• Fields of Plenty: A Farmer's Journey in Search of Real Food and the People Who Grow It. Chronicle Books (2005). ISBN 978-0811842235
• On Good Land: The Autobiography of an Urban Farmer. Chronicle Books (1998). ISBN 978-0811819213
• From the Good Earth: A Celebration of Growing Food Around the World, with Cynthia Wisehart, Sam Bittman. Harry N. Abrams, Incorporated, (1993). ISBN 9780810925175

I believe that to deal with the great unraveling taking place around us, we’ve got to come back home, immerse ourselves in that which goes on in our neighborhoods and communities, in our own backyards or on the land we farm. We can feel paralyzed by the broader world scene, but we have enormous power in and around the places where we live.

—Michael Ableman, author of Fields of Plenty, speaking at the 2005 Bioneers Conference