Bringing It to the Table. Wendell Berry

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      Table of Contents

       Title Page

       Introduction

       PART I - FARMING

       Nature as Measure

       Stupidity in Concentration

       I. CONFINEMENT, CONCENTRATION, SEPARATION

       II. FACTORY FARMS VERSUS FARMS

       III. SUSTAINABILITY

       Agricultural Solutions for Agricultural Problems

       A Defense of the Family Farm

       Let the Farm Judge

       Energy in Agriculture

       Conservationist and Agrarian

       Sanitation and the Small Farm - (1971)

       Renewing Husbandry

       PART II - FARMERS

       Seven Amish Farms

       A Good Farmer of the Old School

       Charlie Fisher

       A Talent for Necessity

       Elmer Lapp’s Place

       THE COMMERCIAL PATTERN

       THE PATTERN OF SUBSISTENCE

       THE PATTERNS OF SOIL HUSBANDRY

       TWO KINDS OF HORSEPOWER

       A WELL-PLANNED BARN

       THE ECOLOGICAL PATTERN

       ON The Soil and Health

       Agriculture from the Roots Up

       PART III - FOOD

       AUTHOR’S NOTE

       FROM That Distant Land

       FROM Hannah Coulter

       FROM Andy Catlett

       FROM “Misery”

       FROM The Memory of Old Jack

       FROM Jayber Crow

       FROM Hannah Coulter

       The Pleasures of Eating

       ABOUT THE AUTHOR

       Copyright Page

       OTHER BOOKS OF ESSAYS BY WENDELL BERRY

      Another Turn of the Crank The Art of the Commonplace Citizenship Papers A Continuous Harmony The Gift of Good Land Harlan Hubbard: Life and Work The Hidden Wound Home Economics Life Is a Miracle Long-Legged House Recollected Essays: 1965-1980 Sex, Economy, Freedom and Community Standing by Words The Unforeseen Wilderness The Unsettling of America The Way of Ignorance What Are People For?

       INTRODUCTION

       by Michael Pollan

      A FEW WEEKS AFTER Michelle Obama planted an organic vegetable garden on the South Lawn of the White House in March 2009, the business section of the Sunday New York Times published a cover story bearing the headline “Is a Food Revolution Now in Season?” The article, written by the paper’s agriculture reporter, said that “after being largely ignored for years by Washington, advocates of organic and locally grown food have found a receptive ear in the White House.”

      Certainly these are heady days for people who have been working to reform СКАЧАТЬ