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Author : Nathan Augustus Cobb
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Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Californian Wheat Industry written by Nathan Augustus Cobb and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nathan Augustus Cobb
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Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Californian Wheat Industry written by Nathan Augustus Cobb and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tom Philpott
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1635573149
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (355 download)
Download or read book Perilous Bounty written by Tom Philpott and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice An unsettling journey into the disaster-bound American food system, and an exploration of possible solutions, from leading food politics commentator and former farmer Tom Philpott. More than a decade after Michael Pollan's game-changing The Omnivore's Dilemma transformed the conversation about what we eat, a combination of global diet trends and corporate interests have put American agriculture into a state of "quiet emergency," from dangerous drought in California--which grows more than 50 percent of the fruits and vegetables we eat--to catastrophic topsoil loss in the "breadbasket" heartland of the United States. Whether or not we take heed, these urgent crises of industrial agriculture will define our future. In Perilous Bounty, veteran journalist and former farmer Tom Philpott explores and exposes the small handful of seed and pesticide corporations, investment funds, and magnates who benefit from the trends that imperil us, with on-the-ground dispatches featuring the scientists documenting the damage and the farmers and activists who are valiantly and inventively pushing back. Resource scarcity looms on the horizon, but rather than pointing us toward an inevitable doomsday, Philpott shows how the entire wayward ship of American agriculture could be routed away from its path to disaster. He profiles the farmers and communities in the nation's two key growing regions developing resilient, soil-building, water-smart farming practices, and readying for the climate shocks that are already upon us; and he explains how we can help move these methods from the margins to the mainstream.
Author : Rachel Surls
Publisher : Angel City Press
ISBN 13 : 9781626400313
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (3 download)
Download or read book From Cows to Concrete written by Rachel Surls and published by Angel City Press. This book was released on 2016-05-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What? Los Angeles was the original wine country of California, leading the state's wine production for more than a century? Los Angeles County was the agricultural center of North America until the 1950s? And where today's freeways soar, cows calmly chewed their cud? How could that be? Los Angeles, the capital of asphalt and Klieg lights, was once a paradise filled with grapevines and bovines, so abundant with Nature's gifts that no one could imagine a more pastoral place? Los Angeles County was the center of an agricultural empire. Today, it is the nation's most populous urban metropolis. What happened? Where did the green go? As Americans connect with gardens, farmers markets, and urban farms, most are unaware that each of these activities have deep roots in Los Angeles, and that the healthy food they savor literally had its roots in L.A. This book is for all who treasure the country's agrarian history.
Author : Bob Quinn
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1610919955
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Grain by Grain written by Bob Quinn and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A compelling agricultural story skillfully told; environmentalists will eat it up." - Kirkus Reviews When Bob Quinn was a kid, a stranger at a county fair gave him a few kernels of an unusual grain. Little did he know, that grain would change his life. Years later, after finishing a PhD in plant biochemistry and returning to his family’s farm in Montana, Bob started experimenting with organic wheat. In the beginning, his concern wasn’t health or the environment; he just wanted to make a decent living and some chance encounters led him to organics. But as demand for organics grew, so too did Bob’s experiments. He discovered that through time-tested practices like cover cropping and crop rotation, he could produce successful yields—without pesticides. Regenerative organic farming allowed him to grow fruits and vegetables in cold, dry Montana, providing a source of local produce to families in his hometown. He even started producing his own renewable energy. And he learned that the grain he first tasted at the fair was actually a type of ancient wheat, one that was proven to lower inflammation rather than worsening it, as modern wheat does. Ultimately, Bob’s forays with organics turned into a multimillion dollar heirloom grain company, Kamut International. In Grain by Grain, Quinn and cowriter Liz Carlisle, author of Lentil Underground, show how his story can become the story of American agriculture. We don’t have to accept stagnating rural communities, degraded soil, or poor health. By following Bob’s example, we can grow a healthy future, grain by grain.
Author : Carey McWilliams
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520925181
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Factories in the Field written by Carey McWilliams and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000-04-15 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was the first broad exposé of the social and environmental damage inflicted by the growth of corporate agriculture in California. Factories in the Field—together with the work of Dorothea Lange, Paul Taylor, and John Steinbeck—dramatizes the misery of the dust bowl migrants hoping to find work in California agriculture. McWilliams starts with the scandals of the Spanish land grant purchases, and continues on to examine the experience of the various ethnic groups that have provided labor for California's agricultural industry—Chinese, Japanese, Mexicans, Filipinos, Armenians—the strikes, and the efforts to organize labor unions
Author : Frank Norris
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486146324
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)
Download or read book The Octopus written by Frank Norris and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on an actual bloody dispute in 1880 between wheat farmers and the Southern Pacific Railroad, this tale of greed, betrayal, and a lust for power is played out during the waning days of the western frontier.
Author : United States. Weather Bureau
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1010 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Monthly Review of the California Climate and Crop Service, in Co-operation with the State Agricultural Society written by United States. Weather Bureau and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 1010 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Catherine Zabinski
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022655595X
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)
Download or read book Amber Waves written by Catherine Zabinski and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of a staple grain we often take for granted, exploring how wheat went from wild grass to a world-shaping crop. At breakfast tables and bakeries, we take for granted a grain that has made human civilization possible, a cereal whose humble origins belie its world-shaping power: wheat. Amber Waves tells the story of a group of grass species that first grew in scattered stands in the foothills of the Middle East until our ancestors discovered their value as a source of food. Over thousands of years, we moved their seeds to all but the polar regions of Earth, slowly cultivating what we now know as wheat, and in the process creating a world of cuisines that uses wheat seeds as a staple food. Wheat spread across the globe, but as ecologist Catherine Zabinski shows us, a biography of wheat is not only the story of how plants ensure their own success: from the earliest bread to the most mouthwatering pasta, it is also a story of human ingenuity in producing enough food for ourselves and our communities. Since the first harvest of the ancient grain, we have perfected our farming systems to grow massive quantities of food, producing one of our species’ global mega crops—but at a great cost to ecological systems. And despite our vast capacity to grow food, we face problems with undernourishment both close to home and around the world. Weaving together history, evolution, and ecology, Zabinski’s tale explores much more than the wild roots and rise of a now-ubiquitous grain: it illuminates our complex relationship with our crops, both how we have transformed the plant species we use as food, and how our society—our culture—has changed in response to the need to secure food sources. From the origins of agriculture to gluten sensitivities, from our first selection of the largest seeds from wheat’s wild progenitors to the sequencing of the wheat genome and genetic engineering, Amber Waves sheds new light on how we grow the food that sustains so much human life.
Author : Paul Nicholas Woolf
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Historical Appraisal of the Flour-milling Industry in California written by Paul Nicholas Woolf and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 796 pages
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Download or read book Report of the Agricultural Experiment Station of the University of California written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : California State Agricultural Society (Sacramento, Calif.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Report of the California State Agricultural Society written by California State Agricultural Society (Sacramento, Calif.) and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Liz Carlisle
Publisher : Avery
ISBN 13 : 1592409563
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (924 download)
Download or read book Lentil Underground written by Liz Carlisle and published by Avery. This book was released on 2016-02-23 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With a new foreword by Frederick L. Kirschenmann..."
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Report of the California State Agricultural Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
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Download or read book The California Countryman written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 642 pages
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Download or read book Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1054 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)
Download or read book California Cultivator written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1054 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
