Bibliography

This bibliography was compiled by students in the life history class to provide background information
on small scale rural farmers and other related topics.

 

Adams, Shelby Lee.  Appalachian Portraits.  Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1993. 

Anderson, Dale and Richard Lidz, eds.  Agribusiness, Environment, and Natural
        Resources, 4th Edition. 
Mission Hills, CA: Glencoe/Macmillan, 1990. 

Blacka, Aaron, et al.  Agri-tourism.  Blacksburg, VA: Virginia Cooperation Extension, 2001. 

Brookefield, H. C. Exploring Agrodiversity.  New York: Columbia University Press, 2001. 

Bruce, Carolyn Hale.  Roanoke Past and Present.  Norfolk: Donning Company, 1982.

Butterworth, Dan.  Waiting for Rain.  New York: Workman Publishing Company, 1992.

Cabell, N. F. and Earl G. Swem.  AContribution to the Bibliography of Agriculture in
        Virginia,
1-35.  Richmond: Davis Bottom, superintendent of public printing, 1918. 

Cabell, N. F. and Earl G. Swem.  A List of Manuscripts Relating to the History of
        Agriculture in Virginia,
1-20.  Richmond: Davis Bottom, superintendent of public printing, 1913. 

Chapman, Paul W.  Successful Farming.  Atlanta: Turner E. Smith & Co., 1948. 

Chisholm, Michael.  Rural Settlement and Land Use: An Essay in Location.  London: Hutchison, 1968. 

Clawson, Marion.  Policy Directions for U.S. Agriculture: Long-Range Choices in
        Farming and Rural Living. 
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1968.

Cobb, Daniel W.  Cobb’s Ordeal: The Diaries of a Virginia Farmer, 1842-1872.  Athens:
        University of Georgia Press, 1997. 

Collins, Donald N. and William C. White.  Farming and Agriculture Careers.  Chicago,
        IL: NTC Publishing Group, 1996.

Conrat, Maisie and Richard.  The American Farm, a Photographic History.  Boston, MA:
        Houghton Mifflin Company, 1997.

Cornwell, Terri Lynn.  Vital Signs: Sustainability Indicators for Virginia’s Technology
        Corridor. 
Roanoke, Virginia: Vital Signs/Hollins University, 2001.

Coward, Raymond T. and William M. Smith, Jr.  The Family in Rural Society.  Boulder,
        Colorado: Westview Press, 1981. 

Dabney, Virginia Bell.  Once There Was A Farm.  New York: Random House, 1990. 

Davis, Edward H.  The Virginia Creeper Companion: Nature and History along
        Southwest Virginia’s National Recreation Trail. 
Johnson City, TN: The Overmountain Press, 1997. 

Ebeling, Walter.  The Fruited Plain, the Story of American Agriculture.  Los Angeles,
        CA: University of California Press, 1979. 

Ekarius, Carol.  Small-Scale Livestock Farming: A Grass Based Approach for Health,
        Sustainability, and Profit. 
North Adams, MA: Storey Books, 1999. 

Faade, Maxine H.  Eat it Up!  A Guide to Specialty Food Sources in and about Roanoke,
        New River Valley, and Smith Mountain Lake, Virginia with Recipes. 
Roanoke,
        Virginia: Aubergine Press, 2003. 

Floyd Heritage Book Committee.  Floyd County, Virginia.  S. E. Grose & Associates, 2001. 

Ford, Thomas R., ed. The Southern Appalachian Region.  Lexington: University of Kentucky, 1962.

Fremon, Suzanne, ed.  Rural America.  Ed. Morrow Wilson.  New York: H. W. Wilson Publishers, 1976. 

Goldstein, Myrna Chandler and Mark A.  Controversies in Food and Nutrition. 
       
Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 2002. 

Guerrant, Samuel Saunders.  Franklin County Corn.  Roanoke, Virginia: Guerrant, 1977.

Hetzel, Glen Hayward.  Identifying Hazards and Causes of Accidents on Virginia Farms. 
       
Blacksburg, VA: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1993. 

Hobson, Phyllis.  Raising a Calf for Beef.  North Adams, MA: Storey Books, 1983. 

Hoppe, R. A. Agri-outlook.  New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1994. 

Howard, Robert West.  The Vanishing Land.  New York: Villard Books, 1985.

Hrubovcak, James et al.  Green Technologies for a More Sustainable Agriculture
        Washington D. C. : U. S. Department of Agriculture, 1999.

Inscoe, John C.  Appalachians and Race: The Mountain South from Slavery to
        Segregation
.  Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2001.

Johnson, Anne Lewis et al.  Grassroots Small Farm.  Whitesburg, Kentucky: Appalshop, 1987.

Johnson, Thomas G.  The Economic Impact of Agriculture in Virginia.  Blacksburg:
        Virginia Cooperative Extension, 1994.

Kains, Maurice G.  Five Acres and Independence.  Mineola, New York: Dover Publishing.

Lambrecht, Bill.  Dinner at the New Generation Café: How Genetic Engineering is
        Changing What We Eat, How We Live, and the Global Politics of Food
.  New
        York: St. Martin’s Press, 2001. 

Lieberman, Archie.  Farm Boy.  New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1974. 

Little, Charles E.  Green Fields Forever.  Washington D. C. : Island Press, 1987.

Lockett, B. L.  Attitudes of Small Farmers as 1995 Farm Bill Stakeholders.  New York:
        St. Martin’s Press, 1994.

Macher, Ron and Howard W. Jr. Kerr.  Making Your Small Farm Profitable.  North
        Adams, M. A.: Storey Books, 1999.

MacLean, Jayne T.  Part Time Farming, Small Farms, and Small-Scale Farming in the
        United States.
  Beltsville, Maryland: National Agricultural Library Press, 1992.

Margolius, Sidney.  The Great American Food Hoax.  New York: Walker & Co., 1971.

Marton, Larry B., ed.  U. S. Agriculture in a Global Economy.  Washington, D. C. : U.S.
        Government Printing Office, 1982.

Nair, Kusum.  The Lonely Furrow: Farming in the United States, Japan, and India.  Ann
        Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1969.

Nazarea, Virginia D., ed.  Cultural Memory and Biodiversity.  University of Arizona Press, 1999. 

Nazarea, Virginia D., ed.  Ethnoecology: Situated Knowledge/ Located Lives.  University
        of Arizona Press, 1998. 

Nelson, Margaret K. and Joan Smith.  Working Hard and Making Do: Survival in Small
        Town America.
  Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1999.

Newton, Jon.  Profitable Organic Farming.  Cambridge: Blackwell Science, 1995.

Ogden, Samuel.  This Country Life.  Emmaus, PA: Rodale Press, Inc., 1973.

Orden, David and Dennis K. Smith.  Small Farm Programs: Implications from a Study in
        Virginia
.  Blacksburg, VA: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1978.

Oxrieder, Julia Woodbridge.  Kiss the Doorknob: Folkways and Folklore of Floyd
        County, Virginia
.  Dory Press, 1996.

Parsons, Brian, ed. Pest Control.  Alexandria, VA: Time Life Books, 1990.

Peden, Rachel.  Rural Free: A Farmwife’s Almanac of Country Living.  New York, NY:
        Alfred A. Knopf, 1961.

Pendleton, William C.  History of Tazewell County and Southwest Virginia, 1748-1920. 
        Richmond, VA: W. C. Hill Printing Company, 1920.

Perrin, Noel.  First Person Rural: Essays of a Sometimes Farmer.  Boston, MA: David R. Godine, 1978. 

Plath, Joel C. and Mitchell Patterson.  The Impacts of Virginia’s Small Farm Technician
        Program.
  Petersburg, VA: Virginia Cooperative Extension Service, Virginia State University, 1988.

Rifkin, Jeremy.  Beyond Beef: The Rise and Fall of the Cattle.  New York, NY: Dutton, 1992.

Rodale, J.I., ed.-in-chief.  Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening.  Emmaus, PA: Rodale Books, 1975.

Ross, B. B., D. B. Taylor, and G. Vellidis.  Agriculture Drought in Virginia 1930-1983.
        Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Information Series 85-3 (October 1985).

Salatin, Joel.  You Can Farm: The Entrepeneur’s Guide to Start and Succeed in a
        Farming Enterprise
.  Polyface Inc., 1998.

Sanzone, Susan J., Jenny Burman, and Mary Agnes Hage, eds.  Healthy Harvest II: A
        Directory of Sustainable Agriculture and Horticulture Organizations, 1987-1988.
 
        Washington. D. C.: Potomac Valley Press, 1987.

Savage, D. S. Self-Sufficient Country Living.  New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press, 1978.

Sontag, M. Suzanne.  Families on Small Farms: Case Studies in Human Ecology.  East
        Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1996.

Stevens, George Raymond.  An Economic and Social Survey of Roanoke County. 
        Charlottesville, Virginia: University of Virginia, 1930.

Stoner, Carol, ed.  Stocking Up: How to Preserve Foods You Grow, Naturally.  Emmaus,
        PA: Rodale Press, 1973.

Schlebecker, John T.  Whereby We Thrive: A History of American Farming: 1607-1972
        Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1975.

Stryker, Roy Emerson and Nancy Wood.  In This Proud Land.  Greenwich: New York
        Graphic Society, 1973.

Smith, Heather Thomas.  Storey’s Guide to Raising Beef Cattle.  Storey Books, 2000.

Stranger, Marty.  Family Farming: A New Economic Vision.  Lincoln, NE: University of
        Nebraska Press: San Francisco: Institute for Food and Development Policy, 1998.

Swem, Earl G. An Analysis of Ruffin’s Farmer’s Register, with a Bibliography of
        Edmund Ruffin, 37-144.
  Richmond: Davis Bottom, superintendent of public printing, 1919.

Thompson, Paul B.  The Spirit of the Soil.  New York: Routledge, 1995.

United States Congress Committee on Small Business.  Building a Stronger Agricultural
        Community.
  Washington DC: US G.P.O., 2000.

US Department of Agriculture.  Agriculture and the Environment.  Washington DC: US
        Department of Agriculture, 1991.

US Department of Agriculture.  http://www.usda.gov/ [9 March 2004]

United States Work Projects Administration Virginia.  Part Time Farming in Virginia.

Vince, John.  Old Farms, an Illustrated Guide.  New York, NY: Bramhall House, 1982.

Virginia Association for Biological Farming.  http://www.vabf.org/index.php  [9 March 2004]

Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.  http://www.vdacs.state.va.us/  [9 March 2004]

Whatmore, Sarah.  Farming Women: Gender, Work, and Family Enterprise. 
        Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1991.

W.P.A of Virginia, Division of Rural Research, Wm. A. Smith, Administrator B.L.
        Hummel, Supervisor
.  Blacksburg, VA, 1938.

Young, Harold N.  The Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station, 1886-1966.  Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1975.

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