Good Growing : Why Organic Farming Works

264 Pages·2005·2.19 MB·English

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CharlesA.Francis,UniversityofNebraska–Lincoln
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22 JoelRissmanadmiringthecompostonhisIllinoisfarm 116
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24 Cliff,Allen,andNaiomaBensonathomeineasternColorado 128
25 AllenBensoninhisfields 129
26 PhilFosteronhisCaliforniavegetablefarm 138
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12 y interest in agriculture goes back to my child-
13 hood. I’m from Kansas. I love the open space of [-9], (1)
14 theplains,theendlesssky,andthepowerofnature
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18 grewupwithastrongsenseofneedingtoseetheworld.Ibecameageogra-
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19 pher,whichallowsmetotravelandstudytheinteractionsamongtheearth’s
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22 matter.Icouldn’tdoanythingtochangethings;Iwasanoutsider.Finally,I
23 realizedthatmytruecallingwasbackatmyroots—plainsagriculture. [-9], (1)
24 Overtheyears,Ihavebeeninspiredbyseveralgreatgeographers:Duane
25 Nellis,BillRiebsameTravis,JimWescoat,SteveWhite,andGilbertWhite.
26 They taught me to enjoy research, study what I truly want to study, and
27 makeitpractical.
28 IbeganresearchontheplainsofeasternColorado(sortofanextension
29 of western Kansas, really). As part of a project looking at conventional
30 agriculture, I interviewed farmers. I loved it. I realized that the best way
31 to understand something is to ask the people directly involved. But I also
32 realized that something was terribly wrong. Conventional agriculture was
33 going nowhere. I needed to understand how farmers could survive,and I
34 discovered the answer was organic farming. It provides true opportunity
35 forecologicalandsocialsustainabilitywithinanagriculturalsystemthatis
36 teeteringonthebrinkofcollapse.
37 Ihaveresearchedorganicfarmingforoveradecadeandbeenaconscien-
38 tiouseaterfarlonger.Beingbothamotherandaresearcherintensifiesevery
39 pageofagriculturalinformationIread.Whatwouldbeamereagricultural
40 statistic to someone else suddenly becomes a parental concern: What are
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