Publications for the Gainesville Area:

IFAS ( Institute of Food and Agricultural Services )

• Florida Vegetable Gardening Guide
• Small Farm Guide
• Economics of the Food Industry in Florida
• An overview of Small Farm Direct Marketing

Community Support Services

• 2009 Alachua County Hunger Abatement Plan

Newsletters & Blogs

• Hogtown Homegrown, Kitchen Crumbs ( blog )
• Eat Local Gainesville ( blog )
• FOG ( Florida Organic Growers )
• The Plow Handle from Plowshares CSA
• The Market Beet from Farmer's Market Coalition
• Organic Bytes from Organic Consumers Association
• Ecology Action Newsletter
• Zoobird ( community Organic blog and more )
• Our Local Life... ( blog - Green House of the Gainesville Catholic Worker )

Books & Magazines

• In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
• The Omnivore's Dilemma, by Michael Pollan
• How to Grow More Vegetables, by John Jeavons
• The Sustainable Vegetable Garden by John Jeavons
• Food Fight: The Citizen's Guide to a Food and Farm Bill by Dan Imhoff
• This Organic Life: Confessions of a Suburban Homesteader, by Joan Dye Gussow
• Coming Home to Eat: The Pleasures and Politics of Local Foods, by Gary Paul Nabhan
• Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health, by Marion Nestle
• Holy Cows and Hog Heaven: The Food Buyer’s Guide to Farm-Fresh Food, by Joel
  Salatin
• Slow Food: Collected Thoughts on Taste, Tradition, and the Honest Pleasures of Food,by the Slow Food Movement
• Organic Gardening Magazine
• Radical Agriculture by Richard Merrill
• Seeds of Deception, by Jeffrey Smith
• Slow Food Nation: Why Our Food Should Be Good, Clean, and Fair, Carlo Petrini, ISBN 0847829456
• Animal Vegetable Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver, with Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver