The New Agrarianism: Land, Culture, and the Community of Life - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1559639202 ISBN 13: 9781559639200

Verlag: Island Press, 2001

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"Here is a book to savor--flavorful and nutritious, it sticks to the mind's ribs. The 'New Agrarianism' is about Americans re-learning how to care for the land, and Eric Freyfogle has thoughtfully assembled a banquet of eloquent voices."--Tony Hiss "author of"The Experience of Place" " ""The New Agrarianism" is a manifesto for the next generation of back-to-the-landers one which doesn't want Monsanto, ConAgra, or Sysco to dictate what is in our diets or our gardens. Let it help make a thousand fields bloom again."--Gary Nabhan "director of the NAU Center for Sustainable Environments and author "" "Here is a book to savor flavorful and nutritious, it sticks to the mind's ribs. The 'New Agrarianism' is about Americans re-learning how to care for the land, and Eric Freyfogle has thoughtfully assembled a banquet of eloquent voices."--Tony Hiss "author of "The Experience of Place" ""

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The writings gathered in this book explore an important but little-publicized movement in American culture - the marked resurgence of agrarian practices and values in rural areas, suburbs, and even cities. It is a movement that in widely varied ways is attempting to strengthen society's roots in the land while bringing greater health to families, neighbourhoods and communities. "The New Agrarianism" vividly displays the movement's breadth and vigour, with selections by such award-winning writers as Wendell Berry, William Kittredge, Stephanie Mills, David Orr, Scott Russell Sanders and Donald Worster. As editor Eric Freyfogle observes in his introduction, agrarianism is properly conceived in broad terms, as reaching beyond food production to include a whole constellation of ideals, loyalties, sentiments and hopes. It is a temperament and a moral orientation, he explains, as well as a suite of diverse economic practices - all based on the insistent truth that people everywhere are part of the land community, as dependent as other life on its fertility and just as shaped by its mysteries and possibilities. The writings included here have been chosen for their engaging narratives as well as their depiction of the New Agrarianism's broad scope. Many of the selections illustrate agrarian practitioners in action - restoring prairies, promoting community forests and farms, reducing resource consumption, reshaping the built environment. Other selections offer pointed critiques of contemporary American culture and its market-driven, resource-depleting competitiveness. Together, they reveal what Freyfogle identifies as the heart and soul of the New Agrarianism: its yearning to regain society's connections to the land and its quest to help craft a more land-based and enduring set of shared values. The book is for social critics, community activists, organic gardeners, conservationists and all those seeking to forge sustaining ties with the entire community of life.

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• Verlag: Island Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1559639202
• ISBN 13: 9781559639200
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256
• Herausgeber: Freyfogle Eric T.