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Summer reading 2023: Book reviews

Sustainable Food Trust

The Seed Detective: Uncovering the Secret Histories of Remarkable Vegetables, by Adam Alexander Reviewed by Alicia Miller Adam Alexander is a seed detective – he’s travelled the world looking for seeds of myriad varietals that have been hidden away in distant places across the world.

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HOMESTEAD TSUNAMI

The Lunatic Farmer

In 2020, seed companies sold out. Industrial agriculture is killing authentic farming and land stewardship as much as food processors and bureaucrats. In a country of 100 million households, that’s enough eggs to supply a dozen a week to a quarter of the nation’s households. Canning lid inventories vanished.

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Black Earth: A Family’s Journey from Enslavement to Reclamation

Civil Eats

Photo credit: Cornell Watson) Ideally, wed get this sweet corn in the ground today, he says, indicating a bag of organic seed and a nearby half-acre plot of loose brown soil. He fertilizes with compost tea, a mixture he creates of compost and water. The elders refer to the USDA as the last plantation, she says.

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Soil Builds Prosperity From the Ground Up

Modern Farmer

Aidee Guzman, 30, grew up the daughter of immigrants in California’s Central Valley, among massive fields of monocrops that epitomize intense, industrial agriculture. She describes this process in natural terms, as the composting of sadness and grief. I was just so enamored,” she says.

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The Upcoming Farm Bill: What’s Needed (Courtesy of Civil Eats)

Food Politics

Senator Roger Marshall (R-Kansas) and Representative Ashley Hinson (R-Iowa) led the introduction of the Ending Agricultural Trade Suppression (EATS) Act , which is supported by industrial agriculture groups like the National Pork Producers Council and the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association.

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This Farm Bill Could Reshape the Food System. Here Are 10 Proposals at the Center of the Fight.

Civil Eats

Senator Roger Marshall (R-Kansas) and Representative Ashley Hinson (R-Iowa) led the introduction of the Ending Agricultural Trade Suppression (EATS) Act , which is supported by industrial agriculture groups like the National Pork Producers Council and the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association.

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