Consulting the Genius of the Place: An Ecological Approach to a New Agriculture

A call to agricultural revolution from a locavore and author who is one of “the most prominent and effective advocates of American environmental thought” (Prairie Fire Newspaper).
 
For years, Wes Jackson has made it his mission to raise Americans’ awareness about where their food comes from. Focusing on locally grown and produced food, the locavore movement—joined by food experts and enthusiasts including Alice Waters, Michael Pollan, and Barbara Kingsolver—strives to return agriculture to a more community-based endeavor. This would not only improve the quality of the meals we eat, but protect the land from agricultural processes we’ve grown too dependent on.
 
In this volume, ranging in topic from the history of the earth to the use of modern chemicals and pesticides to the effects of global warming, Jackson outlines a plan that highlights natural ecosystems in the future of farming and food production. An eloquent manifesto for our age, Jackson’s analysis explores the way our agricultural methods have affected everything from the soil to the health of the US population to the danger of monoculture grains. Join the author in a look at how we can change not only the food we eat, but the future of our land.

• Nature as Measure: The Selected Essays of Wes Jackson
• Becoming Native to This Place
• The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture
• The Numerati
• Tales From The Underground: A Natural History Of Subterranean Life
• Here on Earth: A Natural History of the Planet
• Letters to a Young Farmer: On Food, Farming, and Our Future
• Swampwalker's Journal: A Wetlands Year
• The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry
• Unlocking the Past: How Archaeologists Are Rewriting Human History with Ancient DNA