Educational Resources

You can find links to a variety of different books, articles, and resources for children designed to help you learn more about the food system, agriculture, the food sovereignty movement, and intersectionality within food systems work. Take some time to choose a resource to dive into, and leave a comment sharing one of your favorite resources!

Please note that FeedBack Nashville is not endorsing or responsible for the content in any of the materials listed below.

Books

• Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm's Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land by Leah Penniman

• The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan

• How to Eat by Thich Nhat Hanh

• Big Hunger: The Unholy Alliance between Corporate America and Anti-Hunger Groups by Andrew Fisher

• Be My Guest: Reflections on Food, Community, and the Meaning of Generosity by Priya Basil

• Biodiversity, Food and Nutrition: A New Agenda for Sustainable Food Systems by Danny Hunter, Teresa Borelli and Eliot Gee

• Black Food Geographies: Race, Self-Reliance, and Food Access in Washington, D.C. by Ashanté M. Reese

• Black Food Matters: Racial Justice in the Wake of Food Justice edited by Hanna Garth and Ashanté M. Reese

• Feeding the Crisis: Care and Abandonment in America’s Food Safety Net by Maggie Dickinson

• Feeding the Other: Whiteness, Privilege, and Neoliberal Stigma in Food Pantries by Rebecca T. de Souza

• The New American Farmer: Immigration, Race, and the Struggle for Sustainability by Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern

• Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America’s Food Industry by Austin Frerick

• A Bold Return to Giving A Damn: One Farm, Six Generations, and the Future of Food by Will Harris

• Food Waste, Food Insecurity, and the Globalization of Food Banks by Daniel N. Warshawsky

• Good Eats: 32 Writers on Eating Ethically edited by Jennifer Cognard-Black and Melissa A. Goldthwaite

• The Preserving Garden by Jo Turner

• What We Sow: On the Personal, Ecological, and Cultural Significance of Seeds by Jennifer Jewell

• The Urban Food Revolution: Changing the Way We Feed Cities Author: Peter Ladner

• How the Other Half Eats: The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America Author: Priya Fielding-Singh, PhD

• Food Justice  Food Justice Authors: Robert Gottlieb and Anupama Joshi

• Rebuilding the Foodshed: How to Create Local, Sustainable, and Secure Food Systems Author: Philip Ackerman-Leist

• Seed Sovereignty, Food Security: Women in the Vanguard Editor: Vandana Shiva

• A Mass Conspiracy to Feed People: Food Not Bombs and the World-Class Waste of Global Cities Author: David Boarder Giles

• Freedom From Want: The Human Right to Adequate Food Author: George Kent

Articles

• 10 Projects Increasing the Resilience of Urban Food Systems

• Equitable Food Systems Resource Guide

• Acting and Thinking Systemically

• Defining Immediate Needs and Long-Term Change: How Direct Services and Systems Change Can Work Together

• New Poverty and Food Insecurity Data Illustrate Persistent Racial Inequities

• Food Insecurity In American Black Communities

• Race and Ethnicity and Food Insecurity

• Why Food Sovereignty Matters

• What is Food Sovereignty?

• Indigenous Food Sovereignty

Children’s Books

• Before We Eat: From farm to table by Pat Brisson, illustrated by Mary Azarian

• How Did That Get In My Lunchbox? by Chris Butterworth, illustrated by Lucia Gaggiotti

• Thank a Farmer by Maria Gianferrari, illustrated by Monica Mikai

• Watercress by Andrea Wang

• The Good Garden: How One Family Went from Hunger to Having Enough by Katie Smith Milway

• Hungry Planet: What the World Eats by Peter Menzel

• Our Little Kitchen by Jillian Tamaki

• Anansi And The Golden Pot by Taiye Selasi, illustrated by Tinuke Fagborun

• Can I Recycle This?: A Guide to Better Recycling and How to Reduce Single-Use Plastics by Jennie Romer, illustrated by Christie Young

• Eat Your Superpowers!: How Colorful Foods Keep You Healthy and Strong by Toni Buzzeo,  illustrated by Serge Bloch

• Food for the Future: Sustainable Farms Around the World by Mia Wenjen, illustrated by Robert Sae-Heng

• Honeybee Rescue: A Backyard Drama by Loree Griffin Burns, illustrated by Ellen Harasimowicz

• I’m Hungry! / ¡Tengo Hambre! by Angela Dominguez

• I Want An Apple: How My Body Works by David L. Harrison

• Let Me Fix You Plate: A Tale of Two Kitchens by Elizabeth Lilly

• My Baba’s Garden by Jordan Scott, illustrated by Sydney Smith

• Nell Plants a Tree by Anne Wynter, illustrated by Daniel Miyares

• The Tree and the River by Aaron Becker

• Anywhere Farm by Phyllis Root