Wes Jackson and his colleagues at the Land Institute [landinstitute.org/] are […] trying to remake the way industrial societies produce grains by breeding perennial varieties of wheat, wheatgrass, sorghum, and sunflowers that do not need to be replanted every year -- just like the original tall grasses that dominated the prairie landscape before large-scale agriculture began. Our goal is to fashion an agriculture as sustainable as the native ecosystems it displaced, the institutess literature explains, to find a way of growing crops that rewards the farmer and the landscape more than the manufacturers of external inputs. We envision an agriculture that not only protects irreplaceable soil, but lessens our dependence on fossil fuels and damaging synthetic chemicals. -- Naomi Klein quoted from: p.439, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate, books.simonandschuster/This-Changes-Everything/Naomi-Klein/9781451697384
Posted on: Sat, 04 Oct 2014 23:52:27 +0000
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