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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 18:50, 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
