Updated September 2025
Recommended Books
- The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry by Wendell Berry
- Soil and Sacrament: A Spiritual Memoir of Food and Faith by Fred Bahnson
- The Green Good News: Christ’s Path to Sustainable and Joyful Life by T. Wilson Dickinson
- Rooted and Grounded in Love: Holy Communion for the Whole Creation by Timothy Eberhart
- Scripture, Culture, and Agriculture: An Agrarian Reading of the Bible by Ellen F. Davis
- The Fatal Harvest Reader: The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture by Andrew Kimbrell
- Cultivating an Ecological Conscience: Essays from a Farmer Philosopher by Fred Kirschenmann
- First the Seed: The Political Economy of Plant Biotechnology by Jack Ralph Kloppenburg, Jr.
- The Theology of Food: Eating and the Eucharist by Angel F. Méndez-Montoya
- Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health by Marion Nestle
- Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm’s Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land by Leah Penniman
- Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability, and Peace by Vandana Shiva
- Food and Faith: A Theology of Eating, 2nd edition by Norman Wirzba
Recommended Documentaries
- Dirt: The Movie
- Symphony of Soil
- Kiss the Ground Movie
- Kiss the Ground Short Series, 2025. Connects consumers to the people who grow their food. Fourth episode features Zachary West, a regenerative farmer with Kiss the Ground. Only 8% of us have talked to a farmer in the last year about the origin of our food.
- Food Chains
- Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective
- Food, Inc.
- Fed Up
- A Place at the Table
- The Future of Food
- Common Ground, 2023. A new documentary with Laura Dern, Woody Harrelson, other well-known actors, depicting a pathway to transforming our agriculture food system into an ecological way of growing food that can restore our health, our communities, and our Climate.
- Roots So Deep (You can See the Devil Down There). From Carbon Nation, directed by Peter Byck. 4 episodes. Inventive farmers and maverick scientists research Adaptive Multi Paddock Grazing (AMP). Resources
Seminary/Church Organizations/Networks/Centers
- Black Church Food Security Network
- Certificate in Faith, Food, and Environmental Justice at Duke
- Community Food and Wellness Program at Methodist Theological School in Ohio (MTSO)
- Food, Health, and Ecological Well-Being Program at Wake Forest
- Land, Food, and Faith Formation at Memphis Theological Seminary
- Climate Justice Task Force of the CA NV United Methodist Annual Conference. Publishes excellent monthly newsletter online, offers 2–3 Earth Connect Retreats each year, covering the 5 Conference Districts over two years.
- Kiss the Ground, Evan Harrison, CEO. An audience-supported non-profit supporting regeneration and healthy soil as a viable solution for our wellness, water, and climate crisis. “Farming like Nature.”
- St. Columba’s Episcopal Retreat Center, Inverness, CA, Council on Ecological Discipleship, Eco-News, July and August issues.
Recommended Articles
- 9 Ways to Get Your Pandemic Victory Garden off the Ground
- 12 Easy Garden Plants That Are Actually Worth Growing
- Everything To Know About Starting Your COVID-19 Victory Garden
- Want a garden that requires less work? Dan Gill’s tips let you work less and enjoy your space more
- Climate Victory Gardens Continue to Sprout Across the Country
- How to Build a Rock Garden
- The Ultimate Backyard Pod
- Posters From When Victory Gardens Helped Feed the World
- succession-sowing strategies, with meg cowden
- The hottest backyard design trends for summer 2022, according to experts
- What is a Victory Garden?
- Barbara Brown Taylor, “Rest for the Land, Sermon,” in Home by Another Way, 1999.
- Regenerative Agriculture Advocacy Toolbox
Permaculture
- Permaculture Basics
- Earth User’s Guide to Permaculture by Rosemary Morrow
- Gaia’s Garden by Toby Heneway
- Free online course Shades of Green Permaculture
See Also:
May 2022 Newsletter