Book Reviews

That bright pink fish became a centerpiece of our diet, its health benefits aggressively promoted, its resultant appeal so great that it even gave its name to a trendy color. You know what they say about All Good Things, and so it is with our favorite seafood. Turns out not only … [Read more...] about Risky Business: Profiting From Farming Salmon In Ocean-based Pens In Peril From Sea Parasites

Ever contemplated “chucking it all” and moving to a farm? Shrugging off the heavy mantle of living and working in the corporate world in order to get back to the earth sounds wonderfully noble and romantic, allowing you to glory in the knowledge that you’re providing healthy food … [Read more...] about Raising & Harvesting Plants and Animals: A Young Woman’s Life Of Growth & Revelation In Service To The Seasons

So disgusting and pervasive is the odor of hog waste that a researcher who was hired to take measurements of particulate evidence in and around a number of massive hog barns is still exuding the noxious stink for many days after he returned home. He obsessively washes himself and … [Read more...] about Reality Stranger Than Fiction: Cramming Five Million Hogs Into Factory Farms (CAFOs) In North Carolina Causes Environmental Wastelands

Agriculture is now inextricably linked to climate change. The evidence is incontrovertible; the damage is already taking place. As Laura Lengnick observes in the opening pages of her updated and expanded second edition of Resilient Agriculture, (New Society Publishers, Gabriola … [Read more...] about Cultivating Food Systems For A Changing Climate Happening Now

What Your Food Ate, How to Heal Our Land And Reclaim Our Health (W.W. Norton & Company, New York, N. Y. 2022) is the startlingly portentous title of a new study by the married team of David Montgomery and Anne Biklé, a book that takes a remarkably thorough look at how and why … [Read more...] about Nurturing Soil Life: Essential For Producing Healthy Crops and Animals