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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453148503321

Autore

Diffley Atina

Titolo

Turn here sweet corn [[electronic resource] ] : organic farming works / / Atina Diffley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2012

ISBN

0-8166-8161-9

1-4529-3917-9

0-8166-7772-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (361 p.)

Disciplina

631.5/84

Soggetti

Women farmers - United States

Organic farming - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Cold, Hard Water; My Name Is Tina; It's Not Here; The Other Has My Heart; Forward through Fire; Past in the Present; Spring's Fault, 1985; Songbirds Nesting; Ancient Need; Rock and Bird; Health Is True Wealth; Drought of '88; Endangered Species; Nomads; As If It Never Existed; What to Hold On To; Subsoil Is the Mineral Base; Eureka; If Soil Is Virgin; Maison Diffley; Spring Covenant, 1994; Fertile Ground; The Difference; The Real World of Fresh Produce; Living in the Relative Present; Looking to the Future; Kale versus Koch; Definitely Not Fungible; Soil versus Oil

Organic IntegrityHail Thaws into Life; Normal Process; Postscript; Gratitude

Sommario/riassunto

A master class in organic farming, a lesson in entrepreneurship, a love story, and a legal thriller