Book description
" WITH A FOREWORD BY BARBARA KINGSOLVER A compelling worldview
with advocates from around the globe, agrarianism challenges the
shortcomings of our industrial and technological economy. Not simply
focused on farming, the agrarian outlook encourages us to develop
practices and policies that promote the health of land, community, and
culture. Agrarianism reminds us that no matter how urban we become, our
survival will always be inextricably linked to the precious resources of
soil, water, and air. Combining fresh insights from the disciplines of
education, law, history, urban and regional planning, economics,
philosophy, religion, ecology, politics, and agriculture, these original
essays develop a sophisticated critique of our culture's current
relationship to the land, while offering practical alternatives. Leading
agrarians, including Wendell Berry, Vandana Shiva, Wes Jackson, Gene
Logsdon, Brian Donahue, Eric Freyfogle, and David Orr, explain how our
goals should be redirected toward genuinely sustainable communities.
These writers call us to an honest accounting and correction of our
often destructive ways. They suggest how our society can take practical
steps toward integrating soils, watersheds, forests, wildlife, urban
areas, and human populations into one great system-a responsible
flourishing of our world and culture.
