From the Farm to the Table
Subtitle: What All Americans Need to Know About Agriculture (Culture of the Land)
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: December 2006
Place of publication: Lexington, KY
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 363
ISBN-13: 9780813124193
Subjects: Agriculture & Farming; Agriculture & related industries; The Environment; Nature/Ecology; Environmental Conservation & Protection - General; Nature; USA; Sustainable agriculture; Agriculture - General; Anecdotes; Agriculture; Farmers; United States
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Part one : In the beginning.; title: Fundamentals; title: Histories; title: Part two : Farmers talking about farming.; title: Two views, one farm : Vance and Bonnie Haugen; title: Farming is a spiritual responsibility : Mike Rupprecht; title: Timelines : Ron Scherbring; title: The absolute last thing I ever dreamed I'd be doing: Lonny and Sandy Dietz; title: I felt it was just the right thing to do: Dennis Rabe; title: Part three : Farming in America : who cares?; title: They say that eating is a moral issue : Bill McMillin; title: Farming connects us all; title: Part four : It all works together, or it doesn't work at all.; title: Agriculture and community culture; title: Farming in developing countries; title: The WTO, NAFTA, CAFTA, and the FTAA; title: Part five : Alternative visions, hopeful futures.; title: Healthy food, healthy economics; title: Alternatives for agriculture and the whole culture; title: Part six : An ecology of hope.; title: Ours for a short time : Peggy Thomas; title: An ecology of hope