The Ultimate Eat Well Do Good Resource Library

Recommended reading, viewing and listening on the path to eating well and doing good.

You don’t really need an ultimate reference library to start eating well or doing good. It’s much, much simpler than that—as easy as digging into a nice bowl of fresh strawberries or thinking twice about using a plastic bag. But once you start, you may find yourself wanting to do more. So, we present our big, long list of recommended reading, viewing and listening on the path to eating well and doing good.

Books

• The Secret Life of Compost: by George Aiken
• Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
  
• The New Organic Grower: by Eliot Coleman
  
• Four Season Harvest: How to Harvest Fresh Organic Vegetables from Your Home Gardens All Year Long by Eliot Coleman
• Organic Gardening: The Natural No-dig Way by Charles Dowding
• Organic Inc. by Samuel Fromartz
• The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming By Masanobu Fukoka
• The Truth About Organic Gardening by Jeff Gillman
• Rebirth of the Small Family Farm: A Handbook for Starting a Successful Organic Farm Based on the Community Supported Agriculture Concept by Bob & Bonnie Gregson
• An Agricultural Testament by Sir Albert Howard
• Fatal Harvest: The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture by Andrew Kimbrell (Editor)
• Stolen Seeds: The Privatization of Canada’s Agricultural Biodiversity by Devlin Kuyek
• Diet for a Small Planet by Frances Moore Lappe
• In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto by Michael Pollan
• The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
• The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s –Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan
• Carrots Love Tomatoes: Secrets of Companion Planting for Successful Gardening by Louise Riotte
• Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply by Vandana Shiva
• Seeds of Deception by Jeffrey Smith
• Genetic Roulette by Jeffrey Smith
• Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades: The Complete Guide to Organic Gardening by Steve Solomon
• Gardening When It Counts: Growing Food in Hard Times by Steve Solomon
• The Ruth Stout No-Work Garden Book by Ruth Stout

Movies

• The World According to Monsanto
• Gardens of Destiny with Dan Jason and Dag Falck, Organic Program Manager for Nature’s Path
  (a feature documentary by Jocelyn Demers)
• The Future of Food
• The True Cost of Food
• Deconstructing Supper
• Hidden Dangers in Kids’ Meals

Organic Resources

• Organic Agriculture Centre of Canada (OACC) 

• National Organic Program (NOP) 

• Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA)
• Canadian Organic Grower (COG) 

• Canadian Health Food Association (CHFA)
• Organic Trade Association (OTA) 

• Certified Organic Associations of British Columbia (COABC) 

• Cyberhelp for Organic Farmers 

• Organic Consumers Association (OCA) 

• Independent Organic Inspector Association (IOIA) 

• The Organic Center for Education and Promotion 
Organic Agriculture Protection Fund (OAPF) 

• New Farm
• Pesticide Action Network of North America 

• Canadians Against Pesticides 

• Farmer Direct Co-operative 

• Grain Works 

• 
Guelph Organic Conference 

• Rodale Institute

Other Good Stuff

• Organic Gardening Waterworks program
• Runners World
• Greenteam
  
• Non-GMO Shopping Guide
• Rodale Institute
  
• Organic Field Crop Handbook published by Canadian Organic Growers
• Organic Livestock Handbook published by Canadian Organic Growers
• Organic Gardening Magazine
  
• News, action, how-to’s, message boards, free trial issue. Bi-monthly.
• Planet Friendly
• Soil Foodweb Canada 

• Fair Trade Certified US 

• Fair Trade Certified Canada 

• Fair Trade Federation
• Flax Council of Canada 

• Seed Saver Campaign 

• Farm Folk/City Folk Society 

• Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada 

• Slow Food Movement 

• David Suzuki Foundation 

• EarthSave International 

• Council of Canadians 

• Friends of the Earth 

• Solviva: Sustainable Solar-Dynamic Bio-Benign Design 

• The Journey to Forever: Online Library 

• Kids Regen ( The Rodale Institute)
• National Institute of Digestive Disease and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
• National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Services

• Canadian Celiac Association

• American Celiac Society

  
• Celiac Disease Foundation
• History of the Canadian seed industry or call Orrin Clayton: 613-523-4339

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