SC-Soil & Survival - Softcover

Paddock, Joe

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0871567253 ISBN 13: 9780871567253

Publisher: Random House, Inc., 1988

Synopsis

Offers a practical model for preserving farmlands and caring for the earth

About this title

From Library Journal

This book is a call for agricultural reformindeed, for ecological survivalthrough a program of land stewardship. The program involves turning away from a mechanical system of farming that overworks the land, overuses chemical fertilizers, and destroys the soil's own fertility. These methods are putting U.S. farmers out of business and causing the highest levels of erosion since the Dust Bowl. The authors are involved in the Land Stewardship Project, a nonprofit educational program. Their poetic book draws on sources including literary and religious classics, Native American texts, and scholarly works to show how real change depends on a national shift in values. Important reading for anyone who works the soil, is concerned with the environment, or has felt helpless before the grim specters of world famine.Deci Lowry, Chappaqua, N.Y.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Random House, Inc.
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0871567253
• ISBN 13: 9780871567253
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 228