Book Details
360
June 8, 2015
Width: 5.5 in
Height: 8.5 in
I could scarcely tear myself away from this book. The words and stories resonate so completely with my own experiences and with everything I have learned about sustainability and food production. The book is, at once, compellingly personal and yet universal in its message and the lessons it brings. It focuses simultaneously on one particular farm in rural Saanich—the iconic Madrona Farm—and on the potential and promise of farms everywhere and anywhere. It is a book about a love affair with the land, and how to build strong, enduring relationships with each other and with our home places. Anyone with an interest in food and the future of the world will want to read it and will be inspired by it.—Nancy J. Turner, author of Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge: Ethnobotany and Ecological Wisdom of Indigenous Peoples of Northwestern North America and Saanich Ethnobotany: Culturally Important Plants of the W_SÁNEC People
- NO ATTRIBUTION EXISTSThis is a very important book containing extensive research. It presents the perspective of, and the journey taken by, Nathalie Chambers in her passionate drive to make a difference in our world. The world needs more people like Nathalie and her husband, David. There are many lessons to be learned. Read it and be inspired.—Bill Turner, C.M., Partner/Director, Change Canada Consultants Ltd.; Chair, National Trust for Land and Culture (Canada); and Vice-Chair, International National Trusts Organization
- NO ATTRIBUTION EXISTSThis influential book tells the inspiring story of one woman and a community that mobilized to protect an agricultural jewel in the heart of the urban landscape. Read it, share it and follow the example—working together to support local food systems and build truly sustainable communities.—Ben Isitt, historian, city councillor and author of From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada's Siberian Expedition, 1917–19 and Militant Minority: British Columbia Workers and the Rise of a New Left, 1948–1972
- NO ATTRIBUTION EXISTSSaving Farmland's human-anecdotal approach to responsible farming removes science from the equation and advocates, through storytelling, a blueprint for community action and the wisdom of farmers who live with, rather than against, nature to produce healthy food for a healthier planet.—Linda Rogers, journalist, poet, playwright and author of The Empress Letters and Friday Water
- NO ATTRIBUTION EXISTSSaving Farmland is ultimately about decision: to choose hope over global grief, community empowerment over corporate dominion, protection over peril, a sustainable feast over a slow road to famine.—Amy Reiswig, Focus Magazine
- NO ATTRIBUTION EXISTSSaving Farmland is an often exhilarating ride through farm activism and the frontiers of agro-ecology…. this is an inspiring manifesto, packed full of fascinating detail, that forcefully defends a vision of sustainable farming.