture
Lanza, Patricia - Lasagna Gardening, a New Layering Systems for Bountiful Gardens: No Digging, No tilling, No Weeding, No Kidding, 1998
Morrow, Rosemary - Earth User's Guide to Permaculture 2nd ed
Shapiro, Howard-Yana Ph. D. and Harrisson, John - Gardening for the Future of the Earth
Thun, Maria - Gardening for Life The Biodynamic Way
Wright, Hilary - Biodynamic Gardening for Health & Taste
Vegetables & Seeds
Goldman, Amy - The Compleat Squash, A Passionate Grower's Guide to Pumpkins, Squashes and Gourds, 2006
Goldman, Amy - Melons for the Passionate Grower, 2003
Nabhan, Gary - Enduring Seeds, Native American Agriculture & Wild Plant Conservation, 1989
Ayerza, Richard & Coates, Wayne - Chia, Rediscovering a Forgotten Crop of the Aztecs, 2005
Magazines & Newsletters
Acres USA, The Voice of Eco-Agriculture - North America's oldest, largest magazine covering commercial-scale organic and sustainable farming, P.O. Box 91299, Austin, Texas, 78709. (512)892-4400. General info/orders: info@acresusa.com, News releases: editor@acresusa.com
Growing For Market - www.growingformarket.com , Monthly journal for market growers written by growers.
Touch the Soil - www.touchthesoil.com, a magazine promoting the personal and social benefits from wholesome and nutritious foods that grown in a sustainable and responsible manner. Stories, editorials from experts and practical information. Discover how too can benefit from, participate in, and contribute to "making a difference" in the dynamic and rapidly evolving arenas of local food first, responsible organics, sustainable agriculture and food security.
Southwest Marketing Network, Expanding Markets for Southwest Small-Scale, Alternative and Minority Producers. by Farm to Table, 3900 Paseo del Sol, Santa Fe, NM 87507. To receive newsletter: ladams@cybermesa.com, (505)473-1004
Organic Gardening Magazine, www.organicgardening.com, since 1942 by Rodale Press
Mother Earth News - www.MotherEarthNews.com, Features and articles covering sustainable, self-reliant living
Seed Catalogs
Bountiful Gardens, Willits CA, (707) 459-6410 www.bountifulgardens.org; Heirloom, un-treated, open-pollinated varieties for sustainable agriculture, legume cover or "compost" crops with inoculants.
Native Seeds/SEARCH - Store location: 526 N. 4th Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85705. Order on-line at www.nativeseeds.org or toll-free (866-622-5561) or e-mail: info@nativeseeds.org. A non profit organization that conserves, distributes and documents the agricultural seeds, their wild relatives and the role these seeds play in cultures of the American Southwest and northwest Mexico. Free membership and free seeds, in limited quantities, to Native peoples living in the Greater Southwest region.
Peaceful Valley Farm Supply www.groworganic.com, Grass Valley, CA, resource for organic growing needs for sustainable agriculture, certified organic farming and home organic gardening.
Sand Hill Preservation Center - Heirloom seeds & poultry, sweet potatoes and roots. Small family operation into genetic preservation. Calamus, IA www.sandhillpreservation.com
Seeds from Italy, Winchester, MA Tel: (781) 721-5904 www.growitalian.com Italian vegetable seeds that are traditional Italian varieties, chosen by discriminating Italian cooks over the years.
Seeds of Change, P.O. Box 15700, Santa Fe, NM. 87592-1500. Certified organic seeds of a great diversity of heirloom crops, including southwestern native varieties. To order free catalog (888)762-7333 and www.seedsofchange.com.
Seed Savers Exchange, Decorah, IA Tel: (563)382-5990 www.seedsavers.org, Non profit organization of gardeners who save and share heirloom seed. Since 1975 its members have passed on over 1 million samples of rare garden seeds to other gardeners.
Turtle Tree Seeds - Biodynamic grown vegetable, herb and flower seeds, cover crops, Camphill Village, www.turtletreeseed.org
Newspaper Articles
Valerie's Corner - Sierra Vista Herald/Bisbee Review, www.svherald.com, column on backyard gardening, local agriculture and local food events & Cochise County farmers market news in Wednesday's Taste section by Valerie McCaffrey
