Feed Us with Trees
New Society Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-86571-972-9 (ISBN)
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A new and ancient story about perennial nut trees, our ecological role as humans, and the future of food
All over the Northern Hemisphere, humans used to grow our staple foods on perennial nut trees such as oaks for acorns, chestnuts, and hazelnuts. Feed Us with Trees breaks down the stories trapping us in today’s industrrial food system and takes us on a fascinating journey rooted in the startling premise that our ancestors once produced their dietary mainstays—the flours, milks, and cooking oils still essential in today’s pantries—by tending food forests or forest gardens.
NPR reporter Elspeth Hay digs deep to expose the dominant narrative that keeps us stuck on industrial monocultures, and pieces together the complex history of how we arrived at today’s broken food system. Through interviews with dozens of nut growers, scientists, Indigenous knowledge-keepers, researchers, and food professionals, she shines a light on those working toward a brighter, more abundant future. It’s a vision that prioritizes life, redefines wealth, and above all reminds us that as humans, we have a vital role as one of Earth’s keystone species.
Hay’s hopeful manifesto offers a new way of looking at modern, grain-based, annual agriculture. It will appeal to environmentalists, regenerative farmers, permaculture enthusiasts, agroforesters, locavores, and anyone hungry for a more holistic, nutrient-dense diet rooted in wild foods and ancient knowledge.
Elspeth Hay is a writer, public radio host, and creator of the Local Food Report, a weekly feature that has aired on CAI, the Cape & Islands NPR Station, since 2008. Deeply immersed in her own local food system, she writes and reports for print, radio, and online media with a focus on food and the environment. Elspeth’s work has been featured in the Boston Globe, NPR’s Kitchen Window, Heated with Mark Bittman, The Provincetown Independent, and numerous other publications. Through her conversations with growers, harvesters, processors, cooks, policy makers, Indigenous knowledge-keepers, scientists, researchers, and visionaries, she aims to rebuild our cultural store of culinary knowledge—and to reconnect us with the people, places, and ideas that feed us. Elspeth lives with her family on Cape Cod, MA.
Introduction
Part I: Stuck Inside a Story
Chapter 1: The Myth of Scarcity
Chapter 2: A World of Abundance
Chapter 3: Crafting Wilderness
Part II: The Myth Unravels
Chapter 4: Why We Left
Chapter 5: Two Fundamentally Different Types of Culture
Chapter 6: Tragedies of the Commons
Part III: Emerging Narratives
Chapter 7: A Real Tree-Crops Farm
Chapter 8: Leaps in Productivity
Chapter 9: Remembering the Art of Tending
Chapter 10: Adventures in Eating
Chapter 11: The Science of Nutrition
Chapter 12: Moral Complications
Conclusion: A Field Guide to Being Human
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 15.7.2025 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 10 Halftones, black and white |
| Verlagsort | Gabriola Island |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 422 g |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz |
| Sozialwissenschaften | |
| Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-86571-972-1 / 0865719721 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-86571-972-9 / 9780865719729 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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