MOMENTAN AUSVERKAUFT
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Product Identifiers
PublisherRizzoli International Publications, Incorporated
ISBN-100963810960
ISBN-139780963810960
eBay Product ID (ePID)92502689
Product Key Features
Book TitleSheer Ecstasy of Being a Lunatic Farmer
Number of Pages300 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2010
TopicAgriculture / Sustainable Agriculture, Agriculture / General, Agriculture & Food (See Also Political Science / Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy)
IllustratorYes
GenreTechnology & Engineering, Social Science
AuthorJoel Salatin
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight18.2 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2010-909490
TitleLeadingThe
SynopsisFoodies and environmentally minded folks often struggle to understand and articulate the fundamental differences between the farming and food systems they endorse and those promoted by Monsanto and friends. With visceral stories and humor from Salatin's half-century as a "lunatic" farmer, Salatin contrasts the differences on many levels: practical, spiritual, social, economic, ecological, political, and nutritional. In today's conventional food-production paradigm, any farm that is open-sourced, compost-fertilized, pasture-based, portably-infrastructured, solar-driven, multi-speciated, heavily peopled, and soil-building must be operated by a lunatic. Modern, normal, reasonable farmers erect "No Trespassing" signs, deplete soil, worship annuals, apply petroleum-based chemicals, produce only one commodity, erect Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations, and discourage young people from farming. Anyone looking for ammunition to defend a more localized, solar-driven, diversified food system will find an entire arsenal in these pages. With wit and humor honed during countless hours working on the farm he loves, and then interacting with conventional naysayers, Salatin brings the land to life, farming to sacredness, and food to ministry. Divided into four main sections, the first deals with principles to nurture the earth, an idea mainline farming has never really endorsed. The second section describes food and fiber production, including the notion that most farmers don't care about nutrient density or taste because all they want is shipability and volume. The third section, titled "Respect for Life," presents an apologetic for food sacredness and farming as a healing ministry. Only lunatics would want less machinery and pathogenicity. Oh, the ecstasy of not using drugs or paying bankers. How sad. The final section deals with promoting community, including the notion that more farmers would be a good thing.
LC Classification NumberS494.5.S86
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- 27. Jun. 2019
Humorous, helpful, honest.
This book is refreshing, humorous, and encouraging for American farmers. Joel Salatin gives hope for the future on how to renew the soil and live in balance with the environment.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 29. Sep. 2020
Inspiring well written book
This books makes you believe in a healthy earth by using animals and responsible humans! Go think!!Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
