The Essential Agrarian Reader: The Future of Culture, Community, and the Land

Description

Editor: Wirzba, Norman  (1964-)

Publisher: Shoemaker & Hoard

Pub Date: 2004 (First paperback edition)

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, folds.  Spine head worn, slightly wrinkled (dropped?).  Upper corner page266-7 has an approx. 1″ bend.  Slight edge and corner wear.

Notes: “Agrarianism builds on the acknowledgement that we are biological and social beings that depend on healthy habitats and communities.  However much we might think of ourselves as post-agricultural beings or disembodied minds, the fact of the matter is that we are inextricably tied to the land through our bodies–we have to eat, drink, and breath–and so our culture must always be sympathetic to the reponsibilities of agriculture.  If we despise the latter, we are surely only a step away from despising the former.” (Page 5).  Essays by Wendell Berry, Wes Jackson, Gene Logsdon, among others, and a Foreword by Barbara Kingsolver.  “Agriculture is a way of harnessing the photosynthesis of digestible plants to convert sunlight into people.”–Kyle Harper, Plagues Upon the Earth (Princeton University Press, 2021)