The Gift of Good Land: Further Essays Cultural and AgriculturalThe essays in The Gift of Good Land are as true today as when they were first published in 1981; the problems addressed here are still true and the solutions no nearer to hand. The insistent theme of this book is the interdependence, the wholeness, the oneness of people, land, weather, animals, and family. To touch one is to tamper with them all. We live in one functioning organism whose separate parts are artificially isolated by our culture. Here, Berry develops the compelling argument that the “gift” of good land has strings attached. We have it only on loan and only for as long as we practice good stewardship. |
Contents
Three Ways of Farming in the Southwest | |
The Native Grasses and What They Mean | |
II | |
The International Hill Land Symposium | |
Sanitation and the Small Farm | |
HorseDrawn Tools and the Doctrine of Labor Saving | |
The Reactor and the Garden | |
A Good Scythe | |
Looking Ahead | |
Home of the Free | |
Going Backor Aheadto Horses | |
A Few Words for Motherhood | |
IV | |
A Rescued Farm | |
Agricultural Solutions for Agricultural Problems | |
Energy in Agriculture | |
Solving for Pattern | |
III | |
The Economics of Subsistence | |
Family Work | |
An Excellent Homestead | |
Elmer Lapps Place | |
A Talent for Necessity | |
New Roots for Agricultural Research | |
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The Gift of Good Land: Further Essays, Cultural and Agricultural Wendell Berry No preview available - 1981 |
The Gift of Good Land: Further Essays Cultural and Agricultural Wendell Berry No preview available - 2009 |
The Gift of Good Land: Further Essays Cultural and Agricultural Wendell Berry No preview available - 2009 |
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