Annotated Bibliography

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