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Author:   Brian DeVore
Publisher:   University of Wisconsin Press
Imprint:   University of Wisconsin Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.317kg
ISBN:  

9780299318840

ISBN 10:   0299318842
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   30 March 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments  Introduction: A Day on the Farm, a Night on the River 1 Beyond the Pond: How One Farm Measures Success 2 A Place in the Country: Improving the View in the Midst of an Industrial Landscape 3 Blurring the Boundaries: Community Conservation and the Power of a Common Goal 4 Brotherhood of the Bobolink: In Search of the Ultimate Indicator Species 5 Raising Expectations: A Team's Refusal to Accept a Degraded Resource 6 Feeding Innovation's Roots: True Believers, Late Adopters, and the Power of the Soil Pit 7 Wrapping Around the Wrinkles: Expanding the Land's Potential by Recognizing Its Limitations 8 Resiliency vs. Regret: What Domesticated Ag Can Learn from Its Wild Neighbors 9 Which Came First, the Farmer or the Ecologist? The New Agrarians and Their Environmental Roots 10 Hubs of Hope: The Connection between Inebriated Grasshoppers and Your Dinner Plate 11 Wildly Optimistic: It's Hard to Be a Pessimist in a Land of New Possibilities Notes Index

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We don't have to choose between healthy land and productive land-we can have both. DeVore's careful chronicling of Midwest farmers who practice an agriculture that respects and supports nature will give you hope for the future."" - Kristin Ohlson, author of The Soil Will Save Us ""Meet optimistic realists-farmers, conservationists, and scientists-blurring occupational boundaries to reveal a world in which agriculture and ecology are productively intertwined. These are outliers in a sea of corn and soybeans (and resultant depauperate ecosystems), but their stories, told often enough, can change all of that."" - Karen Oberhauser, director, University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum ""Most Americans have forgotten that the success of agriculture depends on the wild world it so often displaces. These farmers remind us that those two vital elements need not be mutually exclusive-indeed, the success of food production depends on a healthy natural world."" - Lisa M. Hamilton, author of Deeply Rooted

We don't have to choose between healthy land and productive land-we can have both. DeVore's careful chronicling of Midwest farmers who practice an agriculture that respects and supports nature will give you hope for the future. - Kristin Ohlson, author of The Soil Will Save Us Meet optimistic realists-farmers, conservationists, and scientists-blurring occupational boundaries to reveal a world in which agriculture and ecology are productively intertwined. These are outliers in a sea of corn and soybeans (and resultant depauperate ecosystems), but their stories, told often enough, can change all of that. - Karen Oberhauser, director, University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum Most Americans have forgotten that the success of agriculture depends on the wild world it so often displaces. These farmers remind us that those two vital elements need not be mutually exclusive-indeed, the success of food production depends on a healthy natural world. - Lisa M. Hamilton, author of Deeply Rooted

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Brian DeVore is a contributor to farm and conservation magazines and an editor with the Land Stewardship Project in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He grew up on a crop and livestock farm in southwestern Iowa and, while serving in the Peace Corps, managed a dairy cooperative in Lesotho, Africa.

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