Author: Eric Herm Publisher: Dreamriver Press ISBN: 9780979790898 Category : Agricultural ecology Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
This book examines commercial agriculture's strain on our natural resources, ecosystems, and the farmer. As a fourth-generation farmer, Eric Herm deals with the harsh economic realities and complicated legislation facing farmers, as well as the undeniable health impact of GMO crops and excessive chemicals. The book provides resources of natural, healthy alternatives that will inspire the farmers' transformation from corporate-motivated producers back to the flesh and bone guardian angels of the Earth.
Author: Wendell Berry Publisher: Catapult ISBN: 1582439699 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 387
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Published in 1967, we return to Port William during the Second World War to revisit Jayber Crow, the barber, Uncle Stanley, the gravedigger, Jarrat and Burley, the sharecroppers, and Brother Preston, the preacher, as well as Mat Feltner, his wife Margaret, and his daughter–in–law Hannah, whose son will be born after news comes that Hannah’s husband Virgil is missing. "The earth is the genius of our life,” Wendell Berry writes here. “The final questions and their answers lie serenely coupled in it."
Author: Ted Genoways Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 0393292584 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 288
Book Description
Winner of the Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize 2019 selection for the One Book One Nebraska and All Iowa state reading programs "Genoways gives the reader a kitchen-table view of the vagaries, complexities, and frustrations of modern farming…Insightful and empathetic." —Milwaukee Journal Sentinel The family farm lies at the heart of our national identity, and yet its future is in peril. Rick Hammond grew up on a farm, and for forty years he has raised cattle and crops on his wife’s fifth-generation homestead in Nebraska, in hopes of passing it on to their four children. But as the handoff nears, their family farm—and their entire way of life—are under siege on many fronts, from shifting trade policies, to encroaching pipelines, to climate change. Following the Hammonds from harvest to harvest, Ted Genoways explores the rapidly changing world of small, traditional farming operations. He creates a vivid, nuanced portrait of a radical new landscape and one family’s fight to preserve their legacy and the life they love.
Author: Telford Streete Publisher: ISBN: 9781773020549 Category : Languages : en Pages : 152
Book Description
As I pen the words of this book I feel immense joy to know that these words will be touching the lives of young and old readers alike. Parents, procrastinators, children of low-income families, people who think the world is set against them, readers with courage to climb but lacking the motivation. We only know when we fail if we try. Unless we sacrifice something there is little to be gained. If you want to be full you have to read, because reading maketh a full man. A general overall knowledge of what it is like growing up as a child of a low-income family, and facing all the challenges that goes with it.
Author: Eric Herm
Author: Wendell Berry
Author: Ted Genoways
Author: Eric Herm
Author: Telford Streete
Author: Consul Willshire Butterfield
Author: Consul Willshire Butterfield
Author: Henry Anson Castle
Author: Eric Herm
Author: T. Hughes