BOOKS, PODCASTS and films
While you can usually find us making the most of the great outdoors, we know sometimes you have to bring the outside in. For those occasions, we’ve gathered a list of some of our favourite books, videos and podcasts so you’ll never be too far from the soil.
BOOKS
A History of Kitchen Gardening – Susan Campbell
A World Beyond Physics – Stuart A Kauffman
A Year of Recipes From a Farm and its Kitchen - Fern Verrow
Agriculture Course – Rudolf Steiner
Albrecht on Soil Balancing – William A. Albrecht
An Agricultural Testament - Albert Howard
Around The World in 80 Plants - Stephen Barstow
Biodynamic Gardening - Dorling Kindersley
Black Earth Wisdom – Leah Penniman
Braiding Sweetgrass – Robin Wall KimmererCall of the Reed Warbler - Charles Massey
Call The Reed Warbler – Charles Massey
Charles Dowding’s Calendar of Vegetable Sowing Dates
Charles Dowding’s Skills for Growing
Charles Dowding’s Vegetable Garden Diary
Common-Sense Compost Making - M. E. Bruce
Compost - Charles Dowding
Dirt – The Erosion of Civilizations - David R Montgomery
Down to Earth – Monty Don
Drawn to Nature, Gilbert White and the Artists - Simon Martin
Entangled Life - Merlin Shelldrake
Fibershed – Rebecca Burgess
For The Love of Soil - Nicole Masters
Garden People – Ursula Buchan
Gardening Myths and Misconceptions - Charles Dowding
Gardeners Guide to Medicinal Plants – Kew Gardens
Gardening in a Changing World – Darryl Moore
God is an Octopus – Loss, Love and a Calling to Nature – Ben Goldsmith
Grasp the Nettle – Peter Proctor
Growing Green – Jenny Hall and Iain Tolhurst
Harmony - HRH King Charles III
Healthy Crops – Francis Chaboussou
Healthy Soils, Sick Soils – Margareth Sekera
High Weirdness – Erik Davis
Irreplaceable Woodlands – Charles Flower
Led by the Land - Kim Wilkie
Maori Philosophy – Indigenous Thinking – Georgina Tuary Stuart
Miracle Abundance - Perrine and Charles Herve
Moon Gardening – John Harris
No Dig - Charles Dowding
Nourishment Home Grown – Dr. A. F Beddoe
Organic Gardening: The natural no-dig way - Charles Dowding
Pig: Tales from an Organic Farm - Helen Browning
Regenerative Viticulture – Jamie Goode
Rooted – Sarah Langford
Sand Talk – How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World - Tyson Yunkaporta
Save Your Own Seeds + other titles - Kay Baxter
Science and The Future of the Planet – Charles C Mann
Second Nature – A Gardeners Education – Michael Pollen
Secret Magic - Isabel Bannerman
Silent Spring - Rachel Carlson
Sixty Harvests Left – Philip Lymbery
Soil – Matthew Evans
Soil Fertility & Human and Animal Health – William A. Albrecht
Soil Soul Society – Satish Kumar
Soil to Table – The Land Gardeners
Staying Alive in Toxic Times – Dr Jenny Goodman
Tales from an Organic Farm – Helen Browning
Teaming with Fungi – Jeff Lowenfels
Teaming with Microbes – Jeff Lowenfels
The Allotment Handbook – The RHS
The Biological Farmer – Gary Zimmer
The Ecological Farm – Helen Atthowe
The Hidden Half of Nature – David R Montgomery
The Land Gardeners Cut Flowers - The Land Gardeners
The Living Soil - Eve Balfour
The Lost Orchard - Raymond Blanc
The Maria Thun Biodynamic calendar 2025
The Myths of Safe Pesticides – Andre Leu
The Regenerative Grower’s guide to Garden Amendments – Nigel Palmer
The Soil and Health – Albert Howard
The Soil will Save Us - Kristin Ohlson
The Soul of Soil - Fourth Edition – Grace Gershuny
The Sound of Life – Karen Bakker
The Third Place: Field Notes on The Future of Food - Dan Barber
The Waste Products of Agriculture – Albert Howard, Yeshwant Wad
The Well-Gardened Mind - Sue Stuart Smith
The Well Tempered Garden – Christopher Lloyd
The Worm Farmer’s Handbook – Rhonda Sherman
Thought Forms – C. W. Leadbeater
We Are What We Eat - Alice Waters
What Your Food Ate – David R Montgomery
Wilding - Isabella Tree
PODCASTS
Nutrition Farming Podcast by Graeme Sait
Regenerative Agriculture Podcast by John Kempf
The Nutrition Farming Podcast by Graeme Sait
The Sustainable Food Trust Podcast
FILMS
2040: Join the Regeneration
A Life on our Planet: My Witness Statement, David Attenborough
Carbon Cowboys
Climate Compost: The Film by The Land Gardeners
Dirt
Fantastic Fungi
From the Heartland
How to Do it series by Nutri-Tech Solutions
Kiss the Ground
Planet Soil
Roots So Deep
Secrets of Soil, Henry Driver
Six Inches of Soil
Soil is The Solution by Patagonia
Thankful for the Soil
The Biggest Little Farm
This Good Earth
To Which We Belong
SHORT FILMS BY
Earthrise
Farmers Footprint
Gaia Foundation
Joya Berrow
Pasture For Life
Soil Mentor
Wildfarmed