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Resources

Prairie Birthday Farm is dedicated to promoting education about and respect for the plants and animals that sustain our lives. Our resource list includes:

  • Web/catalog links
  • Audio/visual resources
  • Books and articles of interest

We regularly update this list as new information becomes available.


Web/Catalog Links

  • American Farmland Trust
  • Animal, Vegetable, Miracle 
  • Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds
  • Biodiversity International
  • Bountiful Gardens
  • Center for a New American Dream
  • Chefs a’ Field
  • Chicken and Egg Page
  • Children and Nature Network
  • Co-op America
  • Earth Policy Institute
  • Edible Landscaping
  • Edible Estates
  • Environmental Defense
  • Farm Apprenticeships
  • Florian Rachet-cut Tools
  • GM Watch
  • Grow Native! Program
  • Growing Growers Program
  • Kansas City Food Circle
  • Local Food Sources — MO
  • Local Harvest
  • Midwest Organic and Sustainable Education Service
  • Missouri Coalition for the Environment
  • Missouri Native Plant Society
  • Missouri Organic Association
  • Missouri Prairie Foundation
  • Missouri Wildflowers Nursery
  • National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service
  • The North American Pollinator Protection Campaign
  • Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides
  • 100 Mile Diet
  • Organic Agriculture Information
  • Organic Consumers Association
  • Organic Farming Research Foundation
  • Pinetree Garden Seeds





  • Pollinator Partnership
  • Population Connection
  • Prairie & Wetland Center
  • Rachel Carson Homestead
  • Raintree Nursery
  • Restore Organic Law
  • Safe Lawns
  • Seed Savers Exchange (Decorah, Iowa)
  • Seeds of Change (Santa Fe, New Mexico — 888-762-7333)   
  • Slow Food USA
  • St. Lawrence Nurseries
  • Territorial Seed Co.
  • The Organic Center
  • Trees of Antiquity
  • True Food Now
  • Underwood Gardens
  • Wild Farm Alliance
  • Wild Ones (Native Plants/Native Landscapes)
  • Willow Water/salicylic acid & SAR
  • The World According to Monsanto

 Audio/Visual Resources

  • City of Bees. (2005). A Frejas Boren Film. www.choicesvideo.net.
  • Darnall-Kramer, M. (1994). Dining on the wilds [videorecording]. JEG Development Video Division.  www.edibleplants.com
  • Mollison, B. (1991). Global Gardener: Permaculture with Bill Mollison. Bullfrog Films, www.bullfrogfilms.com.
  • Koyaanisqatsi, Life Out of Balance, (1983), Metro Goldwyn Mayer.
  • Powaqqatsi, Life in Transformation. (1988), Metro Goldwyn Mayer.
  • Naqohqatsi, Life as War. (2002). Metro Goldwyn Mayer.
  • Subdivide & Conquer: Land Use & Design (1999). Bullfrog Films, www.bullfrogfilms.com


Books and Articles

  • Ableman, M. (1998). On Good Land. Chronicle Books: San Francisco.
  • Adams, B. (2004). Micro Eco-Farming. New World Publishing, Auburn, CA.
  • Adams, J. (1992). Landscaping with Herbs. Timber Press: Portland, Oregon.
  • Ban Breathnach, S. (1995). Simple Abundance. Warner Books: N.Y.
  • Bartholomew, M. (2006). All New Square Foot Gardening. Cool Springs Press: Nashville.
  • Bishop, H. (2005). Robbing the Bees. Free Press: N.Y.
  • Brickell, C. & Joyce, D. (1996). Pruning & Training. DK Publishing, N.Y., N.Y.
  • Brown, L. (2006). Plan B 2.0. W. W. Norton & Co., N. Y.
  • Buchmann, S. & Nabhan G. (1996).  The Forgotten Pollinators. Island Press, Washington, D.C.
  • Buchmann, S. (2005). Letters from the Hive, Bantam Books: N.Y., N.Y.
  • Burrell, C. (2006). Native Alternatives to Invasive Plants, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn, N.Y.
  • Carroll, S. & Salt, S. (2004). Ecology for Gardeners. Timber Press, Portland, Oregon.
  • Colborn, T. et.al. (1996). Our Stolen Future. Penguin Books, NY.
  • Byczynski, L. (1997). The Flower Farmer. Chelsea Green: VT.
  • Carson, R. (1962). Silent Spring. Fawcett Crest: New York.
  • Coleman, E. (1999). Four Season Harvest.  Chelsea Green Publishing Co.:  White River Junction, Vermont.
  • Common Sense Pest Control Quarterly, BIRC: Berkley, CA. www.birc.org.
  • Creasy, R. (1982). The Complete Book of Edible Landscaping. Sierra Club Books: San Francisco.
  • Creasy, R. (1999). The Edible Flower Garden. Periplus Editions: Boston, MA.
  • Czarapata, E. (2005). Invasive Plants of the Upper Midwest, University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, WI.
  • Davidson, E. (2000). Economics as if Ecology Mattered. Perseus Publishing: Cambridge, MA.
  • Denison, E. (1998). Missouri Wildflowers, 5th ed. MO. Dept. of Conservation: Jefferson City, MO.
  • Diamond, J. (2005). Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. Viking:
  • Dowding, C. (2007). Organic Gardening, Green Books: Totnes, Devon.
  • Flores, H. (2006). Food Not Lawns. Chelsea Green Publishing Co.:  White River Junction, Vermont.
  • Freeman, M. (1997). Building Your Own Greenhouse. Stackpole Books, Machanicsburg, PA.
  • Freeman, M. (1998). Gardening in Your Greenhouse. Stackpole Books, Machanicsburg, PA.
  • Gardner, J.A. (1989). The Old-Fashioned Fruit Garden. Nimbus Publishing: Halifax, Nova Scotia.
  • Gardner, J.A. (2001).  Heirloom Flower Gardens. Chelsea Green:  White River Junction, VT.
  • Gessert, K. (1987). The Beautiful Food Garden.  A Garden Way Publishing: Pownal, Vermont.
  • Gillespie, L. (2000). Cinder Block Gardens. TLC Publishing: Paonia, CO.
  • Glavin, T. (2007). The Sixth Extinction: Journey Among the Lost & Left Behind. Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press.
  • Goodall, J. (2005). Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating. Time Warner Book Group, N.Y.
  • Grissell, E. (2001). Insects & Gardens. Timber Press:  Portland, Oregon.
  • Gussow, J. (2001).This Organic Life, Confessions of a Suburban Homesteader, Chelsea Green Publishing, White River Junction, VT.
  • Hall-Beyer, B. & Richard, J. (1983). Ecological Fruit Production in the North. Jean Richard: Quebec.
  • Harstad, Carolyn (1999).  Go Native!.  Indiana University Press: Bloomington, Indiana.
  • Henderson, B. (2000). The Neighborhood Forager. Key Porter Books, Canada.
  • Hightshoe, G. (1988). Native Trees, Shrubs, and Vines for Urban and Rural America. Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York.
  • Horn, T. (2005). Bees in America: How the Honey Bee Shaped a Nation. U. Press of Kentucky: Lexington.
  • Horne, J. & McDermott, M. (2001). The Next Green Revolution. Food Products Press, NY.
  • Howard, S.A. (1947). The Soil & Health. Devin-Adair Co.
  • Imhoff, D. (2005). Paper or Plastic? . Sierra Club Books: San Francisco.
  • Imhoff, D. (2003). Farming with the Wild. Sierra Club Books: San Francisco.
  • Ivanko, J. & Kivirist, L. (2004). Rural Renaissance, New Society Publishers, Canada.
  • Jackson, D. & Jackson, L. (2002). The Farm as Natural Habitat. Island Press: Washington.
  • Jackson, W. (1996). Becoming Native to this Place. Counterpoint:  Washington, D.C.
  • Jackson, W., Berry, W, & Colman, B.(1984). Meeting the Expectations of the Land. North Point Press: S.F.
  • Katz, S. (2006). The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved. Chelsea Green:  White River Junction, VT.
  • Kavasch, B. (2005).  Native Harvests, Dover Publications.
  • Kingsolver, B. (2007). Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, HarperCollins Publishers.
  • Korten, D. (2006). The Great Turning: from Empire to Earth Community. BK: San Francisco.
  • Kurz, D. (1997). Shrubs & Woody Vines of Missouri. MO. Dept. of Conservation: Jefferson City, MO.
  • Ladd, D. (1995).  Tallgrass Prairie Wildflowers. Falcon Press:  Montana.
  • Lappe, F. & Lappe, A. (2002). Hope’s Edge. Penguin Putnam: N.Y., N.Y.
  • Lappe, A. (2006). Grub: ideas for an urban organic kitchen.
  • Lawrence, R. G. (2004). The Wabi-Sabi House: the Japanese Art of Imperfect Beauty. Clarkson Potter Publishers, N.Y., N.Y.
  • Leakey, R, & Lewin, R. (1995).  The Sixth Extinction. Doubleday, N.Y., N.Y.
  • Lee, A. (1998). Backyard Market Gardening. Good Earth Publications,
  • Leopold, A. (1949). A Sand County Almanac. Ballantine Books: N.Y. 
  • Logsdon, G. (1994). The Contrary Farmer. Chelsea Green Publishing Co., White River Junction, VT.
  • Louv, R. (2005). Last Child in the Woods. Algonquin.
  • Luebbermann, M. (1997). Heirloom Gardens. Chronicle Books, S.F., CA.
  • Lyle, K. (1997). The Foraging Gourmet. Lyons & Burford Publishers, N.Y.
  • Madson, J. (1995). Where the Sky Began, U. of Iowa Press: Iowa City.
  • Madison, D. (2002). Local Flavors. Broadway Books: N.Y.
  • Marcin, M. (1993). The Herbal Tea Garden. Storey Communications: Pownal, N.Y.
  • Nearing, Helen & Scott (1954). Living the Good Life, Galahad Books: New York City.
  • Otto, S. (1995).  The Backyard Berry Book.  Chelsea Green Publishing Co.: White River Junction, VT.
  • Pierce, J. (1981). Home Solar Gardening. Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York.
  • Poirot, E. (1964). Our Margin of Life. Vantage Press: NY.
  • Pollan, M. (2001). Botany of Desire. Random House: N.Y.
  • Pollan, M. (2006). The Omnivore’s Dilemma, A Natural History of Four Meals. Random House: N.Y.
  • Pollan, M. (2008). In Defense of Food:  an Eater’s Manifesto.  Random House: N.Y.
  • Phillips, J. (1969). Wild Edibles of Missouri. MO. Dept. of Conservation.
  • Planck, N.  (2006). Real Food: What to Eat and Why, Bloomsbury Publishing: N.Y.
  • Pleasant, B. & Martin, D. (2008). The Complete Compost Gardening Guide. Storey Publishing: North Adams, MA.
  • Rankin, D. (1985). Cooking with Herb Pastes. The Crossing Press: Trumansburg, N.Y.
  • Reich, L. (2001). Weedless Gardening. Workman Publishing: N.Y.
  • Robinson, E. & Robinson, C. (1947). The “Have-More” Plan for a Little Land – a Lot of Living. Macmillan Co., NY.
  • Rombough, L. (2002). The Grape Grower: a Guide to Organic Viticulture. Chelsea Green Publishing, White River Junction, VT.
  • Royte, E. (2005) Garbage Land, Little, Brown & Co., New York.
  • Salatin, J. (2004). Holy Cows & Hog Heaven. Polyface Inc.: Swoope, VA.
  • Salatin, J. (2007). Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal..  Polyface Inc.: Swoope, VA.
  • Shapin, S. (May, 15, 2006). Paradise Sold. The New Yorker.
  • Shepherd, M., Buchmann, S., Vaughan, M., Black, S. (2003). The Pollinator Conservation Handbook.    Xerces Society, Portland.
  • Singer, P & Mason, J. (2006). The Ethics of What We Eat. Holtzbrink Publishers.
  • Smith, N. (2004). Harvest: A Year in the Life of an Organic Farm. Lyons Press.
  • Snyder, G. (1990). The Practice of the Wild. North Point Press,  S.F., CA.
  • Soule, J. & Piper, J. (1992). Farming in Nature’s Image. Island Press: Washington, D.C.
  • Speth, J. (2004). Red Sky at Morning: America & the Crisis of the Global Environment. Yale U.:
  • Stein, S. (1993). Noah’s Garden. Houghton Mifflin Co.: N.Y., N.Y.
  • Sternberg, G. & Wilson, J. (1995).  Landscaping with Native Trees. Chapters Publishing: Shelburne, VT.
  • Stubbendieck, J., Coffin, M., & Landholt, L. (2003). Weeds of the Great Plains. Nebraska Department of Agriculture, Lincoln, NE.
  • Swain, R. (1994) Groundwork: A Gardener's Ecology, Houghton Mifflin Company
  • Tatum, B. J. (1976). Wild Foods Cookbook & Field Guide. Workman Publishing: New York.
  • Taylor, Patricia.  (1996). Easy Care Native Plants.  Henry Holt and Company, Inc.  New York, New York.
  • Teitel, M. (1999). Genetically Engineered Foods:  Changing the Nature of Nature. Park Street Press, Rochester, VT.
  • The Ball Blue Book, ed. 31 (1987). Ball Corporation: Muncie, Indiana.
  • Wallace, A. (2006). A Keeper of Bees. Random House: N.Y.
  • Wasowski, S. (2002).  Gardening with Prairie Plants. University of Minnesota Press: Minneapolis, MN.
  • Weaver, W.W. ((1997).  Heirloom Vegetable Gardening. Henry Holt & Co.: N.Y., N.Y.
  • Whealy, K.(Ed.). (2001). Fruit, Berry & Nut Inventory, 3rd edition. Seed Savers Exchange: Decorah, Iowa.
  • Whealy, K. (2004). Garden Seed Inventory (6th ed.) Seed Savers Exchange, Decorah, IA.
  • Wilson, E.O. (2006). The Creation: an Appeal to Save Life on Earth. W.W. Norton & Co: N.Y.
  • Wilson, J. (1992). Landscaping with Wildflowers. Houghton Mifflin Co:Boston.


"Tell me of what plant birthday a man takes notice, and I shall tell you a good deal about his vocation, his hobbies, his hay fever, and the general level of his ecological education."
(A. Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, Prairie Birthday Essay, 1949)


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