Food Systems

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...

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 ...

#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...

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.

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.

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...

Conquer the ServSafe Manager Exam: Comprehensive Study Guide for the Certified Food Protection Manager (CFPM) Certification is part of the Conquer the Exam series—concise, focused guides for professionals preparing for vocational and certification exams. This unofficial guide is tailored to help aspiring Food Protection Managers master the most critical principles of food safety, sanitation, and regulatory compliance. While not a full-length textbook or complete practice test bank, this book highlights the essential concepts and common pitfalls that candidates must understand to succeed. ...

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.

#1 New York Times bestselling author Dr. Mark Hyman sorts through the conflicting research on food to give us the skinny on what to eat. Did you know that eating oatmeal actually isn't a healthy way to start the day? That milk doesn't build bones, and eggs aren't the devil? Even the most health...

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!

From the citrus groves of Sicily to a taco in Mexico City, In Search of the Perfect Peach takes you on a journey in the pursuit of flavor, with Franco revealing at every step how this incredibly simple desire can lead to radical change. Throughout, he offers us a deeply optimistic vision of how we as consumers can follow flavor to fix the food system and bring joy to our every meal.

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...

🌱 Easiest, Fastest, Cheapest, BEST, (ONLY!) way to Grow Food - Without Soil, Plowing, Weeding, "Watering", Pumps, or Power—Absolutely ANYWHERE! LIKE MAGIC!! Want fresh greens, herbs, & veggies in just days—even if it's your first time growing anything!? This beginner-friendly guide shows you how to use the simplified, multi-hacked Kratky STATIC Method—a no-tech, no-electricity, no-soil (no SOIL diseases, weeding, fertilizing or pests!!) system that works in pool noodles & recycled jars, jugs, bins, containers, buckets & food-grade mylar bags. FULL of BONUSES, CHARTS, TIPS, STORIES ...

This book really is for the absolute beginner. We'll cover all the basics in a motivating, easy-to-digest way, and allow nature to do the heavy lifting. We'll discover your green thumb that's been there all along. We'll take good care of our fellow human and our planet. And we'll have a lot of fun doing it! Friend, you really can live the dream, and make it your reality. It all starts with one step.

One of the few voices to challenge The Guardian's George Monbiot on the future of food and farming (and the restoration of nature) is academic, farmer and author of A Small Farm Future Chris Smaje. In Saying NO to a Farm-Free Future, Smaje presents his defense of small-scale farming and a robust critique of Monbiot’s vision for an urban and industrialized future.

Can we afford to stand by as our planet collapses? In the past 50 years, humanity has wiped out 70% of the world’s wild animals. Our oceans are being emptied, wildlife habitats destroyed, and ecosystems pushed to the brink, all to satisfy an insatiable hunger for meat and animal products. In The Ego System: The Awakening, award-winning journalist René Zografos reveals the devastating consequences of the meat industry on the environment, animal welfare, and our health. With eye-opening insights into factory farming, wildlife crimes, and political inaction, this book challenges us to ...

Have you been told to "just live with" your heart palpitations? Are you tired of living in fear of the next episode? What if the very foods you've been told are "heart-healthy" might actually be triggering your symptoms? After years of debilitating heart palpitations and anxiety that left me afraid to climb stairs or sleep on my left side, I discovered an approach that finally freed me from this nightmare—and it flew in the face of everything conventional medicine had told me. This raw, unfiltered account chronicles my shocking discovery that certain dietary approaches—specifically ...

The Inflammation Spectrum is about learning to love your body enough to nourish it with delicious, healing foods. Its insightful quizzes and empowering advice will put you on a path toward food freedom and overall healing.

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, ...

The food system is broken, but there is a revolution underway to fix it. Bite Back presents an urgent call to action and a vision for disrupting corporate power in the food system, a vision shared with countless organizers and advocates worldwide.