“I have come to understand eating with the planet and animals in mind as a practice rather than a strict set of rules that must be followed to the letter at all times, no matter one’s circumstances or geography,” writes Alicia Kennedy in “No Meat Required: The Cultural History & Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating.”

If you’re looking for company and inspiration throughout the gardening season — from planting to wintering and in between — you might enjoy the lovely anthology “Leaning Toward Light: Poems for gardens & the hands that tend them.” This book of poems takes us through cyclical gardening seasons. Each of these seasons, from “Weeding &

“ …what it means for me to be a country queer, is that you can’t leave your folk at the door. You can’t act like you grew up with people that weren’t like the people that are acting all kinds of crazy in all kinds of ways.” – Elandria Williams “Country Queers: A Love Letter”

AgFunder is a venture capital firm that invests broadly in technology, agriculture, and food. I admit that as an organic farmer and homesteader it’s a little strange that I subscribe to their newsletter. The companies highlighted by AgFunder are bathed in the Silicon Valley ideology of techno-utopianism with a strange idea of what dinner might

Marie White’s “The Herbal Doula” is a comprehensive and inclusive guide that delves into the use of herbal medicine throughout the reproductive journey, encompassing fertility, conception, pregnancy, birth, postpartum, and beyond. White approaches herbal care with a Health at Every Size (HAES) perspective, while also acknowledging anyone with a uterus can become pregnant, and explains

MOFGA has been glad to host Ethan Tapper of Vermont for talks at the Common Ground Country Fair and webinars as part of our low-impact forestry program — and you might also recognize his name from an excerpt of “How to Love a Forest: The Bittersweet Work of Tending a Changing World” in the fall

Even if you are an experienced goat keeper, Gianaclis Caldwell’s “Holistic Goat Care: A Comprehensive Guide to Raising Healthy Animals, Preventing Common Ailments, and Troubleshooting Problems” is a book that you will want on your resource shelf. It is a book that not only answers questions about goat health and care but can help to

Plants, like people, are border-crossers. In “Dispersals,”Jessica J. Lee traces the histories of particular plants, and their migrations, over her personal and familial story of moving across borders. Through a series of deeply researched, immersive, and heartfelt essays, Lee explores what it means for both plants and people to migrate, and to belong to a

“Dark Waters” is a 2019 film, starring Mark Ruffalo and Anne Hathaway, about a lawyer who sues Dupont Corporation for poisoning residents in Parkersburg, West Virginia, through the introduction of PFAS chemicals to their water supply. Based on a true story, the film begins in 1998 when lawyer Robert Bilott (Ruffalo), who works for a