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This book is a journalistic project that traces a several different paths that food travels in America today. The author follows the production of one meal from an industrial, an industrial organic, a small-scale pastoral, and a hunter-gatherer's perspective while providing the history and context for each in this country. The book provides a great overarching view the food system and dispells many of the mysterys and myths of how we as a nation feed ourselves and what that means for the environment and the people who make a living on food production. The book also provides a great starting place for people interested in making food production more sustainable in the section on small-scale pastoral. | This book is a journalistic project that traces a several different paths that food travels in America today. The author follows the production of one meal from an industrial, an industrial organic, a small-scale pastoral, and a hunter-gatherer's perspective while providing the history and context for each in this country. The book provides a great overarching view the food system and dispells many of the mysterys and myths of how we as a nation feed ourselves and what that means for the environment and the people who make a living on food production. The book also provides a great starting place for people interested in making food production more sustainable in the section on small-scale pastoral. | ||
[local Pastoral] | [local Pastoral]: Profile of Polyface farm, Swoope VA. | ||
-550 acres | |||
(450 acres, restored woodlands) | |||
(100 acres, pasture, structures, garden, etc) | |||
-Farm products (per year) | |||
Tomatoes | |||
Sweet corn | |||
Berries | |||
25,000 lbs beef | |||
50,000 lbs pork | |||
12,000 broilers (chickens) | |||
800 turkeys | |||
500 rabbits | |||
30,000 dozen eggs | |||
-Grasses | |||
Orchard grass | |||
foxtail | |||
bluegrass | |||
timothy | |||
fescues | |||
red/white clover (legumes) | |||
lupines (legumes) | |||
Plantain | |||
dandelion | |||
queen annes lace | |||
-"below decks" | |||
earthworms | |||
woodchucks | |||
moles | |||
insects | |||
nematodes | |||
bacteria | |||
rotifers | |||
phages | |||
fungi mycelium | |||
Revision as of 23:50, 27 September 2008
Bibliography: My intent is to provide a brief summary of what I've read and a thorough explanation of the philosophy, design methods and biology outlined in the material.
Senior PAGS Research Paper: Why Should Sustainable Agriculture be Taught in the Liberal Arts, And How Should it be Done?
-agriculture education theorists: David Orr, John Dewey, Aldo Leopold
The Omnivore's Dilemma :Michael Pollan This book is a journalistic project that traces a several different paths that food travels in America today. The author follows the production of one meal from an industrial, an industrial organic, a small-scale pastoral, and a hunter-gatherer's perspective while providing the history and context for each in this country. The book provides a great overarching view the food system and dispells many of the mysterys and myths of how we as a nation feed ourselves and what that means for the environment and the people who make a living on food production. The book also provides a great starting place for people interested in making food production more sustainable in the section on small-scale pastoral.
[local Pastoral]: Profile of Polyface farm, Swoope VA. -550 acres
(450 acres, restored woodlands) (100 acres, pasture, structures, garden, etc)
-Farm products (per year)
Tomatoes Sweet corn Berries 25,000 lbs beef 50,000 lbs pork 12,000 broilers (chickens) 800 turkeys 500 rabbits 30,000 dozen eggs
-Grasses
Orchard grass foxtail bluegrass timothy fescues red/white clover (legumes) lupines (legumes) Plantain dandelion queen annes lace
-"below decks"
earthworms woodchucks moles insects nematodes bacteria rotifers phages fungi mycelium