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

8point9 Podcast

Farmerama Radio Podcast

No-Till Growers Podcast

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