Soil and Survival - Hardcover

Sierra Club

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0871567660 ISBN 13: 9780871567666

Publisher: Random House, Inc., 1986

Synopsis

Offers a practical model for preserving farmlands and caring for the earth

About this title

From Library Journal:

This book is a call for agricultural reformindeed, for ecological survivalthrough a program of land stewardship. The program involves turning away from a mechanical system of farming that overworks the land, overuses chemical fertilizers, and destroys the soil's own fertility. These methods are putting U.S. farmers out of business and causing the highest levels of erosion since the Dust Bowl. The authors are involved in the Land Stewardship Project, a nonprofit educational program. Their poetic book draws on sources including literary and religious classics, Native American texts, and scholarly works to show how real change depends on a national shift in values. Important reading for anyone who works the soil, is concerned with the environment, or has felt helpless before the grim specters of world famine.Deci Lowry, Chappaqua, N.Y.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House, Inc.
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0871567660
• ISBN 13: 9780871567666
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 217