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A call to farms : reconnecting to nature, food, and community in a modern world / Jennifer Grayson.
Van Pelt Library S494.5.S86 G73 2024
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Grayson, Jennifer, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sustainable agriculture.
- Alternative agriculture.
- Agriculture--Environmental aspects.
- Agriculture.
- Food supply--Environmental aspects.
- Food supply.
- Sustainable living.
- Organic farming.
- sustainable agriculture (discipline).
- Physical Description:
- 224 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, color portraits ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Reconnecting to nature, food, and community in a modern world
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Countryman Press, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company, [2024]
- Summary:
- "The rising movement of regenerative agriculture--a holistic approach to growing food that restores soil and biodiversity and could even reverse global warming--holds great promise for transforming our food system while reclaiming planetary and human health. Yet there is a little-known fact that could amplify the call for change: Within a decade, nearly half of all farmland in America will change hands as the older generation of farmers steps aside. Meanwhile, the groundswell of new growers eager to steward that land are up against seemingly every obstacle: rising land costs, insufficient income, a Goliath industrial food system, and the billionaires and corporations grabbing farmland at a staggering pace. So, how can we mobilize this potential 'greatest generation' of sustainable small farmers at this crucial tipping point? How could resilient local agriculture transform our country, heal the earth, and ensure that healthy, fresh food is accessible to all?"-- Amazon.com.
- Contents:
- Mahonia Gardens
- Wild Abundance
- Ambler Farm
- Round Table Farm
- Assawaga Farm
- Black Snake Farm
- FarmaSis
- Grass Nomads
- Rooted Northwest
- Jewish Farmer Network.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-215) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781682688465
- 1682688461
- OCLC:
- 1398567805
- Publisher Number:
- 99996897585
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