It’s fall, and everyone’s harvesting! Farmers are reaping the fruits of their labor — and these two books provide a great introduction to life on the farm. A companion to “The Farm That ...

Books on food and farming: “Rooted: The American Legacy of Land Theft and the Modern Movement for Black Land Ownership” by Brea Baker (top left), “The Wisdom of Sheep: Observations from a ...

Currently aged 85, Dr Austin O’Sullivan has lived an interesting life. The founding father of the Irish Agricultural Museum in Johnstown Castle, Co Wexford, he had to fight tooth and nail at times to ...

Brox’s three books about her family’s farm in Massachusetts, published individually some two decades ago, are a paean to a way of life once considered the bedrock of America and now mostly ...

REGENESIS: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet. By George Monbiot. Penguin Random House. 352 pages. $18.

Nora Lange's novel "Us Fools" follows two young sisters growing up in the Midwest during the 1980's farming crisis. They're trying to figure out their lives while looking out for each other.