Farming for the Long Haul - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Farming for the Long Haul write by Michael Foley. This book was released on 2019. Farming for the Long Haul available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Farming in the ruins of the twentieth century -- A short, unhappy history of business advice for farmers -- Subsistence first! -- Land for the tiller -- Soil, civilization, and resilient farmers through the centuries -- Resourceful farmers -- Woodlands and wastes -- It takes a village: leisure, community, and resilience -- Getting a living, forging a livelihood -- Farmer, citizen, survivor: politics and resilience
Farming for the Long Haul
Farming for the Long Haul - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Farming for the Long Haul write by Michael Foley. This book was released on 2019-02-01. Farming for the Long Haul available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. It’s all but certain that the next fifty years will bring enormous, not to say cataclysmic, disruptions to our present way of life. World oil reserves will be exhausted within that time frame, as will the lithium that powers today’s most sophisticated batteries, suggesting that transportation is equally imperiled. And there’s another, even more dire limitation that is looming: at current rates of erosion, the world’s topsoil will be gone in sixty years. Fresh water sources are in jeopardy, too. In short, the large-scale agricultural and food delivery system as we know it has at most a few decades before it exhausts itself and the planet with it. Farming for the Long Haul is about building a viable small farm economy that can withstand the economic, political, and climatic shock waves that the twenty-first century portends. It draws on the innovative work of contemporary farmers, but more than that, it shares the experiences of farming societies around the world that have maintained resilient agricultural systems over centuries of often-turbulent change. Indigenous agriculturalists, peasants, and traditional farmers have all created broad strategies for survival through good times and bad, and many of them prospered. They also developed particular techniques for managing soil, water, and other resources sustainably. Some of these techniques have been taken up by organic agriculture and permaculture, but many more of them are virtually unknown, even among alternative farmers. This book lays out some of these strategies and presents techniques and tools that might prove most useful to farmers today and in the uncertain future.
Long Range Farm Program
Long Range Farm Program - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Long Range Farm Program write by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. This book was released on 1953. Long Range Farm Program available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Long-range Agricultural Policy
Long-range Agricultural Policy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Long-range Agricultural Policy write by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. This book was released on 1947. Long-range Agricultural Policy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
It's a Long Road to a Tomato
It's a Long Road to a Tomato - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook It's a Long Road to a Tomato write by Keith Stewart. This book was released on 2010-08-10. It's a Long Road to a Tomato available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Now updated and expanded, a New York executive-turned-farmer shares his story and the hows & whys of running a small organic farm in 21st century America. Keith Stewart, already in his early forties and discontent with New York’s corporate grind, moved upstate and started a one-man organic farm in 1986. Today, having surmounted the seemingly endless challenges to succeeding as an organic farmer, Keith employs seven to eight seasonal interns and provides 100 varieties of fresh produce to the shoppers and chefs who flock twice weekly, May to December, to his stand at Union Square Greenmarket in Manhattan—the only place where his produce is sold. It’s a Long Road to a Tomato opens a window into the world of Keith’s Farm, with essays on Keith’s development as a farmer, the nuts and bolts of organic farming for an urban market, farm animals domestic and wild, and the political, social, and environmental issues relevant to agriculture today—and their impact on all of us. Includes a foreword by Deborah Madison and gorgeous new woodcuts by Flavia Bacarella Praise for It’s a Long Road to Tomato “Keith Stewart opens this engaging book by transforming himself abruptly from midlife executive into novice organic farmer. The twenty years that follow on an upstate New York farm are sampled here in true-life tales that—without denying the sometimes harsh realities of the small producer’s life—leave the reader in no doubt of the joys that keep this small farmer on the land.” —Joan Dye Gussow, author of This Organic Life “An enduring pleasure to read.” —Sally Schneider, author of A New Way to Cook “Stewart has been providing New Yorkers with magnificent vegetables for two decades. Now, as if to prove he can do anything, he provides all Americans with a compelling story about his own approach to farming. And at precisely the right moment, just as millions of people across the country are rediscovering the pleasure, and the importance, of eating close to home.” —Bill McKibben, author of Wandering Home and Falter
