Land & Table Book Club

Books play a key role in helping us envision and take steps towards positive life change. And it’s a journey - no one ever arrives, but we can encourage each other along the way.

The Land & Table book club is a way to engage with the core ideas and topics that are motivating a new generation to create a more resilient food system and vibrant local community life. We’ll be reading books about: eating local, self-reliant living, agrarian culture, growing food, culinary history, community resilience, going back-to-the-land, and more.

This is not a book club that will be technical in nature. And if you don’t have a green thumb, you’ll still feel at home. You don’t have to grow your own food or be a homesteader or farmer to enjoy these books. But…you do have to be curious about reviving your connection with the land, with other people, and with the food you eat. And the reality is: tending to those connections is important for all of us.

We meet on the first Thursday of each month and welcome anyone to our meetings - even if you have not read the book we will be discussing.

Registration is encouraged, but not required.

For more information about Land & Table, please visit their website: https://landandtable.com/.

Join us for our inaugural month of themed reading! Instead of reading a specific title, everyone is free to read any book (or article) they like--fiction or nonfiction--as long as it fits the monthly theme. We will offer a list of suggested titles from the library's collection for those who need ideas, but you do not have to choose a book from the list.

This month's theme will be: GOING OFF-GRID

Ever contemplated a life without modern conveniences? This month we'll be reading about those who, by choice or by circumstance, are disconnected from modern technology and rediscovering traditional ways of living.

Nonfiction

Read stories of those who have experimented with the lifestyle of a different era or culture, or who have embraced off-grid living out of a desire for self-reliance or simplicity.

• See You In a Hundred Years: four seasons in forgotten America by Logan Ward
• The Way Home: tales from a life without technology by Mark Boyle
• Better Off: flipping the switch on technology by Eric Brende
• Cheap Land Colorado: living off-grid on America's edge by Ted Conover
• Why We Need To Be Wild: one woman's quest for ancient human answers to 21st century problems by Jessica Carew Kraft

Fiction

Engage with thought-provoking novels that prompt reflection on resilience, societal structures, and the fragility of our interconnected world.

• World Made By Hand by James Howard Kunstler
• One Second After by William R. Forstchen
• My Abandonment by Peter Rock
• Last Light by Terri Blackstock
• These Silent Woods by Kimi Cunningham Grant
• Dies the Fire by S.M. Stirling