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Locavore leaders such as Alice Waters, Michael Pollan, and Barbara Kingsolver all speak of the need for sweeping changes in how we get our food. Also a longtime leader of this movement is Wes Jackson, who, for decades, has taken it upon himself to speak for the grasses and the land of the prairie, to speak for the soil itself. Here, he offers a manifesto toward a conceptual revolution: Jackson asks us to look to natural ecosystems--or, if one prefers, nature in general--as the measure against which we judge all of our agricultural practices. Wes Jackson believes the time is right to do away with monocultures, which are vulnerable to national security threats and are partly responsible for the explosion in our healthcare costs. Soil erosion, overgrazing, and the poisons polluting our water and air--all associated with our contemporary form of American agriculture--foretell a population with its physical health and land destroyed. In this eloquent and timely call to arms, Jackson asks us to look to nature itself to lead us out of the mess we've made. We do this by consulting with the natural ecosystems that will tell us, if we listen, what should happen to the future of food.
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This Place, Feb 5 2012
By JAY BREMYER - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Consulting the Genius of the Place: An Ecological Approach to a New Agriculture (Paperback)
I've read many of these essays or heard them delivered, in other contexts, but applaud again and reaffirm how important I believe Wes Jackson is to our chance as a species to make adjustments that will improve our performance as an ecologically benign and perhaps even helpful character in the over all experience of the places on earth where we dwell. Various sections are also filled with sweet biographical material and loving references to his mentors and friends. He's also providing a significant history of the thinking and individuals who lay the groundwork for the Cartesian / Industrial world-frame, agriculture and ultimately agribusiness. as well as those great :thinkers who have re-recognized the essential importance of soil and worked to reverse the industrial view.p. 244: "A primary purpose of this book has been to argue for the necessity and now the possibility of making the perrenial grains available for agronomists and ecologist to bring the process of the wild to the farm." p. 249: " By starting where our split with nature began, we can build an agriculture more like the ecosystems that shaped us, thereby preserving ecological capital, the stuff of which we are made, and guaranteeing ourselves food for the journey ahead." Like all of Wes Jackson's books, this is one to be read, treasured, and incorporated into how we see the world and act.
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