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.
"First-rate essays written by the agrarian A-team, folks who
have done some darn deep thinking, good work, and right living. They
set forth the limits and dangers of our current mindset, and call us
-- wherever we are -- t a life that acknowledges and honors the land
and the people who provide for it." -- Bill Vitek, co-editor,
Rooted in the Land: Essays on Community and Place
