Once patronized primarily by the counterculture and the health food establishment, the organic food industry today is a multi-billion-dollar business driven by ever-growing consumer demand for safe food and greater public awareness of ecological issues. Assumed by many to be a recent phenomenon, that industry owes much to agricultural innovations that go back to the Dust Bowl era. This book explores the roots and branches of alternative agricultural ideas in twen… More >>
A Green and Permanent Land: Ecology and Agriculture in the Twentieth Century
Tags: agricultural innovations, food establishment, land ecology, organic food industry, roots and branches