Bringing It to the Table On Farming and Food

by Berry, Wendell; Pollan, Michael

• ISBN13: 9781582435435
• ISBN10: 158243543X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-08-18
• Publisher: PUBLISHERS GROUP WEST

Summary

Introduction by Michael Pollan

Author Biography

Wendell Berry is the author of fifty books of poetry, fiction, and essays. He has recently been awarded the Cleanth Brooks Medal for Excellence in Southern Letters and the Louis Bromfield Society Award. For over forty years he has lived and farmed with his wife, Tanya, in Kentucky.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. ix
Farming
Nature as Measure	p. 3
Stupidity in Concentration	p. 11
Agricultural Solutions for Agricultural Problems	p. 19
A Defense of the Family Farm	p. 31
Let the Farm Judge	p. 49
Energy in Agriculture	p. 57
Conservationist and Agrarian	p. 67
Sanitation and the Small Farm	p. 81
Renewing Husbandry	p. 87
Farmers
Seven Amish Farms	p. 105
A Good Farmer of the Old School	p. 119
Charlie Fisher	p. 129
A Talent for Necessity	p. 139
Elmer Lapp's Place	p. 149
On The Soil and Health	p. 161
Agriculture from the Roots Up	p. 173
Food
Author's Note	p. 185
From That Distant Land	p. 187
From Hannah Coulter	p. 195
From Andy Catlett	p. 201
From "Misery"	p. 211
From The Memory of Old Jack	p. 213
From Jayber Crow	p. 221
From Hannah Coulter	p. 225
The Pleasures of Eating	p. 227
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