EAT LIKE A FISH: MY ADVENTURES AS A FISHERMAN TURNED RESTORATIVE OCEAN FARMER. By Bren Smith.

Smith (Bren).

ISBN 10: 0451494547 / ISBN 13: 9780451494542

Published by Alfred A. Knopf. New York. 2019, 2019

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ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 2019). 2019 1st edition. 8vo (145 x 216mm). Ppx,307. B/w illustrations. Green paper to blue boards, spine titled in white. Small ink-mark to bottom edge but a very good copy in slightly soiled dust-wrapper. Bren Smith was a commercial fisherman. Now he is developing new forms of ocean farming and is a pioneer of the food movement. In this book he introduces us to the world of sea-based agriculture and advocates getting ocean vegetables onto American plates. Here he shows how we can transform our food system while enjoying delicious, nutritious, locally grown produce, and how restorative ocean farming has the potential to create millions of new jobs and protect our planet in the face of climate change and finite food resources. The book also includes recipes from acclaimed chefs Brooks Headley and David Santos. . Seller Inventory # 57037

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Title: EAT LIKE A FISH: MY ADVENTURES AS A ...

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf. New York. 2019

Publication Date: 2019

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: new

Edition: 1st Edition

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Synopsis:

In the face of apocalyptic climate change, a former fisherman shares a bold and hopeful new vision for saving the planet: farming the ocean.

Here Bren Smith—a restorative ocean farmer—introduces the world of sea-based agriculture, a groundbreaking solution to the global climate crisis. The ocean is a vast, untapped opportunity, home to thousands of edible plants. Using simple DIY techniques, we can grow more than enough delicious and nutritious food—without the use of fresh water or fertilizers—to feed the planet and mitigate climate change, to boot.
 
A groundbreaking “climate memoir,” Eat Like a Fish interweaves Smith’s own life—from sailing the high seas aboard commercial fishing trawlers to pioneering new forms of ocean farming to surfing the frontiers of the food movement—with actionable food policy and practical advice on ocean farming. Written with the humor and swagger of a fisherman telling a late-night tale, it is a powerful story of environmental renewal, and a must-read guide to saving our oceans, feeding the world, and—by creating new jobs up and down the coasts—putting working class Americans back to work.

About the Author:

Bren Smith is a former commercial fisherman turned ocean farmer who pioneered the development of restorative 3D ocean farming. Born and raised in Newfoundland, he left high school at the age of 14 to work on fishing boats from the Grand Banks to the Bering Sea. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, National Geographic, The Atlantic, and elsewhere; his ocean farm won the Buckminster Fuller Challenge for ecological design, and, in 2017, was named one of TIME magazine’s Best Inventions. He is the owner of Thimble Island Ocean Farm, and Executive Director of the non-profit Greenwave, which trains new ocean farmers.