Ebook: Food tyrants fight for your right to healthy food in a toxic world
Author: Faires Nicole
- Tags: Social sciences--Agriculture & Food, Agriculture and food, Social sciences -- Agriculture & Food
- Year: 2013
- Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
- City: New York
- Language: English
- epub
Written in an astute, engaging style, armed with examples from her own homesteading lifestyle, small farmer, homesteader, and self-sufficiency guru Nicole Faires'sFood Tyrantsgives you the tools to fight the intangible battles, as well as the practical ones. Understand basic soil care principles and organic strategies to grow your own food, as well as urban farming policy and municipal bylaw changes. Armed with knowledge of the history of food security, you will have a clear picture on the issues and why growing food is a responsibility of the many, and not the few. When author and homesteader Nicole Faires decided to retrofit an old school bus and tour America's small farms with her husband and two small children, she expected to learn a lot, be inspired, and have some fun. But what she found disturbed her. Mismanaged small farms; clueless urbanites setting up shop to "get back to the land"; a mindless devotion to organic farming; and, ultimately, the discovery of just...