Book clubs and film festival programs are active and accessible ways to provide programming that will bring people together to learn and discuss issues related to food, farming and community.

Share information about your successful programs and recommend good books or films and we will add this information to this website.

Here are:

  • lists of books and films that can be used in local programming and

  • information on civic dialogue as a way to explore food, farming, and community - and the issues and emotion surrounding them.

“Somebody has to go into farming. Somebody has to do it, it’s a good life. It takes a lot of money these days to get going. It is not a get-rich scheme but the lifestyle is great. There gets to be to many people owning to much farm. Doctors and lawyers have the money to buy land and they hire somebody to farm it. We need family farms; more people need to own the land. I guess I would rather see 10 people own a little bit than one person own a lot. We need more voices in agriculture.”

The Risdall Family, Roland, Iowa – Story County from People Sustaining the Land, by Cynthia Vagnetti 2002.