Farming in Nature's Image
Subtitle: An Ecological Approach To Agriculture
Contributors: Wes Jackson (Foreword)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Island Press
Published: December 1, 1991
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9780933280892
Subjects: Agriculture & Farming; Crop husbandry; Plant ecology; Sustainable agriculture; Environmental Science; Agriculture (General); Field Crop Ecology; United States; Technology; Environmental Studies; Science/Mathematics; Industries - Agribusiness; Agriculture - Agronomy; Technology / Agriculture / Sustainable Agriculture; Agricultural ecology; Agriculture - Sustainable Agriculture
First sentence: POLLUTION, DEPLETION, DEGRADATION, erosion, contamination, poisoning-these are terms usually associated with heavy industry and cities, not with our green countryside of fields and scattered farmsteads.