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Hogs Are Up - Stories of the Land, with Digressions (Hardcover)
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Hogs Are Up - Stories of the Land, with Digressions (Hardcover)
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Hogs Are Up: Stories of the Land, with Digressions reveals what
makes Wes Jackson tick. What kind of lessons does he draw from his
unique life experiences, and how do they shape his profoundly
revolutionary worldview? Sometimes funny, sometimes wistful, always
insightful, this volume demonstrates that when telling a good
story, digressions can be the main point. Born during the Great
Depression, Jackson tells stories of his youth on a diversified
farm in the Kansas River Valley near Topeka, Kansas, culminating in
more than forty years of leadership to radically transform
agriculture, literally at its very roots. Wes Jackson draws deeply
from the lessons learned from his experience dating from World War
II to his work at The Land Institute to establish a new Natural
Systems Agriculture. But this book is more than that. It includes
an eclectic mix of thinkers and doers he's met along the way. Wes
Jackson is heavily influenced by the cultural legacy of
grandparents, all four of whom were born before the Civil War
began, and from his parents, who were born before 1900. He was born
into a culture of crop diversity where animals and people were out
in the fields and around. He saw the tractor arrive and the horses
leave. After you read Hogs Are Up: Stories of the Land, with
Digressions you may share his misgivings about what conventional
thinkers see as 'progress.' Jackson is constantly exploring the
world around him and will engage anyone who can help him think
about a discovery, an experiment, or recent insight. Jackson
believes that our insights must go beyond the latest scholarly
study and government report if we are to get the necessary interest
for people to change. The stories and digressions he shares in Hogs
Are Up are the fruit of a longtime effort to lay the agricultural
and cultural foundation for a new worldview grounded in nature's
principles and located in rural communities able to survive through
a new relationship of humanity to the ecosphere.
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