- 400 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Once we could fill our grocery carts with cheap and plentiful food, but not anymore. Cheap food has gone the way of cheap oil. Climate change is already reducing crop yields worldwide. The cost of flying in food from far away and shipping it across the country in refrigerated trucks is rapidly becoming unviable. Cars and cows increasingly devour grain harvests, sending prices skyrocketing. More Americans than ever before require food stamps and food pantries just to get by, and a worldwide food crisis is unfolding, overseas and in our kitchens.
We can keep hunger from stalking our families, but doing so will require a fundamental shift in our approach to field and table. A Nation of Farmers examines the limits and dangers of the globalized food system and how returning to basics is our best hope. The book includes in-depth guidelines for:
- Creating resilient local food systems
- Growing, cooking and eating sustainably and naturally
- Becoming part of the solution to the food crisis.
The book argues that we need to make self-provisioning, once the most ordinary of human activities, central to our lives. The results will be better food, better health, better security and freedom from corporations that don't have our interests at heart.
Critical reading for anyone who eats and cares about high-quality food and food sources.
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Table of contents
- COVER PAGE
- TITLE PAGE
- COPYRIGHT PAGE
- DEDICATION
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION: THE BIG LIE
- 1. A FAST TRAIN: FOOD SECURITY IN CRISIS
- 2. HANDS ON THE WHEEL: WHAT WE SHOULD BE GETTING FROM OUR FOOD SYSTEM
- 3. RING THE BELL: IT STARTS WITH HOW WE EAT
- 4. GOD’S AWAY ON BUSINESS: WHAT ARE OUR CHOICES?
- 5. HARD TIMES COME AGAIN NO MORE: FEEDING THE WORLD
- 6. THE LANDSLIDE BRINGS IT DOWN: FEEDING OURSELVES
- 7. THE HANDS THAT BUILT THE COUNTRY WE’RE ALWAYS TRYING TO KEEP DOWN: EXTENDING THE TABLE
- 8. KEEP YOUR HAND ON THE PLOW: TRANSFORMATIONS
- A LIST OF USEFUL RESOURCES
- ENDNOTES
- ABOUT THE AUTHORS