Living at Nature's Pace (eBook)

Gene Logsdon (Autor)

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2000 | Revised edition
257 Seiten
Chelsea Green Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-60358-049-6 (ISBN)

Infos

For decades, Logsdon and his family have run a viable family farm. Along the way, he has become a widely influential journalist and social critic, documenting in hundreds of essays for national and regional magazines the crisis in conventional agri-business and the boundless potential for new forms of farming that reconcile tradition with ecology.Logsdon reminds us that healthy and economical agriculture must work "e;at nature's pace,"e; instead of trying to impose an industrial order on the natural world. Foreseeing a future with "e;more farmers, not fewer,"e; he looks for workable models among the Amish, among his lifelong neighbors in Ohio, and among resourceful urban gardeners and a new generation of defiantly unorthodox organic growers creating an innovative farmers-market economy in every region of the country.Nature knows how to grow plants and raise animals; it is human beings who are in danger of losing this age-old expertise, substituting chemical additives and artificial technologies for the traditional virtues of fertility, artistry, and knowledge of natural processes. This new edition of Logsdon's important collection of essays and articles (first published by Pantheon in 1993) contains six new chapters taking stock of American farm life at this turn of the century.

Inhalt

Foreword / Wendell Berry

1. Green Fields, Red Ink

2. For Amber Waves of Green

3. Our Hidden Wound

4. The Failure of Agricultural Education

5. Traditional Farming

6. Knowing One's Place

7. The Future: More Farmers, Not Fewer

8. An Ecologically Sane Farm

9. Amish Economics

10. A Horse-drawn Economy

11. The Barn Raising

12. Not So Friendly Persuasion

13. A Patriarch Passes

14. A Woodcutter's Pleasures

15. The Pond at the Center of the Universe

16. My Wilderness

17. I'm Glad I'm Not a "Real" Farmer

18. Going to Market on a Warm Day in November

19. Looking for a Midwestern Culture

20. The Folly of Trying to Repress the Agrarian Impulse

21. The Wheel of Life Turns Round and Round

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.2.2000
• Vorwort: Wendell Berry
• Verlagsort: White River Junction
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
• Schlagworte: America • American • A Sanctuary of Trees • authentic • Environment • Farm • Farmer • farming • Farms • Gene Everlasting • Harmony • Holy Shit • joel salatin • living at natures pace • Mark Krawczyk • Nature • organic • Organic Farming • Slow Food • small scale • Small-Scale Grain Raising • Successful Berry Growing • Sustainable • The Contrary Farmer • The Last of the Husbandmen • The Man Who Created Paradise • Toby Hemenway
• ISBN-10: 1-60358-049-2 / 1603580492
• ISBN-13: 978-1-60358-049-6 / 9781603580496