Recommended Reading

• One recent book I would recommend is "Food Fight: The Citizen's Guide to A Food and Farm Bill," by Daniel Imhoff. It's a fast, easy to understand read with lots of graphics, photos and sidebars. It really is written for the general public and is one of the best ag policy primers I've ever seen. I wish we had written it 10 years ago! Information about it is at www.watershedmedia.org/projects.html. Brian Devore
• I just finished reading “Hit by a Farm, How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Barn” by Catherine Friend. Nuala Kernan passed this one on to me. It is a fun read about two women who began farming in southeastern MN. It brought back memories of when Mike and I moved to Prairie Farm almost 20 years ago. Patty Wright
• Mike and I went to hear John Ikerd speak this winter in Rice Lake. Ikerd is a retired Ag Economist who spent the first half of his academic career as a “traditional free-market, neoclassical economist” and the second half “developing the concepts and principles of an alternative development paradigm- the economics of sustainability.” He has written a book, “Sustainable Capitalism, A Matter of Common Sense.” I’m recommending it before reading it because I’ve been inspired whenever I’ve heard him speak and I’m assuming his book will do the same. Patty
• Main Street by Sinclair Lewis is always worth reading—it’s not the same book you read in High School. Delightful descriptions—see if you can find the edition with illustrations by Grant Wood. Mike Racette

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