A Call to Farms: Reconnecting to Nature, Food, and Community in a Modern World (eBook)

Jennifer Grayson (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024
224 Seiten
Countryman Press (Verlag)
978-1-68268-847-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Within a decade, nearly half of all American farmland will change hands as an older generation of farmers steps aside. In their place, a groundswell of new growers will face numerous challenges, including soil degradation, insufficient income, and investors devouring farmland at a staggering pace. These new farmers are embracing regenerative agriculture-the holistic approach to growing food that restores the soil and biodiversity-in the movement to reclaim our health and the planet's. But can their efforts help reverse an epidemic of diet-related disease, food inequality, and even climate change? To answer that question and more, award-winning journalist Jennifer Grayson embedded herself in a groundbreaking farmer training program, then embarked on this investigative journey. The diverse array of farmers, graziers, and food activists whom she profiles here are working toward better, more sustainable foodways for all. From a one-acre market garden in Oregon to activists reviving food sovereignty in South Carolina, A Call to Farms tells the captivating story of these new agrarians finding hope and purpose in reconnecting to the land and striving to improve the future of American food.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.7.2024
• Zusatzinfo: 16 pages of color photos
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
• Schlagworte: American • economy • ecosystem • Environment • farming • Farm to Table • food apartheid • food desert • Food System • homesteading • Industrial Agriculture • Justice • Local • Regeneration • Rewilding • Soil • Sustainable
• ISBN-10: 1-68268-847-X / 168268847X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-68268-847-2 / 9781682688472