Farms Of Tomorrow Revisited

Author : Trauger Groh
Publisher : SteinerBooks
ISBN 13 : 1621511863
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Farms of Tomorrow Revisited written by Trauger Groh and published by SteinerBooks. This book was released on 1998-04 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely sequel to the popular inspirational blueprint for Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is set to guide this rapidly growing movement to the next stage of its development. The authors provide very practical examples and information that will be of service to growers and shareholders alike without losing sight of the heart and excitement that makes CSA central to the renewal of agriculture. Added to the material from the original edition are two new essays by Trauger Groh dealing with the economic, legal and spiritual questions surrounding the CSA movement, and the role of domestic animals on CSA farms, while Steven McFadden contributes several new pieces on the context and scope of community farms. New profiles of five farms are included, and the farm "biographies" from the 1990 first edition are reprinted and updated with reports on their present situations and lessons learned during the intervening years. Expanded appendices provide suggestions for starting CSA farms, look at the issues surrounding the acquisition and holding of land, illustrate sample farm prospects and budgets, and offer lengthy lists of resources and suggestions for additional reading.

Author : Trauger Groh
Publisher : Steiner Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Farms of Tomorrow written by Trauger Groh and published by Steiner Books. This book was released on 1990 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book the theory of Community Supported Agriculture is explored and examples of over seven farms and communities described. It also includes lists of resources and contacts

Author : Steven McFadden
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781512158359
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Awakening Community Intelligence written by Steven McFadden and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-05-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last decades many thousands of people in all parts of the world have come to recognize in Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) a vehicle for approaching land, food, labor, environment and community in a healthier way. According to the USDA as many as 12,000 new CSA farms have been established in the USA since 1986. Many thousands more have taken root around the world. Now - in an era with increasing shadows of environmental catastrophe - it's time to expand exponentially the CSA vision and reality. The opportunity is before us to establish hundreds of thousands of CSA farms in nations around the world, and to thereby employ a proven, egalitarian model to address the radically changing circumstances in our environment, climate, economics, and social relationships.Awakening Community Intelligence lays out a powerful vision, and sounds a call to action.

Author : Steven McFadden
Publisher : Light and Sound Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781792309281
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deep Agroecology written by Steven McFadden and published by Light and Sound Press, LLC. This book was released on 2019-08-31 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ways we farm and the ways we eat will determine the destiny of life on earth. Farms and food are foundational for civilization. Right now our civilization is undergoing massive upheaval. We must build a new foundation, and that imperative task is going to take all of us. Deep Agroecology shows the way. The union of native wisdom ways with sophisticated, sustainable tools and practices can lead to the renewal and the elevation of all forms of life on Earth. Our next, necessary evolutionary step depends on spiritual intelligent, regenerative agriculture: deep agroecology. Agroecology is an ecological approach to growing food and fiber that appreciates farms and orchards as ecosystems. Internationally, agroecology is increasingly recognized as an approach capable of meeting productivity goals while replenishing the soil, sequestering climate destabilizing CO2, and striving toward justice for all the human beings and animals in the food system. Deep agroecology arises from recognition that the way we farm will determine the destiny of life on the earth. This inescapable reality necessarily involves every human being. "The future of humanity depends on our heeding the wisdom of deep agroecology." - John Ikerd, author of Crisis and Opportunity: Sustainability in American Agriculture. While deep agroecology is new territory, it's natural territory, not just for farmers, but for all people.

Author : Elizabeth Henderson
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1603580751
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sharing the Harvest written by Elizabeth Henderson and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To an increasing number of American families the CSA (community supported agriculture) is the answer to the globalization of our food supply. The premise is simple: create a partnership between local farmers and nearby consumers, who become members or subscribers in support of the farm. In exchange for paying in advance--at the beginning of the growing season, when the farm needs financing--CSA members receive the freshest, healthiest produce throughout the season and keep money, jobs, and farms in their own community. In this thoroughly revised and expanded edition of a Chelsea Green classic, authors Henderson and Van En provide new insight into making CSA not only a viable economic model, but the right choice for food lovers and farmers alike. Thinking and buying local is quickly moving from a novel idea to a mainstream activity. The groundbreaking first edition helped spark a movement and, with this revised edition, Sharing the Harvest is poised to lead the way toward a revitalized agriculture.

Author : Steven McFadden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781935254119
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Call of the Land written by Steven McFadden and published by . This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of Call of the Land provides an answer for those who ask, "What can I do to save the environment?" Throughout the world, people are working to improve the earth and reverse the effects of industrial farming. McFadden's book shows us that everyone can get involved on a personal level, in their own communities. Dubbed "An Agrarian Primer for the 21st Century," this sourcebook documents a range of positive pathways to food security, economic stability, environmental health, and cultural renewal. To Steven McFadden and others, the call of the land now is an SOS. The responses from individuals, communities, cities, and institutions, are both imaginative and practical.

Author : DAVID LEVINSON
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 0761925988
Total Pages : 2045 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Community written by DAVID LEVINSON and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2003-06-30 with total page 2045 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of Community is a major four volume reference work that seeks to define one of the most widely researched topics in the behavioural and social sciences. Community itself is a concept, an experience, and a central part of being human. This pioneering major reference work seeks to provide the necessary definitions of community far beyond the traditional views.

Author : Luigi Morelli
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1663230978
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Accelerating Social Change written by Luigi Morelli and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2021-11-03 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social change is more than a political statement or demand; it is a moral and spiritual imperative. If this is so, then it involves the whole human being in the way he perceives and thinks, feels and relates, and acts on and impacts the world. This work gathers the threads of pioneers and visionaries in various aspects of social and cultural renewal. Paradigms of “include and transcend” offer us paths along which the personal and the global are intimately intertwined. Through established pathways and processes we can experiment with new ways of being as we impact our immediate world. Practically speaking, this book explores three avenues to change. At a first level we can start to recognize that society is built around three poles. Besides the public and private sectors, civil society has emerged to play a crucial role and alter dualistic thinking. If we think beyond capitalism and socialism and all their variations and combinations, new unthought-of frontiers and possibilities emerge. It is possible to expand our practice of democracy beyond the majority/minority dynamics to the inclusion of all stakeholders. A new art and science of civic collaboration can break the gridlocks of polarization and opposition. We can engage in a new area of honest, energetic collaboration moving beyond weak compromise, through an array of social tools that have grown in the last forty to fifty years and have now reached full maturity. Lastly, we can expand organizational and social forms in ways that completely break away from the past. We can reconcile both entrepreneurial and participatory paradigms and transcend top-down or bottom-up models in ways that our intellect alone cannot fathom. Paradigms offer generous visions but are also exacting masters. The new revolution will request as much of ourselves as we will request of the world.

Author : Steven McFadden
Publisher : NorlightsPress
ISBN 13 : 1935254456
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Call of the Land written by Steven McFadden and published by NorlightsPress. This book was released on 2011 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Call of the Land is a sourcebook exploring positive pathways for food security, economic stability, environmental repair, and cultural renewal. This book shows how everyone can respond creatively to the challenges we face. From community gardens and locavore restaurants to urban farms and local food banks, this book is a survey and synthesis of the great transition that is underway.

Author : Teresa Opheim
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609384539
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Future of Family Farms written by Teresa Opheim and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2016-09 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A monumental transfer of farmland is occurring in the United States. The average American farmer is fifty-eight years old, and the 40 percent of farmland owners who lease their land to others are even older: sixty-six on average. Five times as many farmers are over sixty-five as are under thirty-five. What will happen to this land? Who will own it? What if one child wants to farm but can't afford to buy out the nonfarming siblings? What if keeping the farm in the family means foregoing the significant profits that could be earned from selling it? These sometimes painful and divisive questions confront many farmers and farmland owners today. How they answer them will shape their families and the land for generations to come. The Farm Legacy Letters project, developed by the member-driven nonprofit Practical Farmers of Iowa, is designed to help farmers and farmland owners think about their farm’s future and talk about it with their families. An essential complement to handbooks on business succession, this book gathers the letters and stories of midwestern families about the land they cherish—how they acquired it, what they treasure most about it, and their hopes for its future. Some of the writers descend from families who have owned a particular patch of the earth since the 1800s, while others became farmland owners more recently—one as recently as 2015. Some are no longer farmland owners at all, because—after careful thought about what mattered most to them—they sold their land to the next generation of farmers. All of these writers hope that, by sharing their farmland legacies, they will encourage others to ponder and then write about the histories, accomplishments, challenges, and hopes for their farmland for the generations who come after they are gone.