An influential founding member of the American organic agriculture movement and a long-time organic farmer, Grace Gershuny gives us one of the most comprehensive and deeply personal accounts of adventures in that movement ever written. A principal author of the USDA's first proposed National Organic rule, Gershuny left the National Organic Program staff just before the final rule was published. The complicated story of that movement for nationwide organic regulations, which consumed Gershuny's life for five years, is interwoven here with her own personal timeline before, during, and after the arduous federal process.This memoir explores how the organic revolution became rooted well before the US federal government cared to notice. Gershuny asks important ongoing questions about the organic movement that still aren't receiving enough attention, such as whether organic standards should be consumer or farmer-driven and if organic agriculture architecture will be able to maintain its principles as it becomes mainstream. Entertaining yet urgent, Organic Revolutionary thoughtfully details the personal, political, and practical struggles that ensued in the heroic effort to push the organic movement beyond farmers' markets and into supermarkets.
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The Organic Revolutionary
A Memoir from the Movement for Real Food, Planetary Healing, and Human Liberation
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The Organic Revolutionary
A Memoir from the Movement for Real Food, Planetary Healing, and Human Liberation
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Foreword to the First Edition - Joe Smillie
- Foreword to the Third Edition - Brian Tokar
- Acronym Glossary
- Timeline
- PrologueāSummer 2015
- Update for the Second EditionāSummer 2017
- PrologueāSummer 2019
- 1. How a City Girl Learned to Love the Dirt
- 2. Finding Soul in the Soil
- 3. Big Brother and the Organic Industry
- 4. Death and Rebirth on the National Stage
- 5. The Real Dirt on the Regulations
- 6. We Have Met the Enemy
- 7. Growing Forward
- EpilogueāAdvice to a Young Food System Activist
- End Notes
- Appendix
- Acknowledgements
- Personal RemembranceāMiranda Constance Smith
- Index
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