Food Systems

From the author of New York Times bestseller The New New Deal, a groundbreaking piece of reportage from the trenches of the next climate war: the fight to fix our food system. Humanity has cleared a land mass the size of Asia plus Europe to grow food, and our food system generates a third of our...

When the Grid Fails, Will You Be Ready—Or Left in the Dark? A sudden blackout. A contaminated water supply. Empty grocery store shelves. If disaster struck tonight, would you be prepared—or just hoping for help? Most people wait until it’s too late to realize they should have prepared. But the truth is, real emergencies don’t give you a warning. That’s why Off-Grid Survival Projects exists—to help you build simple, reliable systems before a crisis hits. This isn’t a theory book. It’s a hands-on, step-by-step guide designed for regular people—renters, suburban families, ...

In a world where hunger persists amid abundance and climate change threatens our very existence, Shannon Dobbs presents a groundbreaking solution to our broken food system. This isn't just another book about the problem—it's a comprehensive guide to fixing it. Dobbs, an Army veteran turned food system innovator, unveils the revolutionary Nexus and Nodes model. This scalable approach bridges the gap between food waste and food insecurity, turning challenges into opportunities for community empowerment and environmental healing.

#1 New York Times Bestseller from the author of This is Your Mind on Plants, How to Change Your Mind, The Omnivore's Dilemma, and Food Rules Food. There's plenty of it around, and we all love to eat it. So why should anyone need to defend it? Because in the so-called Western diet, food has been...

Do you struggle with an upset stomach? Are you spending more time in the restroom than you’d like? You’re not alone. Gut health issues are a common concern, affecting millions of people worldwide. If you're one of them, know that there are solutions and a community of individuals who understand what you're going through. The secrets to a healthier gut are within your reach, waiting to transform your life. Learn about gut health secrets and unlock the power of your second brain for total wellness. In this book, you'll discover about your gut and brain regulations. Your gut is more than ...

Optimize your gut health and boost daily energy with this beginner-friendly science guide to human anatomy. Whether you are dealing with frustrating stomachaches or simply curious about how your body fuels your busy life, this empowering journey makes complex biology incredibly accessible...

Jump into a playful science adventure through the human body to discover how a simple bite of food fuels everyday fun. Perfect for homeschooling or entertaining curious minds during family commutes, this gentle, non-scary audio tour makes biology delightfully easy to grasp. Kids will love...

You may feel tired, “off,” maybe even betrayed by your own body. Something unseen is draining you from within. What if the root cause isn’t stress or age—but a quiet invasion you never knew existed? Inside The Parasite & Toxin Reset, I’ll show you how parasites, mold by-products, and toxic waste quietly colonize your internal terrain—stealing energy, disrupting your immunity, and eroding your natural defenses. But here’s the good news: when you learn to starve the invasion, you activate the body’s original healing blueprint. This is not a gimmick cleanse. It’s a tactical, ...

An urgent indictment of the food we eat and a blueprint for a nutrition revolution to mend our health, economy, and planet, from a world-renowned expert in nutrition, medicine, and public policy The food we eat is making us sick. In the United States and around the world, diet has become the...

Learn a road map to healthy soil and revitalized food systems for powerfully addressing these times of challenge. This audiobook equips producers with knowledge, skills, and insights to regenerate ecosystem health and grow farm/ranch profits. Globally recognized soil advocate and agroecologist Nicole Masters delivers the solution to rewind the clock on this increasingly critical soil crisis in her first book For the Love of Soil. She argues we can no longer treat soil like dirt.

"If I could have one wish it is that every eater in America would read this book." —Ruth Reichl From a pioneer of the regenerative agriculture movement, a memoir-meets-manifesto on betting the farm on a better future for our food, animals, land, local communities, and our climate Raised as a...

Permaculture makes the most use of what nature provides for us by using specific design strategies to maximize nature’s gifts, such as food, energy, and shelter. A counter to heavy industrial farming, permaculture is all about conscious planning that caters to the human needs while also respecting and healing the natural environment. At its core, it involves drawing inspiration from nature to build an ecosystem that thrives just like any other. If you want to start practicing permaculture and reap all its benefits, then you need to listen to this audiobook today!

“Unless you make it yourself, you have no idea what you are eating and Kristin Lawless explains why. You better read this book before you put another bite of food in your or your kids mouths!” — Laurie David, Academy Award winning producer of An Inconvenient Truth and Fed Up From the voice...

In this newly repackaged edition of Diet Rehab, best-selling author and brain-health expert, Dr. Mike Dow, shows how sugar effects brain chemistry, and provides new research on dieting and hypnosis. What makes a healthy brain? The answer is simpler than you think. In Diet Rehab, Dr. Mike Dow...

An insightful, personal, and timely exploration into the wonderful world of seeds. In What We Sow, Jennifer Jewell brings readers on an insightful, year-long journey exploring the outsize impact one of nature's smallest manifestations—the simple seed. She examines our skewed notions where...

In 1943, ordinary people grew nearly half of America’s vegetables in their own yards, school lots, and community patches. In less than a lifetime, that power was handed to fertilizer plants, factories, and long supply chains you do not control. When shelves empty, trucks stop, or labels lie, most modern households have no backup plan. Backyard Food Security shows you how to build one. Drawing on more than 45 years of home inspection work and decades of hands‑on gardening, Marko Vovk walks you through a practical, no‑nonsense system for turning dead soil, tubs, and small patches of ...

The invented history of the Western world is crumbling fast, Anishinaabe writer Patty Krawec says, but we can still honor the bonds between us. Settlers dominated and divided, but Indigenous peoples won't just send them all "home." Weaving her own story with the story of her ancestors and with the broader themes of creation, replacement, and disappearance, Krawec helps listeners see settler colonialism through the eyes of an Indigenous writer.

A Full Pantry. Zero Excuses. Every Meal Covered. This FULL-COLOR cookbook features vibrant, step-by-step images for every recipe — so you always know exactly what you're making Most pantry cookbooks teach you to make condiments. This one teaches you to eat — breakfast, lunch, dinner, dessert, and snacks — entirely from the shelf-stable ingredients you already own, for less money, with less waste, and without a daily trip to the store. DIY Homemade Pantry Staples is Book 3 in a proven production system. Inside you'll find 50+ structured recipes built around canned goods, dried grains, ...

Food safety is paramount for food processors today. Without it, unsafe food reaches consumers and illness and death can result. This book focuses on regulations and programs imposed by government and processing authorities in order to make food safe. Quality assurance ensures that products produced meet quality and consistency standards so customers will be satisfied. This book focuses on quality assurance in manufacturing by describing the topic, discussing its implementation, highlighting its advantages and challenges, suggesting methods for its improvement, and envisioning its future.

Right now, your digestive system is doing something you will never feel. It is coordinating contractions along thirty feet of tubing, releasing the exact enzymes needed to break down whatever you just ate, managing thirty-eight trillion microbes, and sending chemical signals to your brain, all without a conscious instruction from you. Most people trust this system until it fails them. Then comes the bloating, the reflux, the cramping, or a diagnosis that lands without context, and suddenly the gut you never thought about becomes the only thing you can think about. Inside this book, readers ...