Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
4/5
Unavailable
Unavailable
Unavailable
Ebook405 pages10 hours
The Essential Agrarian Reader: The Future of Culture, Community, and the Land
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this ebook
“Eminently quotable and passionately argued essays [by] farmers, philosophers, scientists, and environmentalists . . . Highly recommended.” —Library Journal (starred review)
Agrarian philosophy, a compelling worldview with advocates around the globe, encourages us to develop practices and policies that promote the sustainable health of the land, community, and culture. In this remarkable anthology are fifteen essays from Wendell Berry, Vandana Shiva, Wes Jackson, Gene Logsdon, Brian Donahue, Eric Freyfogle, David Orr, and others. The Essential Agrarian Reader calls us to celebrate the gifts of the earth, through honest work and respect for the land.
“Here is a primer on real ‘homeland security’—on preserving the sources of clean air, pure water, nutritious food, caring communities, and good work. If you wish to understand what’s wrong with our present way of life, and if you wish to envision a more decent, sustainable, and joyful alternative, read on.” —Scott Russell Sanders
Agrarian philosophy, a compelling worldview with advocates around the globe, encourages us to develop practices and policies that promote the sustainable health of the land, community, and culture. In this remarkable anthology are fifteen essays from Wendell Berry, Vandana Shiva, Wes Jackson, Gene Logsdon, Brian Donahue, Eric Freyfogle, David Orr, and others. The Essential Agrarian Reader calls us to celebrate the gifts of the earth, through honest work and respect for the land.
“Here is a primer on real ‘homeland security’—on preserving the sources of clean air, pure water, nutritious food, caring communities, and good work. If you wish to understand what’s wrong with our present way of life, and if you wish to envision a more decent, sustainable, and joyful alternative, read on.” —Scott Russell Sanders
Unavailable
Author
Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver is the author of ten bestselling works of fiction, including the novels Unsheltered, Flight Behavior, The Lacuna, The Poisonwood Bible, Animal Dreams, and The Bean Trees, as well as books of poetry, essays, and creative nonfiction. Her work of narrative nonfiction is the influential bestseller Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life. Kingsolver’s work has been translated into more than twenty languages and has earned literary awards and a devoted readership at home and abroad. She was awarded the National Humanities Medal, our country’s highest honor for service through the arts, as well as the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for the body of her work. She lives with her family on a farm in southern Appalachia.
Read more from Barbara Kingsolver
The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel Demon Copperhead: A Pulitzer Prize Winner Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Unsheltered: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Prodigal Summer: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Bean Trees: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Flight Behavior: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Lacuna: Deluxe Modern Classic Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Small Wonder: Essays Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Homeland and Other Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Animal, Vegetable, Miracle - 10th anniversary edition: A Year of Food Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2014 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How to Fly (In Ten Thousand Easy Lessons): Poetry Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Public Library Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to The Essential Agrarian Reader
Related ebooks
The Essential Agrarian Reader: The Future of Culture, Community, and the Land Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Prairie Patrimony: Family, Farming, and Community in the Midwest Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHow to Do Things: A Timeless Guide to a Simpler Life Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Master Gardener Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5In Pastures Green Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Migrant Project: Contemporary California Farm Workers Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Culture of Wilderness: Agriculture As Colonization in the American West Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWater at the Roots: Poems and Insights of a Visionary Farmer Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFrom the Farm to the Table: What All Americans Need to Know about Agriculture Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsVisionary Women: How Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters Changed Our World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Road Washes Out in Spring: A Poet’s Memoir of Living Off the Grid Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Color of Food: Stories of Race, Resilience and Farming Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsUrban Farming 2nd Ed Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSaying NO to a Farm-Free Future: The Case For an Ecological Food System and Against Manufactured Foods Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHow to Be a Farmer: An Ancient Guide to Life on the Land Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Torching the Fink Books and Other Essays on Vernacular Culture Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEco-Fascists: How Radical Conservationists Are Destroying Our Natural Heritage Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Taking Root: The Nature Writing of William and Adam Summer of Pomaria Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Heartland: a memoir of working hard and being broke in the richest country on Earth Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Working the Garden: American Writers and the Industrialization of Agriculture Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDesign for an Empathic World: Reconnecting People, Nature, and Self Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Domesticity: A Gastronomic Interpretation of Love Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsJelly Roll: A Black Neighborhood in a Southern Mill Town Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Abandoned Farmers: His Humorous Account of a Retreat from the City to the Farm Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRural Wit and Wisdom: Time-Honored Values from the Heartland Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOntario Garlic: The Story from Farm to Festival Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSelling Local: Why Local Food Movements Matter Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRooted and Grounded in Love: Holy Communion for the Whole Creation Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPot Planet: Adventures in Global Marijuana Culture Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5
Environmental Science For You
Silent Spring Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Shelter: A Love Letter to Trees Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Animal, Vegetable, Miracle - 10th anniversary edition: A Year of Food Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Big Book of Nature Activities: A Year-Round Guide to Outdoor Learning Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Invisible Rainbow: A History of Electricity and Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Homegrown & Handmade: A Practical Guide to More Self-Reliant Living Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mother of God: An Extraordinary Journey into the Uncharted Tributaries of the Western Amazon Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Uncertain Sea: Fear is everywhere. Embrace it. Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Microadventures: Local Discoveries for Great Escapes Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Of Orcas and Men: What Killer Whales Can Teach Us Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Legacy of Luna: The Story of a Tree, a Woman, and the Struggle to Save the Redwoods Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Druidry Handbook: Spiritual Practice Rooted in the Living Earth Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHorsemen of the Apocalypse: The Men Who Are Destroying Life on Earth—And What It Means for Our Children Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sacred Plant Medicine: The Wisdom in Native American Herbalism Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related podcast episodes
108. Food Sovereignty, Community and Culture with Food Justice Advocate April Jones 0% found this document usefulSoil: The Dirty Climate Solution 0% found this document usefulWhat’s the Return on ROI? The 213th Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying 0% found this document usefulEpisode 90: In Defense of Wet Markets 0% found this document useful199 - The Great Decoherence of Android Jones 0% found this document usefulShow #109: Joel Salatin on food, soil and regenerative effects of working with nature's systems 0% found this document useful
Related articles
Wendell Berry Garden & GunArticle
Wendell Berry
Mar 16, 2020
7 min readHugo Blanco: The Future Is Indigenous Guernica MagazineArticle
Hugo Blanco: The Future Is Indigenous
Dec 11, 2017
9 min readEco-fiction: FOLLOW THE SCIENCE Writing MagazineArticle
Eco-fiction: FOLLOW THE SCIENCE
Feb 2, 2023
5 min readThe Man Who Brought Avocados to America (And More) Literary HubArticle
The Man Who Brought Avocados to America (And More)
Feb 22, 2018
4 min readHow Agriculture has Shaped Us Dumbo FeatherArticle
How Agriculture has Shaped Us
Jun 3, 2020
I remember writing years ago about how lovely it would be if, for just one month, the whole human world went quiet. I imagined a beautiful stillness descending on the streets, so that we could begin to think again, contemplate our situation, remember
4 min read‘I Sit In The Shadow Of My Ancestors And Dare To Work The Land Of Their Oppressors’ Bloom Magazine UKArticle
‘I Sit In The Shadow Of My Ancestors And Dare To Work The Land Of Their Oppressors’
Jun 6, 2020
2 min readThe Senior Master’s Diary Shooting Times & CountryArticle
The Senior Master’s Diary
Sep 22, 2021
2 min readFrom Dirt New InternationalistArticle
From Dirt
Feb 25, 2019
8 min readBook Of The Moment Haven MagazineArticle
Book Of The Moment
Aug 15, 2022
2 min readTOWN vs COUNTRY BBC Countryfile MagazineArticle
TOWN vs COUNTRY
Aug 25, 2022
5 min readWeaving Back Into The Web Dumbo FeatherArticle
Weaving Back Into The Web
Nov 20, 2019
The fireplace my sharehouse affectionately calls “the little howler” burns in one corner of the lounge room as the visitors arrive. It’s fake, but elicits enough real and imagined warmth to provide a hearth of a kind for the dozen neighbours, flatmat
6 min readAlli Warren Translates Five Books into Poems Literary HubArticle
Alli Warren Translates Five Books into Poems
Mar 30, 2020
6 min readWhat I Wish My Children Could Learn From My Rural Upbringing Literary HubArticle
What I Wish My Children Could Learn From My Rural Upbringing
Mar 20, 2019
4 min readTied Up In Knots Country LifeArticle
Tied Up In Knots
Feb 19, 2020
3 min readEveryone Is An Outsider Until They're An Insider: A Theory On Food Media Los Angeles TimesArticle
Everyone Is An Outsider Until They're An Insider: A Theory On Food Media
Jan 16, 2023
4 min readOn Healing Dumbo FeatherArticle
On Healing
Sep 4, 2020
In 2016 my partner and I bought a wooden cottage on 10 acres of land, on an ecotone where the woodlands meet the foothills of the mountains. The area had been logged relentlessly in the 1950s. One by one, the tall trees of the old growth cedar forest
7 min readThe Persistence of Pearl Garden & GunArticle
The Persistence of Pearl
Sep 14, 2020
3 min readBe Happy With The (ish) In Self-sufficiency Amateur GardeningArticle
Be Happy With The (ish) In Self-sufficiency
Feb 27, 2024
4 min readThe Accidental Activist EsquireArticle
The Accidental Activist
Aug 17, 2023
5 min readNew Memoir From A Chinese Millennial About Family Life In China NPRArticle
New Memoir From A Chinese Millennial About Family Life In China
Mar 14, 2019
5 min readOn Being a Trend The MillionsArticle
On Being a Trend
Apr 30, 2018
1. I recently bought some Tupperware with a similar mindset to that of the people who prepare their sports clothes the night before so that exercising is not a decision but a given, as if the presence of the clothes outside the wardrobe were a cataly
6 min readCatherine Coleman Flowers Writer's DigestArticle
Catherine Coleman Flowers
Jun 14, 2021
I am an activist, an environmentalist, a teacher, professor, and a mentor … but first, I am a listener. I listened to my parents, my soul, the earth, and the people of my community. Real activism starts with listening. Listening can also help one wri
2 min readMoving To The Country Was THE BEST THING I EVER DID Woman & Home South AfricaArticle
Moving To The Country Was THE BEST THING I EVER DID
May 13, 2019
3 min readSole Food Street Farms Dumbo FeatherArticle
Sole Food Street Farms
Feb 7, 2019
5 min readWalking In The Wind Country LifeArticle
Walking In The Wind
Aug 12, 2020
IN this summer of 2020, I have whole days when I feel as if I’m living in a trance. I spend half the day preparing for the apocalypse of the second Covid-19 wave and half looking after chickens, moving last year’s ram lambs into fields with more gras
4 min readSoul Fire Farm Uprooting Racism, Seeding Sovereignty MOTHER EARTH NEWSArticle
Soul Fire Farm Uprooting Racism, Seeding Sovereignty
Jul 10, 2020
8 min readSongbirds in the Suburbs: House Finches, Costco, and Remaking the American Wild.: House finches, Costco, and remaking the American wild. NautilusArticle
Songbirds in the Suburbs: House Finches, Costco, and Remaking the American Wild.: House finches, Costco, and remaking the American wild.
Aug 29, 2013
It was gearing day—24 hours in San Diego to gather everything we’d need for our three-week field course in the Sea of Cortez—and Veronica and I had decided to commence our mission at Costco. But we’d barely made it through the low-lying archipelago o
7 min readStoryteller At The Fire Orion MagazineArticle
Storyteller At The Fire
May 3, 2020
13 min readBooks The Big IssueArticle
Books
Aug 7, 2023
6 min read’Tis The Silly Season Country LifeArticle
’Tis The Silly Season
Aug 16, 2023
3 min read
Reviews for The Essential Agrarian Reader
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
0 ratings
0 ratings0 reviews