The New Agrarianism Land Culture and the Community of Life 1st Edition by Eric Freyfogle ISBN 978-1559639200 1559639202
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ISBN 10: 1559639202
ISBN 13: 978-1559639200
Author: Eric T. Freyfogle
The engaging writings gathered in this new book explore an important but little-publicized movement in American culture — the marked resurgence of agrarian practices and values in rural areas, suburbs, and even cities. It is a movement that in widely varied ways is attempting to strengthen society’s roots in the land while bringing greater health to families, neighborhoods, and communities. The New Agrarianism vividly displays the movement’s breadth and vigor, with selections by such award-winning writers as Wendell Berry, William Kittredge, Stephanie Mills, David Orr, Scott Russell Sanders, and Donald Worster.As editor Eric Freyfogle observes in his stimulating and original introduction, agrarianism is properly conceived in broad terms, as reaching beyond food production to include a wide constellation of ideals, loyalties, sentiments, and hopes. It is a temperament and a moral orientation, he explains, as well as a suite of diverse economic practices — all based on the insistent truth that people everywhere are part of the land community, as dependent as other life on its fertility and just as shaped by its mysteries and possibilities.The writings included here have been chosen for their engaging narratives as well as their depiction of the New Agrarianism’s broad scope. Many of the selections illustrate agrarian practitioners in action — restoring prairies, promoting community forests and farms, reducing resource consumption, reshaping the built environment. Other selections offer pointed critiques of contemporary American culture and its market-driven, resource-depleting competitiveness. Together, they reveal what Freyfogle identifies as the heart and soul of the New Agrarianism: its yearning to regain society’s connections to the land and its quest to help craft a more land-based and enduring set of shared values.The New Agrarianism offers a compelling vision of this hopeful new way of living. It is an essential book for social critics, community activists, organic gardeners, conservationists, and all those seeking to forge sustaining ties with the entire community of life.
Table of contents:
PART I. NEW HORIZONS
Chapter 1.
Learning from the Prairie
Scott Russell Sanders
Chapter 2.
Linking the Table to the Farm
Dan Imhoff
Chapter 3.
Substance Abuse
Alan Thein Durning
Chapter 4.
Prairie University
Stephanie Mills
Chapter 5.
The Whole Horse
Wendell Berry
Chapter 6.
What Comes Around
Gene Logsdon
Chapter 7.
The Urban-Agricultural Mind
David W. Orr
Chapter 8.
The Decline of Apple
Anne Mendelson
Chapter 9.
Competitive Advantage
Don Kurtz
Chapter 10.
Owning It All
William Kittredge
Chapter 11.
The Wealth of Nature
Donald Worse
PART III. SHARING LIFE
Chapter 12.
Great Assets
David Kline
Chapter 13.
Reclaiming the Commons
Brian Donahue
Chapter 14.
Living Together
Scott Russell Sanders
Chapter 15.
Boundaries
Wendell Berry
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