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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813363303321

Autore

Gershuny Grace

Titolo

The organic revolutionary : a memoir of the movement for real food, planetary healing, and human liberation / / Grace Gershuny

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montreal : , : Black Rose Books, , [2020]

©2020

ISBN

1-55164-679-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (281 pages)

Disciplina

631.584

Soggetti

Organic farmers - United States

Organic farming - Environmental aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword to the First Edition - Joe Smillie -- Foreword to the Third Edition - Brian Tokar -- Acronym Glossary -- Timeline -- Prologue-Summer 2015 -- Update for the Second Edition-Summer 2017 -- Prologue-Summer 2019 -- 1. How a City Girl Learned to Love the Dirt -- 2. Finding Soul in the Soil -- 3. Big Brother and the Organic Industry -- 4. Death and Rebirth on the National Stage -- 5. The Real Dirt on the Regulations -- 6. We Have Met the Enemy -- 7. Growing Forward -- Epilogue-Advice to a Young Food System Activist -- End Notes -- Appendix -- Annotated Bibliography and Information Resources -- New England Farmer reproduction of "Newville 1990" -- Acknowledgements -- Personal Remembrance-Miranda Constance Smith -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

"The story of organic agriculture written by a former member of the USDA's National Organic Program, who helped to develop organic certification regulations for the USA."--